*Also check out my other Shin Megami Tensei 5 video that shows how to make a strong team early!* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rt50lL1muceYl2w.html _Boomstick Gaming is the haven for core gamers who value gameplay mechanics and systems, because that's what continues_ _to make anything from 8-bit to 8k, equally enjoyable. Consider sticking around on the channel if you fall into that category! -Alex_

This is definitely one of the better tips and tricks videos on KZfaq. So many of them of them say something like “exploit weaknesses” or “fuse your demons”. This one is actually helpful.

My jaw literally dropped when I found out about the reverse compendium fusion. As someone who likes to try and collect all the demons in these types of games, this is a blessing!

A good tip for recruitment if you have no available slots, try and recruit the demon anyway, if you are succesfull it will of course not join, but if you talk to anotherone after you made some space it will auto join. I love that this happens.

a random tip for fusion, elementals can be used for a special type of fusion you're not told about, that can upgrade or downgrade a demon into another one from the same family. like using a flaemis would turn a "beast" nekomata into a higher level "beast" orthos, where as an aquas would make it into a lower leveled "beast" inugami.

I've been watching your videos for a long time, just wanted to say thanks. 90 % of guides are like "Make sure you target enemy weaknesses! Did you know you get another action when you do that?!" Like how does that help?!? Your videos consistently show me at least one thing I didn't know about, so appreciate it man.

I wasn't gonna watch anymore SMT5 videos before I play it myself, but your videos are extremely well made, half of this I didn't even know from watching other peoples guides and tips.

If you have an almighty damage ability, you don't need to use Spyglasses on the Mitama enemies since almighty damage will deal full damage to them regardless of their weaknesses/resistances.

This video is extremely helpful since this is my first Shin Megami Tensei game. I had only played Persona 4 Golden and 5 Royal before.

Pro tip: Inherit Aramasa (8 light phys attacks) skill from the Aogami type-1 essence you find in a yellow chest early on. It only costs 10 MP and each hit has its own chance of critical hit.

hey man, i have playing for like 10 hours and this is by far best tutarial ever!

I'm 25hours in, and this was still very helpful. That is so often not the case with tip videos

coming back after a year to say this REALLY helped me when i played through this when it was new! sage like advice

Just wanted to say, this is the first video of yours I've watched, but as a long time SMT fan, this is are some really cool tips. Some of the stuff I knew, but a good amount I didn't and that's pretty cool. I really appreciate that you respect the viewer and assume that they'll get the basic concepts of the combat system, and instead go for the more interesting tips.

Imagine having almost your entire skill set be Null skills. This post was made by Trumpeter gang.

I'm beyond happy that this game is getting some well-deserved attention.

A year late to the party, and this is my first smt game, but something I’d like to add is to use your items. I lost my first round against the the first major boss, but when I decided to try out fire and dark dampeners, it literally turned the fight on it’s head, making it much easier to fight it! As a new player I can tell learning how to best block attacks can really turn the tides as it wastes your enemies’ turns.

This video has the best SMT V tips ib KZfaq. It helped me to undestand a lot of thing i had no idea and i'm already fighting the second boss

Wow, you can stack Endure and Enduring Soul here? Noice!

Here is my unofficial number 13. Even if you don’t have the right level requirements or your party is too full to recruit whatever demon you want, still do it. If you do a successful negotiation even if you don’t meet the requirements, the demon is now “reserved”. If you go find any of the same demon after you level up to match it or you open up a spot, that demon will remember and instantly join you.

Another tip or rather a suggestion. When the enemy gather magatsuhi it help to simply defend on the next turn. It will mitigate a lot of the critical damage, prevent being afflicted by an ailment AND prevent weakness exploit. Aramasa is also a very nice skill early on. 8 weak physical strike, each capable of independently crit, for the cost of 10 MP. It can be gotten from Aogami Type 1 essence which is found not too far from the first boss, along the water stream near Tokyo Tower. Of course each hit will hit around 10 damage at around 24 Strength but that's still 80+ damage, not counting crits which will add a few more hits of damage AND giving you an extra turn.

Wow! That fox you mentioned at the end kinda takes the fun out of finding those little buggers… but I am a completionist and I can’t wait to find him lol.

This is the best tip video I’ve seen on the game so far. Thank you so much, this has really helped me.

Great tips here. Thank you, sir. I've been into SMT since Nocturne, but there is so much here that's new.

Cool video, just got this game yesterday and as a longtime SMT fan you actually had tips that were useful.

*Get those dampener items from the shop* If you feeling scared that a demon would use a powerful wind attack after charging up magatsuhi (you know whom I'm referring to), then pop up a wind dampener to fully protect your team and take away the enemy's turn Sadly, you can only carry a maximum of 3 dampeners but these should be sufficient to use just before the enemy does a powerful elemental attack

The big bois at 5:08 reminded me of how one day in Megaten 3 i spent an hour trying to transfer the right skills on him.... That was before you could pick which skills get transfered.

for when you recruit demons, if your stock is full or the demon is higher lv than yours, you can still go through the process to recruit them, when they go to tell you their name they will say either your party is full or your too low lv, when you encounter that demon again with either space in party or you are higher lv, the game will immediately recruit them as you already did that work

This is amazingly useful. Thanks for making a guide that isnt garbage. I have watched 3-4 similar videos by other content creators and they literally just lay out 10 things that the game tells you un the first few hours. This guide was actually very helpful.

Great tips! Thank you!

These tips were amazing! Thank you!

great video, thanks for the tips, those are very helpful

So helpful! I'll save so much time looking for those little Mimans hiding around the map @9:02 knowing that they'll later be marked on the map! And I had no idea you could just switch resistances with other party members @0:24 , insta-deaths subverted!

Thank you so much! Big help!

great tips. This is just what i'm looking for. You rock, Alex!

I love your tip videos. Thanks! This is going to make my run so much more efficient.

These are fantastic tips! Very helpful indeed.

I'm finally getting around to pickign this up with the bundle at a discount this weekend and as a series vet this video is both hilarious and informative, so even seven months later thank for for this.

Before watching, pick up the orbs and you can grind demons near them, skimp out on gold costs.

Thanks a lot for these great tips.

Fantastic tips, thank you

Thanks for all these tips ! 😊

So amazing! Thank you very much

Good tips. Appreciate it

Awesome tips! Thanks 🤟

Now THIS is a helpful video! Thanks!

Fantastic game and really useful tips. Thank you for help. And, yes, game is brutal but we love it anyway 😍

Getting this game for Christmas and these tips are dope! Haven’t played an SMT game since IV released on DS and I wasn’t hardcore into RPGs yet at the time to finish it…really looking forward to playing through this game

This was so helpful

Thank you. This a really good guide!🙏🏿🙏🏿❤❤🤯🤯

Great tips. Thanks.

Thanks for these great tips

Thanks for the help. SMTV is the best jrpg I've played in a long long time. The enemy design never fails to impress and the world is fun to explore. I like the voice acting too. I'm about ten hours in.

Great guide, dude. I'm not even sure I'll pick this up and I watched the whole thing 😅

1:39 that boom shirt might be the single coolest shirt design I’ve ever seen 😂

Very, very useful. Thanks

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Super helpful guide, im probably going to make a list on all the core demons i want to obtain through my playthrough Aka Special fusions, fusion only demons and exclusive story demons

These are some solid ass tips, thanks bro

Well this video and the op video would have been help several bosses ago for me. This makes me want to start all over from scratch from what i was doing

This was really good tips

Great video! I’m grinding my way through the last area and am wishing I didn’t use my stat upgrade items earlier in the game. The boss fights here are killing me, and grinding is tough.

Great video, just earned yourself a sub 💪🏾

I’m late but super helpful. Thanks 🙏

Just finished the game and my tip is to make sure not to hoard your essences and items! Items are really strong in this game and they get given to you pretty regularly, if you are in a situation where that MP restoration or Physical null will turn a battle around, USE IT! Also make sure not to sit on your essences, especially ones for a demon you have in your party or ones you are close to unlocking. It sucks missing out on an essence from leveling up a demon because you already have it! Also one more thing, if you have a turn in a boss fight with nothing else to do, try throwing out a status item! They will work on everything, including bosses. I made a difficult endgame boss much easier by managing to put him and one of his minions to sleep, which let me buff my party and take out the other minion without any stress and made the fight way easier. You can also shut down a boss's magatsuhi turn if they're unable to act!

1st two tips blew my mind 😂😂 I die like 10 times already.

A 13th tip I found useful; keep note of the vending machines scattered around the Netherworld. Unlike the yellow treasure orbs, these restock over time, similarly to the Magatsuhi spheres. Their only purpose is to provide you with vending trash to sell to Gustave, so if you hit them up regularly, you can build a pretty massive stockpile of loot that will translate into a big cash reward. Given how expensive it can be just to use the Demon Compendium and recruit demons, and how little Macca you tend to get from fights, it's handy to know.

Great tips. I just got my third game over, just after the first boss, and it's .... rough. But I'm enjoying the crunch, I've had a craving for a hardcore monster breeding game since .... oh I dunno, Dragon Warrior Monsters back on the GameBoy as a kid. Seems SMT was the series I needed!

I hadn't even thought of the "make sure not all your magic attacks are an attack all attack" omg, def. recommending this vid to other newbies! thanks!

you da real MVP 🙏

Thanks for these tips. This is my first SMT game and I’ve never played any Persona games so I’ve been basically figuring out stuff as I go. I’ve made it to the Lahmu fight and am now stuck-his third phase keeps offing me, but hopefully I can keep plugging away.

Thanks for the tips. Leaving the video early cuz I like to find out the hard way. Makes me feel that I'm capable enough when I win. If I fail, at least I know I'm doing my own thang. But I will use your tips about the resistance

Surprised you didn't mention that, when using Reverse Compendium Fusion, you can actually get the entire list of potential fusion choices, which are listed from the most expensive at the top to the least expensive at the bottom, so it's always worth scrolling through to see if you can find a more cost-effective or skill-useful fusion than simple Reverse Fusion or Dyad Fusion might offer on their own.

Damn this is actually useful info

I know half the comments are saying the what I'm about to say but these were all actual advise. Great video man!

Actually legit tips that aren't obvious. Nice 👌

Man this video its pure stonks in demon economics

I'm new to this series, only having played about 30 hours of SMT IV and just starting SMT V, and this whole time i've been replacing passive skills on my demons hand over fist. I didn't realize they were passive, I thought you had to use them on your turn to get the buff. Wow I feel so dumb now lol. Great tips though. Uhh and super great tip on the passive skills. ;v;

I’m new to jrpgs like this, last one I played was final fantasy 12 on ps2 or 3. Excited but overwhelmed lol

3:06 If you also have the Whittled Goat item, you can survive a 3rd time.

This game is amazing and very addictive but dang is it difficult. I dont play many RPGs so there is a lot to unravel here. But thanks for these great tips! What im finding is that somehow im losing magic types such as fire so I have to go back and get someone who had em just to fuse from their essence but I think thats part of it.

Amazing vids, all of it. But I have a question, How do you get all the resistances as shown in the video?

I'm going for a Phys build, at level 43 I have like 55 strength. I regret putting points in anything but strength. I could be at 60~ if I did that. I'll just grind out balms to compensate.

using a spyglass - huh, I should have thought about it!!!

It's 5:26 am here in Norway, I'm drunk eating some weird polish soup made out of pig intestines (it's delicious), and I find this vid EXTREMELY helpfull. Too much details on my part? Maybe, but still an amazing vid.

I have another tip: I just found out that you can get a total of 26 demons in your party. Most likely during mid to late game, so don't get so fixated on one demon. This gives you the room to explore and improve upon the many demons this game have to offer.

Awesome video, what's the name of the 2 demons you used to carry you from mid game to end game (OP healer and magic damage dealer that you talked about)?

Your videos for SMTV are so helpful! In the case of Reverse Demon Compendium, would you say it makes senes to fuse together demons to make a new/unregistered one as soon as you're able to? I'm having a hard time deciding when to do this as I progress through the game.

tbh smtv was insanely easy for me because as soon as I get amanozako's essence I created a build to resist/null most attacks. In the end I had a nahobino that only resisted two types and nulled or repelled everything else and checking the comments I'm surprised that other people didn't think about this, but I'm also very familiar with the megami tensei series which gives me an advantage ig

I decided to start my first playthrough on hard mode, but only invest in my luck stat. No elemental spells, only instakills and status ailments lmao. Finally got through hydra only to discover all the mobs in the next area will preemptive strike me and instakill my main character lmao

Awesome tips! But tell me, wich essence gave you all those affinity resistances? O:

4:03 -- I just fused Alice, so I don't plan on ever dropping this iconic demon. I may save up the items for making her OP. Although, she's pretty much purely darkness, so her attacks get blocked alot

when i first playing my mistakes is to go offensive, focus on magic and strength , all offensive skills . but on newgame+ i focus on endurance, like vitality and resistance. back then i waste pretty much rare essence because im so dumb hahah but well its alright, we strive to be smarter after knowing how careless we are before this. on my newgame+ i be following more tips and tricks instead of playing it randomly, this game not just hack and slash its all about strategy and critical thinking.

I can't tell you how many mitama I just spammed attacks on before watching this video and realizing I could use a spyglass on them

not sure if this is a special circumstance but my knocked out demons did gain exp after beating Lahmu the second time. Maybe it was for quest completion? i dont remember

Pro Tip: Step 1: Use my 300 gold coins in the E-shop I didn't know I had (Which expire in a year) to purchase the increase Mitama EXP DLC. Step 2: Notice an infinite amount of Black Mitama, and kill them. Step 3: Gain 99 Gospels easy, and use 1 for each Mitama you kill to bring you up to level 99. Step 4: What even is the game at this point since I'm level 99 before I leave the first map.

Truly a video of showing the path to godhood.

How do you farm for essences? In the early game they’re harder to come by when defeating enemies

I want to point out that a lot of passives can be stacked, unless it specifically says it can't be stacked assume it can be.

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