Making him OP was such an ingenious move, you'll get attached to him both in and outside of combat, before he transferred to the big kitchen in the sky
He's also useful in the dungeon area that shows up weakness wise too. The also do this with Junpei in reverse, in the story when Mitsuru becomes a party member, fire-weak enemies become rarer and that lines up with his insecurities if being overshadowed and weak, until Chidori powers him up, after which he gets over it and becomes extremely relevant to weaknesses. The progression of the gameplay syncing with character development feels pretty unique tbh
@@bloodyidit4506 I think it's less deep than that lol. When you get a new party member enemies with said weaknesses show up. I highly doubt fire-weak enemies not showing up has anything to do with Junpei and moreso that Mitsuru showing up means that that block is now filled with Ice-weak enemies.
Devs: We have heard the community's feedback and are currently working on a balance patch. This update will be released on October 4th, thank you for playing our game.
Oh my god, I searched up that date to see if anything happened on that date in P3 and it turns out it's the date of Shinji's death. I swear, if they actually did that, they'd be twisting the knife, covering it in salt, then twisting it some more.
I told my friend 3 years ago to not use him in his P3P playthrough cuz he “ends up getting nerfed and his final build isn’t that great”. He never finished that game until P3R and he finally understood what “getting nerfed” meant.
I played fes before my sister got into P3P and she told me she heard he dies and I said "Nah, he's in The Answer" and she thought he was gonna come back lmao
@@ruekruzmy older sis got an inkling of the P4 bad guy thanks to a guide and asked me point blank if they were the murder. I’m terrible with spoilers but I told her they weren’t the “final boss” and that seemed to dissuade her a bit. Despite playing more of the games than I have she seems to be unaware that most bad guys are the penultimate bosses as she’s yet to complete them (course neither have I😂)
Not only that, he was technically meant to carry the player should they end up underleveled or ignore Tartarus. If you think about it, there were a lot of potential to softlock should the player not go to Tartarus or refuse to do fusion, for example.
@@neo_child This shit actually happened to me during my very first playthrough of FES lol (my first Persona game) After playing Golden I went back to FES but it was easier to just start over again
This man can plow through an entire monad passage w no more than two actions but I'll still struggle to take him seriously when he says shit like "their ass is grass" and "get rekt"
@@RepressedJokerthat’s a smart move tho. If you see him having much less moves in his skill set you’d think something’s up. By giving him the skills most people would never see, Atlus makes them think he’s a permanent member like all the others.
I remember watching butter buns beginners guide to p3 and her saying not to rely on Shinji since he'd be leaving not too long after he joins. For some reason I assumed this meant he had to go to college soon despite that never being stated.
It's crazy that they even let you keep him for the whole game. They should've made him leave in October or something so that you have to grind another character up.
Yeah he is the MVP a little Spoiler he learn heat riser and debilitate in later levels so he is not only the best damage dealer also the best support he carry me so much in the final boss
For anyone who doesn’t know- Shinjiro is cracked in the final boss fight so make sure to spend all your money on him and grind him like crazy as early as possible (also use all of your incense cards on him)
He was always OP In the orignal he was in "Great" status almost everyday which made him a Critical hit machine, he's the reason i beat the Megidola Table in just 3 turns
Even though I knew what was coming, I still took him with me, hoping that maybe there was a chance something was changed in the remaster. When he said "Dont rely on me too much" That confirmed it for me. Still enjoyed my time with him though.
Remake, not a remaster. Something like persona 4 golden is a remaster of persona 4 since it's built on the same foundation, but persona 3 reload is remade from the ground up therefore remake
I actually finished P3 way back when, and I actually completely forgot about October 4th, and silly me going "hey, I never recalled Shinjiro being this good, I wonder why I never really remember using him in the game" Good ol' Oct rolled around and I then found out why I didn't use him a lot in the game.
In the Hermit full moon operation shinji will carry you. Bro will land a crit every hit. Both in combat and out he was truly an amazing man, one of the best written persona characters
@@notanerd6838 Heat riser is single target, and if memory serves MC and ken are the only ones who get it. You don't want the MC blowing turns heat rising, and ken wants to do damage or heal. By the time you've heat risen 3 people, the first heat rise is wearing off. Unless you blow rare items that simulate heat riser, but those are items, not skills. Feels subpar.
@@DamnDaimenBloody Charge is self targetting and only self targetting you can't use it on others. Also Ken is kind of mid at both of those things tbh, when I ran the game he did more damage than Yukari but other than that he was the second or lowest damage out of all potential party members, Junpei, Yukari and Koromaru ended up being my team because Koromaru using Revolution turned Junpei and the MC into crit machines, Yukari just ended up being a heal bot who used her theurgy to buff spells if something was immune to physical, or to cleanse statuses.
@@notanerd6838 Bloody charge is charge and revolution combination. So its charge, but better. Use it turn 1, with one person casting attack up, and another casting defense down debuff, and you are gonna have a good time turn 2.
@@DamnDaimen Rebellion, not revolution - huge difference because revolution is for the entire party and enemies. It's still a self cast that you have to waste a turn for. If you run koromaru (which you should since he's clearly top 3 best party members due to revolution), him using revolution just makes bloody charge a worse charge seeing as how it takes 40% of your hp, but even if you don't realistically Bloody Charge is still less powerful than victory cry which is honestly the true winner from how much value you get from it - but even after that if you pull the "victory cry doesn't help against the final boss, reaper or elizabeth" then debilitate would be the biggest winner by a mile. General use bloody charge is overkill, I pretty much one cycled all the enemies throughout the game, but I wasn't playing on merciless - if I was Bloody charge would have been suicide. Now this isn't to say it isn't a great move, it's just not the best, most fun buff move would be a completely different argument though since it clearly wins that department.
Friend started P3 when Reload came out. I told him not to bother using Shinji because he sucks late game and he just goes “Oh so he dies then”. When I asked him what he meant he told me there were so many death flags for him that me telling him not to bother using Shinji basically just confirmed he was going to die.
Saiten Taisei as MC's persona, Koromaru, Aigis, and Shinjiro was a VERY dangerous combination that often ended in most of the shadows being critical'd by the end of combat. I will always miss that.
Damn he looks good!!! I just got to him and now that he’s finally joined the party I can’t wait to use him on my main team for the rest of the game!!!!!!!
I never used him when I first played Persona 3 Portable, but I wanted to see how he was in Reload. Got pretty attached to him cause I loved his abilities so I ended up getting him to lvl 99 and had him almost one-shot the moon boss in Club Escapade. Bloody Charge god bless 🙏🏽
You don’t even know i pissed i was when i found out how good he was and had him in my party, until he fucking got rocked and now i had to use another member 😭
I've played P3 but I forgot he and ken straight up didn't participate in october full moon boss I almost softlocked myself if not for theurgy attacks being overpowered lol
If i remember correctly the only person that could match shinjis damage output in the original game was aigis in orgia mode. All that time i spent leveling him up wasted
They balance him by removing him from your party
"Removing" is a kind word
@@RepressedJoker would you rather "deleting"?
Lowkey your so fucking right.
Turns out he always had a weakness to pierce attacks
@@nutelin1201 Deleting... like that anime game-
Making him OP was such an ingenious move, you'll get attached to him both in and outside of combat, before he transferred to the big kitchen in the sky
I’ve never played persona 3 till now and that’s exactly what happened to me 😅
He's also useful in the dungeon area that shows up weakness wise too. The also do this with Junpei in reverse, in the story when Mitsuru becomes a party member, fire-weak enemies become rarer and that lines up with his insecurities if being overshadowed and weak, until Chidori powers him up, after which he gets over it and becomes extremely relevant to weaknesses. The progression of the gameplay syncing with character development feels pretty unique tbh
My entire team and set up relied on him so on october 4th I was completely screwed
@@bloodyidit4506 I think it's less deep than that lol. When you get a new party member enemies with said weaknesses show up. I highly doubt fire-weak enemies not showing up has anything to do with Junpei and moreso that Mitsuru showing up means that that block is now filled with Ice-weak enemies.
My favorite part in P3r playthroughs is the new Tartarus block absolutely destroying new players. Because they need time to adjust without him.
idk he is kinda deadweight in the late game
😭
Oof
Hey, shinji is not deadweight, he's dead--
Ba dum tss 🥁
now tell that to Nero Devilmaycry
Man he's so OP, I'm keeping him in my party for the rest of the game!!!
Same cant wait to see his evolved persona
Frfr
Gonna be badass @@ccmemes5898
broo I just finished the game and his skills pretty much soloed the final boss he's so good!
@@ccmemes5898oh man….
Devs: We have heard the community's feedback and are currently working on a balance patch. This update will be released on October 4th, thank you for playing our game.
Oh my god, I searched up that date to see if anything happened on that date in P3 and it turns out it's the date of Shinji's death.
I swear, if they actually did that, they'd be twisting the knife, covering it in salt, then twisting it some more.
I told my friend 3 years ago to not use him in his P3P playthrough cuz he “ends up getting nerfed and his final build isn’t that great”.
He never finished that game until P3R and he finally understood what “getting nerfed” meant.
Smooth. As spoiler free as you can go.
That’s somehow simultaneously the most accurate and the most non-spoilery description of Aragaki I’ve ever seen
I played fes before my sister got into P3P and she told me she heard he dies and I said "Nah, he's in The Answer" and she thought he was gonna come back lmao
@@ruekruzmy older sis got an inkling of the P4 bad guy thanks to a guide and asked me point blank if they were the murder. I’m terrible with spoilers but I told her they weren’t the “final boss” and that seemed to dissuade her a bit. Despite playing more of the games than I have she seems to be unaware that most bad guys are the penultimate bosses as she’s yet to complete them (course neither have I😂)
I told my friend when he gets P3R to use Aragaki as much as possible so he levels up and destroys the late game.
They make him so good as a party member so that the player is punched in the gut for gameplay and emotional purposes
Not only that, he was technically meant to carry the player should they end up underleveled or ignore Tartarus. If you think about it, there were a lot of potential to softlock should the player not go to Tartarus or refuse to do fusion, for example.
@@neo_child This shit actually happened to me during my very first playthrough of FES lol (my first Persona game)
After playing Golden I went back to FES but it was easier to just start over again
I’d rate this video 10/4
stop, not the calendar date of him leaving the party 😭
@@lawrenceochoa8076 yeah bro went to get some milk don’t worry he’ll be back bro💀
"this'll end it"
This did, in fact, end it
Unlike Walter, when Shinji says I'll end it thus, he means it
@@JasmineV9Walter was also ending it thus, you have 100% chance to lose after agi minotaur haha
This man can plow through an entire monad passage w no more than two actions but I'll still struggle to take him seriously when he says shit like "their ass is grass" and "get rekt"
In og he said "adiós, asshole"
@@anonimonovids Fits better honestly
That's because you play with dubs.
The only way I can deal with a lot of the things these characters say to sound cool is to constantly remind myself that the game is set in 2009
@@masterplusmargaritaa product of it's time like most games are...
His high level skills are crazy good too lol, they were devious for giving him to us then yanking him away
Giving him an actual full set of level skills when any normal player is only gonna get him to around level 50?
Greatest trick ever pulled
@@RepressedJokerthat’s a smart move tho. If you see him having much less moves in his skill set you’d think something’s up. By giving him the skills most people would never see, Atlus makes them think he’s a permanent member like all the others.
@@cantufekci23what’s funny is that even when fully leveled up, he still doesn’t have all 8 slots filled (as of FES. I don’t have Reload)
In Reload, he has a full skill set like everyone else if you power level him@@KoraAzure
@@KoraAzurein reload he will have all 8 slots filled at 99
They should've made his persona weak to pierce ngl
It makes sense for Castor too, since he died from an arrow through his chest.
💀💀💀
And they should rename the Bullet Proof vest to "Almost-Bullet Proof vest" 😅
Bruh
I've found him to be a glass cannon. He hits very hard but dies a little too easily for me.
NOOOOOOOOO
Bro was an absolute tank for me, especially with endure he never went down a single time and I used him as much as physically possible
@@droog681 r/woooosh
@@droog681play until 10/4 and you’ll get to understand the joke :)
@@droog681 you missed the joke 😁
I remember watching butter buns beginners guide to p3 and her saying not to rely on Shinji since he'd be leaving not too long after he joins. For some reason I assumed this meant he had to go to college soon despite that never being stated.
The Good Ending
*I’m not going to sugarcoat it*
Bloody Charge + Blade of Fury
They are so cruel for this making him good then removing him
It's crazy that they even let you keep him for the whole game. They should've made him leave in October or something so that you have to grind another character up.
Very good for October full moon mission, trust me.
Yeah October 4th especially
@@Utomiyaaa that boss went down like he was being shot through the chest
@@multiforme_ingegno 💀💀💀
My first time through the game in 2012, I had him and Ken on my team for FES -_- Yea, I was so angry at this boss fight.
King dragon sends his regards
"I understood that reference"
Just finished getting all his skills!! I love him so much! He'll be my boss killer for sure! ^w^
You're definitely spoiled
Yeah he is the MVP a little Spoiler he learn heat riser and debilitate in later levels so he is not only the best damage dealer also the best support he carry me so much in the final boss
"Alright, lets do this"
Who's going to tell him.....
For anyone who doesn’t know- Shinjiro is cracked in the final boss fight so make sure to spend all your money on him and grind him like crazy as early as possible (also use all of your incense cards on him)
He was always OP
In the orignal he was in "Great" status almost everyday which made him a Critical hit machine, he's the reason i beat the Megidola Table in just 3 turns
Even though I knew what was coming, I still took him with me, hoping that maybe there was a chance something was changed in the remaster. When he said "Dont rely on me too much" That confirmed it for me. Still enjoyed my time with him though.
Remake, not a remaster. Something like persona 4 golden is a remaster of persona 4 since it's built on the same foundation, but persona 3 reload is remade from the ground up therefore remake
@@rellertr Golden's an expansion, not a remaster.
@@redinmolator royal is an expansion, golden is a remaster
@@rellertr Golden adds things to the story. Not a remaster.
@@redinmolator golden also upscales all the textures that were previously very low quality, same for audio. Remaster
“Did you see that Akihiko?!!!”
I actually finished P3 way back when, and I actually completely forgot about October 4th, and silly me going "hey, I never recalled Shinjiro being this good, I wonder why I never really remember using him in the game"
Good ol' Oct rolled around and I then found out why I didn't use him a lot in the game.
Im glad Persona Q2 let us keep him for the whole game. He makes a fantastic tank in that game
1:29 wow. They actually hint at/give away his condition…beautiful work ATLUS P3R team
You know about his condition before you get him champ
@@Gearbottt haven’t played P3R. Cool
To be fair, he does get nerfed. And its a hard nerf. I personally haven't played him since the nerf, don't think anyone else has either.
The nerf hit so hard I had tears streaming out of my eyes.
He did canonically level a house with his person. And he wasn’t even trying then!
Idk if i should be glad we have the community coming back with the memes
Just don’t forget his thergy attack before he “leave” for the trophy lol
ذكرتني الله يجزاك خير 😂
@@M_7lxl اش عرفك اني اتكلم عربي 😂😂
@@raed42 حسابك اسمه رايد قلت بس ذا من ربعنا هههههههههههههههههههههه هههههههههههههههههههههه هههههههههههههههههههههه
@@M_7lxl ابشرك جبت البلات من تختيمة وحدة سهل يعتبر 👍🏻
@@raed42 نايس والله انا لسع انشغلت بالدراسه ولكن ذا اخر يوم اختبار انقليزي وسهالات الوضع
In the Hermit full moon operation shinji will carry you. Bro will land a crit every hit. Both in combat and out he was truly an amazing man, one of the best written persona characters
As it turns out, I ended up carrying him... 😭
Wait til you get Siegfried and protag does 5x that to bosses on merciless
Thank you for this great video, i have decided to grind him out so i can use him in the final battle.
I find he really experiences a fast drop in power closer to the late game though.
Shinjiro has the best theurgy, and hits different once you know the character.
Ive been having fun in ng+ farming him to lvl 99 and then doing big nuke setups for his ult lol, hes so strong its a shame he... um well yeah
Dude so OP he made two Personas evolve
Bloody charge being the single best skill in the game is a hill I WILL die on. It's even affected by arms master.
He'll biker gets it.
You could argue Heat Riser is better, especially in the higher difficulties seeing as how you won't die immediately after using it.
@@notanerd6838 Heat riser is single target, and if memory serves MC and ken are the only ones who get it.
You don't want the MC blowing turns heat rising, and ken wants to do damage or heal. By the time you've heat risen 3 people, the first heat rise is wearing off. Unless you blow rare items that simulate heat riser, but those are items, not skills. Feels subpar.
@@DamnDaimenBloody Charge is self targetting and only self targetting you can't use it on others. Also Ken is kind of mid at both of those things tbh, when I ran the game he did more damage than Yukari but other than that he was the second or lowest damage out of all potential party members, Junpei, Yukari and Koromaru ended up being my team because Koromaru using Revolution turned Junpei and the MC into crit machines, Yukari just ended up being a heal bot who used her theurgy to buff spells if something was immune to physical, or to cleanse statuses.
@@notanerd6838 Bloody charge is charge and revolution combination. So its charge, but better. Use it turn 1, with one person casting attack up, and another casting defense down debuff, and you are gonna have a good time turn 2.
@@DamnDaimen Rebellion, not revolution - huge difference because revolution is for the entire party and enemies. It's still a self cast that you have to waste a turn for. If you run koromaru (which you should since he's clearly top 3 best party members due to revolution), him using revolution just makes bloody charge a worse charge seeing as how it takes 40% of your hp, but even if you don't realistically Bloody Charge is still less powerful than victory cry which is honestly the true winner from how much value you get from it - but even after that if you pull the "victory cry doesn't help against the final boss, reaper or elizabeth" then debilitate would be the biggest winner by a mile. General use bloody charge is overkill, I pretty much one cycled all the enemies throughout the game, but I wasn't playing on merciless - if I was Bloody charge would have been suicide. Now this isn't to say it isn't a great move, it's just not the best, most fun buff move would be a completely different argument though since it clearly wins that department.
Friend started P3 when Reload came out. I told him not to bother using Shinji because he sucks late game and he just goes “Oh so he dies then”. When I asked him what he meant he told me there were so many death flags for him that me telling him not to bother using Shinji basically just confirmed he was going to die.
I NEED HIM IN MY LIFE RN
Nah bro, I liked him a lot and I used like 20+ Incenses on him alone, I feel absolutely robbed.
I’m still heartbroken about Shinjiro, why did I read these comments.
I like how hes actually a good character to bring now and expanded on his story cuz in the original game it felt like he came, he died....
Man he looks so strong, with him the final boss will be a breeze and Strega doesn’t stand a chance!
makes so much sense him being OP since you know what happens and you will never have another chance
I got Shinji back in the form of Siegried. Severe slash + 3 or so crit bonuses + charge. Every shot is a crit. Shinji would be proud.
Did you see that Shinji?
If only he resisted pierce
Saiten Taisei as MC's persona, Koromaru, Aigis, and Shinjiro was a VERY dangerous combination that often ended in most of the shadows being critical'd by the end of combat. I will always miss that.
Being able to charge and focus the theurgy attacks is insanely overpowered lol. I'll one-shot Tartarus bosses with MC's Scarlet Havoc + Charge combo.
We all know what weakness he would have if he was in Persona 5.
*opens items to revive the dumb yukari*
*looks at life stones*
Nice
All right, let's do this.
They nerf him by making him weak to pierce damage
nah that's harsh
he's gonna be pretty useful for the final boss
definitely a character for a good late/end game build
he is just being the best. As always
He really helps with the boss from october! 😁
Damn he looks good!!! I just got to him and now that he’s finally joined the party I can’t wait to use him on my main team for the rest of the game!!!!!!!
Dude he's so good he will one shot all of nyx phases trust 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love that guy. He literally looks like some character from Naruto
gotta make sure he's on my final boss team
He's like the beast of the party!
I'm sure he'll be very helpful in the final battle
he’s the cid lightning god of persona 3
Such a good party member like Aerith in the og ps1 ff7.
His second theurgy is even stronger ! He gets it on October 4th if I remember well
I miss him...
I never used him when I first played Persona 3 Portable, but I wanted to see how he was in Reload. Got pretty attached to him cause I loved his abilities so I ended up getting him to lvl 99 and had him almost one-shot the moon boss in Club Escapade. Bloody Charge god bless 🙏🏽
ohmyGOD
I LOVE SHINJI MM IM GOING CRAZY MAN
To be fair, you did buff him like crazy and use his theurgy.
Didn't even need all that setup, l had Shinji wrecking shit completely by accident.
Wow, he’s so overpowered! I wonder how they’re gonna balance him in the late game???
he is so OP, cant wait to fight the final boss with him
And then you get the mod to keep him in the party and let him be even more broken!
wish i used him before he left, i was focusing on other characters and never got a chance to use him
top ten moments when sigfried crit build lvl 62 and scarlet havoc :
You don’t even know i pissed i was when i found out how good he was and had him in my party, until he fucking got rocked and now i had to use another member 😭
It's him! He's the master of tartarus
honestly if partywide leveling is being carried over from p5 to here then im using the hell out of shinji
Not party wide leveling, but there is a system to make sure other members don't fall too far behind
When he got shadow realmed i literally thought "Shit, Aigis you're coming back"
It was my first gameplay.
damn im definitely taking him into the final battle
Shinjiro just joined my party and I feel like he's extremely unbalanced, I feel like I'm cheating but I love him
I've played P3 but I forgot he and ken straight up didn't participate in october full moon boss
I almost softlocked myself if not for theurgy attacks being overpowered lol
Don't worry balance patch comes Oct 4th in game
Im kinda glad you have Shinji for a short time cuz he would've one shotted Strega
If i remember correctly the only person that could match shinjis damage output in the original game was aigis in orgia mode. All that time i spent leveling him up wasted
Imagine not having yukaris healing skills be 75% cheaper
Yeah... imagine...
@@RepressedJoker me when mediarama is 4sp
@@jackmarkiplier Bro, Mediarahan is 11 sp lmfao
@@meh9150 someone hasn't done all of yukaris hangout events
Yeah lol
Mediharan with full yukari is probsbly better than neo-cadenza
Knowing he will die made me never have him in my party the first time i played FES because no long term Shinji just means more EXP for non-Shinji
Hope someone makes a mod or hack to be able to use him after that incident
I'd literally buy the game on PC just for that
Shinji over Junpei or Akihiko maybe?
Not me learning he’s OP after he left and I never used him in my party 😅😅😅
Local man hits hard
I sure hope they don’t nerf him
The way they removed my favorite character from the game is criminal and I only had him for a month 😭
The final battle gonna be super easy with him
Cant wait to take Shinji all the way to the last boss
Should be reallll glorious
ATK up + Crit up + Bloody Charge + Koromaru Buff + DEF down (enemy) + Theurgy = 💀
Gotta solo Nyx bro
I never used him because I knew he was going to die from playing the original and didn't want to waste exp.
Every tier list in history: Shinjiro is easy F tier.
This video: I’m going to ruin these whole channels careers.