Worth pointing out about the collab list: It only shows collabs you've unlocked. If a collab exists but you haven't done it before, it won't show up there.
Well since it's a question, yes, Iofifteen actually does speak multiple languages(Indonesian, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Sundanese) including sign language for English, Indonesian and Japanese.
How does she do sign as a vtuber? I could be underestimating things, but that sounds like it would demand a lot from whatever model and tracking software she uses.
@@EpsilonRosePersonal they have 3D models with phone/Mocopi tracking for use at home, & they also have a recording studio in Japan honestly the technology for VTuber tracking has improved greatly
@EpsilonRosePersonal As in the person behind the VTuber does, also there are some controllers that can allow a person to speak sign languages, it just that no one bothers to do so for financial, technical or other reasons.
"I've learned a lot about hololive from playing and streaming this game, and yet I still feel like I barely know anything." Friend, I've been following the MYTH division of Hololive for over a year and I still feel like I barely know anything about hololive lore. You are not alone.
X-Potato: Korone was trying to pronounce the boss "Expositio" from Blasphemous and it came out.... X-Potato. 10 minute boss: Mikodanye is the IRL mascot suit version of Miko. She's kinda taken on a life of her own, with some creepypasta posting and even miko herself calling her a separate entity.
About music: the music used in this game are either (a) original songs by the talents (most music are of this kind), or (b) songs frequently covered by them that is almost becoming a staple, like Ochame Kinou, the little tune played when player found the dropped box. Here's a funny thing: because Holocure is out for quite a while, the music of first stage, Suspect (originally performed by Roboco (JP Gen 0), Aki Rosenthal (JP Gen 1), and Nakiri Ayame (JP Gen 2)) now conditioned some fans to think of Holocure even when the talents perform it in live shows. This song is in the middle of the nine group songs released in nine continuous weeks that later become part of the album Bouquet; because of that, at least in my eyes this song was a little bit dwarfed by other more notable songs in the nine songs streak, which is more funnier since now the image of this song is not what it originally was (which is a sweet love song) but grinding in Holocure.
When trying to find a specific item, finishing your skills so they stop clogging your choices help a ton, and so does using your eliminates on items you don't want to take. Alien Brainwashing showed up and wasn't selected a good dozen times, for instance, while you were hoping for items that didn't show up.
Yeah, the first two slots each have a roughly 1 in 3 chance to be a skill while you have skills available, and the same chance to be a weapon, but once you've claimed all the skills, they switch to roughly 2/3 weapon (with a 1/4 chance to be an item and a minimal chance to be a stat increase) - with more fail-through as you run out of weapon and/or item options. Slots 3 and 4 are equally likely to be weapons or items, failing through to their endgame contents (slot 3 can fail through to a skill if you have any still available). Weapon and item slots are equally likely to be new or existing (though generally the list of existing is going to be much shorter, so a specific weapon you already have is much more likely to show up than one you don't). So, yeah, your first priority should be grabbing something you know you want in your build, but don't yet have (so you're guaranteed to have it for later rather than risking it never coming up), then something you're actively trying to level up, then skills should be your default pick whenever you don't have a compelling reason to pick something else.
Yeah, sometimes I just eliminate what I know I'm not getting, then to save rerolls for later I'll just finish up an item that only has three stages instead of grabbing one that has five (unless I want glasses and half on Roboco on stage 2, etc)
if you didn't already know, there is a 'opacity' slider in the settings menu that lets you make your own attacks semi-transparent so that you can see through them when you start getting a lot of weapons happening
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter You joke but my PC isn't the best aka its old as dirt but the game doesn't necessarily lag on it (all effects sounds and music play at normal) but the game moves at a slower pace that it does take like 40 minutes to reach 20 minutes lol Effectively like playing the game in bullet time.
I can't believe it took me this long to realize the song for the Holozon boxes is "Ochame Kinou" or "Mischievous Function". But I guess it somewhat explains why that I haven't actually listened to any version of the original song in almost a decade.
Back in 2020 Hololive released a cover of Ochame Kinou featuring their entire roster at the time. Today that video has 42 million views, one of the most-watched projects they've ever released. It's become something of a tradition for new groups to release their own version of the song, so now in addition to the original cover (from JP Gens 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & Gamers) we have one from EN (combining EN gen 1 Myth, gen 2 Council & Project Hope) and ID (from ID gen 1 Area 15 & gen 2 Holoro), as well as separate covers from JP gen 5 and gen 6 HoloX.
I too have recently started playing more holocure. Big thanks to the comments section on the last holocure stream btw! I mentioned i was having some performance issues, and while none of the solutions offered were the fix, while trying to implement them I discovered that the game wasn't using the dedicated GPU at all.🙃 Now it's only at very high enemy numbers (and the glowstick/fan beam collab) that cause any slowdown.
2:22: Imagine the kind of nerd it takes to explain that kind of stuff live, instead of looking up half-remembered details during the video and explaining them in the comment section like a normal person. 6:35, 9:50: No, she speaks more languages. According to TV Tropes, Iofi is fluent in Indonesian, Sundanese, English, Japanese, Alienish, and Hamster. She also has some degree of proficiency in Korean, German, Thai, and both ASL and Japanese Sign Language. Excluding Alienish and Hamster, that's nine languages, only five of which (English, German, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian) have orbs. Contrast that with the EN branch's linguist, Kiara, who speaks German, Japanese, English, and some Italian. Or contrast that with me, who can speak English and crudely emulate Japanese and Spanish. Sumimasorry. 11:40: It's not luck; one Holozon box drops each time you kill a boss (or a golden YAGOO). Some boxes are luckier than others, of course. 16:55: Yeah, ask _me_ to explain the X-Potato! Korone pronounced a boss name wrong and it became a meme. 28:15: It's a reference to a Sakura Miko mascot costume, which was apparently designed for a cafe but has shown up at a bunch of official Hololive events. 48:35: Oh no, the Marking Stamp is _great_ against bosses. See, most non-boss enemies don't last long when they're marked, so that "first enemy" slot opens up pretty quickly. The trick is keeping A-chan in paintbrush range. 54:30: Correction: You cook the stuff you farm and fish for buffs in your next few main-game runs. Your employees only get to eat the raw ingredients. 1:05: Hololive is the brand, Cover is the company. Management is done by people, some of whom have nicknames, most of whom are completely unknown. Which is fine. 3:25: Well, 0.1 had Stage and Endless mode. Time Mode _is_ new, though. 11:05: The game calls it that because that's what everyone calls streams with multiple Hololive members. Since each weapon is usually associated with one specific Holomem, this makes sense. 17:35: It can make your main weapon fire in the same direction as the Cutting Board. I'm sure there are situations where that's useful. 27:50: There's no official designations, but I think of the 10- and 20-minute bosses as the Main Bosses, with the big enemies that drop Holozon boxes at other times as the minibosses. 32:35: I think the ability to perform a character is a big part of what makes VTubers appealing to viewers, too. A normal person streaming video games is fun, but a priestess to an eldritch god or a childish rain shaman or the Warden of Civilization not only have a pretty decent hook, but also give fans a lot more material to work with if they want to make fanart or fanfiction or whatever. Nobody is going to make a Vampire Survivors game populated by, I dunno, the Game Grumps cast. 36:20: Four, to be exact. And before you ask, you can't have all four at once, only one golden hammer drops per run. 37:15: I don't expect to have another chance to mention this on this channel, so: When Moona gets this item, it's called the Retrieved Piggy Bank. This is because the piggy bank item is a reference to one time that RIsu stole Moona's piggy bank while both of them were streaming. There are clips if you're interested. 49:30: A-chan isn't one of the managers, so much as she is a generic representation of all the Cover Corp support staff. I think there might be one primary A-chan, but the name and design are used more generically too. 53:53: She's a blacksmith, she's a penguin (not really), and she's the most avid player of Hololive fan games in the entire agency (very really). 56:10: 0.5, the update which introduced the normal version of Stage 3, was supposed to release around Halloween. It ran into scope creep and other problems, and wound up releasing closer to Valentine's Day.
There is only one A-Chan and it refers specifically to A-Chan or "Friend-A." She's kinda Hololive's oldest staff member, originally just a friend of Sora's who helped her out early on, but now does much more as a sort of front-end representative for the company. Alongside Yagoo I guess.
Actually i would like to add to A-chan, A-chan is a close friend to sora and according to A-chan and Sora the design is actually pretty close to what she looks like real life. And she is a staff member in charge of interacting with the community and organization and hosting of events
i keep seeing this on every PlayFrame video, A-Chan is NOT a representation of the Management, she is a single individual that's also the Director/Senior Staff of HoloLive Japan, Sora's best friend & technically the founder of HoloLive
The old "sprites" weren't designed for the needs of streaming. It would be relatively simple to rig a Live2D recreation of them, compared to (for instance) basically any model used by Hololive or other big VTubers; however, it was not rigged that way. Coincidentally, Live2D and Extra Credits both debuted in 2008, but for the purpose of Extra Credits, having a handful of PNGs to stick into Premiere or whatever was a simpler workflow.
I'd enjoy that too, but it would probably be uncomfortable for a lot of people (Dan included) due to all the ugliness that made him leave that channel. An avatar based off current channel artwork would be pretty great though :)
idk. the prior art / sound was a fun aesthetic but I really don't have any nostalgia for them. personally, I think I'd rather see something rigged up from the thumbnail art Dan Jones has done over the years.
They're called that because Hololive and its peers initially framed themselves as digital versions of Japanese idol agencies. (To an extent they still do, but I think YAGOO has given up on his AKB48 dreams.)
@@timothymcleanI've heard that YAGOO is less given up on emulating AKB48 and more didn't care about emulating them *perfectly* anyway; he's generally enjoying how the talents has been flourishing in their own way, and is glad that these unorthodox idol can see the spotlight.
I heard that this game was just an anime-flavored Vampire Survivors clone, but now that I've seen it I have to disagree with that description. What makes Vampire Survivors unique is how simple it is. You control your movement and select which random items get equipped. The item combinations feel a bit overwhelming at first, but it still ends up being fairly simple after some practice. This game gives you a lot more control and has a lot more item combinations which make it complex enough to feel like its own distinct thing. It certainly has some inspiration from Vampire Survivors, but it's definitely not a clone.
It’ll definitely get even crazier in the next update 0.7 sometime in 2024. The dev showed a screenshot of what looked to be a dungeon crawling mode. Like roguelike dungeons with a map and keys for doors. We haven’t seen many details yet, but the dev is adding things from games he enjoys into the game when he wants/can. Also characters will keep being added for a while since he said he wanted to do all the members before gen 3 EN came out. He might still do newer members if he feels like it, but that’s already like 30 more characters which would probably introduce a bunch of new weapons and items and maybe maps. This game will continue to differentiate itself from Vampire Survivor the more it develops
An easy starting point for Vtubers are that they're conceptually similar to The Muppets. Add video games, Japanese idol culture, and professional wrestling keyfabe; mix until smooth
Shout-out to Lua Lucky, an indie VTuber who made a muppet version of herself. Which went, um...well, it's hard to describe, but if you watch any stream or video the muppet showed up in you'll understand what's hard to describe.
I find it generally just takes beating about 5 stages with them? And I've been dipping into the game off and on for about a year whenever I need a "shut brain off" game, so it steadily adds up :P
At a minimum, getting as much as possible from G Ranks and then winning on each of the hard mode stages, and excluding time when the timer is paused like level ups, it takes an hour per character. There are 38 characters now. So you're looking at 38 hours at the absolute fastest to max it for every character.
@@Houdini111 You're talking about the guy who played through every single Kingdom Hearts game, including the gacha games, from start to finish. 38 hours of grinding on one game is basically nothing to him.
1:38 - Slight correction. In the initially released version of Holocure (0.3), the only playable characters were the entire top row (HoloMyth and HoloCouncil) as well as the left-most character on the next row (IRyS), with the following 4 on that row (HoloGamers) being teased in the gacha pull menu. In 0.4, the roster expanded with the aforementioned HoloGamers 4, but also included the final 5 on the second row (Hololive JPs' Generation 0). Then in 0.5, we got the entire of the third row added (Hololive JP Gen 1 and JP Gen 2), with the ID branch (the bottom row) being teased via. the gacha menu.
"Even if I didnt think Vtubers were cool, I'd be in no position to throw stones" As if Dan *wasnt* what was essentially a vtuber for good portion of his internet presence
Since I saw your first video on this, won't comment on the gameplay, but you did a nice job showing stuff off. As to what to call the different groupings you can choose from, there are a few interchangable terms. The first is Generation, which you see on the Japanese branches (Gen 0, Gen 1, Gen 2), the second is wave. The first few JP Gens don't have a group name, but later ones do. IRyS who is on the Council+Hope page was the only member of the Project Hope wave and often treated as a back-up Council Member. One of Council, Sana, had to retire (or graduate, a VTuber term that follows from JP Idol culture) for health reasons and IRyS often fills in the 5th slot in their group collabs, enough to the point that Hololive officially changed the Council & Project Hope group name to Promise, which might show up in the next version of HoloCure, but since Kay Yu doesn't charge for the game, he is free to develop the game at his own pace as when he contiues to bring in all the Hololive talent, he wants to keep the unique feel of every VTuber going.
I've played a bunch of "survivor likes" because I feel like exploring a burgeoning genre is interesting. and honestly this may be the best one at the moment.
X-Potato is a reference to a boss named Exposito from Blasphemous, of all things. Korone pronounced his name wrong, her overseas fans thought it was cute, she started saying "Hey guys, Ex Potato!" when she wanted to get the attention of English-speaking fans. The mid-boss of stage 2 is "Mikodanye", which is just Sakura Miko as a theme-park-style mascot. It was the first IRL mascot costume Cover made, possibly inspired by the mascots at Hatsune Miko's IRL concerts.
@@edenromanov Mascot Gudako and Mikodanye are based on Mikudayo. It was originally supposed to be Vocaloid (at the time) Miku Hatsune's Nendoroid model, a Japanese chibi action figure brand. But the problem is it was designed terribly. A sunken neck, fat cheeks, eyes are angled in a way it's always looking past you, not at you, and more. But it was funny and horrifying enough to start a wave of ironically bad suits.
17:35 It's useful if your main weapon is rather narrow, and you picked up other directional weapons, so your main can cover your back while your other weapon can clear the front. Something like Dragon fire/Stream of Tears.
Wait a second... so YOU'RE the reason for my busted controller stick. It must have been your previous video about Holocure that introduced me to it. I skipped Vampire Survivors because I was too busy at the time, but this game played on my love of Lore and progression systems. I put it down until the steam release, and I was so excited for it I nearly jumped out of my chair. I missed your stream the other day, so I'm beyond excited that you're doing a whole video on it.
There are certain collabs that fire in front, which most main weapons also do. I use (and temporarily remove) the reverse stamp as needed for coverage behind, which Dragon Fire in particular doesn't cover, and Bone Bros is still more powerful front-facing. The more omni-directional weapons I use, the less useful it is, and if the main weapon is omindirectional, then the stamp's just useful for a free upgrade.
For anyone who is vaguely interested in Hololive (or vtubers in general), but doesn't want to fully commit to some kind of deep dive or anything; I recommend watching Korone's English only Mario streams (there are 2 of them, the full streams are less than 3 hours combined, with the first being only about 40 mins) in which she plays the original Super Mario Bros while only speaking English (in which she is pretty good, but definitely not fluent); it's mind-meltingly adorable all the way through, is the origin of many memes, requires no previous context for the character or hololive/vtubing in general, and since it's all in English (or attempted English) it's pretty accessible for English-speakers to follow along. In fact, even if you have no real interest in vtubers, I still recommend watching those streams (or at least some of the longer highlight reels), as they are just super entertaining regardless.
another good series to recommend is Kiara's HoloTalk in which she interviews & showcases some of the Japanese Hololive members & on that same vein, Koefficient's Down the Rabbit Hole does that for indies & minor agencies, and you still get some of those IRL peoples
A cool thing that I think of from the Polyglot skill in Sucker for love (a game) L’neta say’s about how most Eldritch gods are Polyglots and I don’t know if it’s a real thing but it must be if the word is in another game but have a nice day yall
fyi, if you didnt know theres a badluck protection of sorts with the character gacha, you get one "tear" every pull so you can also use those tears to buy characters and alternate costumes for each vtuber.
Also the Final boss of of stage 2 is also the character thats on the shop screen. That is A-chan or Friend A. She is actually the high school friend of Sora (IRL) that asked if she would help her become an idol. And she did! A-chan isnt a manager but actually an events director she also has her own vtuber model and frequently hosts collaborations and events and has recently started streaming on her own on Hololive's main channel.
Also, for those who don't have a controller to connect (yes, the 4 of you), you can also use the mouse to define the direction of the attacks. It's just clicking with the mouse (which is finnicky, yes, because you alternate that way and would be preferred as a settings option)
In theory the shoot backwards stamp could be useful in some weird circumstances... like if you are Baelz or Amelia who only shoot forward, and your only weapons are like Dragonbreath and Wamy Water that also shoot forward, the backwards stamp could let you cover more ground with your attacks... But still I'd probably take something damage boosting 99% of the time ^^
I love watching Dan play and talk about this game, but I cannot overstate how much it kills me that he never seems to talk about or use weapon enchants. 🤣
Hi! First time watching your content, and I like it a lot so far! Keep up the good work! I would like to say that if the visuals are getting too much, there is a setting now to lower the opacity of weapon attacks. You can still see the attacks for calculating where things are, but it is easier to see enemies. Hope that helps!
52:36 Oh my goodness. I had to watch someone else play before I realized: you get a Tear when you pull a duplicate Gatcha. That's so funny, I never made the connection before.
with the usada casino under construction and elfriend hanging out outside our HoloHouse, that's pretty much a hint that gen 3 and maybe gen 4 are coming next.
Fun fact: The Reverse stamp doesnt work on the character of Irys. The stamp represents Beazl aka "Bea" the embodiment of chaos itself. It not working a nod to their on again off again marriage (they're arent really married but they act and argue like an old married couple when they colab).
I picked up 20 minutes til dawn and I really like what they did for the color pallette. Like red is damaging, but otherwise there is just shades of black and white
Ah yes, Holocure: Amazing how a round wherin there's 20 minutes between you spawning and the boss spawning ends up taking 45 minutes to complete. God i love this game.
It's kinda funny watching the genre-wars happen for this game as most people don't really know what to call it since it's kinda a really new thing. Dan's calling it Bullet Hell but most others call it Bullet Heaven since you're the main one with the absolute insane amount of projectiles coming out of you. Meanwhile I just call it a "Survivor" or "Survivor-like" since all the mobile games that jumped on the Vampire Survivors hype, riffed off the "Survivor" part of it's name.
"Survivor" is such a nothing name for a Genre, not to mention that is also the name of a Reality show that also became a Sub-genre of "Survivor-likes" Bullet Heaven is the correct name
@@Artista_Frustrado Your opinion isn't a fact but also tv-shows and games can have similar genre names and have no issues. Besides, "survival" and "sandbox" are "nothing name" and yet used widely for games so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Artista_Frustrado Survival horror is literally an entire different genre where you combine survival games with horror games. What are you talking about?
Wow, so that's how the late game is supposed to look like! I have the bad (good?) luck of getting at most 1 collab per level and that's it, but I do manage to beat them somehow though, even the hard versions (except this last one, haven't played enough to unlock it yet).
in all fairness Hololive has 5 years of lore spread across 85 talents, 4 known/named Staff Members, 5 branches of the main Agency so i can't blame anyone for not being caught up. You should be thankful this isn't a Nijisanji fangame tho, that agency has over 200 members also, the term for these kind of companies is "VTuber Agency", with the less professional ones being called VTuber Groups
her name is pronounced "ee-oh-Fifteen", but everyone calls her Yopi :) ,also to add to the name explanations YAGOO is pronounced like Iago the parrot from Aladin
if you wanna keep up to date Kay-yu does have a BirdApp account, HolocureDev, in which he hints new features & also confirms questions (like the fact he has plans for the HoloStars members eventually)
thankfully the Gacha does have a pity system, so every 7 pulls you can just choose a character, or every 15 you can unlock a costume also every Duplicate pull makes that character stats better up to level 20
still funny that Dan went right into Crazy Cat Lady mode & unlocked like 8 Zetas in a row, & yes the joke of her being secretly a cat is because of her hairbuns
excluding the end-bosses of Stage 2, A-Chan & Nadoka who are just them in the HoloCure art style; yeah pretty much every boss is some meme/mascot version of existing members - Fubuzilla is Fubuki from HoloGra - Mikodanye is a mascot suit version of Sakura Miko that became a recurring character - Smol Ame is Amelia Watson drawn by Walfie & became Ame's alter-ego - Shubangelion being a giant buff duck that Subaru built in Minecraft - Spiderchama being Hachama drawn by Mumei in a "perfectly normal" art stream - Halloween Smol Myth, being exactly that, HoloMyth's spooky avatars for their VRCVhat Halloween streams
The best thing about snowflower sake to snow queen (other than it's just ultimately better) is that it's easier on the graphics and bit rate, making everything easier to see. It's a much simpler attack, graphics-wise, but constant.
Out of curiosity, I looked up this person/vtuber to see what the polyglot theme was about... Apparently, she can speak and understand Indonesian, Japanese, English, German, and Korean because "she was bored" and "it was fun". Also apparently she made up her own language called Alienish. LMAO
The creator even got approached by Hololive for an official deal with and turned them down. Even now Hololive is creating a thing that will allow Fan-Devs the ability to profit off of Fan games and even then he said he won't be taking money for it. He does not even accept Donations. Its definitely a passion of Love then anything else.
