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That alice luck is a 1 in 32,768 chance, the luck gods were smiling upon you

Ah yes SMT 2 the only game where you play as the Messiah who is actually a aged up child and who's girlfriend is actually his mother and who's best friend is literally satan and who has to join a dance battle to actually progress in the game Damn this game needs a remake its so good

Standard Weapons in most SMT games: Useless to Situational Standard weapons in SMT2:

"Patrick Stewart's disembodied head is looking right at us, and we have to fight it." This line is absurdly funny.

The reason Voice of God only hit Aleph is because it always targets whoever has the lowest Intelligence. All the bosses in the final dungeon have unique moves that are very predictable as to who they hit and, with the exception of Satan, all of them target whoever has the lowest of a particular stat. Sabaoth binds the one with the lowest Strength, Shaddai paralyzes the one with the lowest Agility, Elohim petrifies the one with the lowest Luck, and Satan instakills based on how you've ordered your party. That's why I was torn over you choosing the Law ending - it's my favorite of the three endings, but the final dungeon without demons would have been a big difficulty spike because of their signature moves. Also, the agility issues on Lucifer and YHVH weren't just bad luck; those two and Satan are just super evasive naturally to make them more challenging. Only guaranteed hit skills and really powerful swords will consistently damage them.

Man's been cranking out these challenge videos like crazy and STILL apologizes for not publishing the P3R video. What a legend.

6:11 - Man really went full Hank Hill on the rando

Here before the video gets age restricted

59:28 the "sin of genocide" line was not in the japanese version. satan doesnt even say why he rebelled in japanese. from what i understand the extra content in the gba version suggeets that, while turned into stone, zayin had a revelation that everything he does is "god's will" and he doesn't have to obey a funny yellow man to enact "god's will". he had his own reasons for destroying the world

14:52 that is CRAZY i've spent hours upon hours trying to get fiend encounters in smt 2 let alone their weapons!!!!!

With how hard it is to find good plot summaries of SMT 2, I'm glad this video exists

44:50 To expand on this one point a bit, when Hiroko first arrived in Valhalla back at the start of the game she said she was looking for "a missing child." The implication isn't hard to figure out but it's easy to overlook when you play the game yourself. The child in question is undoubtedly Aleph.

Gets the rare drop from Alice: "Time to make the world a happy place." *proceeds to beat demons with a bat with a smiley face on it*

There's something about the older SMTs' vibes, with the environmental swerves and constrained physical layout putting everything in the same dungeon-navigation interface. SMTII in particular I don't see covered very often, and it's a cool changeup to see a direct sequel to the events of a previous game. IV's basically the only game with a similar combination of setup and sequel placement (at least with Apocalypse included) that I'm aware of in the main series. Thanks for the run and insight, Nyarly.

Ah, yes, this is the Megaten game that introduced the phrase "Everyone's dancing furiously". How could I forget? 😁

this run inflicted me with Happy

6:19 Red Bear sniff "Why are you yelling at me?!?"

I don't think the happ ailment on Master Therion mattered...dude sounded quite excited already.

Shin Megami Zio - SMT I Shin Megami Happy -SMT II

i didnt understand a single thing happening in the story that's incredible

I like how this game handles alignment. It's supposed to be changed with your actions and ideals, not a by all end all that dictates your actions

The only SMT game where your main waifu dies and second waifu turns out to be your mother.

Finally a reel shen magoomy tensay game...

6:11 King of the Hill reference!!! 10/10

Here's your Hebrew lesson of the day! for some reason, romanizations like to add an H to the end of hebrew letters. I dunno why I've seen "beth" so much when it's pronounced "beth". same for Daleth, which is normally dalet. With the actual Japanese, it is pronounced like it's romanized, but it messes with my head xD Also worth noting that while it might have been romanized as Zain, the japanese does have the correct pronunciation, which sounds like "za-een". less relevant is that aleph has the emphasis on its first syllable. This has been your obligatory OCD powered hebrew lesson of the day. great video!

player : tries to do the right thing game : "good, good... anyway, the world gets destroyed" thank you, Shin Megami Tensei.

Man I can’t wait for you to do demonless for the entire series

Really nice to see you do this challenge for II. It's a game that while more loved nowadays, still deserves a lot more credit and love than it gets.

Shout out to smt2s translation apparently having a chaos bias which is why this game has probably the best chaos ending in mainline

This game's story is bananas. I absolutely love it. SMT's atmosphere is so unique even to this day

can i just say that i have been binge watching all of your challenge run vids of persona and SMT games on repeat and you are the reason I bought SMT Nocturne remaster for my ps4 and plan on playing it soon after i finish reload. You make great vids broski, keep it up

I remember the first time I fought YHVH, the battle lasted so long, I had to create a save state so I could take a break. The moment I loaded the save state back from my break, the first attack killed YHVH. I wasn't sure if I was one attack away from killing YHVH when I created the save state or it was a bug in creating the save state that caused YHVH to be killed in the one attack. Either way, I took it as a win and enjoyed the ending.

Daleth wasn't trying to make Aleph fall in love with him. He was trying to make him fall in love with Anoon so he would settle down with her and stop opposing him. She went along with the plan because she loves Daleth that much. I think the way that whole arc resolves is cute.

now marsh needs to release the smt 2 experience

Vote for Devil Survivor Hero Only Run.

Thanks for uploading these. It's been ages since I last played the snes era smt games. I mostly dived into smt knowing that Personas 1-2ep get less love and attention than 3-5. Though thanks for saying that Shinjuku was a huge and easy to get lost in. Lost myself countless times in smt 1

Again: Reload can sit on the backlog for all I care, not a priority.

Dayum, being happy is basically a death sentence in SMT 2.

Love this content, man!

Commenting to make sure the algorithm doesnt screw you keep up the good work i love your videos

SMT if is one you may wanna play through twice because there’s a character exclusive to new game + and it’s got brand new dungeons and bosses.

"Making his LONG awaited appearance". I see what you did there :D

Wow. That Alice fight was both epic and *really* lucky. I haven't seen *any* majin in 2 full playthroughs and I've only encountered them in my 3rd one - and that's 'cause I was specifically *looking* for them. Btw, Daleth *didn't* try to get the main character to fall in love with him - he wanted to make him fall in love with Anoon, but she liked Daleth and not the protagonist, hence why she decided to help you and entranced *him* instead. "Wait! I never said I was onboard with this!" I had the same reaction when that happened at the end of my law playthrough. XD

1:03:54 ok so the reason why yhvh always targeted aleph with voice of god is because targets the party member with the lowest intelligence. aleph had low af intelligence so he would always be hit by gods voice.

The reference to the boggle tournament King of the Hill episode destroyed me. Never expected that

So in smt 2 the last few bosses have super high avoid. Normally you would rely on your demons but here you would really want to have a weapon with super high hit The problem is that most weapons have (relatively) dogshit hit except the ones only obtainable in the postgame dungeon and the fiend drops That is to say getting a fiend drop early game is spectacularly lucky. One could even say suspiciously so

Just got home with lunch and see a Nyarly Challenge Video happy day.

Pls do an SMT devil survivor challenge run sometime. I am playing it right now and it is my first ever game in the SMT franchise ever (including persona). Unless playing joker in smash counts as a persona game.

I like all the old school SMT vids, not super familiar with them but cool to see them with your perspective

"He just beats God. He literally just punches, and kicks him and shoots him until he dies."

I find it infinitely funny the hint to what you're supposed to do for the Moon Pillar 'cause the game gives you a hint... About some lady's 9 magic backflips of all things.

Oh yeah, in the fight against YHVH, the reason Aleph always gets nailed by Voice of God is because it always targets the one still standing with the WORST magic stat.

was waiting !

oh thank god a new video to help me get through the college grind

Literally my favorite SMT game. As much as 3, 4, and 5 are super fun, but there's something by about 2 and it's story that hit differently for me.

Let’s gooo the best SMT tuber gifts us again!!!

Time for a nice, cozy afternoon with nyarly

Nyarly grind is crazy

Ah, drinking alcohol to temporarily raise your stats to meet a requirement, the ol' OSRS classic.

Let’s go!! I was waiting for this!!!

It's already past Christmas but we keep getting presents. 🎉 Thanks Nyarly Claus 😂

Absolutely stunning!!

Clearly, the dance contest is all a Labyrinth reference. To whit: Dance, magic dance (dance, magic dance) Dance, magic dance (dance, magic dance) Put that baby's spell on me Jump, magic jump (jump, magic jump) Jump, magic jump (jump, magic jump) Put that magic jump on me Slap that baby, make him free

Nyarly: says the game doesn’t sound as good Also Nyarly: plays the banger battle theme

Oh damn he ACTUALLY did SMT2, poggers

Nyarly is on the challenge grind frfr

This game reminds me of how much I miss SMT: Imagine, and how it takes place between I and II. (And yes, I'm aware of the private server, my laptop is over 6 years old and can barely handle opening browsers at times lol.)

Would love to have a playlist of all your challenge runs.

It would be cool to see if you can beat SMT1 using only demons (like, only defending or talking with your protagonist, and only defending with your other human party members)

Oh that's cool, Nyarly just gets really good early game RNG

Well I don’t really care if it’s persona or other games as long as the video come out I will be watching anyway😊 I really enjoyed your content especially the creative one such as hand gun challenge, or lili challenges, keep it up I always support you.

5-7 normal attacks feel like using hassotobi every turn without SP. And I love it.

appreciate the King of the Hill reference

Babe its 3 am, nyarly just dropped another video!!

Not gonna lie after this I'd love to watch a Neutral playthrough of this from you.

Anytime Nyarly posts, its a good day

Been waiting on this since the community post

Wake up babe, Nyarly has posted another smt video! I should play a smt game someday

This has gotten me brainstorming over a suikoden 3 run of using only "Dead" Party members all things

Seeing that church mofo at around the 9:30 minute mark, I had to do a double take like, "Wait, is that... PAPA IV?!" Keep up the great work, man, these are real fun to watch.

Someone may have posted this already, but YHVH's insta-kill always targets the character in the first available position, so that is why it was only hitting Aleph.

my man nyarly going full low tier god on poor red bear. Also, aside from spd (which you don't really need to max), you also need luck to improve the accuracy problems, kek.

Hey I'm curious why you often rename characters, but then refer to them by their default names. As someone less familiar with some of the older megaten games, it makes it a bit harder to follow. Love the videos, always entertaining and great work put into them!

The real challenge: Can you beat SMT Ronde without destroying Sega Saturn and TV ?

The sudden King Of The Hill reference made me spit my drink out.

*Proceeds to punch, kick, stab, and shoot God until he dies*

Babe wake up, Nyarly just uploaded an SMT no-demon run

My boys on his grind. Fuck yeah! Did you get any of the anniversary merch?

Though it also reminds me if how long i have been waiting for Smt devil summoners' fan translation to be completed

15:06 now your luck is even

Love the video

Bro bout to go through the entire smt series 😭

Nylary is dancing furiously.

The North Temple is Exdeath Castle! It's a Meat fort!

Heck yeah my day is saved 🎉🎉

Ah yes, My MegaTen Fuel for the next months while I wait for the DLC

Pretty good, really hoping ror a remake with a good battle system

I played this for the first time recently. I have never loved and hated a game quite like this. If I never see the tunnel from Holy town to the center again, it will be too soon.

New challenge idea: Can nyarly catch up on sleep without playing soul hackers 2? (Impossible)