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You already have a Bucketsgetter special? Congratulations

Deathly curious about what shenanigans you can pull off with the new demon skills. Are there any periapt skills still up for the table outside of the stupid broke ones?

There won't be Abscesses and Side Quests, Vol. # ??

Do you feel the hydra is easier or harder than in the original ? For a normal level playtrough.

No dampeners on what is essentially the "use dampeners, dumbass" tutorial battle is crazy, good job

Onmoraki and Daemon need to be benched ASAP for those misses omg

Absolutely GOATED video to pop up after my exams ahahaha tysm

Commenting for support owo

i like yoko hiromine 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

No Dampeners + Multi-Hitting Skills is gonna be extra fun in this run, well done on Hydra once again. It's a good thing Daemon is so good for this fight (regardless if you allow Essences and give him bufu).

10:26 Well good to know that putting the Hydra to sleep works as an option during this boss fight. Guess I can keep that in mind if I ever decide to replay SMT V: Vengeance. Suppose after recently finishing up SMT 4 Apocalypse twice now, maybe I could try out using aliments for other mainline SMT boss fights, if I ever decide to get around to the other 3DS entries, considering how that detail comes up occasionally. On a completely different note with the Bucketgetter Special - I am too lazy to try and write out the other name on a phone - at 10:46 for some reason is kinda funny in this context with the mental image of you and Yoko taking turns repeatedly throwing ice cubes at the Hydra. Guess it will also be another thing I try out during my second SMT V: Vengeance playthrough.

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Wooohooo Now It's Hydra Slaying Time's. Insane restrictions btw because I just read your rules😅

In my Shin Megami Tensei V playthrough, I received criticism that dubbing a tactic the "Bucketgetter Special" was overly conceited and Narcissustic, even though I did so after specifically requesting name suggestions for said tactic and receiving no suitable ones from my viewers. I have heeded this criticism; henceforth, it shall be known as "that thing I do in mainline Shin Megami Tensei games after Nocturne that use the Press Turn system mostly excluding Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (since the heightened odds of missing on Apocalypse difficulty significantly increases the risk of attempting such a maneuver), in which I withdraw all of my demons to allow the main character to act up to five times in a single round to finish off a battle". However, in the case of this battle, it’s actually a tactic that uses the same principle of "that thing I do in mainline Shin Megami Tensei games after Nocturne that use the Press Turn system mostly excluding Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (since the heightened odds of missing on Apocalypse difficulty significantly increases the risk of attempting such a maneuver), in which I withdraw all of my demons to allow the main character to act up to five times in a single round to finish off a battle" to allow the Nahobino and Yoko to attack up to three times each in a single round to finish off a battle, since Yoko actually has offensive capabilities superior to the Nahobino at this point in the game.

Yeahh! New run! And with even more restrictions. Waiting for Glasya-Labolas + Naamah fight

Let's gooooooooo for the new cycle of Despair and Suffering.

OHHHH BABY NEW RUN TIME 🗣️

Demn, he's a lot more sturdy on Hard, I stomped him s hard on Normal aside from a few lucky dodging from his side.

I was eagerly waiting for your playthrough so I can safely confirm that my low level run was complete dogshit and there is a way better and much more enjoyable true low level playthrough of this game. Welcome back, Jim "Bucketgetter" Reaper.

Shit, I need to get back to this game so I can watch these as they release. I dropped it cause I did 100% for vanilla V and I was sick of it even though it's different 🙃

Exited how the gank fights will play out in this playthrough, with 4 enemy press turns, low level and your limitations. I am exited to be amazed.

I'm so exiticed.

Let's gooo

I thought you only get access to the world of shadows after this fight. How did you get tarunda and rooted soul?

also hot take but i vastly prefer nahobino's english voice over the japanese one. i feel like the japanese one sounds 45

When the world needed him most

Well done! But it's beyond me how anyone can play with dub Nahobino. He sounds like a 14 year old girl trying to sound like a man, having a voice rack every other line. Meanwhile Japanese Nahobino sounds like a chad.

cant wait for the satan and masakado fights

Oh shit he's back 😂 Looking forward to all the future low-level fights in this game, especially with all the busted new passives

do you count tsukiyomi essences as proto fiend essences?

Having enjoyed a lot of your runs, so much so it even inspired me to try and take on a Low Level challenge for this game. I look forward to a lot of the future story bosses especially including a No Fusion, Dampener and Proto-Fiend only restriction to see how far things go. Because hoo boy some of these mid-late game fights are no joke.

Winning with low number has never been more exciting. Looking forward to the absolute shenanigans that are to happen.

Glad to see this at last, looking forward to the rest of the run.

ngl i think the biggest hype for this aside from shiva, trucifer with his absurdly strong balls, masakado, satan, and whether or not the claims about demifiend's "new ai" are true, is tehom

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else remember when that game “Metaphor: ReFantazio” came out? I think it was…last month? I seem to recall that early after the release of the demo, some players were saying that they found it a bit unrealistic that Louis Guiabern, eloquent though he may be, still had such ardent political support for the highest position of power in the nation in the aftermath of an unsuccessful coup attempt that unleashed chaos and mass unrest in the capital city. Does that ring any bells for anyone else?

Shin Megami Tensei V was released three years ago today, so now seems like the perfect time to get started on my playthrough of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance’s Canon of Vengeance route. When the game was first announced, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with respect to how I might be able to approach a playthrough to feature on this channel, given that most of the game’s original mechanics and some bosses seemed to be the same. However, I soon found out that many of the new additions really change how the game plays out in a number of ways, and I believe this playthrough is very unique and will provide a much different viewing experience than that of my playthrough of the original. In fact, I think that as a whole, this playthrough will likely be my favorite of every game I’ve featured, just from the story battles alone. In many ways, I find that the new changes can create a much more dynamic battle experience than other Megami Tensei games, and I look forward to showing everyone the unique rhythm with which I play this game, so to speak, which I think will be very exciting to watch throughout the playthrough. I also want to go over the rules that I’m planning to adhere to and explain why I want to stick to them. Rules: 1. Hard difficulty, New Game. No, I’m not doing a Godborn playthrough. The way that this game functions in a straightforward low-level playthrough is really appealing to me, and I think that in most cases, the Hard difficulty setting is right where I want it to be for an engaging and interesting playthrough. 2. No fusion or using essences to alter the skillsets of demons. You know me, I just love trying to get by solely using recruitable demons without having to optimize their skills for different boss battles. In most cases, this restriction was pretty reasonable for the original SMT V, and I think that Vengeance does a great job of steadily supplying the player with useful, but rarely overpowered demons for recruitment. 3. The Nahobino may only acquire skills from Proto-fiend essences, and essences used for his resistances may only be Proto-fiend essences, purchasable from the Cadaver's Hollow, or be from recruitable demons at or below the Nahobino's level. Now this is a huge change from my original SMT V playthrough, in which I allowed the Nahobino to acquire skills and resistances without restriction. That allowed him to optimize his skills for every boss, which really turned the game into the NahobiShow since he was the primary damage dealer in nearly every battle. When limiting his skills only to Proto-fiend essences, the Nahobino isn’t quite as overpowered, but still consistently performs superbly thanks to the amazing variety of the Proto-fiend essence skills. Vengeance also made the great addition of having Aogami essences respawn with time, plus the new Proto-fiend essences give the Nahobino even more options than before. With respect to the Nahobino’s resistances, I decided to significantly limit the pool of essences that could be used since there are many resistance sets that are incredibly overpowered among fusion-exclusive demons. Besides the Proto-fiend resistances, I decided to limit it to purchasable essences and recruitable demon essences below the Nahobino’s level, since those are all theoretically farmable and are pretty reasonable in terms of the strategic advantages they provide. Purchasable essences are just like buying armor, and it seemed fair to me to allow the Nahobino to obtain the resistances of any demon that could be summoned alongside him. 4. EXP gain is limited to forced battles, Main Quest completion, and abscesses, minimized when possible. Additionally, abscess completion will be delayed as long as possible. This is also a bit of a change, since the original SMT V wasn’t realistically beatable without the completion of some side quests, at least not in a way that would be interesting to watch. The leveling curve of Vengeance is pretty reasonable, so story and abscess EXP are all that’s really needed to complete the game. Since the Miracles from abscesses are vital to opening up new and interesting strategic approaches to the game, I really don’t want to exclude those, especially since there are a ton of other skills and mechanics that should be banned instead to make the game more interesting. 5. No Balms, Incenses, Sutras, Gospels, Grimoires, use of petrified demon statues, Omagatoki: Luck, or stat-boosting Miracles. Pretty simple; stats and levels are closely intertwined and I want to push the limits without limiting interesting strategies. 6. The Demon Haunt may not be used for stat boosts or items. During the course of the game, the Nahobino can initiate up to 15 conversations with Aogami or Tsukuyomi to increase his stats by 3, based on story progress. That’s up to 45 points that can be freely invested into Strength or Magic to turn the Nahobino into an even more impressive killing machine. That’s a lot. Naturally, I won’t be using those. While demons can also benefit from small stat boosts, they can also gift valuable items that were difficult to obtain or unfarmable in the original SMT V. I’m not exactly sure which items can be found, but I’d rather avoid time-consuming, luck-based mechanics when there are alternatives that are neither of those things. 7. No use of the Skill Manifestation miracle. This is kind of like using essences on demons but with extra steps, the extra steps being completely uncontrollable and irreplicable in other playthroughs. I prefer formulating strategies that could theoretically be reproduced by anyone without heavy RNG influence, plus some skill changes can radically alter the effective roles of some demons. 8. Guest party members or demons may not be used when their level exceeds that of the Nahobino. This is pretty similar to what I did in my original SMT V playthrough. There are quite a few times that Vengeance provides the player with human characters that are drastically superior to the available recruitable demons in a low-level playthrough, and this rule helps bring those Guest characters back to a reasonable strength level…or prevents me from using some of them at all. This time, I’ll have Guest characters remain unconscious until the Nahobino reaches their level, whenever possible. 9. No Dampeners, Block skills, Tetrakarn, Makarakarn, Attack Mirrors, Magic Mirrors, or Luminescent Mirage. Here’s a massive change that I pretty much never even considered in the original SMT V. Like it or not, Dampeners and Block skills can absolutely trivialize a ton of both SMT V and Vengeance with the benefit of a team composition that can quickly tear through bosses’ HP, sometimes even rendering many bosses incapable of even harming the player’s team. Much the same can also be said of Tetrakarn, Makarakarn, and Mirrors; while not always as applicable as Dampeners and Block skills, they can also completely shut down many opponents with minimal cost. In my original SMT V playthrough, I allowed almost all of these since most battles took many turns to win, so even with heavy Dampener usage I would still have to interact with enemy attacks in almost every battle. However, in Vengeance this isn’t as true due to the changes to level scaling among other things, so the value of free turns is often greater than before. Playing without these skills and items also drastically changes how a player has to respond to bosses gathering Magatsuhi, which is rarely something that most players deal with in either game even though it should be a more prominent element. Luminescent Mirage is similar to these in terms of interacting with enemy attacks, and is also generally just a really broken skill so I don’t plan on using it. 10. No Taunt/Fierce Roar Having a demon with physical resistance that can use Taunt can really shut down the offense of several bosses in this game, and it really isn’t an interesting strategy to use or watch. The same, if not more, can also be said of a Nahobino with Taunt since he has complete freedom over resistances. While there can occasionally be interesting uses of Taunt, in most cases it’s just a broken skill that isn’t particularly healthy for SMT V’s strategic turn-based combat. 11. No Knowledge of Tools or Enhanced Summon Here is another huge rule addition over my original SMT V playthrough. Knowledge of Tools is arguably the best Miracle in the game, since it allows every demon to fulfill a number of roles without having the necessary skills, from healing, MP restoration, revival, or attacking. Or Dampeners, although that matter is already settled. While Vengeance did address Knowledge of Tools’ brokenness by delaying its acquisition to the third area of the game from the second and increasing its Glory cost, it still fundamentally changes how players approach the game almost to the same degree as essence skill inheritance. The addition of the new Guest party members that can use items makes the decision around Knowledge of Tools’ a lot more interesting, and I think that Vengeance is a lot more manageable without it than its predecessor. Enhanced Summon’s benefit is pretty minimal by comparison, but is wholly reliant on RNG so I decided to forgo it as well. While not explicitly banned, these rules also prohibit a number of broken Magatsuhi skills including most Periapt skills, Accursed Poison, Shield of God, Omagatoki: Adversity, Omagatoki: Charge, and Omagatoki: Strategize, since most of those require Side Quest completion or fusion-exclusive demons to obtain or use. And that should be it. Also, while I hope to adhere to these rules for most of, if not all of the playthrough, I will say that I may have to break some of these rules for some optional battles or endgame battles based on my discretion for creating an interesting playthrough.