There's a lot of lines in this game that sound like memes out of content but make perfect sense within it, so that's understandable.

30:10 lol.

That combined with how the equipped persona gives an extra point that is automaticly alocated to a set stat, It makes raising stats a lot easier, Especially once you start getting accesories that also give extra stats on level up so you can potentally have say, +2 to Dex upon every level up. Yeah Persona 2 can be broken in a lot of funny ways.

Quite a few games do this, like Pokemon Gen 1's Special stat. Often having a stat work as both attack and defense makes it broken. (Only time I've seen it not be is Fire Emblem Thracia, where only specific units can use magic, so most of the time Magic is only a defensive stat and the ones who have it as both are really physically frail, and also with it being both magic attack and defense mage vs mage combat isn't a good idea anyway)

​@@BigKlingy Mage vs Mage combat is most of thracias endgame, its just they are using staves not magic.

I mean, that logic does check out.

​@@BigKlingyGenius!!! I miss Eartha Kitt

Yep they're definitely the most glammed out girlies in the Junkyard.

Shame all the basic members have low-poly models compared to the leaders.

Jinana is really interesting, despite not being a major player in the story. And yeah, this is actually the real reason I like magic build Serph. It's similar to Mana Refill (recover MP by walking) on a healing Demon in Nocturne: keeps you topped up on HP after battles.

That'd explain why Hama tends to hit way more often here than it usually does! Good to know. (I wish there was more documentation out there on these games' exact mechanics. There's a bit of that for Nocturne, but most DDS guides out there are... ancient GameFAQs ones.)

Her being Kashiwagi makes sense now. Yikes. I mainly know her for voice directing a lot of dubs, and guesting on Critical Role's first campaign. (Her character forms a friendship with Laura Bailey's, which is funny)

Yeah I probably shoul've hinted at this. You thankfully unlock more skillslots so early that it's not a huge deal. In fact, it feels less like you unlock more slots and more like you're stuck with LESS for the tutorial to help ease you into things.

Eating Slimes giving you a Stomachache is actually a plot point in DDS2, so it's definitely an intended mechanic.

Yeah all theirs are different for that. It's cool.

Me: Are you sad? Robot: Describe what it means to be sad. Me: You just simply have to feel it. You’ll know it when it happens.

The best part was I didn't even PLAN on it timing out to the Blob getting hit by ice and afraid. It just lined up perfectly.

Yeah I'm really surprised combos stayed in DDS. It would've decently fit Persona, actually. (Persona 2 I think had things kinda similar)

0:22 Pretty much. And the Karma Temple is the last charkra, I'm sure that doesn't imply anything... 3:11 Yep. 3:38 LOL. 8:06 Especially when it heals to practically full. 12:24 Nocturne is the Thracia of SMT, in terms of weird player-hating mechanics. 15:05 Yeah, exactly. Unless you look up maps or have a good memory, it's easy for this to happen. 20:22 Suddenly, she gains tattoos and a desire to recruit chickens into business management. 21:50 There's someone else who's likely to get there first, though. 34:10 Yep, that'll be later.

All the battle themes are great, but I love that one's buildup.

Might be a Shoji Meguro thing. Personally I feel the beat of the Vanguard Base sounds like P5's negotiation theme.

One of them was bound to have the Mark there.

The tribe was spelled "Merrybell" in Japanese, by the way. 11:18 Yeah it's pretty much the "trope maker" for "giant slime monster"s. 30:08 Well, hopefully we've killed all the ones like that by the time we're done here. 31:51 BOSS fights where you clearly don't eat the enemy do NOT give AP, so it's just a midboss thing.

11:08 Yeah I'd kinda prefer them over Black Ooze in P5... although I wonder if MegaTen2's "Crap Slime" will ever return. Weirdly a lot of media things cockatrices and basilisks are the same. 19:33 I think I've seen that thumbnail recommended before. (The "No Demons?" Megamind meme reference) 20:36 I KNEW one of them did that! I just forgot which. 20:53 I think here it's either that or 25%. 37:17 Yep. Just like Whitney's Miltank, there's tools to deal with it if you know where to look. 39:52 Yeah apparently Strength only affects your basic attack there.

There's a few that only do.

Well I guess killing a bunch of them won't hurt our chances? 3:11 Thankfully it's not TOO bad from here on.

A lot of horror has roots in reality, but I'm not sure how they went from that to "it EATS PEOPLE!!!"

@@BigKlingy I actually learned this from a watchmojo top 10 horror based on true stories

The voice acting quality here is imo so much better than FFX. For its time, it's INSANELY good. And yes, exactly. Both those moments make sense in context, it's so dumb that James Arnold Taylor had to outright tell people that laugh was meant to be forced. (The script has it written out as "ah ha ha ha ha" instead of "[laughter]")

30:05 The bad luck of some awakening to THAT emotion first... 39:05 Most don't, but as I said here, others do in interesting ways. In SMTIV, Strength only affects your normal attack while Dexterity is used for physical skills and guns. I think this got changed in 4 Apocalypse.

@@BigKlingy Yep. In 4 Apocalypse, Strength is used for the normal physical attack and physical skills while Dexterity is only used for the gun attack and gun skills.

Earth in some Final Fantasy games is weird, in XIII it's only usable via a Technique rather than a spell, and in others it doesn't go up to the same tiers. Also it's usually called "Quake", breaking the "[Element]/[Element]ra/[Element]ga" name theme.

​@@BigKlingy Eh, the only elements that fit that naming scheme in Final Fantasy are Fire, Water, and (in FF12) Dark. Ice is Blizzard, Lightning is Thunder, Wind is Aero, Poison is Bio (FF7 only though), Light is Banish in the few games that have light use that scheme, and Earth is Quake or (in MMOs) Stone.

Yeah, probably. I used to take something called Iberogast that worked decently well.

If the brand is their, they probably turn into Mara. Interestingly enough, Persona 1 also has earth skills but they were called Magna instead of Tera. I think Persona 2 even had water as an element as well. That does sound like a cool idea to evolve this Mantra system. That is interesting to think about since Slime and Black Ooze are probably based on RPG monsters instead. Some enemies in Earthbound are like that too. I think the Attack Slugs in the first dungeon can't use Hypnosis until they remember how to use it. I think 8 skills are going to be the max like most SMT games around this time. Maybe these people are getting too hungry if it causes them to spout nonsense like that. There probably should have been other enemies in that fight to make that make sense. I think I remember magic builds being the go to in the original SMT 4. Good to hear you are making good progress through Chapter 6 as well. As for myself, I did make a good amount of progress with Gran Turismo 4 as I did some more one make races starting off with some easy ones in the Subaru 360 race, the A3 Cup and 1 Series Trophy and the latter event made me drive a diesel car for the first time which was an interesting experience. Now it was time for the really difficult one make events starting with the 206 Cup. What makes this event infamous is that the opponents use heavily tuned 206s while most other one make events use lightly tuned cars or cars not even tuned at all. To counter that, I tuned my own 206 a lot as well by giving it lots of upgrades as well. Despite that, the game still thinks this event is near impossible for me since it was giving 200 A Spec Points for the event. The A Spec Points are just there to suss out how difficult the event will be since it compares your car to the opponents so anything in the single digits is considered an easy win, 60 points means your car is the same playing field and then 200 points means the opponents heavily outclass you. Luckily, with my superior driving as well really focusing on good handling, I beat the event pretty easily and the AI even made a fool out themselves in the Motorland race. The thing about A spec points is that it doesn't compare everything about your car to your opponent, so in this case, my suspension and gearbox upgrades weren't factored in despite the big advantage they gave me. My reward is a pretty cool Peugeot 205 T16 Rally Car. That is one of two infamous one make events with the next one being even worse than that. For TTYD, we conquered Chapter 3 pretty comfortably as well with the boss getting really unlucky with the stage mechanics making him a joke. We also made our preparations for Chapter 4 as well so we will take it on next time.

@@BerserkerRohan Let's hope that isn't the case... That makes sense. I recall the earlier Persona games having A LOT of elements in it. For now it isn't an issue, but if it starts to take forever to fill out the AP bar, then us getting all of those skills only at the end of mastering a Mantra will start to be annoying. I'm almost certain someone else here in the comment sections said that with the other slime variants being named after RPG/D&D tropes while Blob is named after the film. I think I remember that. I also remember enemies in Earthbound having a lot more MP issues compared to foes in other games, though that could just be the result of you having MP draining capabilities and use those more often due to EB's scarce ways to recover it on the field. Yeah it's going to go up to 8 at this rate. If this is what people spout when they're hungry in this universe, then I don't want to meet any of the more lustful people here when they do get hungry... Magic is absurd in SMT4. While gun is still decent, magic is just the best attack type in 4. IVA fixes this greatly so everything can be useful. Thanks. Actually more or less have that chapter done at this point; Only haven't finished it is due to needing to put my Switch on the charger before I could. Good to hear the first infamous event in GT4 went well. So that first one sucks since it's effectively a massive difficulty spike compared to before. Noted. Also that's certainly a weird way the game grades/looks at what's effectively its "level scaling" for where you should be at this point. Granted, I can see this one being a case of the devs greatly undervaluing those specific upgrades you used, but still, kind of absurd with the game's predictions versus the actual reality in this case. Although, I guess I shouldn't be complaining if you made it through that event with relative ease. Here's hoping the next infamous one will go likewise. Good work with Chapter 3 you two. Also yeah, stage mechanics have been kind of absurd in my run too. I've been seeing Freeze A LOT in battles. Not just for normal fights, but even for boss battles and seeing it actually freeze a few bosses, making them into jokes. I now know some moves cause certain stage events to happen more often, but I'm not sure if what I've been doing can really explain the luck that's been happening there. Anyway, good luck with Chapter 4 as well.

@@jaredfayette2567 Persona 1 probably had too many physical elements especially since magic is going to do much better 99% of the time. We probably want to think about going down the hunt mantra for the AP bonus as well. I believe PSI Magnet is pretty nice in Earthbound as well against certain enemy types. Those people sound best avoided. Demon Whisper is probably another reason why magic is nice in SMT 4 as well if you can get a high tier magic attack early. That is nice to hear. Have fun beating it and moving to preparing for Chapter 7. All it compares is the power, weight, downforce and the grade of tyre so considering I was getting 200 A spec points, my opponents must have much power than I do but doesn't matter too much if I out corner them with my suspension upgrade. It feels like the freezing happens much more often in this version when compared to the original as well. Chapter 4 is kind of interesting to me just because I dislike its main complaint less than most people.

7:17 Whenever an attack goes BANGBANGBANGBANG, it's always satisfying. 8:01 lol yeah. Still, SMT4 has a lot of broken builds anyway. V is apparently pretty balanced between physical and magic, though I wouldn't know as I went for magic on my first run. 16:00 True... 25:20 Yeah that did tend to work well on him...

Is Snake Eater on Switch? I guess they did release a collection. I've kinda wanted to play that game someday.

@@BigKlingy yes you can buy them of a Bundle or of MGS1, 2, and 3 Individually, doing the Bundle gives you also the 8- Bit Games as well

33:10 I guess it being frozen first is accurate, then... 39:24 Some enemies have this as a gimmick. Kinda like the Specter miniboss in Nocturne.

I often hear SMTIVA being cited as having the best gameplay in the series, so that'd make sense. I thought V's was pretty good too, minus the level scaling. (Which is confirmed to be toned down in Vengeance) Heat at least has the niche of auto-mastering a bunch of Mantas because he leaves the party so often, lol.

@@BigKlingySMT IV A has some really good gameplay indeed. It's practically a much more polished version of SMT IV's gameplay. IIRC, from what I have seen of the Karma system, Serph needs the least Karma to get to max level, but Heat needs the most to get to max level.

@@corpussakahagi2116 That's actually really funny and fitting given reveals about what's really going on.

I've been considering getting that, though I have a backlog of other RPGs I want to try. (And I'm pretty sure I already know the twist you're talking about)

Unlike most writing like this, it's MEANT to be awkward. These people only recently discovered what sad IS. 11:22 Yup. There's a whole boss in Nocturne with this gimmick and it's a lot more threatening. (Draining your MP so it can case Megidolaon... in the early-midgame) 19:05 It's kinda funny how it's only single target. 37:34 Later, we will witness T-Posing Catgirls.

I should mention, my health and gut got a lot better once I started drinking mostly water instead of juice (I always thought "as long as it's not coke/other soft drink it's healthy, right?) and walking more. Though don't take that as medical advice or anything.

@@BigKlingy No I get you. I’ve been incorporating more water into my diet over juices lately as well. It does make me feel a little more active.

22:20 I fully agree. 27:00 "Metroidvania" is a combination of Metroid and Castlevania (though only some Castlevanias are Metroidvanias, ironically, the early ones are linear 2D action games) The general idea of one is: -There's a big open map that's TECHNICALLY free to explore... -BUT some obstacles can only be passed by powerups you gradually find. -Backtracking is often involved, using new powers in old areas to do things you couldn't before -There's often some kind of optional collectable that increases your health and attack power -Completion percentage is often tracked. Sometimes, speedrunning is encouraged too.

@@BigKlingy 27:00 That's even more helpful. Thank you! It's a bit strange to think a Scooby Doo game could be a Metroidvania, but it works very well oddly enough.

Yeah there's a few items with odds of random ailments. Some speedruns use them on purpose to avoid other, worse ailments.

I've set it to 1080p, 3x native. I was debating whether or not to do this for a while, since I personally prefer to give as "authentic" an experience as possible. But I figured I might as well treat this as an unofficial HD Remaster, since Nocturne has an official one. Also oh no, I can see why that'd be painful. (I only looked up the trailer while making this video and thought... yep, I have to reference that. It's so silly.)

Serph is basically going to be only Magic and Vitality until both are maxed. He really doesn't need anything else.

because horny Japanese men, probably.

Thankfully she's the only one who's this bad.

@@BigKlingy I was honestly expecting a mark to be at someone’s crotch at this rate.