Hardtype Extra - Full Moons 2 (Low Level)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2021
- his damage is titanic
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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!
In this part: cheeeeeeeese, Gromit. Sorry if you don't like cheese strats, but the First Kalpa contains many of the main story's future FKEs all the way up to Kabukicho, so our best option is often to rely on landing status through Unshaken Will. Also, a lot of the encounters here seem to be pairs i.e. Senri will get Unicorn reinforcements and vice versa.
FIRST KALPA
Matador (0:18) - Right after the already dicey 1st Matador battle we have to take on a version that gets 3 press turns and can use all his 2nd phase skills (Taunt, Andalucia, Focus) immediately. There are a couple of small mercies - he doesn't get Dekunda this time, he follows up Focus with a regular attack rather than Andalucia, and crucially it is possible to inflict status or even land Expel on him (albeit unlikely thanks to Unshaken Will). Mute is the best choice because once you land it he will be stuck trying to use Startle over and over. Makajam Rocks are buyable and have a higher success% rate than Hama, plus I didn't have any appropriate demons with Hama anyway. However setting up on him is no mean feat. It really depends if he spams Taunt or Andalucia too much. Cadenza is necessary here to actually land hits.
Makami (6:33) - This would actually be manageable, except he has a chance to flee every time he gets a turn after the initial Fog Breath (dog breath and dip) which makes it almost impossible to kill him before he gets away. Great. The only realistic strat at this point is to trap him with petrification. Thankfully Medusa Eyes are buyable now. Like most of these new encounters he has Unshaken Will so this took quite a few attempts. Once you get him it's ezmode though.
Senri (8:54) - One of the easier encounters here thanks to Void Force. Ailments and crits are still as annoying as ever though. We get a repeat of the Unicorn encounter as reinforcements but it's much easier this time.
*At this point I had to make a decent Jack Frost since there were 4 back-to-back ice users to deal with. Need that instant turn loss. Fortunately the ingredient demons were already in my party - I fused together Hua Po and Shikigami and used Preta as a sacrifice to make a pretty nifty frost.*
Gui Xian & Kikuri-Hime (12:46) - This battle is a damage check. Kikuri can actually multi-spam Beast Eye a la Mot, and they can heal and boost their defence, so we need to properly set up before we can take them out. Some extra damage while doing this can keep Kikuri distracted with heals. Once you're done deal with her first. They honestly aren't too threatening at all, just annoying. The Aquans go down fast to Maragi Rocks.
Dynamic Attack Sheep (19:12) - Sheep & Arahabaki reinforcements = Ultimate meme squad. Sheep is terrifying even if you manage to set up full buffs on him - his Hell Thrusts hit like a truck and thanks to Chill's freeze even Choronzon isn't safe from an OHKO. After a few attempts I decided it's simply best to mute cheese him like Matador. He has Unshaken Will but is also weak to ailments so you get a 37.5% modifier. Could be worse.
Sati (24:38) - HEHEHEHE, no. Possibly the worst encounter here. Agidyne straight up OHKOs anything that isn't immune to fire and Allure ruins any attempts to set up. Again, cheese is the way to go. Land a lucky petrify or mute through Unshaken Will then set up in case of reinforcements. Flaemis go down very quickly to Mabufu Rocks.
NOTE: The reinforcements she is paired with actually varies throughout the dungeon. You can get groups of Karasu/Koppa in other areas, which is sneakily set up because you have to be weak to force to void fire at this point in the game. I didn't bother demonstrating this because I didn't want to fight her again but the best bet would be to exploit their curse weakness with Makajam Rocks. We'll see them in a later encounter anyways.
IKEBUKURO
Minakata (28:06) - Pretty merciful compared to most of the LoA stuff. The main threat is focussed attacks but they can't take out Demi or Choronzon. He auto-counters buffs with Dekaja so I just debuff him and go to town, he goes down really quickly with 3 Agi casters. 
Игры
Nearly every demon we've ever memed about shows up as an FKE at some point. Only sexy Legion is missing (because no-one loves him)
I recorded this part a long time ago but the scars are still there. Doing all these at level 11 was a hell of a slog. Fortunately things let up a lot after this.
Demons with beefed up hp pools
Why must you continue to do this to yourself?
What did you do to deserve this?
Lilim's "Why" is actually meant for Jim himself, "Why you do this to yourself Jim?"
I love that even youtube wants DDS2 badly at this point lmao
i cant wait for us all to wake up one day, see jim uploads a new video relating to dds, and it turns out hes doing a low level challenge of the novels
Watching chakra pots get used for 48 MP hurts my soul,
Buffed up Matador as an encounter? "Startle" is an understatement.
I like how lilim is questioning herself, "why? why am i used to buffing others now?"
I haven't played hardtype but that's straight up evil that you can encounter matador at full kagatsuchi
Arahabaki x4: "FATHER WE DECIDED TO REBEL"
6:33 I've seen him do Fog Breath and dip without summoning Inugami at all.
It's dynamic attack sheep!
According to RUclips, you're playing DDS2. You can't run forever, Jim :^)
>Matador getting rushed
You spin me right 'round baby, right 'round
5:30 Tries to turn-jack… FAILS…
Jim Reaper: Oh how the tables have turned…!😈
Matador: 😨…😱!!!!!
These are so fun to watch 🤩
why - Lilim said
“Because F you that’s why” - Matador
I actually laughed out loud when I saw Matador
Hey Jim, Speaking of memes, What are the best demons/skills in hardtype?
Also, what is the highest damaging skill in hardtype?
Highest potential damage is still a double Focussed crit from a lvl 255 Sacrifice, same as vanilla.
In general elec boost Mjolnir is the best single target magic spell, wind cutter is more damaging but the shock from Mjolnir combos nicely with phys demons (assuming a target with neutral resistances.) Magma Axis is king but Demi Fiend exclusive.
For physicals all the same stuff as vanilla - Iron Claw, Hell Fang... HP based attacks work differently and no longer cap out at 999 HP so stuff like Dark Sword is also good. And of course Freikugel and Deadly Fury are still king for MC. Hades Blast for demon AoE.
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe Isn't Deathbound better than Hades Blast?
@@FujinKeima Surprisingly tricky to answer that... depends on the situation, in vanilla especially.
In vanilla, Deathbound scales with MAX HP so it stops scaling well at super high levels (we're talking well into the hundreds) but for standard play yes it trumps Hades, especially vs. single targets.
Then in hardtype HP scaling skills work differently (they scale with current HP, from 60-100% of their power rating)
Vs. single targets it's probably better due to chance of multi-hits, but if you want consistent damage vs. groups Hades and Hassohappa are the best (if you want to sweep Specter 3 for example you will need these, Deathbound won't cut it)
Heya Jim, I've started playing nocturne recently on the HD remaster but I wanna try hardtype, do you know if Zombero or anyone else is planning on remaking the mod for the remaster? I've checked around the internet but haven't found anything, I was just wondering if you knew anything about that at all? Thanks.
I've been out of the loop for a while but AFAIK zombero has been AWOL for a few years now I'm afraid :(
There was a pastebin of his notes that should be of interest to anyone attempting to recreate it, but it would be a big project:
pastebin.com/sCr5X837
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe its a shame really. Hardtype's had a serious bug on hardware thats existed since it came out. Upon the enemy attempting to use anything but their basic attack, the game freezes with the music still playing.
Me and another group of people in the SMT modding discord were looking into that for a while after the remaster came out. Unfortunately, because of the way that the game is built (specifically the anti-piracy), hardtype, along with any other radical code based mods seem to be off the table, unless someone wants to decrypt and crack the game like what was done with Persona 4 Golden.
@@jo_3246 I do wonder if its just Open PS2 Loader that causes the issue or if its incompatible with the PS2 in general (for example, has anyone tried burning the ISO to a disc and playing it with SwapMagic)
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe Thats a shame :(
I love Lilim
hottest demon in all of smt for the end, i see
Minakata
yes.
14:29 look how the tables have turned huh
5:42 Revenge 4 u Matador. Cannot cast spell, huh?
DDS2 when?
OMG harder version of Matador ...
All that effort for 0 EXP
Me: Aight a new video focusing on the special encounter wonder whose gonna be the fir-
*immediately shows Matador*
Me: wtf.
I can't place your accent - I think you're a westcountry lad? Guess is Exeter or Wiltshire? please reply to a fellow disenfranchised SMT eng fan uwu x
Solid guesses, the correct answer is Bristol. I sound more Bristol when I’m nervous tho. Also don’t doxx me I guess, cheers
Reee
what you gonna do after FKE
Honest most likely answer: disappear again for months. That's just how this channel works
There is an inverse correlation between my general wellbeing and how much effort I put into this shit, so to quote the Red Rider, my madness is quite literally your joy :^)
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe Not gonna lie, I respect you. I was going to play the mod, but after this video, gotta say, I don't hate myself enough to go through this madness. Thanks for sacrificing your sanity for our entertainment.
I hate the Take-Minakata encounter SO MUCH.
It's not even hard unless you've got a bunch of elec weak demons out.
It's just here to be annoying and make you spend 3/4 of your stash of Dis-Stuns you have every time you met him.
And he always uses Stun Gaze twice on every turn. And Stun Gaze seems to almost never miss.
Wait a minute, Matador not immune to expel? Wha..
The fiends were nerfed in hardtype. The boss Matador is still immune of course
(Unshaken Will offers 75% resistance to Expel/Death/Ailments so it's still not very likely to land Hama on him)
FKE harder than bosses because you can't custom the sets?
Well I sometimes bit the bullet and had to fuse (see the frost in the middle of this vid) but in general I was decently equipped to deal with stuff
This part was definitely harder than a lot of the bosses due to RNG reliance. The rest not so much. The horsemen fight was my fav.
But he is weak to sleep and panic
This is not good game design😢 😪 😭 😞
agree
I daresay it's more that you're meant to do this dungeon at level ~30 rather than level 11 :^)
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe no you should be able to do this dungeon at level 1 😤😤 😤
@@SilverHedgehog420 That is some dedication to the LL philosophy. Maybe I should bust out FFIX, then I could do every dungeon at level 1.
@@JimReaperSaysUnsubscribe You should follow in my footsteps and do High level runs of these games. I find them very challenging.