SMT: Nocturne Hardtype - Matador (Low Level)
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2020
- I challenge you to a buff flexing contest with occasional duelling.
Rules:
- This is a low level run of zombero's hardtype mod: www.romhacking.net/hacks/3299/
- The aim is to keep XP gain as low as possible without affecting my sanity.
- Hard mode, obviously
- No stat boosting items
- All other game mechanics are fair game!
Hardtype changes:
- HP: 1000 → 2500
- Mazan → Dervish (Light force damage + lowers evasion)
I said it was possible, I didn't say it was quick. If you've been following the channel updates you'll know that my original strategy centred around getting Anti-Phys via skill change - possibly twice due to Slime's poor HP. After several hours of trying for it and going through nearly every other possible skill multiple times, I began to lose hope that it was even possible, but then I got Dekaja for like the third time and had a brain wave.
The idea is to deny Matador of turns by always removing his buffs and keeping a debuff on him at the same time. He has one of the most eager buff scripts in the game, and if you keep this up he will pretty much always spend one of his turns on either Red Capote or Dekunda - especially during the 2nd phase. This frees you from the horror of double Andalucia or double Taunt, both of which generally signal incoming doom.
It's slow, it's expensive on the Chakra Pots and it isn't a guaranteed win (mainly due to Focus, there's a pretty tense moment towards the end) but ultimately I managed to muddle through.
Choronzon and Aeros were made intentionally via fusion accident, which allows you to get demons up to 4 levels above Demi Fiend's level. This isn't quite as dumb as it sounds. The key is to minimise the amount of RNG involved. Firstly I set it up so they could ONLY inherit the skills I wanted them to have, meaning if I pulled an Aeros while trying for him he'd always have the right moves. Then I filled out my demon roster. You can't pull any demons you already have in your lineup, or the one the fusion would normally result in, which immediately rules out 9 of the 17 available demons from the potential result. So, every 1/8 fusion accidents becomes the demon you want with the desired skillset (in theory... in actuality, Slimes and Pretas are suspiciously common, but that's just the way the hee ho's.) 
Игры
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Hope you've enjoyed this Nocturne filled weekend. I'd love to stay and play some more but apparently I'll end up homeless and destitute if I don't do things other than SMT. Some parting thoughts:
- 10:51 was scary as hell. If Slime had gone down too I don't think I could've pulled it back.
- I generally don't attack with Choronzon because he misses a lot, even at +2 accuracy. He's basically just a big meatshield.
- I potentially missed out on Force Drain at the end there, but I wasn't gonna throw the win away by having him change it to something useless.
- I have no idea if all those other demons in my party would be useful in the future, I was just levelling them because it seemed wasteful not to, especially with compendium access coming up.
- If I pick this run up again, lvl 13 Dante is the next big roadblock and honestly I am more scared of him than Matador. I would have to get a Blob via fusion accident, but not sure about the 4th member... another overlevelled Slime might be the best option. But you can't make super overlevelled demons in hardtype, because sacrifical fusion only passes on 100% of the XP (it's 150% in vanilla so you can keep inflating demon levels really easily)
could've used a save state for the skill morph
Sorry if this has been asked (I'm sure it has been), but when do you plan to continue your DDS run? Not to rush you or anything, but it was pretty based.
Could you elaborate why Dante is so hard?
@@Ashcoop crit hax
(But seriously, this guys skills are OP, if you decide to sukukaja, he will use a move which is not able to miss, does a lot of damage and has an ungodly high crit rate (he uses rebellion sometimes, but when buffing agility (which you will need on a low level run to hit him) he spams the move potentially killing your entire party, to make him easy you are going to need to prepare a lot.
@@2deep5u Hopefully soon, I will definitely do some more DDS2 before I return to this anyways.
And thus the Spanish calcium man has been defeated once again
This channel makes me ask "why would someone do this" and then i watch the whole video, one of my favorite channels at the moment ive been binging your videos recently
unfortunately i have just discovered it when the lad is pretty much dond with this game 💔
I’m never truly done with this game.
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe holy fuck
Masochism thats why
I love the chosen party members. A rag-tag band of heroes they are.
A demi fiend
A slime
A head ghost
And lastly
A quadruple amputee ghost
@@covidmakesmoney866 YHVH stands no chance...
@@covidmakesmoney866 the ghost of a CPR dummy
one emo boi, a windy torso, a pile of goo, and a glorified meat shield take on a skeleton that likes bulls too much
6:36 Dat pause
"That little manoeuvre could cost me the small amount of sanity I have left!"
Nice battle!
Also, I think your Aeros got Chorozon virus
And it died in this fight
Holy shit this virus claimed another victim
I love the little pose that Aeros strikes when he attacks. He's like a little Metatron!
*I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS*
*DID’JA SEE THAT SHINJI?!*
youtube comedian
@@HuangLongGaming Ikr that comment was so funny.
The one we've all been waiting for
G double G. A break is definitely needed after this. I'm going through a normal run of Nocturne, and seeing this is just next level. Anyway, rest/recover, and keep up the amazing work.
This guy goes from low level, to Hard and low level, then Hard + low level with many restrictions, then this.
And to say these Nocturne challenge runs in your channel started popping a decade ago. I'm truly impressed by this dedication !
Yeah, after a certain point Dante’s AI becomes less predictable than Matador, so that fight seems like it’ll be hell. Great to see more Nocturne though!
Holy shit bro, you used more Chakra Pots in this one battle then my two entire playthroughs of this game.
I feel pain watching this fight, but also great pleasure watching this dancing-skeleton fall. Great Job as always, enjoy the break man.
iirc, i think zombero wanted only a +2/-2 buff system. but then red capote would be useless, for instance. so if he made dervish, it would still give matador a +2/-1 advantage. I think thats how it went. I was surprised when I saw he only put the +2/-2 cap on the player, which was awesome.
He actually did it. The absolute madman.
tfw it's 1:30 in middle of night and jim uploads
5:40am for me.
"Your madness is my joy. Shall we begin?" Red Rider.
The Fiends obviously really the highlight in this low level run, isn't it? In case for me, they are. Now that Matador is out of the way, next is the Mantra Court Boss rush that contains the infamous Thor... And finally, the Demon Slayer, Dante! Be prepare for even more Critical fest that Dante can achieve in Hardtype. Despite his AI still kinda the same, his new stuffs is a force to be reckon. I wonder how long it'll take to defeat Dante, consider that this final Matador fight took you about 13 minutes. Make sure you have a showcase video of DMC2 Dante's completely motivated, optional though.
"I'll give you ten minutes to decide. Which would you rather end up in? A coffin? Or a dumpster?"
Get yourself some deserving break and take care the other business, Mr. Jim. Stay alive and stay safe.
In all seriousness, this is super cool. Thanks, Jim.
Yes CONTENT ngl this hardtype patch looks good imma try it out.
I'm playing it now and only on the beginning it makes the og game looks like joke, it's very hard...
Jesus christ dude, you actually went and did it. Good on you, you fucking legend.
You deserve a break after pulling it off.
This battle music helps me sleep.
you chad
If you want a suggestion for Dante, you can use one of the new Hardtype skills that lower a stat (like Scald) so you can do damage and force him to Holy Star every turn.
That's what I was hoping, but unfortunately those skills are totally out of reach in LL. Demons don't start learning em til the 30s
13:28
Meme potential.
Thanks Mr. Jim
Andalucia go BRRRRRR
Thank you for the summer gifts!
Why does Aeros sound like he's faking a cough to hide a fart?
Cause he's made of air
That's ... weirdly specific ...😬
KOFFHUCKHURFpoot
GG good fight
Next up "Clapping Metatron (Low Level HardType)
Jim you madman you actually did it
nice job
ah yes, starting off the video with an emergency klaxon
sounds appropriate
I’m looking at Dante and honestly I don’t know how your getting past the second phase without getting extremely lucky. Combination of too many Crits along with the inevitable ailments which could completely ruin the run and overall does way too much damage even with a Phys resist team.
I'm thinking Anti Mind or even Null Mind for my demons would be essential, Apsaras could learn Anti-Mind during the mantra boss rush and I could get into another fight to upgrade it after if need be.
Also, assuming his scripting isn't changed too much from the original game, I think you can slap full debuffs on him once he starts taunting you and he won't Holy Star anymore.
Nothing I can do about the crits though... it'll be rough for sure.
Jim Reaper yeah his scripting hasn’t changed one bit so you can abuse it. Also yay more skill morphs.
based
i fought matador when my party was around level 15 and i thought i pulled a clutch but after seeing this i am quite surprised but i did not have anything to debuff his agility so i took quite some time
@Jim Reaper Which Megaten game do you think has the perfect difficulty,i'll say DDS1
why is dante so bad? i remember being at +2 and he would still kick my ass. also, cant yolo after he uses taunt and ailments on 1 character kind of breaks the fight. i think he would still be hard as hell even if you carried resists phys and null mind. AND HE CRITS SO OFTEN.
Losing Aeros and almost losing Slime was too close damn
I-No
I genuinely love how intense the second phase is. Also I used Yaka for the first time, I genuinely don't know how many people actually use Yaka.
I don't think anyone has ever used it. Curious.
I did
Alright thats one
@@aly3392 count at least three
I remember when I first played this yrs ago I never through about buffs and debuffs I never use it I have no idea how I managed to beat the game even tho it was on normal
Yikes. If I ever attempt this run myself, I'm...probably going to use Cheat Engine to de-randomize skill changes and inheritance. Or just do a hybrid of your run and BuffMaister's one.
Wow
dudun wahh wahh
>Aeros being a Air Elemental
>Isnt immune to Wind based attacks
Why
I have never understood this and I'm kinda surprised zombero didn't change it. Surely he should have Zan rather than Zio too.
ole!
If I could, I would house you my king so you could play. Refer to the song "Cater 2 U" by Destiny's Child as a refrence to my devotion.
Noooooo not jack frost nooooo
Will you do the special Full Kagatushi encouterst?
Well that counts as optional XP, but I could show them off at some point sure.
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe You can always use a no exp hack for optional bosses if you are enough sadistic
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@@galperez7699 stop tempting him
How the hell do you even get 15 chakra pots at that point in the game? 10/10
Like he show at the beginning of the video, using pester on encounters to farm chakra pot.
lonely spirit damn I never took advantage of pester😞
@@lonelyspirit9532 not sure how I missed that fact frankly, I saw the beginning 😳
but why?
Hey Jim, did y'know Buffmaister?
Of course, his run helped inspire this madness.
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe
Oh really? Is he your friend? :v
@@lianchandrach.9130 Naw I don't know him personally, I'm just aware of his channel. Occasionally I pop in his streams too but our timezones are poorly aligned, it's usually like 3AM here when he's streaming
Does dekaja nullify focus?
No