Pavolia Reine Unlocks a New Stage in Omelet You Cook After Two Hours of Losses

HOLOLIVE — Pavolia Reine of hololive Indonesia spent most of a 2 hour 25 minute stream on Wednesday struggling through Omelet You Cook, a roguelike in which players pick and trash ingredients to build the highest-scoring omelet before a round limit. Near the two-hour mark she unlocked a new ingredient, and with it a new stage called Tin Can Trasher.

The stream began with audio trouble and a switch to a different keyboard before play began. She had unlocked a few items in her first session with the game and said she still had no efficient way to unlock more, since each stage starts players with different ingredients.

“Yes, we finally unlocked something.” — Pavolia Reine, after the first unlock of the night

The early stage she picked proved punishing. She said she had read beforehand that it was built to be difficult, and she kept losing rounds to a low multiplier as trash bags and other unwanted items piled into her pantry. A run was saved at around the 54-minute mark when a peanut butter and coconut combination carried the score over its target. Another run ended when she drew the egg, a unique ingredient that she took as a sign the run was over.

She said the losses were wearing on her because, unlike most roguelikes, they did not seem to move her toward anything. She said she kept wondering whether she was playing the game wrong. Later she began browsing the in-game catalog to find which ingredients were close to unlocking, and the game’s anchovy, which she said she had never seen in a run, finally turned up. The unlocks followed, and she called anchovies the entry point to a seafood build because they add points on their own rather than through conditions and multipliers.

Before signing off she said she would join Anna Melisa two hours later for a watch-along of the Golden Joystick Awards, and that she hoped to play a new game released on Saturday and Root Trees Are Dead in the coming days. She read two Super Chats, one of which compared the Tin Can Trasher stage to canned-food donation drives where the labels have fallen off.