>Uber Pixie From Nocturne has entered the chat Uber Pixie: I'm about to end this Demi-Fiend wannabe's whole career.

@@BigKlingy Ren: Ow. Uber Pixie: You are not Demi-Fiend. Stop trying to act like him! Ren: Alright, alright, I get it...

If only...

2:52 I wish the original 3H did that. I was disappointed when I found out NG+ there didn't carry over levels, especially since every character has a unique line for hitting Lv 99, which you'll NEVER do in normal gameplay. 11:53 Might actually WANT to buy the security lowering items now! 17:22 Rare footage of him actually forcing you to do stuff in Strikers. 19:59 But he's about to become part of ULTIMATE BROKEN, so he shouldn't be worried.

lol all those Drain skills. But yeah, that makes sense. I'm actually not sure what the source of all the Drain passives is (as in, which Personas learn them naturally), I didn't get many in this run. And okay, good to know Ailment Boost stacks with everything else. I saw research regarding that in Royal and it concluded the base odds of "High chance of [x]" ailments were so good stacking those boosts didn't make a difference. (Ailment Boost alone already took them to around 99%), but it's probably different in Strikers. Freeze Boost + Ailment Boost seems really useful, then.

If you're still in the middle of your exams, best of luck with them.

@@jaredfayette2567 just knocked out my last couple earlier. I like to think I did well

Hope your exams go well!

0:58 I like it when difficulties are actually balanced to NG+. 20:40 This might be the longest after fusion that he gets Hassou Tobi, but it's worth it. 28:17 He's pretty solid in V though. Hassou Tobi ALWAYS CRITS. His only issue is he's a mid-level Demon so it takes a lot of resources to make him endgame-viable. 31:06 It's in the base game too. I believe Futaba makes a more explicit reference at one point. 39:55 And I got TWO IN A ROW the first time I ever played!

You don't HAVE to do NG+ on Merciless, and the game clearly warns you when you're getting into with it, which is good.

I said I liked playing as her the most... I guess most of the late-game bosses just aren't that weak to her.

Yeah it's strange how little the meter matters normally. And yeah, balanced for more investment into characters kinda sums this up... only even maxed out you still kinda die in 2 hits maximum.

Happened to me a couple of times on my first run.

This isn't one of my favourites, but it's... kind of up there. Also the fact they literally explode into Megidolaon is a nice touch.

@@BigKlingy To be fair, Lavenza needed to do some redecorating anyway. I'm sure even Igor is kind of sick of the whole "prison" theme for the Velvet Room.

20:29 We had that issue in Reload, with Cendrillon becoming Star.

​@@BigKlingy Speaking of Cendrillon, I dread what would happen if Yoshitsune would get that one skill Cendrillon gets. The carnage would break the universe.

@@BigKlingy I don’t see that as an issue, per se (or don’t think is the word I’d use). This has been a thing since Persona Q. Kaguya was the Ultimate Aeon Persona, but is moon arcana in every other game. Considering Ai is Moon Arcana and is a huge Tsundere like Marie, plus Kaguya’s story is based on the moon, it makes sense. I think Cendrillon being Star is perfectly fine too. Akihiko’s Social Link female Portable was Star too. But I think it makes more sense with Yoshizawa’s backstory and character.

I've never even got that far, but I'll keep that in mind for maybe one day.

It is a lot more brutal than Merciless in P5R. The security system did feel underutilised in P5R even after the changes to it. Not much could beat my reaction to a certain fusion accident I got in my Persona 1 playthrough. Nocturne Style puts more meaning into close combat. It is a pretty brutal difficulty but you do need to beat the game first to have access to it which I say is a fine way to include it. Strikers was very impressive so it was nice to experience it here. I doubt I would have enjoyed it as much if I was playing it blind with the high difficulty for my first experience of it. Good to hear you are in Chapter 3 now since that is a pretty hype chapter as well. That also meant you listened to Inevitable Struggle for the first time during Chapter 2 which is an amazing boss theme. At least you are holding your own with Master Duel with that Sword Soul deck. I am also morbidly curious about what the deal with Little Knight is. I will be sure to give your Unicorn Overlord review a read probably while I export my next video. My reviews are a bit different since I went with a more short and sweet approach since I do like to discuss the games I play in some videos. As for myself, first with Revelation, that has been going fine and I am beginning to understand why you feel the way you do with the both the gameplay and story especially considering what the next story chapter I need to record is but I do have some paralogues before then. As for Gran Turismo 4, I have mainly cleaned out a lot of the one make events with a lot of them being easy but some putting up a good fight like some of the German ones like the epic battle I had on the Nürburgring against a SLR McLaren which I managed to somehow beat in my SLK. Currently, I am doing the Japan Championship which is probably the first lengthy event in the playthrough so far as it is a five race championship which will probably take around an hour to fully complete. Luckily, my Evo 6 has been tuned very well for this Championship. It is also going to be my third anniversary of my first upload on the 17th so I did make another somewhat special video so I hope you enjoy that. My brother has been worrying about exams but when he is free, he has been playing his Conquest playthrough which can be summed up as Maid Effie being an absolute powerhouse, Leo not levelling up good and Camilla being Camilla. The next story map will be the Takumi wall map. One of the big takeaways of this playthrough is just how good of an unit Effie is since she is an early game carry as an armour especially considering the extra bit of training just before Chapter 10 thanks to Silas' paralogue and thanks to Arthur, Fighter and then Hero proved a good fit for her since armour's utility starts to fall off after Chapter 10. Once she gains Sol, she becomes a powerful Maid who is quite effective at the Sol Ninja build despite the lack of damage boosting skills just because of how naturally strong Effie is on her own with her personal and she does have a good selection of bulk boosting skills like HP+5 and Defence+2. Effie in my opinion might be the best armour in the series despite the fact she probably wants to reclass out of that class at some point.

@@BerserkerRohan And probably more brutal than other games' hardest difficulty modes if one shots are common even from the grunts. It did from what I noticed in Klingy's LP, so some extra incentives/restraints to encourage being sneaky would have helped a long way. Yeah, I remember your shock from that one when you first told me and looked it up. True. Unlike some difficulty modes I can see some people being iffy on needing an entire run to unlock, this game's perfectly justified in locking it's hardest mode and I dread what I NG Merciless Mode of this game would look like. Strikers was indeed a fun time and I'm glad to have enjoyed it too. I might have been fine playing the game blind given I've played a number of Warriors spin-offs at this point (and have some war stories with them), but I can see the difficulty being a potential turn off for some, especially if they're used to not being pushed too hard from the base game. Chapter 3's been great so far and I can't wait to see the rest. Also Inevitable Struggle is great. Want to listen to it more once I beat the game. I'm grateful for that at least. As for why SP is such a big deal... Basically, she's basically the new Verte/DPE that everyone splashes into their extra deck. In fact, she basically takes the best aspects of those two to become such an overpowered card. Her main thing is that she has a quick effect banish where she can target a card on each side of the board (herself included) and banishes them until the end of the turn. That effect alone makes her the banish equivalent to DPE. Sure the other card she banishes comes back, but if she interrupts a key play that needs to happen, that might be the game right there already. And remember, she can target herself too, so it's also hard to remove her from the equation (you need effectively two actions, one to bait her and one to negate her, to properly deal with her). However, what pushes her over the edge is, like Verte, is a Link 2 monster that's entirely generic provided any deck can put out two effect monsters for her, which means pretty much ANY competitive deck can run her and get results in. Also as if to entice even more decks to her, she also gets to banish a card (on the field or even graveyard) if another extra deck monster was used as one of her materials too (granted, you can't attack directly if you use this effect, but many decks can delay and do without direct damage that to secure a win). Also keep in mind that we're also basically in a Tier 0/Near Tier 0 with Snake Eyes, a deck able to sh^^ out so many resources and often link climbs, giving them yet another tool to be an oppressive force. We also have the new Horus cards, now which to simplify those, are another engine able to generate a ton of resources so it can also produce SP if need be. The only "bad" things about SP is her Atk (only 1600 thankfully so it's not like DPE that was quite strong, but still needs some effort to kill if it gets stuck on the field unlike Verte) and its arrows are iffy until it banishes hefself (it only has left and right arrows, so if it takes up the extra monster zone, it clogs link plays, but that gets resolved if she banishes herself as link monsters that return to the field have to be placed in the main monster zone where those arrows are actually useful in). Overall, she's just a very overpowered extra deck monster that's pretty much a mandatory staple for anyone playing the OCG/TCG competitively and will be a major nuisance in MD's Bo1 format. Thanks for both that and also for the follow too (already gave you one too). I'll be sure to read over your stuff as well. Good to hear that the Rev LP is still going strong for you. But after seeing which chapter you were on for today's part, yeah, if the whole stretch from post Chapter 13 and the start of the Valla Arc didn't start to drain you yet, that part is sadly where the game tries ten times harder to do so, whether it be with even more dubious map gimmicks, the worst aspects of Rev's story in the latter half, and/or the reminders of it's most befuddling and frustrating choices (namely what they did with "her" on that route with the specific chapter you're on). Still though, I hope all of this doesn't deter you and I continue to wish the best for the LP even if Rev is showing more of its worst aspects. Also happy to hear of your progress in GT4 is not only going well, but also that you're already prepared for some tougher and longer events like the Japanese Championship already. Oh wow, three years already? Yeah that would add up since I remember you starting back in 2021... Man time moves by fast, but I'm glad that you've been doing well in that time regardless of its pace. I'll be sure to keep my eye out for the 17th when it comes to that special video. Again, best of luck with your brother and his exams. I've already seen many either come out or closing in on the end of their exam hells, so I hope to see your brother join that free batch soon too. At the very least, good to hear his ability to find new ways to mess around in Conquest are keeping him sane during them. Always surprises me how many characters are able to do the solo maid/butler build in Conquest that I've seen many do, but I shouldn't have been surprised by your brother finding another way to add to that. I can kind of see that opinion for Effie. Not sure if I can say the best exactly since we have armors like Oswin, RD Tarueno and Gatrie, and SD General Sedgar/Wolf for that honor, but Effie's certainly amongst the top ranks of FE armors. Even if you keep her as an armor knight, the class still has some nice niche but helpful uses in the context of Conquest and eventually gets Wary Fighter to give Effie so much needed longevity. Plus with how annoyingly hard some enemies hit in Conquest and HP is an equally annoying scarcity, it's nice having either a bulky unit or the bulky defense pair up bonuses to absorb some hits from time to time. And even as an armor, Effie still retains her higher strength stat and respectable damage output for a class meant to be a mostly defensive tool.

@@jaredfayette2567 Kind of reminds of how brutal Awakening Lunatic is as well. It is going to be very hard to top that fusion accident. It kind of reminds me of how Castle Crasher's highest difficult was handled as well and it was justified there as well since it was brutal too. Glad this was my first experience of Strikers. It is an amazing battle theme and you bet I have listened to it a lot as well. Little Knight does feel very DPE-esque with that effect so I can see why they are super popular at the moment. I do wonder if she will get hit on the banlist soon since she it seems she is unlimited in the TCG. My focus will be the games I have played and completed this year and hopefully future years to come. I did also read the Unicorn Overlord review and it does sound really great. I am tempted to give that demo ago when I find the time for it. At least I still have the fun units I have built up as well since it is at least fun to reclass them and get their nice selection of skills. I think I am roughly 45% complete now so things have been going very well with GT4. I have come along way since that first video and hopefully things will keep going well into the future. Silas is arguably the best due to having Hero as his reclass and then a Kaze Friendship for Master Ninja and then he can marry however he wants but I am surprised by how well Maid Effie compares to him since her damage and hit taking capabilities are no slouch. I do think the fact that Effie prefers to reclass while the other units want to stay an armour isn't the best for her but being one of your best units for the early Conquest maps especially with Arthur in the back is very impressive considering both her damage and hit taking capabilities. Wary Fighter is a skill I am not too high on anymore since Effie can avoid getting doubled with relative ease thanks to pair up and speed boosts like Rally Speed but I can see her performing quite well as a Great Knight if you want to keep her in her default class line. Great Knight Effie is also one of the best Brave Lance users in the game as well which can be very useful for dual strikes as well. She is proving one of Conquest's most interesting units so I will probably talk about her in a future part of the Revelation playthrough.

True. But I guess that encourages you to actually use healing skills, unlike the main game where items outclass them.

That's actually how I went for the accident at the end of this video lol.

@@BigKlingy great playthrough i enjoyed it and learnt a lot about this game and the stuff behind it . Looking forward to your next playthrough

That's understandable. Hope you're enjoying the game.

​@@BigKlingy well just saw October 4-6 scenes and well..... Alejandro Saab(Akihiko) , Justice Slocum(shinjiro) and Justine Lee (Ken) did an excellent job with it.

Ratchet and Clank also does this. I never found it lived up to its name "Challenge Mode", but it at least scaled up enemy health and damage to match your carried-over levels.

They're both very different at least. Strikers is more meant to be "so you're at Lv 99 with fully optimized Personas and STILL want a challenge? Here you go." Granted, the original Royal Merciless kinda failed at being a high difficulty thanks to multiplying exp and making your weakness attacks also do triple damage. Reload's was better.

@@BigKlingy I still find it weird how that one fight in Royal is *easier* on Merciless Mode due to the x3 technical damage, and how Hard Mode is actually Merciless in disguise. Much confusion to be had.

If you really care about Black Frost, yeah. Requires Lv 74 on King Frost though.

2:14 Agreed. 5:08 Uber Pixie From Nocturne has joined the chat.

Good to know.

She at least gete her own really good arc. And she's a good party member in Strikers, she just doesn't have the best postgame matchups.

On my first run I grinded the Metatron request for ages before even starting Merciless.

Yeah everything basically 1-2 shots you. I'd recommend having Fire and Elec immunity going into it (on your transferred Personas). This is why I didn't choose Hard for the main LP, by the way. Early Hard is pretty close to this.

At least Yoshitsune proved to be a good sacrifice for that.

Merciless is ONLY available on NG+ by the way. So yeah, always murdering you.

You generally need strong builds and Technical. It's not too bad once you're set up, but I can see why it'd be annoying to some.

Guess the colours did accidentally work out that way? It's just the Velvet Room's normal scheme, but Elizabeth IS canonically bi. (Given her last date event plays out the same way for male and female protags in P3P I think)