Utai Meika Plays a Dandelion Growing Game That Turns Into a Parry Battle

INDEPENDENT — Utai Meika spent a 53-minute stream on Oct. 21 playing The Dandelion Endures, a game in which the player grows a dandelion and parries attacks. Meika opened by saying they had expected a parry game and instead found themselves raising a flower.

The dandelion landed on a road, and Meika moved it to a safer spot before collecting light, water and carbon dioxide to speed up photosynthesis and upgrade the plant. Meika kept collecting by dragging the cursor across the energy, and said they were learning the knack. Interruptions came with a prompt to hold off an attack: a child threw a Rubik’s cube, and later a cat came after the plant. Meika struggled to find the timing for a perfect parry, at one point saying they could not tell when to press, and was spared in one scene when a passing train interrupted the cat.

“No, it held up well. It endured, didn’t it?” — Utai Meika, after the first ending

The plant went on to scatter seeds on the wind, and a later generation grew beside a railway, where a man blowing soap bubbles supplied it with water. Ten in-game years on, Meika wondered aloud whether a figure approaching was the child from before. After the first ending, which Meika called a good one, a drunk man appeared, and the stream turned into a long fight against his dancing and strikes. Meika said they were not sure whether their parries were too early or too late, then got through a jump attack and a grab.

A boss rush followed. Meika agreed to try it once, lost to the first boss, and tried again, saying the fight was really a rhythm game and that watching the light had misled them. Meika wrapped up with a plan to play mahjong afterward and a reminder to take care of dandelions.

Chat followed the fights closely, urging the dandelion to hold on and laughing at the sudden boss rush.