Shin Megami Tensei Series

Huh. I just learned that even though SMTIV had almost 500 demons, there was at least one that didn't make the cut.

Meeeeeoooooowwww~◊

That poor bastard.

Also I've been upgrading Nemechi and I've unlocked Douman! He's kind of an interesting choice, considering he wasn't really a demon in SMTI; he was a Meta, a demon-empowered human.

There's a couple more of those. Nemechi demons have a strong impression of being thrown in kinda randomly.

I also finally upgraded poor Zeed. He's in his second form now; I heard he has to make it to level 30 before he upgrades again?

edited 28th Jul '15 6:15:46 PM by HamburgerTime

I just want to say, despite my grief with keeping Nemissa alive, I am really liking Soul Hackers. Maybe not as much as IV, but it's still a seriously solid game.

If I remember right, Nemechi is responsible for Dormarth getting her first appearance in a game after debuting in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito, right?

No she debuted in the Raidou novel.

Lone Marebito was the manga with the alien eye tentacles with the Assimilation Plot. Featuring a Alice filler arc because it wouldn't be Raidou related without her appearing.

Douman being Foul is also an interesting choice. Sure, he was a pretty bad guy, but he's not a blob of goo or an urban legend come to life.

Advice for Finnegan?

How much magnetite do you have?

6998.

EDIT: Still stuck.

edited 29th Jul '15 4:39:36 PM by HamburgerTime

Three hours and no progress against Finnegan. Since he copies your demons I'm seriously considering releasing most of my good demons, going out and recruiting a bunch of crappy ones, then buying the good ones back later. Even Minotaur wasn't this hard.

Okay, are you fighting him alone or with Nemissa? He brings his own demons if you fight with Nemissa, otherwise he copies everything you have in party/stock.

Either way, try fusing Urban Terror (Douman+Slyph). Reflects all physical. If you prefer first strikes, try Wild Hunt's sneak attack at a Full Moon. Four attacks to all enemies. Obviously, don't do this if you've got Urban Terror in play.

Gotcha. I'm fighting him alone as I hear that's slightly easier. I'm actually not strong enough to summon either of those demons yet; time to grind, I guess.

So I have finally triumphed over Finnegan, but to do so I crossed the uncrossable line.

I hacked the difficulty down.

So congratu-freaking-lations Finnegan, you're the first boss ever, in any game, to make me do that. I get that he's one of the main villains, and killed an extremely powerful Winpe with his bare hands, but dayum. I don't feel too bad, considering Finnegan himself blatantly cheats (he can make unlimited summons in one turn).

Also please tell me Yuichi does something useful later on.

Yuichi is there to be belittled and insulted by Six who isn't all that different from Yuichi, which leads to a whole set of events.

You were at the Finnegan solo or join with Nemissa fight right? Cause all his demons will be the exact same as yours right down to the stats. The exception of course is Zeed, demons created through Zeed, and the Nemechi ones.

Without Nemissa, as I've heard with is even harder.

I'm sorry I neglected some of you guys' advice, by the way; I just wanted him out of the way.

Sounds like he's an asshole. You did what was necessary.

The funny things with Yuichi is that he's older than Six too, (18 to Six's 17) but the latter still treats the former like a kid even though as others pointed out, he's not that different.

In fact, I don't really like that Yuichi's role is just being shat on by somebody who doesn't even have the right to do so, even if what he says is true.

edited 30th Jul '15 3:53:57 PM by HandsomeRob

Looking back, I noticed I didn't have any buffers or debuffers. Maybe that was my problem. I think I'm going to grind and make demons for a while to prevent this sort of thing from happening again...

edited 30th Jul '15 6:19:12 PM by HamburgerTime

What level should I be to defeat Dante? I beat Thor without too much trouble after tailoring my party but Dante criticals a lot more often and doesn't waste press turns.

It depends on your team- I highly recommend something with Fog Breath or Sukunda against him, for example, because it means the remaining turns can be trusted to be useful for hitting him and he'll waste one of his Press Turns canceling the effect out when it moves to him.

Well I beat him. I also managed to defeat Daisoujou on my first try. Off to the Assembly of Nihilo!

So the "Albert" app in SH says it "Stabilizes COMP fusion." Does that mean it makes COMP fusion as good as Goumaden fusion?

Sounds like it reduces the chances of fusion accidents. Check and see what the fusion accident percentage is with that app equipped.