Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 888

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 019
7. The Water Gate Keeper (1)
Though still in the tutorial phase, reactions to the new game were beginning to accumulate quite noticeably throughout the community.
[Line 1 Villains Actually Defeating Real Villains – God-tier Game]
-LMAOOOOO
-Without even a serial killer, what’s this
-K Suicide Squad OMG
-It’s got a weird taste though
└That’s the whole point of it
-Wait, is this an ad? They spent some money on this?
└Looks like they only gave it to one team lol
First, posts that caught the interest of people seeing the game for the first time began appearing.
Then, people who already knew about the game or had searched for information started sharing details.
[GoTuBer) The Original Way to Clear the Tutorial]
Someone uploaded a video of playing through the original tutorial clear method.
This became somewhat of a hot topic.
-Huh?
-Damn, it was that simple lol
-With a Monk it’s ridiculously easy
└Well, it’s a tutorial; the actual game has difficulty
-LOLOLOL Almond’s really gonna get hazed on his first game lol
-Almond? Now it’s time to get his karma back
└LMAOOO
└His deduction game days are about to get mirrored back at him~
Among the related posts, this one gained particular popularity.
3rd Place) What Happens When You Approach the GoTuBer Tutorial Mob
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(video)
Apparently your body gets shredded lol
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-??
-How did Almond get through? He just walked in
└That’s what you call ‘strategy’
-LMAOOOOO
└Cookie said it. Amateurs can’t understand it.
-LOLOLOLOLOL facts
-Huh???
-Almond just walked through, isn’t that an early version?
-But doesn’t this feel like an ad? lol This game video got found super fast
└Real talk, looks like viral marketing
└Tina’s being obvious~
“And the fact that only you use abbreviations like ‘go-to-ver’ makes you seem like such an official lol lol lol”
Tap tap tap tap.
Manager Kim, who had been tapping away at the keyboard, flinched and pulled his hands back.
“Ha… I hate these sharp-eyed bastards, I’m telling you.”

* * *
Juhyeok wrote a comment and chuckled.
“He’s being way too obvious about it.”
Whether it’s viral marketing or whatever, as long as it promotes the game, that’s fine. But it was better for both sides to shut this kind of thing down early.
If the viral buzz gets too intense and it gets exposed later, the backlash will be brutal.
What can be brushed off cutely if discovered now will become a scandal later.
“No need to rush.”
We’ve only just cleared the tutorial.
There’s no reason to be posting about it already.
[Current Viewers: 143,000]
Just look at the viewer count right now—in a little while, the comments will be flooded naturally anyway.

* * *
Balloon Gum and Almond, who had fallen into the water.
After a brief title screen, they found themselves sitting in a park in the middle of a bustling city.
Judging by the patches of wetness still clinging to them, they’d only just escaped.
“Excuse me. Did you hear that voice?”
Almond, dressed as a shaman, asked Balloon Gum, who had become a monk.
Balloon Gum kept touching his slick hair, as if he still couldn’t believe it.
“Yes… that voice. You heard it too?”
“They said we need to exorcise a thought entity in this city.”
“Ugh… I have to go to work tomorrow. What is this.”
-??
-Oh, it’s a cutscene
Lol no, it’s so funny that it comes out in an almond-flavored bubble gum voice
What is this lol
This wasn’t actually a conversation between Balloon Gum and Almond—it was auto-generated dialogue.
The problem was that an AI mimicking their voices exactly was producing the audio.
As if the two of them were actually having a conversation.
“So we’ve become exorcists now?”
“Looks like it. What do we tell the company?”
Right? Haha
-Are we getting fired from the company?
Why can’t you just go to work?
“Ha. If it weren’t for the head, the voice and everything else would be fine just coming to work.”
I could just come to work as is, but Balloon Gum seemed to find it a bit problematic.
And to some extent, Almond felt the same way.
“I can’t get this hat off either.”
Hahahaha
Forced costume lolol
-It’d be funny if he came to work
Can only come to work on Halloween lol
-Welcome to becoming a Viewer!
“Ah. Why is this even a thing? Damn Line 1!”
It was right as Balloon Gum was grumbling like that.
Ding.
The bell in Almond’s hand rang out.
“Kyaaaaaaack!”
A scream pierced through the park.
A woman who had been running suddenly transformed into a Thought Entity.
“Grrrrrr!”
But it didn’t end there.
Nearly half of the people jogging in the park were engulfed in black energy, their bodies convulsing wildly.
“Grrrrr!”
“Kaaaaa!”
“Kraaaaa!”
-Gasp
Monster product placement is crazy.
I don’t need to go to work lol
-Does everyone turn like this?
I don’t have to go to work, that’s awesome lol
“Uh… Uh!?”
As Balloon Gum’s surprised face was zoomed in on, the cutscene ended and the game started again.
“Oh. The horse appears.”
Almond’s words were the signal flare.
Kwaaaang!
Suddenly a Thought Entity came rushing at them with insane speed.
“!”
Almond reacted and retreated backward.
Poof!
Balloon Gum was sent flying as is.
“Aaaah!”
hahahaha
-As expected
-It just bounces back like a ball
-But the damage seems weak?
The Thought Entity that Balloon Gum repelled slowly picked itself back up.
[Grade 3 Thought Entity]
Almond tilted his head at the designation.
“What? Is this stronger than Grade 1?”
“Oh, no. These are weaker. The one from the tutorial was a bit stronger, but that one was… well, we could kill it before it was even fully born, so… that’s just how the setting works.”
“Ah…”
Ding.
[WhyDieWhenYouKnowSoWell has donated 10,000 won.]
[Looks like a rough road ahead from the start!]
“WhyDieWhenYouKnowSoWell~”
“…Y-you!”
“~ Thank you for the 10,000 won donation.”
“W-what? That was a donation? Ugh.”
Hahahahaha
Only at times like this do they call out the full name lol
Almond King Burger lol
This guy never calls people by their real names anyway lol
“This Thought Entity is pretty fast though?”
Kwaaaang!
The Thought Entity charged again in the meantime.
Its target was Balloon Gum.
“Ah, aaaah!”
Balloon Gum tried to dodge but got hit on the backside again and bounced forward.
[Health 89%]
Almond didn’t seem interested in helping at all, just tapping away at his calculator.
“Getting hit twice and still not dying… so it’s fast but definitely weak.”
It seemed Grade 3 Thought Entities really were weaker.
Their simple appearance made them seem like common mob-type creatures.
Ding.
[Rubisword has donated 30,000 won.]
[Balloon Gum does the damage test and Almond finishes it!? This is a co-op game!]
Hahahaha
-Real talk
Even Ruby lol
-Haha
-Classic Rubisword
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
This is funny though, forget the socializing? lol
Everyone seemed to think the Grade 3 Thought Entities were just common mobs, and the atmosphere was cheerful.
“But…”
Whoooosh!
Whoosh!
The Grade 3 Thought Entities began clustering together at an incredible speed.
“They seem to be getting faster.”
Their speed had increased.
It felt like they were accelerating.
Almond was still dodging by moving left and right, but the problem was Balloon Gum.
──Gaaaah!
“Ugh!”
He dodged a few attacks, but the barrage of consecutive strikes was hitting him.
By the nature of these Thought Entities, once you get hit once, the next attack is designed to land easily.
Boom!
Bang!
The Thought Entities seemed to know this too, and they all swarmed toward Balloon Gum once he started to panic.
“Ah, no! Why only me!?”
-I’m a fan!
-One guy dodges everything so it’s boring;
-Lol oh man
-Balloon Gum fan meeting happening lol
-Honestly it looks pretty hard to dodge
Balloon Gum turned around and started running away.
But this was the worst move.
Now he couldn’t tell where the enemy was attacking from.
Actually, there wasn’t no solution.
-But the Monk can just block it with a barrier field, right?
-Gum, use the wooden fish lol
-Please use a barrier field
Striking the wooden fish could create a barrier field.
If he blocked with that, he could avoid damage without needing to dodge at all.
The problem was that neither Almond nor Balloon Gum could see these chat messages.
“Hyung! Prayer beads!”
Almond shouted for Balloon Gum to use prayer beads to bind the Thought Entities.
“Ah, ah! Okay!”
Balloon Gum acknowledged and lifted up the prayer beads.
-What a perfect duo lol
-Dumb and Dumber lmao
-Prayer beads? How are you gonna hit with those!
-It’s like putting a bell on a cat
If you bind them with prayer beads, they can’t build up speed.
Theoretically, it’s the perfect countermeasure. But…
Whoosh!
“!?”
There was no way I could land a direct hit on something moving that fast.
Huff!
Every time the prayer beads regenerated on Balloon Gum’s wrist, he threw them again, but out of countless thought entities, only one was hit. These creatures were designed from the ground up not to be hit.
-lololol like that’s gonna work
-ugh
Stop bullying Kkeum hyung, you guys!
-Almond can do it so that’s why they had him do it lol
Boom boom boom crash!
Meanwhile, the thought entities accelerated even further, nearly creating a whirlwind.

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“Heh, hehehehe! Prayer beads? That’s impossible for Balloon Gum!”
“It’s like a Seoul University student can’t do tutoring—completely right?!”
The office atmosphere had become cheerful again.
Kim Gwajang and Manager Kim clinked their beer cans together, laughing.
“We won’t even need to run a viral campaign. Hey, these guys look like they’ll be doing this for weeks.”
A tutorial?
That much is literally just a tutorial.
The real world of Ghost Busters was just beginning.
Now countless thought entities would occupy Seoul’s streets, and trials would await at every turn.
Could Balloon Gum handle it all alone each time?
In a game designed so blatantly to require cooperation?
“Isn’t that Monk probably a barrier user?”
“Right. Since they’re fast, if you set up a barrier, they’ll crash into each other. Just dodging won’t work—they keep getting faster and faster, so there’s no solution.”
“I heard Almond is a master at dodging. That’s the perfect counter, right?”
“Exactly. Dodge everything and land every hit? That doesn’t work against these guys.”
Being a cooperative game, it’s packed with mechanisms to prevent any single player from carrying.
The gaming industry’s universal truth of “just dodge everything and land every hit” doesn’t apply here.
Considering these are only Act 1 minions, they’ve become quite challenging.
“Our game’s design intent is essentially a two-player puzzle. Once you solve the puzzle, the difficulty drops dramatically. But if you just charge in recklessly, it’s nearly impossible.”

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Huff, huff!
Balloon Gum, nearly depleted of stamina from hurling wooden beads.
They say people change when death approaches—was that true?
“Ah… this, this!”
Only then did Balloon Gum seem to realize something, pulling out a wooden temple block.
“A reverse barrier! A reverse barrier! Use a reverse barrier!”
He remembered how Takoyaki had done it.
Create a reverse barrier to block the Thought Entity’s charge.
Then those things rushing at high speed would slam into the wall and lose consciousness.
Strike them with a talisman at the precise moment to finish it.
“Mond! Wait, wait! Here I go!”
This time, I would be useful.
Balloon Gum lifted the wooden temple block with a solemn expression.
A rhythm indicator appeared before his eyes.
The bar moved, and he struck the temple block in time with the rhythm.
Tap… tap!
“Ah, the rhythm!”
However, Balloon Gum was hopelessly tone-deaf.
hahahaha
Of all times, lol
Oh no ㅠㅠㅠ
I can’t translate this as it’s not a coherent Korean phrase – it appears to be random consonants without vowels, which doesn’t form meaningful words in Korean.
-Please stop, brother… already…
It took about three attempts to properly establish the rhythm.
And then—
“Rhythm, lead! I got it!”
When his stamina had dropped to nearly five percent.
Tap!
As the final rhythm aligned, the wooden temple block began to glow.
He created a reverse barrier at the desired location.
Balloon Gum, possessed by rage, bellowed at the top of his lungs.
“These damn gnats, smash into the reverse barrier and die like moths!”
But…
“Huh?”
None of them died that way.
“What?”
The Thought Entities were already all sprawled out.
Crackle… crackle.
Talismans emitting blue lightning were affixed to the crown of each of their heads.
“Huh?”
Hahahahahahahaha
-Stop it already, hyung…
Haha, you didn’t see it? Haha
Lol that’s legendary ㅋ
I guess I was too focused on the beat to notice ㅠㅠ
Haha, it reminds me of that time I got hit by a tower while looking at the minimap and got executed.
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughter)
“Good job, hyung. Aggro was perfect.”
Snap.
Watching Almond give me a thumbs up, I felt a wave of self-loathing wash over me.
Aggro good lol
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
Looks like you’re tea bagging lol
A man who earned Armando’s recognition lol
A donation comes in to console him.
Ding.
[Sanjang Beopsa donated 10,000 won.]
[Stupid middle-aged man….]
I’m dying laughing
Haha, that’s hilarious!
Middle-aged lolol it’s unfortunate that his job is a Buddhist monk, so it sounds like a curse word
He’s a middle-aged guy lol
I’m crying / Boo hoo / Wahhh
-Hang in there! Gum hyung!
This time I actually found the real way to break it ㅋㅋㅋ
Oh my gosh, haha!

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