Fuyumi Celestia Starts Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium, Says She’ll Likely Keep Playing

MAHA5 — Fuyumi Celestia of MAHA5’s ID 2nd Generation played Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium for the first time on Sunday and said by the end of the 139-minute stream that she was likely to keep going. The stream was titled as a lesson in becoming a good shikikan, the game’s term for the commander.

She explained that the game came from her monthly spin of a gacha wheel that decides what she plays, with its entries drawn from suggestions by channel members. Before going live she had played only the tutorial, and she told chat early on that she was a complete beginner who needed their guidance. Viewers who already played explained the game’s terms, steered her toward the story missions and told her to pick characters she liked rather than chase the strongest ones.

“I’m fairly interested, so I’ll probably keep playing this game.” — Fuyumi Celestia, as she wrapped up the stream

Through the middle of the stream she worked through battles by borrowing a friend’s character as support, since new players can bring one borrowed unit, and experimented with auto-battle. She said the lag was bad enough that she toggled settings to try to smooth it out. She also went through the character skins and the home screen, where she found the ultimate animations striking.

Near the end she spent her starting resources on gacha pulls and said she would use the next stream to try more of them. She said she planned to carry on with the story off stream and noted that she was drawn to the game partly because other members of MAHA5 were playing it. She thanked the newcomers who had joined and said her schedule for the coming week would be posted in the next few days.