Hakui Koyori Plays an RPG That Starts as Fantasy and Ends in a Schoolboy’s Hospital Room

HOLOLIVE — Hakui Koyori of Hololive’s holoX played Kinose Sugiru RPG (気のせいすぎるRPG), a free game from KSB Games, on Thursday and followed it from a fantasy quest, in which every line is hedged with “I feel like,” to an ending in the modern-day life of a schoolboy named Hiroshi. She teared up at the finish.

The game, released the day before, was reportedly made in about a month and has no voice acting, so Koyori said she would supply the voices herself. She entered a hero name that blended hers with the default, Harold. The king asked the party to defeat a demon lord who “seemed” to have returned, and the whole cast agreed on the strength of nothing but feelings. The menu would not open. The demon lord then announced that he had never been sealed at all and tried to persuade the hero that he was no hero. Chat asked for his voice to change as the scene went on, and she shifted it gradually in answer.

“Before I knew it I was being made to play an action game, and I feel like my arms died.” — Hakui Koyori, after the credits

Around the 44-minute mark the party, the towns and the king vanished one by one, and the hero woke up as Hiroshi, a high school student with a mother, a childhood friend and a bedroom. The game then switched to dodge-and-shoot action battles. The last of them took Koyori two tries, with her left hand tiring on the Z key before she switched to Enter. After the final hit the story put Hiroshi in a hospital after an accident. The friend told him that anyone would be sad if someone they liked died, and the game closed on a happy ending for the two of them. Koyori said she cried from surprise and that the ending was moving.

Afterward she praised KSB Games for living up to the expectations built by its earlier titles, including the well-known Neta-bare Sugiru RPG (ネタバレが多すぎるRPG), and said she had expected a command-based game. She had already been sore from a finger-wrestling tournament the day before, in which she took second place, and she showed the prize she was given.

The stream drew 74 Super Chats, which she read through toward the end, singing happy birthday to several viewers who wrote in. She said she would take part in a PUBG collaboration at 10 p.m. the next day, nervous about her aim after only a few turns at shooters in her life.