Yangus failing to Psyche Up 15 times in a row is truly the Dragon Quest experience of all time.

Best dq and I'll fight over it

Timbrel of Tension is so busted, it never shows up in any future DQ games This was an awesome run

Dragon Quest 8 Journey of these Fuckin Hands

The fact that you can craft a second Timbrel in the post-game and have 2 party members attacking at 100 tension every other turn makes the 2nd run at Rhapthorne a mugging. I always used Jessica (highest dmg in the game using Twin Dragon Lash) and Yangus for attacks, Hero/Angelo speed boosted with Meteorite Bracers/Seeded up so they always go first using Timbrel (plus KaZing when needed)...busted right in half.

Dude..this is probably the BEST challenge run of any video game on all of youtube. Your commentary had me howling at times, the edits were all brilliant. Im a new subscriber man, this is some good stuff on one of my favorite games

Honestly I would make an exception for Bounce because it's not you dealing damage to the enemy rather then the enemy damaging themselves and the main point of Bounce is not to inflict damage to the enemy but rather prevent damage on the party.

Fightman. That's a name that speaks volumes, pure and simple. He fight, he is man

You have impeccable taste, Yangus is the best dragon quest husband/wife. Man even tells you his ideal future is just living life in a cabin with the hero, he's too sweet.

"Last time, I was a boy. Now, I am a good 4 people." That line alone earned my subscription lmao. I'm excited to see where this channel goes!

"How many times did he fail to psych up?" 15 "If you said 10" No way "You'd be wrong. It's actually 15!" I called it, screamed it, laughed my ass off. You get a like and a sub.

My favorite DQ ever!! Thanks for playing it. Run looked great. Wish they could've ported this to PC

With Mitten Squads recent death, and the fact that just yesterday I started a new game on my ps2, this video could NOT be more perfectly timed 🤣

You're a legend bro. Playing like that with just Fists or Solo Hero is truly epic. I just came back to this game and had forgotten how hard it was at certain points. I just forgot a few things and that was enough to screw me at the beginning of the gameplay. The good thing is that I feel like I'm playing DQ8 for the first time, and that feeling is just amazing. haha Thanks for the gameplay man!!

I remember i got stuck on Dhoulmagus originally playing this as a kid, knowing there was an entire other phase to the fight past the part that'd kill me (on top of the fact it wasn't the final fight of the game) is crazy, I would've never been able to beat him lol This was a great video, you deserve a lot more views

Fisticuffs has always been my favorite "weapon" in this game. Every playthrough I've ever done, I always have at least one character use fisticuffs. I've also done a few fisticuffs-only runs. Wish Angelo had a little more on the offensive skills, though.

Now this is the quality content I need the algorithm to give me.

Just doesn't feel right when Yangus isn't wielding massive melee weapons.

I remember trying a fisticuffs/permadeath run a few years back in this game. I knew in advance that in some instances of the Story all Characters had to be alive to progress. What I hadn't known at that time is, if a party member is dead and shows up in a mandatory Cutscene, the game resurrects them with 1 hp automatically. Changed the rules to just banning Churches instead.😅

Haven't thought of this game in ages, excited to watch your challenge run!

Never had a video where I had to pause and rewind THIS much to see if I heard it right lmao. Great work!

Just wanted to say your editing and commentary is great your quite funny bro

damn you are the real OG! commentary was hilarious

Man I love this game so much. I bought a secondhand PS2 a few years back just to play this game. I pretty much know it inside and out and when you go to the screen that shows your play stats King Trodain actually told me "Hey, you're moving a little fast there bud. You sure you're not cheating?" and I thought that was funny as hell.

Enderal music in a Dragon Quest video? What a fantastic combo of things I like.

noooo, don't tell me you didn't know about the free heal before trap box! you can read the sign next to the stairs and it fully heals you.

I bought this game back in 2006 for PS2. I have the android version on my phone now and have been enjoying playing through it again. Just wish they didn't get rid of the voice acting for the mobile version. That was a big part of its charm but it's not enough to ruin the fun. I'm still really enjoying playing it again.

I really love the battle system for DQ8, and its always fun to beat Dhoulmagus before Angelo learns multi-heal, though its definitely up to RNG at that point. Learning which armor and spells can reduce the AOE spam spells and breaths of late game enemies helps a ton for lowering the HP needed to make the boss fights reliable. The late game alchemy gear like timbrel and sages stone is completely busted, especially post game when you can get a second timbrel (without grinding). As much as I love the power spikes you can get from it, unrestricted alchemy is just a little too OP for most challenge runs, but its super fun to optimize in the mid game when you have so really nice short term gains versus focusing on the bigger power spikes for some of the troublesome bosses. and if it directly flows into your endgame equipment setup. Its also nice that even though some equipment/skill trees obviously win out late game, they are surprisingly well balanced with decent power jumps at various points. For a normal playthrough its hard to ignore axes and spears since they let you get a few cheap metal slimes and are pretty good, but I remember learning thin air on Yangus my first playthrough and loved spamming it. A bit more streamlined to just alchemy a good boomerang for the mobs, and focus on the single target DPS of the other skill trees, but hard to call any setup useless (maybe fisticuffs with no skill points). I know a no skill points run in general makes a decent challenge run, its surprising just how much you lose out on (acceleratle locked behind 3 skill points feels so mean), but with alchemy you can get thru just fine. A little boring without alchemy, but maybe if you add in a no shopping rule as well it would be really fun to see what you can achieve. Was a little surprised you didn't seem to know about the heal right before the Trap Box boss. I always use that as a spot to grind a little more money off the goodie bags in the area since so much good stuff to buy in pickham, plus a couple levels before that boss never hurt (I also like to beat the trap box before getting angelo, which leads to some fun sequence break dialogs, but it can be rough getting there on the ps2 version. The 3ds version makes it a little too easy.)

Cool challenge that really illustrates where a lot of the power comes from in this game, buffs/debuffs and items.

Just found your vids, they're pretty good. Keep it up brother

Nice vid, I enjoyed your banter! ^_^

I attempted this a long while back but ultimately dropped it around the point of reaching Argonia (I may attempt it again one day), I believe it's definitely possible but it's a VERY slow process in the early-game to accumulate enough skill points to hit your stride in terms of acquiring innate attack boosts and useful crowd control fisticuff skills and even with that it will still be fairly difficult to take down the more challenging and HP-heavy mid- and late-game bosses.

bro wtf I did that challenge on my own 1 year ago and I see this video just now I'm subscribing

So no one wanted to comment on how he beat the whole game AND an extra post game boss UNDER LEVEL 40?! …FIST ONLY

always wanted to try this in the 3DS version so this was a great video to watch

fun fact: you can't name yourself after any important in-game characters. i found this out cause my name is Angelo...

I still remember the time i had a random encounter on the hill you can only reach flying, where the Conqueror Axe is, and faced 9 metal king slimes, managed to take 2 out while the others escaped. It gace me shivers to think that i encountered 90k exp

You damn king what a lad what a Chad and man of culture for doing this challenge on this 10/10 best dragon quest game

I remember trying this back in the day it was such a grind lol

as someone who's played over 1k hrs of this on the ps2 since its my favorite game of all time i already know the answer is yes since ive done it already

Weird how I completed rpgs all the time when I was a kid, but now I can barely past the first act. Life was so simple. Wake up, game, eat poptarts, game, go to sleep.

Good video, solid execution

I have been LOOKING for this!

19:03 Now you wrong for that 😂

I'm 10ish minutes in, and I see Jessica specing into fisticuffs, when you're not going to be attacking with her later because SEX APPEAL IS FUCKING OVERPOWERED IN SUPPORT.

This game was a glorious treat in the West for fans of the Dragon Quest Series.

idk if you know this but knuckle sandwich doesnt remove tension but does get boosted by it. also it does let you have a single target attack without losing tension so you dont waste turns tensing up.

Good taste in music, subscribed

Freaking Wave of Ice was the bane of my existence when I first played DQ8. It seemed as the though every boss that can use it, spammed it against me with impunity. It got so bad that I gave up buffing my party from the Dhoulmagus fight onwards except for the few bosses that didn’t have WOI or when I used Timbrel of Tension…….that beast is totally busted and easily spammed.

Earned yourself a new sub with this content , also, you're dutch by any chance?

ah, one of my favorite PS2 games. I remember this game had a demo disc for XII in it. I guess the KZfaq algorithm is useful sometimes.

9:35 Tortured Soul was the biggest wall i faced ,even after Khalamari,after him ,the rest of bosses went down in 2 or 3 tries.

One thing I noticed, when you fought Geezer, was hero being at level 50 psyche, you can actually get to super high tension very early in the game, by hitting 50 about 6 or 7 times throughout all your battle, doing it with both Hero and Yangus, will speed up the process and will be unlocked for everyone to use, a little tip that might of affected the run a little bit

Good video, I like your humor and the effort you put into this. But I would warmly recommend talking either slower or more clearly, while also slightly increasing your mic volume in the mix.

who needs magic or weapons when you got knuckle sandwiches

19:02 I definetely did not see that coming

There's a full heal spot next to trap box for future runs

When i did no weapons i allowed magic and abilities, only time i allowed weapons was solely for grinding, i went through the post game and finished the dragovian trails

I still hold my Hero only run as one of the most fun times I ever had playing an RPG. Of course you need to use the full party for the last boss but the journey leading up to that point was perfect.

I love stuff like this 💀

One of my favorite games ever ❤

Banger vid'

If you have tension because your building for an attack but need to change plans to heal your tension boosts your healing spells so you can save mp by using cheaper spells.

It's a bow. It's another fuckin bow, dude. 21:25

I attempted this run a while back, though I did it slightly differently. I allowed myself to attack with magic, but my restriction was to only spend skill points on Fisticuffs. Nothing else

There is a piller you can read in swordsmin labyrinth just before thé Boss and it fully heals your hp and mp

So you can increase the effects of buffs and debuffs with tension too... Having hero and jessica both psych for 3 turns then having her omph and him use a nice strong attack will end lots of bosses.

Weapons as items 👀

Mad funny good video bro

As the great pathagorians gf once said “yasss slay gurl” Dies cry laughing

Psych up affects all of your battle actions, even buffing and debuffing 👌

Simple answer....yes. I have done it when it came out. An amazing game overall.

thanks for calling me beautiful

At start, going to do predictions first as many ask for :) -- I predict this is do-able, especially later on (think one of the characters is an unarmed specialist, but I might be thinking of 11 -- sad trombone), so think you'll be able to do it, question, of course, is at what level you'll be able to do it (I predict early game will require EXCESSIVE overleveling and hair pulling but that end game and bonus content -- should you attempt it -- will be done at normal or close to normal levels)

You said "Dragon Quest but with the Fade Alone" lmaooooo

Oh man, no offensives spells, that's just masochism.

Nice run!

DRAGON QUEEEEST LETS GOOOOO!!!!

It's a shame a Cheese only run wouldn't be possible.

Magic Burst was banned as a damaging spell even though it's from the Fisticuffs tree ?

Can You Beat Dragon Quest VIII Without MP?

Never played a dragon quest. I tried to play the one on switch and for the love of me couldn’t play it…any tips lol

Why didn’t you talk to the gravestone and full heal before strong box?

I wish they would release this game on ps4/5 I would play it so much, I miss playing it

Good video. Sometimes your voice was quieter than the ingame sound and it was hard to understand what you were saying (especially noticable when you talked about your skill allocation at 11:30). But the video was entertaining nonetheless

Curious as to why you didn't use Harvest Moon to deal with the shadows in the Jessica fight??

LMS grinding will be hell

How is using Bounce breaking the rules? You didn't cast the offensive spell.

So, having lv 99 is kinda overkill huh. No wonder leveling is kinda hard without metal slime

I did this when i named the hero Gohan like 15 years ago

Yes u can actually I've done it many times. I had an all fist party and it was easier to beat the game than with weapons

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i did my first play threw with fist skill so i low key did this challange

I gotta try this run!!!

19:02 im dying😂😂😂😂😂😂

No metal slime hunting?

Putting all your points into Courage first instead of LITERALLY the thing that's your main damage output just to get Zoom when CHIMERA FUCKING WINGS exists is beyond fuckin dumb 😭😭😭

Why didn't you face doulmagas aat level 35 or 40

I knew fist are the worst weapon type but I didnt realize how bad they were. I assumed they were like.... 20% worse but the upside is you have a bit more money since you don't need to buy weapons so you will have slightly better armor usually but... man... these really are horrible

How come you never used defending Champion? Super useful on Bosses that have mutli-turns, and with Hero being in the first slot, he attracts the most aggro.