Kusunoki Sarara Beats the Nine-Tailed Fox Boss in Okami and Reaches 40 Hours of Play

MARBL_S — Kusunoki Sarara of Marbl_s defeated the nine-tailed fox boss at the top of Oni Isle on Friday in the fifth stream of her playthrough of Okami (大神), and ended the night with 40 hours on the game’s play clock.

She picked up at the Dragon Palace, where she dived into the belly of the maddened sea dragon to recover a treasure jewel, then escaped as stomach acid rose around her. A story turn followed in which a trusted companion proved to be the demon king in disguise, and the spirit of Himiko, who had been killed, revealed that Oni Isle would surface for a single day off a northern lookout cape. Sarara reached the cape just as the sun set.

“I’ll say it again: I’m bad at action games.” — Kusunoki Sarara, after a climbing section on Oni Isle

Oni Isle brought a string of trap corridors run as contests against a gatekeeper, a climbing section that drew her warning that she is bad at action games, and a new lightning brush technique. At the top she fought the fox after the fox split into copies and shed tails in phases and won, picking up the Kusanagi sword. The island crumbled afterward and the story moved her north to Kamui, a cold land where she fought the warrior Okikurumi, learned for the first time that she could dash on command, and took up a request to search a forest for a missing girl. A giant snowball errand for a child there ran far longer than she expected.

Between stretches of play she talked with chat about a family trip to Hokkaido, where she had tried Ainu cuisine and found the flavor distinctive, and about regional food more broadly.

Sarara said at the start that she had been fighting capture board trouble and expected to buy a new one soon; the old one held through the broadcast. She saved at the end of the night and said she planned to stream again at 10 a.m. the next day if all went well.