I finally broke down and played this... 

Everything in this game is based on stuff that Hololive fans would know. The mobs are all the fan groups of the various Hololive vtubers, for example the shrimps are Gawr Gura's fans known as chumbuds and the skeletons are Calliope Mori's fans known as deadbeats. All the weapons and power-up also relate to the various Hololive girls. If you're not already a fan, all this stuff is just whatever/makes no sense to you. All the music also comes from Hololive talents. The game is exceptional quality for being completely free as a fan project.

- Each character has 3 unique passive skills that don't take up slots. They max at level 3. - All weapons max out at level 7. - Having two specific weapons maxed out allow you to make a collab (combine two weapons into one super weapon), giving really good effects/DPS as well as freeing up a slot. - Weapons and Collab Weapons can be given +1 with anvils, but this costs coins and the success rate gets lower the higher you buff them. This only increases that specific weapon's damage and no longer has any new special effects. You are better off normally maxing out other weapons first, as they tend to have good effects at the max level and allow for Collab's. - Items have various max levels ranging from 1, 3, 5 and 7. - Super versions of items (of which you dropped the Milk in this stream) are only available from drops, not level ups and are better than their maxed normal versions without downsides. Extra - All the enemies are based on what the fans of each Hololive member's fandom are called. - All the weapons, items and collabs are all references and inside jokes to each of the Hololive members.

Here is the original song for the in-game BGM: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J1ObF5QF4o4.html

So dam close to getting a collab weapon.

Watching this was very interesting

That was awesome! Never seen anyone win their first run, especially without an evolution. Really cool run! Hope you enjoyed it and will play more!

I'm sure you've gotten this explanation (or figured it out by now if you kept playing), but the skills are specific to each character and you basically always get them unless you actively avoid leveling them. Not only does each character have their own playstyle based on their main/starter weapon which is unique to them, but also their skills affect how they play quite a bit. I like Holocure more than I enjoy VS. It's not just because I'm a fan of Hololive either. I'm not knocking VS, as this is a matter of taste, but there's a lot of things that Holocure does that sets it apart from VS while still drawing a lot of inspiration from the core gameplay of it. If it weren't a fan-game, I'm sure it would be a lot easier for more people to get into it without the barrier to entry of being unfamiliar with the source material it draws from. Then again, the fact that it's a free, fan-made game makes it all the more impressive how much work and polish has gone into it with a lot more content to come (such as 70+ characters if they commit to their goal of adding every member of Hololive to the game as playable characters). Edit: also, the plug-type asacoco is not a tentacle. It's much worse.

Welcome to the hololive rabbit hole Nat, pleasure to have you with us.

Oh, at 20:58 you mention how you are in the middle of a gang war, and you nailed it! It's actually based on this music video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aetXqd9B8WE.html

Each character has 3 skills unique to them. Also, weapons evolve in this game by uniting with other weapons, kind of like the pistols and birds from vampire survivors.

Triggered by you calling anvils "anchors"

The dog picks up xp as well which is super useful.

We gotta get Koe or Nagzz on to explain the context behind each of the pickups and enemies lol

Fortunate that you're already playing with a controller, decoupling aiming from movement is good qol for most characters

26:05 "The genocide of the bread-dog is considered one of the greatest tragedies of the HoloLive era." ... I mean that's actually almost accurate.

Two super items and a golden yagoo on your first run! You got very lucky. Plenty of runs don’t have any. Have fun and pet the dog even if you have to slow down time to do it.

Man you had a pretty spectacular first run, even if you did manage to avoid *all* of the evolution combos

You don't have to be a HoloLive fan to enjoy HoloCure, but it does help. There are so many many inside jokes and references in the weapons and items.

Also I find it funny that you unintentionally kinda explained the premise of the song Q without even knowing what the song is. xD even though they're shrimp not gerbils xD

So a few key mechanical differences between HoloCure and Vampire Survivors: 1. There are 4 drop types: Weapons & Items work similar to VS. Skills (star icon) are character-specific and slotless, and Stat-Up (red + icon) are just free increases to stats and slotless. 2. Skills - there are 3 skills per character that each go up to Level 3. These basically guide how the character should be played. For example, Amelia Watson has Bubba her pet dog and two skills that improve all of her weapons (one that increases flat damage and attack speed and one that increases crit and eventually gives %chance to kill). This incentivizes Ame to go wide on her weapons (filling all 6 slots) rather than deep because having 6 weapons benefit from all of those buffs results in more net dps than 1 or 2 weapons going to max level early. 3. Each character's starting Character Weapon is unique to them and generally synergizes with their 3 Skills. 4. Super Weapons in HC are weapon + weapon, not weapon + item. Think of everything like the birds in VS. Every weapon (except the starting Character Weapon) has 1 or 2 other weapons they combo with. Character Weapons don't combo with anything, but reach a Super Weapon state automatically at level 7. 5. Anvils allow upgrading weapons beyond max level for the coin currency. It is recommended to only do this to Awakened Character Weapon or combo'd Super Weapons as the bonuses are lost on normal weapons when they combo into Super Weapons. Anvils can also just level up a Weapon or Item of your choice for free (basically acting as a free level up). 6. Rare versions of normal Items (like the milk and body pillow received) will have gold auras around them. They are functionally equivalent to their respective max level Item + a little extra. For example, level 5 normal milk gives the weapon size and pick up range equal to the values of the rare milk, but rare milk also gives a bit of maxHP up. These are extremely rare drops from boxes. Getting 2 in the same run was insane RNG. 7. Characters are unlocked via the coin currency gatcha (random lottery). Duplicate characters from the gatcha give +1% to Attack, Defense, Health and Speed up to 20%. No IRL money allowed. 8. Each character also has a Special/ultimate attack, which is a cooldown-based ability that can be unlocked via the main menu shop. 9. Later stages have actually complex bullet hell dodging mechanics.

what a mad lad. Winning the first round without the special and without fusing two maxed weapons together. Note only certain 2 weapons can be fused together. so you need the right combination, kinda. Like Lava bucket and Psycho Axe for example together get to be another kind of weapon. Very strong. ^^

Honestly the strafe button alone made me like it more than vamp survivors when i first played, that thing is such a godsend (Haven't played vamp survivors in awhile due to all the updates and being a completionist was making it a huge pain in my ass, i stopped when they added the tarot cards)

If you play as Amelia again, when you have the dog, hold P to pet te doggo!

Two super items in your first run ever? You've got the Devil's own luck, my friend.

Interesting to see this from the perspective of an outsider. Too bad he missed the collab items, but not like he needed them.

Fun fact: You can pet Amelia's dog Bubba by pressing P when the dog in near you.

please continu playing this. it was enjoyable to watch

Will Nate descend into the depths of the lore as well?

Hahahahaha, you managed to pick all weapons that can't be combined.. 😂

"Oh there's, uh, slimes" He's out of line, but he's right

You didn't get any golden anvils, they appear when you max level weapons that can fuse, a lot of those are really good.

The only thing that prevents me from jumping into the game is that cute owls and cats sprites are used as enemies and I can't handle the idea of attacking those

XP colors are based on superchats, with blue being the lowest and red being highest.

He called us slimes 😭😭. Jk bro very interesting vid bro.

>Picking a literally useless item while calling Nurse Horn bad I'm sorry, we can no longer be friends. >:V

Aay holocure!! Really happy to see you play! The game is a passion project and completely free, so see it goes around outside the community feels really good!!

27:59 "oh my god who are you?" "I'm you but smol. But also huge."

if no one has explained this reference yet. The reason Amelia Watson's base weapon can only aim left and right is because she is "vertically challenged". so her character has a vertical challenge as well. This is the depth the dev put into the references.

Picks Amelia Watson Interesting choice my fellow cultured individual

That's an anvil.

You finally tried Holocure! I'm so mad I missed this! I'll catch up on the VoDs and hope you liked it/want to continue!

Glad you're enjoying this game despite not knowing much about Hololive. I suggest looking into it more, can't avoid the rabbit hole anymore now :D All of the members are very talented and super entertaining. One item I can highly recommend to pick up are the Nurse's Horns, they give you a chance of healing a bit for every slain enemy. With how many enemies there are later in the game it really helps a lot. Also, that pink "tentacle" is not a tentacle, but I leave it to you to find out what it actually is. And that thing that pops up from time to time is not an anchor, but an anvil.

I've heard you can't evolve weapons you've upgraded above max.

You really should look up about the weapon combos - they are real game changers. Even if you don't go the Hololive rabbit hole, the game is still heaps of fun.

i love how he has like 0 knowledge about vtubers and hololive like when the takodachies started spawning he was like: "so now theres slimes" and always cslling the upgrades and stuff in the game the upgrades that do the same thing in vampire survivors like calling the spider cooking weapon "garlic"

You save the fans in this game and is why your "kill" count looks like a dizzy icon. It's a knockout count and how many you've done it to. No one really cares to make that distinction so it's just kill count by now and the joke is that you save the fans by killing them.

29:24 How does one read "fan" as "20"? Great run though, you've been trained for this.

This game is too good to be free, it's a lot of fun. I don't even care if people know anything about hololive, they should check this game out.

Hololive fan here, just wanted to say that I find it super weird to see an outsiders perspective in on our little community. Also, just as a little thing for fun, you can pet the dog with p.

Man it would be hilarious if you got curious enough to watch some hololive clips and accidentally fell into the rabbit hole xD

It's impressive that you cleared it first try, with no collb upgrades.

Purple plugs? lol

I felt attacked when he called us Takos slimes but I will forgive here have a cookie

The Nurse's Horn is actually pretty good.

Once you enter this rabbit hole, you will be unable to get out. You are stuck here forever.

This man got TWO SUPER ITEMS in his first run!

Bro insulted 11 entire fanbases in less than 30 minutes into the rabbit hole

Him constantly calling Cocos dragon tail a tentacle triggers me

Definitely a very nice first run 👍

you made the right decision

there is collabs which fuse certain weapons nate

Some context for the enemies. All the enemies you face are the fans of the Hololive girls under a kind of curse going on a rampage. It is their job to save their fans by basically beating them up, snapping the fans out of the curse. I guess Nathaniel skipped the intro cutscene because it gave a sort summary of what happened before the game starts. All the enemies are based on the Hololive girls' fanbase names. These are Stage 1's For the Myths Gawr Gura - Shrimps (Shrimps wearing the blue hoodies and axe are based on an MV done by one of the devs) Calliope Mori - Dead Beats (Dead Beats wearing the black jacket and bats are based on an MV done by one of the devs) Takanashi Kiara - KFP Employees (Designed by Ina.) Ninomae Ina'nis - Takodachis (They are octopi, not slimes and were designed by Ina herself.) Amelia Watson - Teamates (Originally the wierd dog based on Grimace named Thicc Bubba before changing to alligators named Investi-Gators) For the Council Ouro Kronii - Kronies (I have absolutely no idea where this design came from. I checked and it is official, but I have yet to find the original source of their creation.) Hakos Baelz - Baerats (Originally based on her mascot Mr. Squeaks before being change to the Rat Bros) Tsukumo Sana - Sanalites (Originally based on her mascot Yatagarasu before being changed to the Bread dogs) Nanashi Mumei - Hoomans (Design is original to Holocure though they have an official design, but it was made after Holocure's most recent update. 0.4) Ceres Fauna - Saplings (Design is original to Holocure) For HOPE Irys - IRyStocrats (The old designs was made by the devs since Irys didn't have any kind of thing to base the fanbase before replacing them with Bloom and Gloom done by Sana) The two bosses not based on a fanbase are based on two different things. Fubuzilla(Fubura) - (Is based on a HoloGra episode where Fubuki suddenly became a Godzilla creature that destroyed the city with her Fan Beam) Smol Ame - (Is based on an animator by the name of Walfie who's design of the titular gremlin were gifs of Amelia doing her usual thing, but in Chibi form. Her signature ground pound was based on a mom joke she said "Nothing beats a ground pound. That's funny, because.... Because that's what I did... To your mom last night! Hehehehe...!")

Haha, it's like you knew exactly what to pick to dodge every possible combo weapon

learning to strafe helps , you basically 'lock' into the direction you're facing and you can run in any direction. Basically it locks the direction of your normal base attack while you go in a different direction. Also I recommend downloading the client launcher, the launcher will auto-update the game as they improve with future updates. Hint: you're getting swarmed by enemies, so the best thing to do is not prioritize your base weapon, its getting new weapons and specific ones, and leveling them to max 7 level to fuse them together. To get far in the game, you wanna survive by getting more weapons for AOE field control, the way you upgraded is setting yourself to fail at the end because its only good against bosses, 1v1 Exp gain (glasses) , and anvil should be priority, anvil upgrades one level for one of the skills you 'currently' have while boxes can give you something new, leveling up can give you new stuff. My best go to is to get SpiderCooking for the Miasma. You fight only Shrimps + Skeletons at the start and the Miasma instant kills the Shrimps even at level 1, and kills skeletons b/w 3-5 seconds give or take, which is RLY good.

Oh I remember that type of thumbnail anywhere! You taught me how to beat the reaper in Vampire Survivors months ago! Welcome to the Hololive rabbit hole I guess and my YT recommend.

I also took their hearts (yikes, took their hearts?) as a sign of them being happy, but I've seen quite a few first time players wonder if that's supposed to signify healing in this game. Which is kinda funny since when people don't know about healing in this game, they just don't know (that killing and leveling is the way to find ways to heal). Edit: Getting two Super items in your first run is pretty wild. I was pretty lucky on my first run and got one, too. Then I had some additional luck and unlocked characters with their alt costumes. Edit 2: I don't remember if Vampire Survivors does this, but HoloCure merges the EXP once there's a lot of it in one place so you'll sometimes see a lot of blues turn into a green, or suddenly see a yellow really early on in a run. But most other comments have already mentioned that Bubba, the dog, picks up EXP. Oh, and seeing your 8 month old Reaper kill guide in the side recs made me realize I've watched your stuff before lol

"Who the heck are you?" That's Smol Ame, the most dangerous being in the universe outside of Haachama.

Lucky bastard got Super Knightly Milk on his first playthrough!

In VS terms, all Evolutions function as Unions. You need two compatible weapons levels to 7, and then the opportunity to Union them will appear.

At first I thought it was a straight up clone too, but there's actually a fair number of interesting and unique differences from good 'ol VS.

Golden Yagoo and Super item during the 5 min of your first game? So lucky.

Your gaming skills were on fire. Good game! It was fun watching someone play this, especially well, without having any context. Hope you will upload more plays.

nice start!

LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Welcome to the rabbit hole. Hope you enjoyed it here because you will never get out!

I like this

:D

How do you feel about the fact this game introduced me to your channel?

Oh poor soul. Welcome to the rabbit hole.

I'm glad you picked it up.

TIL about the shield meter

Aw he was so close to having a Collab

Wait until someone react to this ;)

how do they aim so seamlessly? a Joystick??

A normal day in anime😂

oh boy - thats kinda cursed