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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 112

Hey, you know what? Fishing is boring. But you know what's not? Bunnies!

Vinny and Jeff sit down and take a crack at the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series. Will they make it through the entire game?

Jul. 21 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Watching random episode from the future :3

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Super Troopers reference!

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 Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble google. Do you begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?  

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Kanji is the best, dunno what you guys have against him.

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Rise staring at the fire alarm: great.

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That little kid in the hospital is going to school in Mr. Morooka's class now.

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@MooseyMcMan said:

@BluPotato said:
" Kanji is the best, dunno what you guys have against him. "
Word!

attack up for the whole party is pretty awesome, the only problem i had with him is he never got an aoe physical attack

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@BluPotato said:

Kanji is the best, dunno what you guys have against him.

I just think it's because they couldn't find a suitable way to fit him in the party. Yosuke is incredibly good, Yukiko was their healer, and they flatly refused to get rid of Chie even though she became progressively more and more sucky throughout the Endurance Run until the eleventh hour when she finally got something worth having her in the party for. 
 
The only person that made sense to boot out in favor of Kanji was Chie, but they weren't ever going to do that even though she's probably in a tough contest with Naoto for worst-party-member-in-the-whole-game. (And the only reason that's the case with Naoto is because she lacks usefulness against bosses. Otherwise she's certainly better than Chie.)
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@Marokai: Chie is definitely not the worst party member, overall Chie and Kanji are pretty on par really. Even with higher level Zio spells Kanji's magic stat and SP pool are terrible, so his offensive magic is largely limited to weakness exploitation just like Chie. In terms of physical skills they both hit a point mid-game where they start falling behind because their physical skills kind of suck, but then Chie learns Power Charge, which makes her viable again while Kanji still has still has to struggle with his mediocre physical skills and weak magic. It's not until he learns Vile Assault at level 58 that he starts being able to dish out some real damage, but even then, unless you're taking advantage of the down state bonus it's not much better than a Power Charged Chie. Once she learns Rainy Death/God Hand she once again makes a big leap over Kanji until he finally learns Primal Force at level 73, at which point he can finally deal some serious damage every turn.

I used every character during my first playthrough, but I often defaulted to Yosuke, Chie, and Kanji for boss fights due to their lack of elemental weakness. Against the final boss Chie using Power Charge and God Hand was only doing slightly less total damage than Kanji using Primal Force every turn. (Who of course used twice as much HP to do so.)

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Man, I found myself laughing out loud at this episode a ton. "Skies are clear, drink some beer. Skies are red, you're probably dead."

Also, hearing Jeff drop a Kitsuné Maison / HeartsRevolution reference made my heart warm.

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This episode is... very elaborate.

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Chie storming into everything scene, steak in hand, is my favourite Giant Bomb Endurance Run trope.

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I have to go number 3... You know eyes.

Punch me in the stomach so hard I went eyes.