Glad you enjoyed the game! A few things the game doesn't make particularly obvious, but might help you out: - It has twin-stick controller support (move with left stick, aim with right). Personally, I find it much nicer to use than mouse and keyboard - level ups have 4 pickup types: weapons, items, skills (can be viewed from pause menu), and stat-ups (don't take a slot, and have no max). - weapons have different types as well, like melee, projectile, and multi-shot projectile. This is indicated by the icon on the right. Some items work on only certain types. - There are multiple tabs in the Shop, with the first tab having game-altering upgrades (like unlocking Special attack), the second tab having standard upgrades (attack up, speed up, etc), and the final tab having basically challenge-run changes (fewer weapon slots, 1 hp, etc.) - Since you have seen a "Collab" weapon, at level-up screens there is a panel you can open by pressing Right that shows all Collab-weapon combinations you have seen so far. You can also see this list from the pause screen. It helps, since there are a lot of possible combinations, it can be hard to remember what all Collabs with what.
29:59 Honestly? I think this was the funniest moment to me, because I KNOW I've heard Gura say that about herself when running from something in a game.
Hololive fan here. I'll explain the concept of the game a little, if you don't mind. The animals you beat are fans of each member. The skulls are from Vtubers Calli and so on. Each skill is some joke or story about the character. The weapons are completely jokes and references to lives or something that happened. For those who know it, it's a full plate, for those who want to know, there's a video here on the platform for anyone who wants to. If you like the game (the game is very good) and are interested, I advise you to research it if you are curious. You can make a video, hololive fans will come to see your reactions. Good luck and happy gaming. 😂. (I used Google translate, my English is not good... Sorry)
big hololive fan here, this was one of my favorite beginner playthroughs to watch haha! your reaction to the one asacoco weapon (everybody knows which one) cracked me up LOL looking forward to watching more!
@Fryoxes She is pretty Sus. She is an impressive woman. She liked playing the Yakuza games so she went to an audition and now she's in them. She was Kiryu Coco in Hololive but now she's Kson in Vshojo. She had to leave Hololive because of drama with China. She was born in America. She did the voice acting of herself for the Yakuza game in both English and Japanese and wrote most of her own lines. She has over 4 million dollars in superchats between Coco and Kson. She pushed for Hololive English before it existed but she called it Hololive America. I think Asa Coco was her morning show when she was still in Hololive? Dunno. But Asa is morning. Maybe it's a joke? She used the Asacoco as her mouse pointer.
Oooh, someone new playing HoloCure! ---- A lot of your questions as you played have already been answered, but one of them I've not seen answered is about who made the game. That would be Kay Yu. Kay Yu is an animator and has worked with Hololive a few times, the most memorable contribution being the "Q" music video for Gawr Gura and Mori Calliope which is referenced when the Deadbeats and Chumbuds come back with weapons and you have dual boss enemies on the screen. However, he does have work outside of VTubers, like key animation for One Piece, Sword Art Online, River City Girls (1 and 2), Onimai, and Mushoko Tensei. Kay Yu is basically a Hololive superfan. Where Vampire Survivors was seen as a love letter to the Castlevania games, HoloCure is a love letter to Hololive. The game has had several previous versions before the Steam release where more "generations" of talent and more stages were added.
Each of the playable characters is a Hololive vtuber. Each of the common enemies are mascots representing their fan groups. For example, the redish orange enemies at the beginning of stage 1 are shrimps, who are fans of GawrGura (shark girl). The skeletons are called DeadBeats and are fans of Mori Calliope (reaper girl). The alligators in tan vests are InvestiGators, the fans of Amelia Watson (detective girl). The initial 5 playable characters are from the English speaking branch's first "generation" (i.e. the first group of 5 English speakers who joined the company at the same time) of Hololive. The gatcha mechanic in the shop to unlock other characters is sorted by other generations including JP (Japanese) and ID (Indonesian) groups under Hololive. Stage 1 is also themed to the English members, so all of the enemies are the English fan groups. Stage 2 is themed to the Japanese members with Japanese fan groups, Stage 3 is themed to members with "spooky/Halloween" characters such as vampires, demons, etc., and Stage 4 is themed to Indonesia. The story of the game (played when you boot it up) is that an evil force corrupted the fans' love for the vtubers making the fans become aggressive. The vtubers are defeating the fans to knock sense back into them.
To answer some questions as they come up: 14:00 The super box is a very rare chance to drop a golden version of an item that you could get normally. The golden item is locked to level 1, but has equivalent to level 5 stats + some extra perk. In the case of the golden Knightly Milk you got, the normal version just gives increased knockback, weapon size, and pick up range. The golden version gives level 5 versions of those stats + the 20 bonus HP. 15:15 Only the "Main Weapon" (the starting weapon for each character is unique) becomes "Awakened" at level 7. So only Gura has access to the trident, but everyone has access to the glowstick and BL book, etc. On a related note, the Skills (marked with the star icon) like the whirlpool, shark bite, and short height are character specific. Each character gets 3 unique Skills that drastically change up their gameplay compared to every other character. These Skills do not take up weapon or item slots. As you surmised, Gura is pretty heavily geared toward debuffing enemies and keeping mobile. On the other hand, someone like Mori Calliope might be more of a stationary heavy-hitter with skills that ramp up her damage or give her attacks AoE, and other characters like Ceres Fauna (from the EN Council+HOPE gatcha banner) will be more healing-focused with skills that give her buffs or deal damage to enemies whenever she heals. 21:00 Going back to the previous point - level 7 normal weapons all have the opportunity to fuse with other level 7 normal weapons to create Collabs, which is why they don't "Awaken" like the Main Weapon. 23:40 "That's literally just some guy". Meet Yagoo (full name Motoaki Tanigou). He is the CEO of Hololive. Everybody loves him, and everybody loves to make fun of him. Hololive gives each of their vtubers a "wish" that will be granted if they hit 1 million subscribers (usually something like a music video or new outfit for their vtuber avatar or special merch to celebrate). One of the newest English member's 1 million subscriber wish is for Yagoo to become her mom. That is not a typo. 28:15 Yes, the Elite Lava Bucket is a Minecraft reference. Specifically, one of the JP Gen 0 members named Sakura Miko is famous for accidentally burning her own house down due to lava related incidents MULTIPLE times. She is referred to as the "Elite Gamer" - I'll let you figure out why. 31:50 Asacoco is a line of drugs coined by a (former) member Kiryu Coco. Coco had a morning talk show called Asacoco (literally Morning Coco) that often went very much off the rails. During these talk shows, she would interject with fake advertisement segments for a drug called Asacoco that was akin to injecting yourself with the undiluted insanity of her streams directly into your bloodstream. Offerings include Injection-type Asacoco for conventional application, Breath-type Asacoco (respirator) for oral intake, and Plug-type Asacoco (the weapon that you snickered at) for... well, you know where that one goes.
A slight correction, the fans of the stages are based off of the generations that were added with that stage (not generalized as JP and spooky/Halloween as you stated). So stage 1 is the fanbases of EN gens 1 and 2, stage 2 is the fanbases of JP gens 0 and gamers, stage 3 is JP gens 1 and 2, and stage 4 is all 3 ID gens. It just so happens that quite a few fanbases of JP gens 1 and 2 fit a Halloween aesthetic, but others maybe not so much such as the shubaducks or matsuri squirrels. This is also why there are zombies in stage 4 instead of fitting in with the Halloween theme of stage 3, because they are part of Ollie's (an ID member) fanbase. There are a few exceptions though, the Fubuzilla boss for instance despite being in the EN stage is a reference to Fubuki, part of JP gamers, and the SSRBs in stage 2 are part of Botan's fanbase, but she isn't in the game yet as she is JP gen 5, the design of her fanbase just made for convenient explosive enemies.
@keylimepie3143 I intentionally oversimplified the stage details (1) to make it easier for someone coming in completely cold to understand "in general", and (2) to avoid stage-specific spoilers.
Have fun exploring the game! Check the Holohouse, unlock the few systems first before any other % upgrades is my tip! Have fun! (Favourite character, Tsukumo Sana)
Have a nice day man long time no see I were busy these days When I come back I see you play Holocure THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!! Glad you finally play it! I enjoy your gameplay as always
The Vtubers LOVE this game and actively stream it when updates happen. Some, like Hololive's Grind Queen Kaela are specifically referenced in the game's achievements and a certain HoloHouse item due to her marathon streams every update. It all happened because she marathoned the game for several streams after an update, got all the achievements, then said "When's the next update". It's been an inside joke ever since. She's the reason the 'get all achievements' achievement only awards a single Holocoin. And I just want to point out that you already had a sus item before you got Plug-type. Knightly Milk is referece to Noel, a knight whose most obvious attribute is her large bust. She even has an outfit themed after a cow. Sooo... yeah.
I'm still watching the video. From the options you can make the weapons more transparent. Helps you see enemies better. I don't know what you think of the idea but. How about each video where you play a character and get to know the story, the memes and so on. Maybe people will be interested. It's just an idea
I’ll definitely think about it, I’d have to do a lot of research on each character/vtuber but it might be interesting if there’s videos already made on them!
Glad you enjoyed the game! A few things the game doesn't make particularly obvious, but might help you out:
- It has twin-stick controller support (move with left stick, aim with right). Personally, I find it much nicer to use than mouse and keyboard
- level ups have 4 pickup types: weapons, items, skills (can be viewed from pause menu), and stat-ups (don't take a slot, and have no max).
- weapons have different types as well, like melee, projectile, and multi-shot projectile. This is indicated by the icon on the right. Some items work on only certain types.
- There are multiple tabs in the Shop, with the first tab having game-altering upgrades (like unlocking Special attack), the second tab having standard upgrades (attack up, speed up, etc), and the final tab having basically challenge-run changes (fewer weapon slots, 1 hp, etc.)
- Since you have seen a "Collab" weapon, at level-up screens there is a panel you can open by pressing Right that shows all Collab-weapon combinations you have seen so far. You can also see this list from the pause screen. It helps, since there are a lot of possible combinations, it can be hard to remember what all Collabs with what.
29:59 Honestly? I think this was the funniest moment to me, because I KNOW I've heard Gura say that about herself when running from something in a game.
I can definitely imagine her saying something like that after watching some of her clips!’
Hololive fan here. I'll explain the concept of the game a little, if you don't mind. The animals you beat are fans of each member. The skulls are from Vtubers Calli and so on. Each skill is some joke or story about the character. The weapons are completely jokes and references to lives or something that happened. For those who know it, it's a full plate, for those who want to know, there's a video here on the platform for anyone who wants to. If you like the game (the game is very good) and are interested, I advise you to research it if you are curious. You can make a video, hololive fans will come to see your reactions. Good luck and happy gaming. 😂. (I used Google translate, my English is not good... Sorry)
Thanks for letting me know, if someone links it I’ll definitely watch some videos explaining all the jokes!!!
There's a playlist titled "Holocure References" from channel called "HoloSurvivors" you can check that out
Eu sinto Q vc fala português
BRs detectados, fãs de Hololive ainda, pretty impressive
@@osamabila-bem180 Br em todos os lugares ! Rs
big hololive fan here, this was one of my favorite beginner playthroughs to watch haha! your reaction to the one asacoco weapon (everybody knows which one) cracked me up LOL looking forward to watching more!
It’s definitely a sus weapon but I’m enjoying this game a lot so far!!
@Fryoxes She is pretty Sus. She is an impressive woman. She liked playing the Yakuza games so she went to an audition and now she's in them. She was Kiryu Coco in Hololive but now she's Kson in Vshojo. She had to leave Hololive because of drama with China. She was born in America. She did the voice acting of herself for the Yakuza game in both English and Japanese and wrote most of her own lines. She has over 4 million dollars in superchats between Coco and Kson. She pushed for Hololive English before it existed but she called it Hololive America. I think Asa Coco was her morning show when she was still in Hololive? Dunno. But Asa is morning. Maybe it's a joke? She used the Asacoco as her mouse pointer.
Oooh, someone new playing HoloCure!
----
A lot of your questions as you played have already been answered, but one of them I've not seen answered is about who made the game. That would be Kay Yu. Kay Yu is an animator and has worked with Hololive a few times, the most memorable contribution being the "Q" music video for Gawr Gura and Mori Calliope which is referenced when the Deadbeats and Chumbuds come back with weapons and you have dual boss enemies on the screen. However, he does have work outside of VTubers, like key animation for One Piece, Sword Art Online, River City Girls (1 and 2), Onimai, and Mushoko Tensei. Kay Yu is basically a Hololive superfan. Where Vampire Survivors was seen as a love letter to the Castlevania games, HoloCure is a love letter to Hololive. The game has had several previous versions before the Steam release where more "generations" of talent and more stages were added.
Each of the playable characters is a Hololive vtuber. Each of the common enemies are mascots representing their fan groups. For example, the redish orange enemies at the beginning of stage 1 are shrimps, who are fans of GawrGura (shark girl). The skeletons are called DeadBeats and are fans of Mori Calliope (reaper girl). The alligators in tan vests are InvestiGators, the fans of Amelia Watson (detective girl).
The initial 5 playable characters are from the English speaking branch's first "generation" (i.e. the first group of 5 English speakers who joined the company at the same time) of Hololive. The gatcha mechanic in the shop to unlock other characters is sorted by other generations including JP (Japanese) and ID (Indonesian) groups under Hololive. Stage 1 is also themed to the English members, so all of the enemies are the English fan groups. Stage 2 is themed to the Japanese members with Japanese fan groups, Stage 3 is themed to members with "spooky/Halloween" characters such as vampires, demons, etc., and Stage 4 is themed to Indonesia.
The story of the game (played when you boot it up) is that an evil force corrupted the fans' love for the vtubers making the fans become aggressive. The vtubers are defeating the fans to knock sense back into them.
To answer some questions as they come up:
14:00 The super box is a very rare chance to drop a golden version of an item that you could get normally. The golden item is locked to level 1, but has equivalent to level 5 stats + some extra perk. In the case of the golden Knightly Milk you got, the normal version just gives increased knockback, weapon size, and pick up range. The golden version gives level 5 versions of those stats + the 20 bonus HP.
15:15 Only the "Main Weapon" (the starting weapon for each character is unique) becomes "Awakened" at level 7. So only Gura has access to the trident, but everyone has access to the glowstick and BL book, etc.
On a related note, the Skills (marked with the star icon) like the whirlpool, shark bite, and short height are character specific. Each character gets 3 unique Skills that drastically change up their gameplay compared to every other character. These Skills do not take up weapon or item slots. As you surmised, Gura is pretty heavily geared toward debuffing enemies and keeping mobile. On the other hand, someone like Mori Calliope might be more of a stationary heavy-hitter with skills that ramp up her damage or give her attacks AoE, and other characters like Ceres Fauna (from the EN Council+HOPE gatcha banner) will be more healing-focused with skills that give her buffs or deal damage to enemies whenever she heals.
21:00 Going back to the previous point - level 7 normal weapons all have the opportunity to fuse with other level 7 normal weapons to create Collabs, which is why they don't "Awaken" like the Main Weapon.
23:40 "That's literally just some guy". Meet Yagoo (full name Motoaki Tanigou). He is the CEO of Hololive. Everybody loves him, and everybody loves to make fun of him. Hololive gives each of their vtubers a "wish" that will be granted if they hit 1 million subscribers (usually something like a music video or new outfit for their vtuber avatar or special merch to celebrate). One of the newest English member's 1 million subscriber wish is for Yagoo to become her mom. That is not a typo.
28:15 Yes, the Elite Lava Bucket is a Minecraft reference. Specifically, one of the JP Gen 0 members named Sakura Miko is famous for accidentally burning her own house down due to lava related incidents MULTIPLE times. She is referred to as the "Elite Gamer" - I'll let you figure out why.
31:50 Asacoco is a line of drugs coined by a (former) member Kiryu Coco. Coco had a morning talk show called Asacoco (literally Morning Coco) that often went very much off the rails. During these talk shows, she would interject with fake advertisement segments for a drug called Asacoco that was akin to injecting yourself with the undiluted insanity of her streams directly into your bloodstream. Offerings include Injection-type Asacoco for conventional application, Breath-type Asacoco (respirator) for oral intake, and Plug-type Asacoco (the weapon that you snickered at) for... well, you know where that one goes.
This is a lot of information😂😂 I will read through it before episode 3 comes out!!
This game gets better the more I learn about Hololive😂
A slight correction, the fans of the stages are based off of the generations that were added with that stage (not generalized as JP and spooky/Halloween as you stated). So stage 1 is the fanbases of EN gens 1 and 2, stage 2 is the fanbases of JP gens 0 and gamers, stage 3 is JP gens 1 and 2, and stage 4 is all 3 ID gens. It just so happens that quite a few fanbases of JP gens 1 and 2 fit a Halloween aesthetic, but others maybe not so much such as the shubaducks or matsuri squirrels. This is also why there are zombies in stage 4 instead of fitting in with the Halloween theme of stage 3, because they are part of Ollie's (an ID member) fanbase.
There are a few exceptions though, the Fubuzilla boss for instance despite being in the EN stage is a reference to Fubuki, part of JP gamers, and the SSRBs in stage 2 are part of Botan's fanbase, but she isn't in the game yet as she is JP gen 5, the design of her fanbase just made for convenient explosive enemies.
@keylimepie3143 I intentionally oversimplified the stage details (1) to make it easier for someone coming in completely cold to understand "in general", and (2) to avoid stage-specific spoilers.
Have fun exploring the game! Check the Holohouse, unlock the few systems first before any other % upgrades is my tip! Have fun!
(Favourite character, Tsukumo Sana)
Sana is eternal
If you like Spice and Wolf, Ninomae Ina'nis has a cover of Tabi no Tochuu on her channel which she drew all the art for.
Amazing recommendation. Loved it so much!!!❤️❤️
also iirc she made a readalong of part of the 1st novel
No clue if anyone has told you this but there's an opacity meter in options to make your attacks less visable to remove screen noice
Elite Lava Bucket is a reference to the multiple times Sakura Miko aka Elite Miko burnt down her house in minecraft with lava buckets.
Have a nice day man long time no see
I were busy these days
When I come back I see you play Holocure
THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!! Glad you finally play it!
I enjoy your gameplay as always
WELCOME BACK PHU!!!
@@Fryoxes Ty just doing your best as always
Elite lava bucket references the time when Sakura Miko (aka Elite Miko) accidentally set her house on fire with a lava bucket, indeed on Minecraft.
The Vtubers LOVE this game and actively stream it when updates happen. Some, like Hololive's Grind Queen Kaela are specifically referenced in the game's achievements and a certain HoloHouse item due to her marathon streams every update. It all happened because she marathoned the game for several streams after an update, got all the achievements, then said "When's the next update". It's been an inside joke ever since. She's the reason the 'get all achievements' achievement only awards a single Holocoin.
And I just want to point out that you already had a sus item before you got Plug-type. Knightly Milk is referece to Noel, a knight whose most obvious attribute is her large bust. She even has an outfit themed after a cow. Sooo... yeah.
I love learning about the lore of the game😂😂
I'm still watching the video. From the options you can make the weapons more transparent. Helps you see enemies better. I don't know what you think of the idea but. How about each video where you play a character and get to know the story, the memes and so on. Maybe people will be interested. It's just an idea
I’ll definitely think about it, I’d have to do a lot of research on each character/vtuber but it might be interesting if there’s videos already made on them!
Gawr Gura is most subscribed vtuber on UA-cam(idk about twitch) with 4mil+ subs
Those shrimps are her fans called chumbuds.
CHUMBUDS???? That’s such a good name😂
@@Fryoxes or chumbies or ebi (japanese for shrimp), paid channel members are membershrimps
Wouldn't surprise me if you have seen at least 1 clip of Gawr Gura, being the most subscribed vtuber on the platform (by a very large margin)
I’ve definitely seen some Gawd Gura and maybe a few others that weren’t English speaking!!
Reboot of Spice and Wolf coming like next month!
Are you serious??? You better not be joking. I’ll be so mad if this is a lie
Nice vid
Welcome to the rabbit hole
yessir more of this pls
Next episode is coming out very soon!!