Machita Chima Falls Short of Escape in Rule-Bound Horror Game Zettai Junshu
The Nijisanji streamer spent more than two hours descending floor by floor, then broke a rule on her self-declared last attempt.
NIJISANJI — Machita Chima of Nijisanji played the horror game Zettai Junshu on Friday and ended the 137-minute stream without escaping the building, breaking a rule on what she had announced as her final attempt. The title of the game, which she read out as “rules are absolute, break them and die instantly,” sets the premise.
She opened by saying her microphone had briefly not been on, then explained the setup: signs tell the player what not to do, and the player must find an elevator with a red door and go down floor by floor to leave. Her first discovery was that the mouse sensitivity was far too high, and she lowered it in the settings before starting. The rules came in rotation, among them do not run, do not look, do not stop, do not speak, do not kick and do not touch, and later floors combined two of them at once.
“I’m never following the rules again. This is the worst. Bye-bye. Good night, everyone.” — Machita Chima, after her final failed attempt
Between the movement rules sat puzzles. In one, a children’s game of *Daruma-san ga Koronda*, similar to Red Light, Green Light, ran alongside a riddle that required placing animals in the right positions. In others she weighed objects on a scale or counted symbols to get a number right. She found several of them hard to read at first, and she began to remember patterns as the attempts piled up. Around 40 minutes in, the broadcast dropped offline for a short time and returned; she said her phone had died while the PC was still running, and she carried on.
She reached the fourth floor for the first time that evening in the first hour. Late in the night, she said she was playing smoothly on a stretch that was supposed to be new to her, and then announced a last challenge, saying she would lose her composure and end the stream if it failed. The final floor stacked three rules together, and she stopped moving, which counted as a violation.
Chat filled with samba emotes whenever the game’s music played, and viewers cheered her on through the harder floors. The stream received four Super Chats.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.