Why Is This VTuber Bullet Heaven So Good?! - Holocure 

And the most impressive thing is that its a fangame, the dev has never received a cent for the game and yet they managed to make one of the best games on the genre.

For anyone who has never seen this game before: each character has 3 unique skills 1 unique special and 1 unique weapon, so they all feel completely different, this is roughly 1/8th of the planned characters. If you dont get the references it detracts nothing from the game, just discovering the collabs becomes less intuitive, but you can just look those up. There are currently 3 stages, stage 2 has a lot of obstacles and stage 3 is the hard mode of stage 1 with more aggressive enemy attack patterns and hazards.

As much as this type of game fits your channel's content, I did not actually expect to see you cover this, but man, was it entertaining even on a "dad tries to understand this thing they know nothing about" level.

Ah also as for the same issue it has with Vampire Survivors that gets rectified in later stages. The game's solution to the VS problem is enemy difficulty and mechanic ramp up. Stage 1 is basically the relaxed Tutorial, Stage 2 introduces Bullet Hell elements, and Stage 3 ramps up the Bullet Hell and introduces funny enough MMO Raid Boss Mechanics.

Yes i love this era of people playing this without a clue of vtubers Very nice

I have to wonder about how A "Wanderbot V-Tuber" Avatar would play out. Looking like a head bobbing around like a character out of Red Vs Blue? For some reasons, it seems like a Crazy idea, but I like it.

21:23 "I don't think we're going to find any evolutions," he says right as the collab anvil spawns.

So why is there a Hololive Vampire Survivors game you're asking? Well on one end the Hololive people are amazing and entertaining in many many way and this game funnel back the love. If you want examples, the fans will be happy to flood you with them. :P On the other end, Hololive streamed Vampire Survivors. Not just the usual suspect like the bunny girl Pekora, the miko Miko and Mel the vampire girl but also about everyone like Botan the FPS gog gamer lion ans Suisei the sociopathic comet Tetris godess. I don't really know how it happened in the first place but if you watched Hololive then, you just saw Vampire Survivors. It was that widespread. About the giant fox monster, that's Fubura/Fubuzilla, the gozilla-like monster form of Hololive member Fubuki as it appeared in the madness known as Holo Graffiti episode : "How to Invoke a Kaiju". About the pillow, the person on it is Yagoo, CEO of Hololive. He is known as "Best girl (of Hololive)" partly due to have lot of goodwill as the person behind Hololive and also because of a meme/gentlemen agreement among the fans to give him that title because other wise they would fight each other for who is the best girl. Hence why he's on the pillow.

its why i love 20mins to midnight -- yes it has endless but 20 mins is the sweet spot for getting powerful and wrecking face without it getting too samey

I do think he might have really enjoyed the stage 1 hard mode, but that might have been a lot to ask him to play until.

This has quickly become one of my favorite games, and basically introduced me to Hololive, but I understand it's not for all.

Yea even if you take the hololive out of it, you'll be lost for the references obviously, but the gameplay is just really solid at its core. They've done a really good job with this.

You don't understand, really? Building a fanbase is just youtube 101, you yourself associate yourself with a group of content creators all with their own "characters", "lore" and inside jokes/knowledge all going as far as having representation of it all in games like revita. Having a vamp survivor type of game in that flavor is hardly far off.

3:08 Yeah, that sounds like the "gatekeep-y" era of v-tubing; a whole bunch of people shaming others for trying out the thing/trend, even if there were plenty of other people were completely chill, had more reasonable critiques, or just don't give a shit. But that's just people on the internet. Regardless of their interests in anything considered crazy popular or "weird" by the majority, they feel entitled to something that goes at odds with both supporters and detractors.

It definitely felt like he was a bit stuck on the whole ‘haha anime girl’ aspect instead of just thinking of them as any other streamer Also very sorry you had to deal with vtuber gatekeeping like that. A lot of big name streamers were just lazily getting models at the time with no passion or respect for the medium so it made the community very defensive against other creators becoming vtubers. It wasn’t a great look on the fans

while unlikely, seeing a full/continuing series on this would be cool as a control for a non-Vtuber perspective of the game

It's ridiculously good, especially since it's completely free.

I think that giving a game that refers to a certain franchise/fandom to someone who is not a part of that fandom is a good way to determine the game's own merits, instead of its broadly-defined fanservice.

Aw man, I'm sorry you got turned off of vtubers, it's really a shame that people decided to be all gatekeepy about it. Wish you had ignored them, I'd love to see your model.

He played it! I love it so much, yeah i did get into it cause of vtubers, but i kept playing it cause of how fun it was! and free...

I do think you’d enjoy the harder levels. They really require a lot more skill, build synergy, and well timed characters ultimates. They also become a lot more bullet hell than heaven.

Video title: "Why is this VTuber bullet heaven so good?" Wander in video: "Charming bullet heaven, but falls a bit flat in comparison to some of my favorites." The standards for "so good" are getting kind of low, eh? XD

This is something I never expected to see Wander play XD. As someone who likes both contents, I am pleasantly surprised.

I guess with people that has played a dozen of these, Holocure wouldn't really stick for a one time thing. A clear strong point is the many unique characters, but a one time playthrough can't really highlight them. Not only that, the first stage doesn't offer any uniqueness compared to the other survivors-like games. It isn't even hard for an experienced player, the 19 minute damage check is the only real problem since a new player wouldn't know about the collab upgrade.

idk how i feel about this episode, seems to be tethering the line between "disgruntled due to past experience" and "disrespect toward a niche that just happens to not be yours" i get how some part of it will seem weird to an outsider (don't worry, i also find some of it weird too), but i do have to say, at least how it sounds to me, there is a lot of "look at these stupid idiot who likes a thing i don't like" in this video, and it turned out to be an uncomfortable experience for both of us quite ironic that you talked about how if you like something on the internet, there will always be someone who hates your existence, and you appear to be partaking in that very activity in this very video.

The reason why there's so many bullet heaven game is because of casual people like me. Using your words, I simply don't give a shit about games like Vampire Survivors and Magic Survival. Only when Vtubers I know are involved, I picked up and played it and got introduced to the genre. Variety expands the audience.

It doesn't have anything to do inherently with RU-vid, or Vtubers, or Sonic, or Homestuck, or My Little Pony, or Rick and Morty, or anything. It's people. People in general suck and are selfish and hateful. That's all there is to it.

Hololive is one of the big 2 Vtuber groups in the industry. Your probably more familiar with Vtubers like Ironmouse and other Vshojo members or indies on Twitch so basically the gist of things is that Hololive is one of the major professional Vtuber companies and while they stream they also focus on other things like original music, animations, and recently started looking towards making their own games. Hololive leans more into the fictional character aspect of Vtubers compared to everyone else.

Fun fact the person who made this is one of the animators who worked on Rivercity Girls as well as a decent number of notable animes such as Sword Art Online, Mushoku Tensei and the Castlevania Neflix anime. Also this game is always going to be free as he works on it in his free time so thats nice. (Also if ya ever do play more/again i would totally watch more)

There is an in-game list outlining what collabs are possible. When in a stage, just hit 'Esc', and you will have an option to pick 'Collabs', which lists available weapon Collabs (the equivalent of VS' evolutions). Depending on whether or not you've found or unlocked a given base weapon, some combos may not show up yet, but it should list all the currently available options for you. There's also a wiki that lists items and collabs. The game has a *ton* of content, and you've only just scratched the surface. Would love to see another stream on it in the future with your verdict once you've had more time with the characters and mechanics.

Unlocking the special makes each character more unique and more active. It's an aspect that I'm not sure if it's a good idea for it to have to be purchased in the shop because it's so important.

I’m a fan from the holo community and really enjoyed your video and perspective, and thoughts of games like vampire survivor/bullet heavens! I find that when one is deep in a certain community, it can make a bit of a bubble so it’s great to see outside of it. Enjoy your pizza!

i know you said you wouldn't play this game past one video but i'll still recommend playing the game some more with other characters it gets pretty fun

This is a really great free game with tons of good Hololive references.

Still can't believe that this game is free.

HoloCure is ridiculously good.

Your lost for not continuing this game. It is good as a stand alone game.

Man this was conflicting to watch. Appreciate you trying the game out and enjoyed listening to your criticisms of the game genre, but it's a pity with all the other stuff. Hope you're able to enjoy what you do with future endeavors.

the video being referenced by the enemies that start showing up at the 14 minute mark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aetXqd9B8WE.html (it is animated by the same person who made the game)

For anyone who is interested in playing this the most effectively, here a small guide: On every character you max out first their signature weapon and skills in order to get these out of the level up shop. This will increase the chances to find the weapons and equipments you actually want. Ideally next you want to get equipments and the most important ones are the studying glasses and halu. Especially early you want the most gold effective to unlock further upgrades and all characters. So you want to max out Halu and Studying Glasses as early as you currently can. With higher g rank beating halu 5 becomes more likely. Due to the increased monster spawns you will gain more exp and gold. Later you will be able to finish collab after collab. In stage 1 you actually don't need any defensive items, they are only needed to clear the latter part of stage 3. So all you want is an item like the Face Mask which boosts your damage and takes no upgrades, which again helps your strategy to fish for your collab items later on. So which upgrades are the most effective ones? Ofc the Gold Gain and the Rerolls, because they will allow consistency going further into HoloCure. I can play stage 1 and force Halu 5 with exactly the collabs I want EVERY SINGLE TIME. I can't guarantee tho getting Halu as early as possible always.

I would suggest to give it a try until stage 2 because with different mechanics from enemies and different enemies, you start having a lot more fun as the enemies are more engaging. Stage3 which is stage 1 on hard mode has a lot more engaging enemies and it's really fun.

Idk, the people who are vehemently against vtubers might just be really bad about expressing how tired they are of seeing a thing they're not into being everywhere, but that happens with anything and everything. Anyway, it feels weird to say this, but this is the most I've seen a run of this game look like Vampire Survivors. Well, up until where you unlocked the MiComet lmao Hope you enjoyed your pizza!

MiComet = Elite Lava Bucket + Psycho Axe Elite Cooking = Spider Cooking+ ELB Breathe-In-Type Asacoco = Plugin Type Asacoco + Holobomb That's what I know of

i love Kay Yu's art so when i heard that she made a hololive bullet hell..i fell in love with it

A bullet heaven with a legit story to it, sounds like an interesting concept.

I love his confused reaction to fubuzilla. xD

"like the whip, but less problematic" Holy molly this dude...

Magic survival on the mobile stores is a really good Bullet Heaven game, I highly recommend it.

I do kinda want to see the vtuber model you have...

the game really starts when you get super abilities

Thank you for playing wanderbot

Oh no... Wander stumbled the vtuber rabbit hole

Kinda refreshing to see an outsider perspective on this game since all I have heard from this is mostly within fandom

one of the key differences between this game and VS is that every character has a unique starting weapon (that only they can use) and 3 unique skills that heavily affect the play style of that character. This coupled with the huge roster of characters makes for more unique builds and a lot more variety in how you play the game than with VS.

This was a pretty interesting video to watch. Watching a person that doesn't know anything about vtubers play a game made a vtuber fan is pretty interesting. What's amazing about the creation of this game is that the developers refuse to accept money for it. It's a passion project and if they started receiving donations it would become a job for them which they did not want. (It's not like they need the money anyway since the people making this game are successful animators and music composers)

Yooo! HoloCure is amazing!

"i don't know who hololive is" it's huge and DEEP rabbit hole.. just know a lot of people have fallen in it and have had a VERY hard time getting out.. it's just that good...

ah shit, wander stepped one foot into the rabbit hole. don't fall in wander. there is no getting out. you're looking at a victim. please send help

Wanderbot is more cultured than expected

Im assuming you have chat while playing this so ill skip the tips and advices since its better for realtime q&a about the game with chat. With that being said, Im totally down for more holocure gameplay videos! 👍 22:19 MiComet collab

Wanderbot vtuber let's go?!

3:21 This is the first time I've been to this channel so I thought that character on the thumbnail was there because you use it as a model.

try stage 2 its imensly harder

its on steam now, might check it out again

I know you will probably never play this again. But it sounded like you were bored because it was too easy. Stage 2 is much more active and I think you would enjoy it.

Thanks for playing Holocure! It's the sort of game that gets more fun as you unlock more stuff, so a second or third run would definitely be worth it. I recommend Calliope, just because her Death skill kills enemies in kind of a domino effect, very satisfying to watch.

it's no worries wander. just vtubers who do some idol stuff. each of them have there audiences and each of them do certain types of stream's. the one with the scythe does gaming talk show (dunno tbh) and she does quite a bit of music. the alien tentacle one does quite a bit of art and chill streams. the blue shark plays games but has the largest audience among them. the detective does gaming and seems to do some development videos (not as in dev more like original stuff) and the colored bird specializes in gaming and does a lot of talk shows of sorts. by the way this is not only for wander but for his fans who has no clue about the ones I mentioned. even my knowledge is rather limited of them. I hope this helps out a bit.

Lmao, wasn't expecting to see this show up here.

Mark my words, Wanderbot WILL fall into the rabbit hole

"There are some uncomfortable items" SWEATS AND LOOKS AT COCO

It is such a shame that you get any sort of hate and the attention of weirdos in your community, cause the majority of the Vtuber Community is pretty chill and just wants to see others succeed and take interest in vtubers.

Holocure is one of those games I downloaded for the memes but then actually kept on my computer. Also, as a vtuber fan, gotta say I loved the "dad trying to understand son's weird games" energy this had.

If you show that model you took pride in, it will at least weed out the people who aren't here for you. While the stigma around vtubers is strong, the part of this community that is not just here for normie commentary will be here to support you. Don't let others push their expectations on you.

I would like to add my voice into the social pressure to make you play some more and try out the other characters 😊

Not the crossover I expected.

"i am going to regret playing this" how right was this man

I love how the CEO yagoo is such a meme he's a got a bust in the center there at the start and a body pillow item.

Wanders instant choice of the tentacle character made me laugh out loud

Brotato has a lot of choices and mechanical combos. Everything (or almost everything) you get takes away from your character, so you are way more involved in choices. Between the proximity triggers and cooldowns for different weapons, Brotato keeps you more focused in the actual game. That's why it feels a bit better to play.

Ngl, wished I didn't have a 12 year old craptop. I really want to play this game. But it actually overheats trying to play card games and DS games. This would probably set it ablaze. As for your situation, I mean I am new here but if you're still interested in a model don't let people shit on your dreams man. The whole concept has antis set around it unfortunately. I myself was sceptical about it until I actually watched one, then a couple and realized "It's literally normal people who 9/10 times just like their privacy, behind a character that actually gives them expression to an audience.". It wasn't really weird once I actually understood it. It's actually pretty cool in all reality. I think after seeing nothing changing about you post model, a lot of the people against it would probably come around to it.

I like this game

The tail... it looks like a buttplug. D:

Surprised you didn't go BL Book to combine with Axes after you were told about it. xD

I'd suggest you play on the harder levels if you believe the first one is boring.

the game just got a huge update btw, hope you check it out!

wonder i love you and vtuber i will gladly whatch another video in this

I'd recommend trying stage 2 aswell as it massively increase in difficulty

my favorite new hobby is people who know NOTHING about vtubers trying this game out

WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US

Wander you might like returnal it's a rougelike with time loop elements and a story

its really confuse me that holocure a FREE fan made game given its polish and amount of content it had...

Anyone else think this music fucking slaps?

Carbs are pretty bad. I didn't realize it until I stopped eating them completely. I went from 300 pounds to 150 in a very short amount of time.

have you played "bullet heaven" by matt rozak? it's more a touhou bullet hell game, but the name is on point for this video at least

Every fandom has those types of "Fans" I wouldn't worry too much about them. I've been a part and still a part of some of those die hard fandoms like kpop, hololive, anime, etc. It happens everywhere. Sorry to hear you didn't follow through since some people can be rude. Either way thanks for the video :) Also alot of these items are references to the vtubers in hololive. Alot of inside jokes.

wander imma need u to tell me how you're aiming while moving

This is the first time I've heard of Bullet Heaven. Can I ask the what's the difference between that, and Bullet Hells?

Glad you're trying this out but understandable that the weird elements pushed you from picking this up earlier.

Hey a member of the Yogscast is playing this is my next video.

controller support?