Can You Beat Persona 4 With Only Izanagi?
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After a very long delay, my most requested video is finally here; Can You Beat Persona 4 with only Izanagi?
Just like in my Persona 3 challenge video, in this video I try to beat Persona 4 Golden using only my starting Persona. Without being able to use other personas, I'm forced to make the most use of shuffle time's skill cards, stat increasing cards, and other items to get through the game. Not many people would play the game like this, but it's a much more viable strategy than you may think.
If you have any more ideas for MegaTen challenge videos, let me know in the comments!
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"Congrats on finishing the mega beef bowl!"
"Cool, haha. What do I win?"
"Nothing! Now get out!"
You get a trophy actually
Well irl you get your money back and..... i dunno weight to lose and perhaps diabetes :p
A book if you do it 8 times.
@@artofthepossible7329 aw fuck now I have to do it 8 times
@@ashikjaman1940 That's once a month on a NG+.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: OH BOY DO I LOVE SKILL CARDS
Oh boy do I
The lord and saviour of this run: Shuffle-time.
Yugi would be proud
daniel oyelade Heart of the cards
Thanks
"the battle wasnt too much trouble" he says while yusuke constantly dies in the background footage
yusuke is a great ship name
@@uhhhhquinniguesss Yusuke is a party member from Persona 5 too but I get your ship Yu x Yosuke.
yusuke these balls
yusuke from yu yu hakusho
@@readysetshrimps2986 I know dude
Reaper: *Elec Break*
Also Reaper's next attack: *Bufudyne*
Reaper: *Yeah is big brain time*
Reaper: my goals are beyond your understanding
They never saw it comiiiinng
@@jorge2555 They saw, that our minds were too fast for eyes
Never let them know your next move
A shocking play
Igor: "You have the power of the Wild Card!"
Yu: "The what card?"
Marie: "The SKILL Card!"
@@movingstone4910 i like your mini dancing Naoto avatar xd
Same mood when your playing Uno but you save the wild card till the end and never end up using it.
@@ro8405 only change he makes is izanagi no okami
I got lvl99 izanagi with megidoloan
He skipped the Nanako dialogue because he wasn’t ready to cry again
What if i Told you I did not cry
@@Jattel_2006 Dont believe you >:(
After Nanako got kidnapped , my True big bro was awakened , but when Nanako died I cried so hard because I failed so save her
I mean seriously. Isn't P4 the cheery one?
@@nightlypiano4116 It is, until it isn't.
It's funny, I actually accidentally wandered into the true ending. I wanted to walk around more, so when the game went "hey you done yet" i was like "lol no haha gimme like five more minutes"
it gave me a lot more than five minutes
What do you get to do after you say not done?
@@sharebear421 the last dungeon
Haha, just gimme five minutes.
Time to go kill an ancient Japanese goddess before dinner.
@@sharebear421 You go to the school, then you repeatedly visit Junes in order to trigger the hidden part of the game, you then receive a letter from a cabbage-loving killer that you discuss with the IT, you can eventually end up in Yomotsu Hirasaka (Izanami's realm) for the true ending, or if you're playing P4G, you have the time to complete Marie's dungeon (if you've obtained a good ending before the winter vacation in December).
@@gotinogaden I jumped the gun and got the good ending while aiming for the true ending. I knew about the true ending and Izanami, and knew to say no when it said 'are you done yet'. When I went back to the gas station, there was no one there, so I went back home, game asked again 'are you sure', I said no, then talked to Nanako and Dojima since they were there. Game ended.
Needless to say, I was disappointed, given all the effort I put in completing *everything*, including Marie's dungeon and S link. But I can see how people would miss it.
Honestly, though, Atlas. How was *anyone* in 2008 supposed to figure this out?
You forgot the most important story related part of the Persona 3 field trip; the history teacher spoils the entire plot of the game by explaining the story of Izanagi.
Huh. The more you know...
To be fair, I imagine quite a few older teens/adults in Japan would have already known the creation myths
@@velvetbutterfly no? Japan is not a Shinto heavy country, that's like saying that all teenagers on egypt know the story of creation
@@ryokiritani4187 Japanese students do go on cultural field trips throughout their school year, as part of their curriculum. Like US students might, to learn about their state, or about the government and history.
You dont need to be religios to be familiar with religious myths. Especially if you have one thats culturally unique. Like most european prechristian pagan religions are functionally dead, but the origin myths for most of them are still widely known.
"The optional boss in Yukiko's palace isn't that hard, it's only strong attack is rampage."
That is like saying "a nuclear submarine's only strong attack is firing a nuclear missle."
Haha
True, had he fought it right after rescuing Yukiko he would have sung another song.
I mean, is it wrong?
@@Mah11ro The problem is that it can easily one-shot anyone it hits if you fight him at the earliest possibility, and it targets the entire party.
@@bigtimetimmyjim6486 then, uh... dont fight it at the earliest possibility?
Persona 4 except that Yu isn’t a wild card
Sooo... only melee?
@@therattataking7062 no he still has a persona he just can’t switch
@@kounai21 soooo.... this video
@@therattataking7062 wild card refers to those who can have multiple persona
@@therattataking7062 This your first persona video? First persona game?
3:56 “We find out that Yosuke’s *girlfriend* is dead”
Lol only in Yosuke’s dreams
Yeah legit had to do a double take right there
Just let Yosuke have this one
Why did you have to do him like that
If only, right
For some reason I read that as yosuke wanting her to be dead.
I’m not even kidding, on P4G I unironically did this because I didn’t realize that Izanagi wasn’t as strong as I thought he was 💀
It's easy on P4G with all the stat increases from the tarot cards. Vanilla P4 was much worse
I did this also lol
@@RamesesBolton same with p3 fes and portable. I kept my orpheus all the way through but never used him. then with portable, he was my main fire persona
I did this because Very Hard mode is kicking my ass and I need that endurance stat high.
Me currently, im at kanjis bathhouse and stared at my team during the level up screen. Izanagi so behind 😭
Moral of the story: always respect gas station employees, because the may be God.
Even more so in new Jersey where you have to interact with them...
@@jtalkalot19 Why?
@@Lakefront_Khan in new Jersey you can't pump your own gas. It's the law. The attendants do it for you.
@@jtalkalot19 Insult them and they put a Thousand Curses upon you and your car lmao
@@alexanderinoa7850 and your creddit card
"I'm extremely under leveled" my first playthrough summed up in one sentence
I can relate
Golden Hands for the win.
Same
IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF I ACTUALLY HAD THE GAME
me for any j-rpg game until second playthrough :
Going from P5 where you can just speed through every dungeon without having to grind to P4 where you can get underleveled pretty easily if you get gimped out of Golden Hands was a real culture shock for me lol
Alternate Title: Can Yu beat Persona 4 With Only Izanagi?
Heh
Ohhh 😂 i didnt get it at first
Y(o)u
Clever
Fun fact. The Epilogue scene is meant to take place after the Persona 4 Arena games, making them both canon in the universe.
fascinating.
Oh, look. Yu's silent again.
“This game doesn’t punish you anyways, so if you want to romance them all, knock yourself out”
Um those Valentine’s Day scenes are heartbreaking lmao.
They make you feel like shit lol
In P5, they introduced the punishment. lmao
@@bryanchristianabrigo in p3 they did barely anything, p4 they made you feel bad, and in p5 they straight up beat you. By the time p6 rolls around they will take you to a game over screen lmao
I actually got that scene by accident and I felt like mega shit
@@arbetor12 how the hell do you acidentally get that
Nyarly: "Yu seems alright after being struck by a giant bolt of lighting."
Izanagi: Let me tank that for yu
Underrated Comment
And kanji, yosuke on the other hand should have been bodied
I S E E W H A T Y O U D I D T H E R E ! ! !
@Zachary Erickson Yosuke: Susanoo, help me!
Susanoo: Aight, imma head out
Senji The gamer
Susanoo: a bueno adiós master.
i love how out of the forms izanami could take she took a gas station npc
I really hate that I got spoiled for this before I finished the game, it would've been such a cool twist to find out myself
Always wish she had stayed the hot Yu genderbend that she was supposed to be.
@@vivilover9409 Still kind of a twist for the uninitiated, to be fair. She's fairly androgynous, and most who might know her by reputation won't recognise her on a first or even second run.
@@vivilover9409i warched the animation first so i got to experience it nornally
In a lower class city of Japan (they’re literally talking the whole game shot Inaba being in the middle of nowhere and junes running everything else out of business because capitalism? Ig?) anyways lower class city in Japan, where the economy is so bad that a literal goddess has to get a job at a gas station to make ends meet. 1 child and his like 8 friends fight to find the truth as to why that god even fucking needs a job since she’s immortal and therefore does not need sustenance. Little do they know, she can be killed and all it takes is a little ol’ game breaking persona that cost me 6 real life dollars to use in the next game
I find it really cool that you ended at level 91 considering that’s the level you need to be to fuse Izanagi-no-Okami
“This game doesn’t punish you anyway for romancing them all” Valentine’s Day likes to disagree
That's in p4g
@@Shubocchi But..he's playing golden.
It really doesn't. Really.
Some girls will guilt-trip you and all, but there's no sudden link reversal or broken links. Everyone just keeps going buddy-buddy with you.
That hurts right in the meow meow.
@@JadenRockz99 it punishes u emotionally bro
Whenever I see Narukami hit the back of his head and neck after getting partially sucked into the TV, I always think to myself: _”How is he not passed out from that?”_
I always think about how good of an animation it is. I love the whiplash and shake it really looks like it hit hard.
Well in the cutscene when the tree of them fall into the tv for the first time they all fall on their backs and necks with a heavy sound effect. I am surprised they are not dead.
Because I’m a goddamn tank
Yu is a Chad, that's why
1:02:36 Yu scoffs off Marie's lightning like it was nothing.
Either Yu feels no pain Is a god amongst men.
Fun fact: the reason adachi doesn't take a lot of damage from physical attacks is because his persona has a hidden resistance against physical attacks that cuts damage in half
Or he have firm stance? Have we seen adachi dodge an attack though? But we know boss stats are over 99 point.
@@arifsalahudin6673 it actually was a hidden resistance. If he had Firm Stance then even Magical Attacks should do less damage to him.
It always chuckles me that even though he has a hidden resistance to Phys, Yoshitsune still wrecks the hell out of him
@@hoanganphanle hrmm I guess ur right... I remembered that p4 damage for physical are higher than amped magic damage. :/
@@arifsalahudin6673 yep, take an example, Pralaya is the strongest non multi-hit Phys attack in the game, and it has the base power of 2200, while Morning Star, the strongest Almighty attack, has the base power of 440 (Almighty cannot be amp and boost in this game btw). Other strongest elemental spells have the base power of 400 at most.
Since P4G use a special calculation for damage, the real damage value is based on the squareroot of the move's base power. Do the math. Pralaya will outclass almost every single magic spell in the game. It also explain how Hassou Tobi is a league of it own, since it hits 8 times
Fun fact: Adachi's AI is bugged and doesn't use certain moves he's supposed to use. He's supposed to use Stagnant Air, Bufudyne, Agidyne, Mabufudyne, and Maragidyne, on top of the moves he already uses. The bug also makes him significantly less likely to use Evil Smile and Atom Smasher.
Is that true for both the vanilla game and Golden? And if so, why didn't they fix it for Golden's release?
I think I remember him using stagnant air once, tho I dont remember if it was on vanilla or golden
No wonder he was so easy I was kinda bummed that he was that easy considering what he is. But i mean he never goes inside the tv to train so this is probably what would happen to him after fighting a group of people with personas in basically their prime
I just completed my playthrough of P4G on PC yesterday, can confirm that they fixed this bug on the PC release. My party is a bit overleveled because I was paranoid after the Mitsuo boss so I didn't see all of his attacks, but I remember he used Stagnant Air and Evil Smile because I got hit by them :)))
You will never be a women
Nyarly: can you beat SMT 1 with only Pascal?
Atlus the next day: Shin Megami Tensei Remake Announcement Trailer
May Atlus hear your words. HD Pascal would be the cutest thing
The timing on the Nocturne remake announcement after the "no buffs or debuffs true demon ending part 4" was priceless
We desperately need that though. The original SMT is...A very primitive Megami Tensei game to say the least. I mean obviously being one of the first games in the franchise, but the Aeon Genesis translation that most people have played, is not the greatest all things considered. We need Pascal in HD.
SPOILERS
At least according to the wiki ( I never played smt1 so sorry if im incorrect) pascal leaves after a certain point, returning as cerberus near the end which means that unless your willing to cheat or mod the game it’s impossible under normal means.
Nyarly: plays EVERY older game
( including the original megami tensei’s, the original devil summoner, etc)
Atlus: I don’t know if i have the strength to keep up with this maniac
"Rise's dungeon is one of my favorites in this game"
_HOLD THE PHONE_
*EMERGENCY MEETING!*
Your parents: Son, we need to talk
let's just pretend like we didn't hear that
Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz
Pressing the record button intensifies
1:02:57 Considering that both Narukami and Kanji's Personas have Electricity Resist, and both Yosuke and Teddie's Personas are weak to Electricity, clearly Marie knew who was really at fault there.
Yeah, nice catch.
Edit: Actually, it was probably White Lighting, a Special Skill only Marie had. It did Almighty damage, not electric.
I can’t help but notice you shrug at the filler moments, and to each his own, but I personally found the filler stuff to be a huge part of what made this game great for me. They’re just teenagers being teenagers and all. I also like how this game goes to extremes of being dark and being lighthearted
Me too... Underscoring all entertainment should be fun, I found this fun.
ive always liked persona for the interpersonal teenage drama of it all not necessarily the battles, interesting to see a lot of people hold the opposite opinion
That’s what makes it my favorite persona game in the series. Mostly because it can be very bright and light hearted at times then all of sudden gets really dark and then back.
Feels strange to see a lot of people who obviously got this video in their recommended rather than knowing Nyarly prior via the Megaten fandom
Some people play persona primarily as an rpg with social Sim aspects rather than a social Sim with rpg components, and therefore they don't really enjoy the scenes where the story takes a backseat, as they view it as filler and essentially as the game just forcing them to mash through the dialogue until the story can progress and get to the fun part where they get to kick shadow's shins in. Different tastes, essentially.
bbn
I feel like Nyarly’s Izanagi is the one we see in every spin off considering that thing is op in like literally every single one of them
Yeah especially the golden animation like have you seen that shit?
Legit, it’s stupid op for no reason in the anime. You’d think the anime would be just as aware as the game that Izanagi falls off in usefulness quickly.
@@naoki-kashima2635 I think in the golden animation
It was apparently a "new game plus"
Since you see Izanagi having megidola on a ton of shadows from the start for some reason.
@@thebiolibrary5572 They meant it as a "new game plus" experience, so he is OP for a reason
@@thebiolibrary5572 The Golden Animation Is basically a New Game + Made anime
Myriad truths: broke ass move
Persona 5 royal : what if we give the player that persona that’s broken at the start... for moneyyy
I DESERVE THAT POWER. Leave me be.
I worked 40 hours a week... yes I earned that
Atlus: We've GOT to have... *Moneyyyy...*
I want anyway as i love his desenge
I am going to purchase Izanami-no-Okami Picaro out of spite
I don’t think Teddie rejected his Shadow... I think he rejected the “truth” that his Shadow obsessed over.
That he's a twink in a fursuit?
It’s possible teddies shadow might’ve been possessed by another part of the sagiris.
Rise detected strange interference when teddies shadow emerged.
Not to mention his shadow keeps going on about keeping the truth shrouded in fog.
And that’s what the sagiris wanted to enact keeping the masses lost in ignorance as per their wish.
The kunino sagiri took over namatame and controlled his shadow in a similar way.
Then ameno sagiri took complete control of adachi in the final fight.
The reason yu got so sick is because I think izanami intended to make yu another puppet infected with a sagiri but for some reason it couldn’t control yu so it just disintegrates and unlocked yus power.
Teddies shadow was obviously different from the other shadows not cause he used to be a shadow but because malevolent forces were using it to stop you.
Shadow Teddie doesn't exist.
When people confront their shadows, they deny and reject them as in secretly deep down they are a small part of themselves that they don't want see, though exagerrated into a caricature of their actual feelings.
In contrast, Teddie said over and over that he doesn't know what the hell Shadow Teddie was talking about and didn't understand anything.
Then there is Rise confirming that "Shadow" Teddie" isn't normal.
Teddie doesn't actually really reject his Shadow, his Shadow acts and attacks the party before Teddie can say those three magic words of "You're not me!" but, I mean... a Shadow's Shadow doesn't have to necessarily play by the rules.
In fact, Shadow Teddie isn't even a conventional Shadow, but rather a shard of Ameno-Sagiri itself (since normal Teddie is already a Shadow)
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Which I guess is partially hinted at with how the eyes of Shadow Teddie look, as they are somewhat similar to Ameno-Sagiri's one eye.
@@astralguardian5930 1 year late here, but that's also aluded to in game by virtue of Shadow Teddie being of the Moon arcana rather than the Star, which is associated with ilusions and misdirection.
Ofc, there's also the anime which outright confirms it
Nyarly: tries to do any SMT/Persona challenge
Atlus: Boy, i suddenly feel the need to do a remake/port
If that’s the case he should do another Persona 3 Portable challenge as the FemC so they’ll bring her back.
P2 challenge = p2 remake
@some dude yep
Let's ask him to do a challenge involving the Female playthrough of P3
Maybe some kind of Digital Devil Saga challenge...?
"There is almost nothing to do in Inaba exept talking with npcs."
Well Yuske told you that, so no surprise there. 😂
*A blue haired person holding Jagariko looks at you*
@@blazerheata6479 O.O
@@charxeleon6313 They spelled Yosuke incorrectly, easy mistake to make though. Yusuke is a very good boy.
@@blazerheata6479 Yh Ik (don’t murder me but I don’t like Yusuke, he makes me feel so uncomfortable 9/10 times he’s there)
@@charxeleon6313 ahh that's okay. To each their own ^^
"Now, who was the first person you made physical contact with in Inaba?"
"Dojima, you shook his hand."
"Okay, the _second person_ ."
Nanako. Dojima introduces him to her and she slaps his leg out of nervousness
“Fiiiiiiiine 3rd person….”
Thats Marie she picks up something you dropped for you
“God dammi-!!!”
Fun fact: in 1st floor of Yukiko Castle there's a 20% of chance that one chest will have a Soul drop or a Snuff soul
Thanks I was planning to do a solo izanagi run myself was just worried about SP usage
With my luck, looking for any SP items is like searching for the one piece, it’s literally impossible
@@sam_games0628 that happens only in golden.
In vanilla it's trully almost impossible tbh.
BUT 🍑
You can always do the old technique of fusion in skill-change day event and get spirit drain in early game.
Lol, after 11 years, I've just realized that "Goho-M" means "Go home". *Facepalm*
And I thought it was something in japanese or whatever...
Oh no lmao
Why have you done this to me. Its been years and I never noticed!
Dude in so sorry
Lmaooo
In PQ, the Goba-K is "Go back"
Naoto fanart is basically either cute, suggestive or STAY WITH MEEEEEE!
I read nanako and was horrified for a second
@@uhhhhquinniguesss god no!
@@uhhhhquinniguesss oh God
@@uhhhhquinniguesss Your profile pic says your reaction
@@uhhhhquinniguesss Dear god...
Nyarly: *gets an essentially stat perfect persona with one of the best physical skills in the game barely entering midgame*
also Nyarly: This game is too easy
will the game let you get them
I mean in my own Izzy run, I got 40 stats before Rise dungeon.
Just grind alot for shuffle time, and you can easily solo bosses with Izzy. Hell, even Shadow Kanji went down quick and I was about 25s in stats when I fought him. The worst part is the early game with Yukiko, then after that it is just easy money.
@@LazyVanny wow so when you grind to become op you become op??!??! Quirky…
Any game's easy if you know what you're doing. And if you know how busted the shuffle system is, no shit you can make the game a cakewalk.
This is the easiest persona game tbh well besides p5r
Igor: you have the power of the wild ca-
Yu: NO
“This was hardly a challenge because of how much the mechanics of persona 4 Golden break the game and make it easy”
Persona 5 Royal: “hold my beer”
is it easier, i played regular 5 not long ago
@@tostadorafuriosa69 regular 5 is harder but royal is easier, but its impossible to do an arsene only run
@@powertree6900 Why it's impossible? Skill cards and gallows exist in P5.
@@slojcabronas858
Because you cannot progress the story without sacrificing Arsene. It's baked into the tutorial for fusion and you cannot avoid it.
I tried, because I had started an emulated Nocturne run previously and figured I'd keep Arsene for later. But no dice.
@@Mayhzon Weird, I remember playing through first dungeon with Arsene on ng+ a long time ago.
I am sure you can resummon him right after you fuse him away, or at least before a next battle.
Izanami-No-Okami's weird form derives from the tale of Izanagi and Izanami, part of the creation myth in Shintoism. Izanagi and Izanami, firstborn gods and husband and wife, generated many gods through their union, but Izanami died during childbirth of Kagu-tsuchi, the incarnation of fire (which is why Izanami is covered in bandages and more and more shed during the fight, she's a burn victim. Also, according to the Kojiki, she allegedly transferred her soul to a human before dying, which is the basis for the title of the series, Shin Megami Tensei, meaning "True/New Metempsicosis/Reincarnation of the Goddess"), so after furiously murdering Kagu-tsuchi and tearing him into 8 pieces, Izanagi took a journey to Yomi (the land of the dead) to retrieve his lost wife. Izanami, desperate for her fate and believing to be lost, ate the cursed fruits of the Yomi, and became one with it, meaning she could no longer leave. When Izanagi found her, she attempted to deceive him to let her out, but when he saw the horrific form that Izanami had taken after eating the fruits of Yomi, he ran from her, chased by her ghastly form, and sealed off the entrance to the cave that led to Yomi, separating the world of the dead from that of the living. Izanami screamed from behind this impenetrable barricade and told Izanagi that if he left her she would destroy 1,000 residents of the living every day, so he furiously replied he would give life to 1,500 residents. Even the name of her dungeon, Yomutsu Hirasaka, translates to "Slope to the underworld", replicating the journey of Izanagi to Yomi.
After being to Yomi, Izanagi performed a ritual cleansing, creating many other divinities, including Amaterasu, Susanoo and Tsukuyomi. This is why the Personas (Personae?) of the Investigation Team are all based around the Shintoist pantheon, as they all technically achieve their awakening through the help of Yu, whose Persona is roughly the Japanese equivalent of Zeus, and it's also the reason behind the name of Inaba's high school, as Yasogami means literally "eighty gods", referring to the Shintoist pantheon.
This a great explanation, thank you
I want to add another detail, but I havent't played Persona 3 or 5 (yet) so I might be wrong (also please don't spoil me those)
The video says that in Persona 3 your initial Persona is Orpheus... Which drew my attention because Orpheus and Eurydice's myth us surprisingly very similar to Izanami and Izanagi's, despite belonging to very different cultures... I mean, they're about a couple of lovers, the female dies, the male tries to bring her back from the underworld and fails miserably, so she stays there having lost her personhood
Am I reading too deep into this?
Browsing TH-cam tired, just to get a sudden lesson in Japanese mythology.
Great read. Thanks.
Good caller
@@armintargaryen9216 it’s worth noting but I’m not sure they are meant to have parallels drawn between them
@@armintargaryen9216 Check out the starting Personas for Maya and Tatsuya in Persona 2, while you're at it.
13:41 the characters looks like chad!
lol the yes chad and virgin vs chad meme
Virgin Adachi vs. The Chad Yu
"Can you beat the game with the first Persona?"
*Has a stronger persona than the one I beat the game with by Mitsuo's dungeon*
This is pretty much how Pokemon nuzlockes go considering they get roided out with steroids
Short answers:
Persona 4 Vanilla: No
Persona 4 Golden: Yes
You can in vanilla, its jusr ludicrously hard in an already (imo) poorly balanced game
You absolutely can beat vanilla P4 with Izanagi
@Hope Bagel If I had a capture card and P4 Vanilla I would have attempted it lol.
@Hope Bagel I just beat Golden on PC last week, was the original that much more difficult?
@Hope Bagel I see, ty for the reply
"I remember these bosses being really hard when I was a kid..."
Me, feeling like the oldest man in the world: ...
I'm wondering how Yukiko was underleveled. I always thought she was one of the better party members and always brought her along. Good healer and high magic stat.
Like it or not, Shota is a common boy's name, too, Nyarly.
I believe it is always spelled Shouta or Shōta though
@@velvetbutterfly
Does it matter lol
That’s a romanization of Japanese. Also, in Japanese schools, you’re taught not to use “u” or double o or u when u use romaji lol
Yeah that bothered me too, although I guess if you're not japanese it's not super common knowledge. Still, it's not the japanese language's fault that the shortening of a specific NSFW word used by english-speakers ends up as a real name.
I don’t get it. What about that word is nsfw? I’ve literally never heard that name from anywhere on the nsfw I’ve seen and for the whole time I just thought that he was pissed that shota sounds similar to shit a or something and that’s why he had to censor it
@@beyondawesomegaming3517
From what I can tell, nothing really. Shota just means a young or young-looking male like loli means a young or young-looking female, apparently. Like, Tatsumaki from One Punch Man is apparently a loli.
This might as well be a Yu-Gi-Oh episode with the amount of cards.
True
“Yu”-Gi-Oh
@@zrudu screw you, that's clever
Underrated comment.
@@zrudu Get out!
As the great fist man would say "I've been waiting for this!"
More beans??
Knuckles?
See that Shinji!
That’s what I’m calling Aki from now on. The Great Fist Man!
Congratulations, you beat me to it
I really like that moment at the end when Yu throws his glasses before casting Myriad Truths.
Just bought the steam version of P4G 2 weeks ago. I’m now completely obsessed with the Persona Series. I literally spent more time than I’d like to admit figuring out how to emulate P5 on my PC and finally succeeded. My life is over for the next couple of months. 🤣
Sameee.. already spent about 36-37 hours on it in the past 2 weeks now. About to go into Mitsuo’s dungeon
Thing is, while the PS4 got Persona 5 Royal, emulating the PS3 version means you can run mods, including Reimagined, which backports some of Royal’s upgrades as well as stuff like optional boss battles against previous protagonists. Life might end up on hold for a little bit longer
There's also an official Royal port now
Ah I bet the next video will be “Can you watch Persona: Trinity Soul without getting confused?”
Persona Trinity Soul challenge: Try to ignore all the plot holes and contradicting canon.
The impossible game
No
thats impossible
It's just a mp3 file of Nyarly saying, "No"
Yu: "Yukiko, I'm going to grind you with golden hands."
Yukiko:".........I can dig it."
New challenge: Beat Persona 4G/5R using only Hassou Tobi. "The persona's name is not Hassou Tobi? What do you mean it's called Yoshitsune?"
I’m going to be completely honest, I do this all the time. Just referring to Yoshitsune as Hassou Tobi because I forgot his actual name
And then you run into a shadow that naturally nulls drains or repels physical and you’re at a stalemate. I mean ig you could throw a magic skill card on but you’re literally calling him after his “broken” move that will literally do nothing to some shadows why don’t you try “can you beat p4g using only myriad truths… oops I mean no okami” at least then you’re guaranteed to do damage to everything
@@beyondawesomegaming3517 simply never encounter a null physical persona
@@BoP so, never encounter a shadow then? Cause you don’t get to choose what shadow pops up once battle is initiated so why run the risk? Therefore being underleveled for the bosses and even worse never fight Marie and get the true ending as she naturally repels phys and it’s not like there’s a phys break. So much effort to do because you think something is “broken”
@@beyondawesomegaming3517 me when a move beats 99% of the game except for like 1 guy and I have 3 other characters to help me power through it with items: "Hassou Tobi isn't broken"
If you ask me: Izanagi is the strongest persona in Persona 4 Golden, exactly because he's the persona you're using from the beginning, busting his stats will not require farming and its easy to do and to build him with skill cards and making it evolve them thanks to shuffle time
"Can you beat Devil Summoner Without Devil Summoning?"
Can you beat Devil Survivor without Surviving?
Can you beat Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse without the Apocalypse?
Can you beat Strange Journey without being strange?
Can you beat persona without a persona?
@@jeandias5798 that's a YourbudTevin video
shadow teddie just wants to play uno why did teddie deny having uno on his Xbox?
I only have gotten to Kanji’s dungeon, and I just have to believe that this is true and will happen in the game
@@spaaaaaaceee as somebody who has beaten this game I can say that this is true
He has the oldest xbox known to man
@@Dan-do2pl no he doesn’t, Ameno-Sagiri got his day one
He has a Beta Version of the Xbox, before Uno even Existed
50:19
I remember being confused and looking this up myself. According to the wiki, Adachi has a “hidden” resistance to physical skills, so it’s treated like he resists the moves without showing it on his affinities.
For people who haven't watched this, he basically power levels a lot in Castle. Then says "my nostalgic young self thought this was hard, but my incredibly experienced SMT adult self found it easy".
Basically the plot up to Naoto
3:26
Yu: "Aside from the fact that I nearly got sucked into the TV and proceeded to hit my head on a table..? Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine."
Haru "This Is fine" Okumura has finally met her match! Or lover!
Nyarly play digital devil saga so we can get a remaster
Raidou Kuzunoha games too :) Or original Devil Summoner so we can get localization.
This video made me realize how deep this story reached me when I was younger because I was pissed at you talking about all the character, story, and time spent with friends as useless. Persona 4 is about connection, to yourself and others. More so than any other installment in the series. It damn near saved my live when I was a teenager. So, hearing someone rag on it because it wasn't pure gameplay ruffled me more than expected.
For this challenge specifically it is useless
Yea it's kind of annoying to hear him refer to anything that doesn't directly advance the story as 'filler', character development isn't filler.
@@jscoutfly801 after replaying a game multiple times I think I could understand it to just be boring
can I just say, Nanako's death actually made me want to cry because I actually really loved her social link, same with dojima's, i loved the bond between them, and when they showed nanako alive again, i was so happy
Fun fact:
In the Adachi fight, Adachi halves the physical damage received, and that's why Magic is better
Son of a.....no wonder chie and kanji werent useful that fight
Is he resistant to physical because of Dojima's slaps?
@@treyla140 well thats cannon now
Funny that a Pokemon fan is saying this.
@@treyla140 Probably
3:10 "If you turn on your tv"
Chie: "If you look into a tv that's switched off"
..”during midnight, you’ll see _magical people_ inside!”
@@drywal You and Yosuke think that that's stupid but decide to do it anyways.
Ahh the memories, I can still remember my countless hours trying to build the super izanagi on my 4th playthrough on ps2, man those times are golden!
"where we meet... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" my hatred for teddie felt that deep in my soul back in the velvet room
I think I may be different from that because personally I hate Morgana. (I'll damn well go to sleep when I FEEL like it you stupid cat!)
Seriously, the first time through the game I was annoyed of that because I was trying to level up my Social Links.
@@Phoenix_Destiny_Kaihard agree Morgana is 1,000x worse than teddie, though to be fair teddie is 1,000x worse than best boy korou Chan
@@beyondawesomegaming3517 ....but at least I can talk to Teddie without feeling like I'm trying to be Eliza from Wild Thornberrys.
@@Phoenix_Destiny_Kai never watched wild thornberry’s so I don’t get that reference but korou Chan is still nest animal based party member and you can’t change my mind, also teddie flirts with literally every girl he sees a trait I find annoying main reason why yosuke is my least favorite character in persona as a whole (well maybe Jun pei maybe not) but I’d rather be screamed at to go to bed at gun point than EVER go on another “operation babe hunt” or “up close and personal” plan
@@Phoenix_Destiny_Kai plus I agreed with you that teddie is better than Morgana why did you word it like I was insulting teddie?
I've heard that the reason they get drunk off of the "atmosphere" at the club scene is cause you're not allowed to portray minors getting drunk from actual drinks in Japan, so it's a work around. No clue if it's true though.
Yeah. They probably drank off camera. Not sure if that law is 100% absolute though, as demon girls tend to get drunk a lot in anime. Not sure though. But yeah, definitely drunk off camera
I thought it was just to show how they're dipshit kids
Headcanon for me is Naoto spiked their drinks to get answers out of them, and then just acted like it was the atmosphere not to arouse suspicion, I mean I wouldn't put it past a detective to do something like that lol.
@@wolfetteplays8894 Aren't demons like, technically immortal, so way over 20 years old? I didn't know about the not portraying minors drunk thing before reading this comment though and I spent two years in Okinawa.. lol.
@@blakeirvin3011 immortality just doesn’t mean you can’t age. It isn’t an indicator of exact age
Anyone else never fuse their starting persona purely for sentimental reasons? Idk man that’s your SOUL!
I love the starting Personas.
I only did that with Orpheus because I really needed a decent persona and had to fuse him to keep climbing Tartarus... :(
@Donnovan McConnell technically if you get two personas that fuse to a low level persona you don’t have to
I tried to do an Izanagi only playthrough myself a few years ago. Unlike Nyarly, I used some other Personas, but it was mostly for healing outside battles.
It was going rather well... UNTIL KUBO'S PALACE. In the card shuffle, one of the cards made Izanagi turn into another trashy Persona.
I swear, I was so pissed off that I ragequitted the challenge and Persona 4 altogether for a few months.
I literally forced Arsene to be better and sacrificed od just personas to get the skills I wanted
Checking out what others did in their free time is actually pretty helpful, since 90% of the available activities were used by other players. With simply pressing select I instantly know what I could do or not. That's what I call interactive time saving, or quality of life. Izanagi-only is fun but my luck in shuffle time seems to have a day off...
I like how Yosuke is getting the final blow on pretty much every boss even though he's like your main healer.
Sense when is yosuke supposed to be a healer? The best healing skill he gets is diarama why would you use him to heal when you could have mediarahan on both teddie and yukiko? That’s like saying you use chie because she’s your main ice attacker *dies of an aneurysm*
@@beyondawesomegaming3517 idk man he's your first actual healer and so he inevitably falls into that role. He's obviously a hybrid support anyway. Chie doesn't suffer the same thing because she develops into a bruiser. And Yukiko is a great damage dealer as soon as you get her which overshadows her otherwise good support abilities.
None of the characters are worth being pure healers since damage mitigation and control are worth more than healing, but if I have Yosuke and Yukiko in my party (and they're probably going to be for a while), if I absolutely need someone healed I prefer Yosuke to handle it because I'd rather lose a turn of his damage than Yukiko's.
@@Dartyus teddie with mediarahan (and marakukaja if you’re that worried about support over healing): “am I a joke to you?” He’s literally built for both healing and support through buffs and debuffs and what support exactly does yosuke get for support? Masukukaja? So does kanji if you want him to, dekaja? Literally every mc persona would have both dekaja and dekunda because of how many early game personas learn it naturally for fusion (not that it’s really needed anyways) I literally have teddie who can do everything yosuke can do but better with the only exception being strong wind skills also yea chie is a bruiser but kanji is a better bruiser given that he’s for higher strength and more health so that argument is invalid
@@beyondawesomegaming3517 okay well I’m not worried cause I literally beat the game.
@@Dartyus so have I I’m just flabbergasted as to why you decided to use yosuke of all people
50:28 Actually, youre wrong there. Adachi does resist Phys by 50%. Persona 4 has this habit of placing weaknesses and resistances on shadows and bosses, but the "weak" and "resist" flags that determine things like knockdown and make the weak and resist graphics come up aren't set. Adachi has a 50% Phys "Resist" disguised as a normal affinity.
Reminds me that In Pokémon, there are a range of possible damage, despite the stats (and buff/debuffs) being static.
That small RNG broke a lot of Nuzlockes.
Yup. It's the same for Izanami & Ame-no-Sagiri, IIRC.
@@byssted Actually, I think Ameno-sagiri has a neutral Physical affinity.
@@mqfii8992 that mechanic really screwed me over in some hard pokemon romhacks
Same for Persona 3, Nyx's final phase has a 75% resist to everything
"Yu seems okay for getting hit by a giant bolt of lightning". That's because he and Kanji weren't there when the blast happened. They weren't looking on with Yosuke and Teddie.
Kanji still screamed in pain, so I can assume that either Yu wasn't there, Yu tanked the hit like an absolute champ, or Marie spared him from her wrath.
Yu had Firm Stance
@@thegreatandmightyseff7214 Doesn't Izanagi resist lightning?
If you talk to Dojima after the trip he'll comment that you smell a bit burnt so I assume that Yu gets hit
Yu: “Glad I invested into Izanagi so much! Thank you, Igor!”
There should be a speedrun category of this, where you only use the starting persona of any given game
That'd be sick.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY MAKE THESE AMAZING FIRST PERSONAS AND YOU NEED TO MERGE THEM FOR A BASIC DESIGN ONE.
Because it's Persona. If it was a mainline SMT game, you'd most likely just recruit/fuse new demons as you go without minding it
Because they're a beginning persona? You aren't supposed to get the cool badass personas like beelzebub or metatron until the end of the game
@@Pie_The_Man Like Izanagi, Orpheus, and Arsene are not badass
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 the personas were designed by soejima, not kaneko tho.
@@Pie_The_Man This has nothing to do with what I said
13:10 *"...THE BOY'S NAME IS SHOTA!?"*
It's kind of a reoccurring trope plus i think they just do that when they don't want to bother coming up with a name
Why was it censored? Im behind the loop on that
Trey Hebert It's the boy equivalent to loli
You guys do know that Shota (or sometimes written Shouta) is a completely normal masculine Japanese name, right? The word shotacon itself is just a reference to the main character of Tetsujin-28, Shotarou. I'm sure Japanese writers are aware of this and give young boy characters this name as a joke sometimes, but it's still just a normal name for Japanese men.
@@Calvin_Coolage Yeah, like naming someone Ben Dover.
29:15 "I'm gonna have to grind her"
bruh moment
I burst out laughing when he said that
*Suggestive eyebrow wiggling intensifies*
I think I’ve watched this video like 10 times since it came out. It’s such a good video to come back to
I _sure_ am glad I saw this video before doing NG+, so I appreciate that.
Timestamps (Spoilers):
0:00 Introduction
2:34 Run starts
4:45 Shadow Yosuke
7:08 Shadow Chie
10:30 Shadow Yukiko
15:20 Shadow Kanji
21:11 Shadow Rise
27:20 Shadow Mitsuo
34:28 Shadow Naoto
41:00 Shadow Namatame
49:50 Shadow [Killer]
51:09 Eyeball
54:02 Reaper
59:53 Bonus Dungeon Boss
1:05:14 True Final Boss
1:11:47 Outro
You forgot 3:35
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Thanks @Marcus Alder. This should be higher up
Thanks for censoring the killer!
No joke since I loved Arsène’s design, I kept him the whole game through and when I had to fuse the guy, I bought em again.
Then what?
@@BitchChill he probably destroyed everyone in his path with arsene just like me
I ended p5 with a overpowered Arsène ready to get the true ending
should’ve done that, but my dumbass forgot to register him. When i do my second run i’ll do that :,)
I’m emotionally attached to arsène
Fun tip for any persona 4 golden players watching this:
for the yukkiko boss, buy lots of ice cubes, yosuke being able to trigger the rush is important, running out of sp sucks so use ice cubes for that.
Oooooor you can use fuse oberon with red wall and resist phys that way yu resists yukikos only 2 attack elements and you can make chie resist burn to ashes meaning she doesn’t have to guard during passionate stare and can just destroy her also since oberon comes with zio and learns media by lv up you can hit the charming prince’s weakness to take him out faster and you can keep everyone fresh instead of me crying as both chie and yosuke had 50 hp during a passionate stare and I had to pick who lived and who died
This was pretty much my first playthrough of Golden once I got around mid game. I thought that it’d be rude to ditch Izanagi, so I kept him. I ended up buffing him INSANELY on Chance Time Cards and gave him the best skill cards I could and I became both support and an insane damage dealer all on one Persona.
I tried fusing other Personas and left them with Growth 3 to keep up, but with revisiting old dungeons for side quests the cards just buffed his stats to stupid degrees.
Persona 4: rated for mature
Nyarly: I remember these bosses being really hard when I was a kid
:Thinking:
guess he had those cool parents who bought anything.
@@TheUltimateRare a very chad parents
@@waterized_bottle indeed. the chad parents are strong with this one.
I mean, I think this game would have ended up with a Teen rating if Kanji, Adachi, and a few other characters didn’t swear as much.
“Some new haircuts and that’s about all” ok saying that like that isn’t enough. Look at Kanji. Look at my man Kanji and how adorkable he is.
He looks like he gave in to people telling him to "straighten up"
He looks like an office dad
I liked how he looked before more tbh
Kinda reminds me of Lida from Mha
Kanji has unlocked the power of nerdrage
My second time watching your vids.
Thanks for the persona contents bro. Bring so much childhood memories here. 😁
I wanted to see this video ever since it came out. Finished the game yesterday and yes both the video and the game are very enjoyable. I really missed out on Chagall Cafe and those scooter ride mechanics
"shadow naoto is the hardest boss so far."
thats not something i hear everyday.
I know this is a game meant for teens and they didn't want to show characters fully nude, but it always kinda bugged me that the girls straight-up wear full-body towels while completely submerged in water during the hot spring segment.
This video has been in my Tabs sitting there since release just waiting for me to be watched, I just finished the game at 3am can't wait to watch it for breakfast
one of my favorite things in all of the games I've played is casting myriad truths. The glasses toss, the card break, it's all so well timed and weighty.
"Yu seems pretty ok for just getting hit with a bolt of lightning"
I mean Izanagi his persona is resistant to Electricity
Honestly i find that Adachi's scenes when he became the antagonist and reveals himself are the best scene of a bad guy in persona. He is just so much fun and a real threat. I just love him
When he fell and hit the table a few minutes in I literally felt that. That shit hurted
Man this video is amazing, the amount of time i realize pass while i watch it
50:24 Adachi halves physical damage, the game just doesnt tell you, like how marie halves almighty
W H A T
_Finally someone said it lol_
Like every boss in this game has a hidden Almighty resist, they really dont want you to All Out Attack bosses
@@newironside so that explains why I was always shit at this game.
@@newironside Yeah, it's generally best to just attack bosses while they're downed instead of All-Out Attacking.
I was a persona noob the first time I played persona 4,So I used Izanagi all time til level 36 and only used other personas by the ending of the game
Mood, but like persona 5
mood but with Ame-No-Uzume cus i liked her too much 🤩
I had absolutely no idea about that secret ending, you just blew my mind
"The only way this challenge can realistically be beaten is with golden" so you mean all that time I spent wasn't realistic huh?