Shin Megami Tensei Series

Middle finger to what convention?

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jun 29th 2018 at 5:40:03 AM

To the Law-Neutral-Chaos system, instead giving you two endings based on destroying it altogether.

Then DSJ had the +/New Law-Chaos Endings that have a more hopeful tone while New Neutral can fall anywhere between Uplifting to a total Downer depending on the person. And has Lucifer as, well, Liucifer and not a weird Protoss.

"Liucifier?" Last time I checked, Louise Ferre doesn't look Asian...

Lucy Liu as Lucifer is now my dream casting thanks.

Anyone know how much health En has? He's booted me twice now, still without really managing to actually threaten me.

Japanese wiki page I'm looking at seems to think it's in the neighborhood of 130000 HP.

If that's true that's the highest health of anything in the game. Even Stephen has "only" 100,000.

I've been thinking.

What if Main line SMT had a legit crossover spinoff with P Ersona?

How would such a game work? have Atlus ever thought of doing so only to scrap it later?

Stephen actually has the same amount, apparently, it's just split between his two forms 30k/100k.

And En gets way more each cycle.

Whelp, killed Gore and am now on the Chaos path of Strange Journey Redux. While the Law crew looks like they had their brains scooped out, the Chaos crew looks like a bunch of Xehanorts.

I am now imagining them screaming    SUBMIT!    while killing angels.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jun 30th 2018 at 10:39:27 AM

Doing fairly well against Stephen. I can consistently beat his first form, and I managed to make his second weak to basically everything before I went down. Still, he's pretty tough.

I beat him! He's not actually all that hard once you know what you're doing. Weirdly, I had an easier time with him on Hard than on Normal, go figure.

Beat Alilat. Getting to her was a lot worse than actually fighting her.

I also took a short break from Strange Journey Redux and booted up Soul Hackers for the first time in a long while. Beat Azazel in that game, with a Tetrakarn-spamming Pallas Athena being the MVP of that fight.

Beat Stephen, YHVH, and the game yesterday!

I also found out that, like Vishnu-Flynn, Stephen has some gimmicks that can be exploited to make the fight much less difficult - not to the point of being easy, of course:

• For starters, he for unknown reasons becomes much more aggressive if you buff yourself or debuff him three levels. Keep it at two and you'll mainly see his melee attacks and weaker Almighty ones. Any higher and he'll wipe your buffs, crank his own to the max, and start dropping tier four hits-all attacks.

• Secondly, make sure you hit him at least once each round, even if it's just a cherry-tap. If you go a whole turn without attacking him at all, on his next turn he'll use his strongest attack, Singularity Wave, the game's one and only tier five attack. It's actually not an instant kill, but I'm pretty sure it's universally lethal; I've seen it hit upwards of 7000.

In which we're back in business and decide to raid a boring bonus dungeon.

Speaking of Twisted Toyko (and forgive me if I asked this before), but has anyone ever fought the Fiends once they're around level 900+ and have more Press Turns than anything else in the game?

One reason I haven't used the Eternal Torus yet to unlock the rest of Twisted Tokyo is because I'll likely have to go through several Twisted Tokyo cycles to get the unique drops from each Fiend and the cycles don't reset so long as you keep going through New Game Plus. Add the fact that I usually go with the New Life option, which means I won't even get to keep the unique drops...

Right, so I met the angels and decided to go with Walter (so the quests for killing Yuriko and the Black Samurai were removed from my gauntlet).

I'm in Ginza right now, but I don't have any actual marching orders in terms of quests. I'm just assuming we'd go back to Lilith / Yuriko because where else would we go?

Man, I've been on this game for years. It usually doesn't take me this long to finish something either.

I believe so. Lilith'll tell you to head for Camp Ichigaya IIRC.

I feel you. I stopped playing Soul Hackers for a while, then went back to it recently and now I find myself trying to finish the game.

I got lost in IV's stupid world map for a year and just came back to it. So yeah. So say we all.

Like with Walter and Tayama, Jonathan apparently kills Lilith offscreen if you take Walter's route. Weird you don't actually SEE this one, though.

Awake Jimenez was just as brutal as ever. Something I read about Chaos Tack that makes it so nasty is that it apparently deals extra damage to non-Chaos-aligned targets, but even going in with Chaotic demons that move was still strong enough to outright kill anyone who wasn't resistant to Gun. I had a demon out that reflected Gun (Ongyo-ki), but he didn't hit it with Chaos Tack as much as I would like but it was very satisfying when it did.

There was a pants-wetting moment at towards the end of the battle when he wiped out all three of my demons with Dark Matter but my Volvo helped me scrape through. I had to go through a lot of Balms of Life and even two Summon Stones which sucked but at least I made it. The Shin Megami Tensei IV-style UI for this fight was a godsend what with his changing weaknesses. Much more player-intuitive than the original DS one.

In which we leave the boring secret dungeon. I hope this is legible; seems to be some formatting issues with liveblogs at present.