Hayama Marin Spends Six Hours Exploring a Vast New Area in Phantom Blade Zero

NIJISANJI — Hayama Marin of Nijisanji spent about six hours early Saturday pushing further into Phantom Blade Zero, the action game she is playing blind, moving into a large new area called Pangzhen and working through its bosses, side quests and shops.

She opened with a long stretch of chat about the cold weather and what to wear, saying she had an outing planned for the day and would have to stop when morning came. She announced that she had put on long sleeves for once (“Okay? This is a human”) and said she had dozed off while rewatching her own archive. She added that she would not be streaming over the weekend, which made this session the last of the week. After a recap of the doll village of Lujia from the previous session, she started the game and began the new area, calling it very wide.

“Hayama is wearing long sleeves. Hayama, who is always in short sleeves, is wearing long sleeves. Okay? This is a human.” — Hayama Marin, at the start of the stream

A scene about an hour and twenty minutes into the game went the other way from what she had hoped: she said she had thought a character would be saved, and chat mourned the character it called Tama-chan. A fire-wielding boss followed, and she beat it after a long fight; chat urged her to avenge Tama. Later bosses were harder. In one fight she said she would stop trying to stop gray attacks with her fists and dodge them instead, and a masked boss who used fire took her many attempts.

Between fights she explored, saved often and kept losing track of which routes she had not yet taken. She spent much of the evening saving in-game money, reaching 100,000 and buying an item she had wanted for some time, and tried out new weapons and accessories as she found them. Five Super Chats came in during the stream.

Near the end she reached a quest that she judged would take a long time, saved at a convenient point and stopped, saying she would resume from there. She said the next stream would be on Monday and that she planned to post a short video on Sunday.