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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 149

Charlie and crew are ready to end this, once and for all.

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?

Sep. 10 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

274 Comments

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Heh. Jeff and Vinny got lucky. If they had been playing on expert, that Navas Nebula / Quake combo would have killed them. The boss casts Bewildering Fog on it's second turn which can surprisingly throw you for a loop. It happened to me twice. Even though I did kill him the first time I fought him, I didn't get the True Ending and my last save was before that dungeon. So I loaded up that save, went through the dungeon again, and died twice on him just because he psyched me out.

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episode 150 : true ending....

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@ashogo said:
" This game has a backwards difficulty curve for it's bosses.   Seriously, shadow Yukiko and Kanji are the hardest, and it just gets easier from there. "
THIS.  Shadow Yukiko was the only one I needed to spend a whole day just grinding out levels on the 7th floor just so Burn To Ashes wouldn't take 60% of everyone's health ON TOP OF knocking down Chie.  And there aint no such thing as Diarama or Mediarama at that point.  Took me four tries.
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@Catolf: Except this time Lulu didn't get his dream realized. And also got Divided by Zero again.
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I can't tell if they really think this is the for reals ending or if they are faking it.

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I'm getting a weird Pete Campbell vibe out of Adachi.
 
 Wait are they fighting the Death Star, voiced by a bad James Earl Jones ripoff.

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OK guys, I got the true ending spoiled for me a few episodes ago, but not COMPLETELY. My question is, if they go for the true ending (please do guys pleeease), do they have to fight...that bad boss? You know what is. Or does the game just explain everything and then end?
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Awesome job guys.  Unleashed the killing blow and everything.  I think now I might as well point out just a small detail about the game which will not occur in your ending sequenes.  It's odd but know that of all the female S. links and awkward hugging in the game only one of them actually kiss the main character.  Let's just say that its one of the only characters you're level 1 with.  Other than that I cant wait to hear you guys freak out at the name of the Judgement arcanas ultimate form.
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Congrats fellows, now go for the true ending and fight the actual final boss, because the endurance run can't end just yet, I mean I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

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@Mezmero: I'm still disappointed they never had the opportunity to fuse Satan.
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Dr. Gerstman?
I like the sound of that.

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Wow, it's finally reaching the end.

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Final boss sounds like Unicron...

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Ending on episode 150. Wow.

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@CH3BURASHKA said:
" Man, the anime sections are terrible. P5 better get some decent animators. "
I like the look of the anime scenes I hope P5 has a lot more of them.
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The guys might figure out that something is up.  They got suspicious when they ranked up...they'll get suspicious again when they rank up again, and realize that they're leveling up when it's supposed to be the end of the game.

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The Giant Eye sounds like the dragon from DBZ
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@bigall94 said:
" OK guys, I got the true ending spoiled for me a few episodes ago, but not COMPLETELY. My question is, if they go for the true ending (please do guys pleeease), do they have to fight...that bad boss? You know what is. Or does the game just explain everything and then end? "
There is another entire dungeon and boss.
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I was one of those who sent Vinny and Jeff PMs on the true ending weeks ago.  I hope they got it and listened.  Recently, Vinny replied to a message about P4 that I'd sent months ago, so if it took that long, who knows?.  Anyway, here's hoping they do the true ending.  Some unanswered questions will be brought to light.  Unfortunately, one on those will not be what was in the drinks at the King's Game.  :/

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Team Giantbomb Go!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Endurance Run is (close to) dead.  Long live the Endurance Run.

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@SpunkyHePanda said:
" @Ventilator said:
" Hey let's fight Adachi! *adachi dies* "OMG I'M A RANDOM DISCO EYEBALL OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!" *eyeball dies*  meh, Persona 3 handled it a little better in my opinion. "
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you on this one. I'm very much against Ameno-Sagiri's role in the game for many reasons. One of them is the fact that you've been chasing the true killer for the entire game, and then he's randomly shoved aside before his story arc is complete. Wish I could get into the other reasons but... spoilers, you know. I think Persona 4 is better than Persona 3 in every conceivable way, except for the very end. Persona 3's ending is maybe the best I've ever seen. "
Completely agreed, man.  Persona 3's ending is, in my opinion, one of the best endings to any game ever.  It alone completely makes up for every single problem, story or gameplay-wise, that I ever had with P3.
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Holy shit! Episode 150 is waiting in the wings. Awesome! Great job, guys.

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Totally EPIC Boss Battle guys!!!  I had pretty much the same reaction at the end of the cutscene when Charlie just nods his head and grunts. 
 
Damn, there's really ANOTHER dungeon after this?  That sounded like it was the end of everything since this dude was the cause of the fog. 
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@Jedted said:
"That sounded like it was the end of everything since this dude was the cause of the fog.  "
Well. Sorta.
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@Bloviator said:
" I was one of those who sent Vinny and Jeff PMs on the true ending weeks ago.  I hope they got it and listened.  Recently, Vinny replied to a message about P4 that I'd sent months ago, so if it took that long, who knows?.  Anyway, here's hoping they do the true ending.  Some unanswered questions will be brought to light.  Unfortunately, one on those will not be what was in the drinks at the King's Game.  :/ "
So basically you sent them a massive spoiler about how the game ends? No wonder they don't read comments or emails about Persona 4 anymore. People like you ruin it for everyone.
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@Conflict said:

" @Bloviator said:

" I was one of those who sent Vinny and Jeff PMs on the true ending weeks ago.  I hope they got it and listened.  Recently, Vinny replied to a message about P4 that I'd sent months ago, so if it took that long, who knows?.  Anyway, here's hoping they do the true ending.  Some unanswered questions will be brought to light.  Unfortunately, one on those will not be what was in the drinks at the King's Game.  :/ "

So basically you sent them a massive spoiler about how the game ends? No wonder they don't read comments or emails about Persona 4 anymore. People like you ruin it for everyone. "
No.  It was quite vague.  I mentioned nothing of an alternative ending.  I suppose my post wasn't worded correctly.  I know that spoilers should be taken  with a good deal of consideration.  I weighed my comments to the best of my ability.  The true ending part wasn't mentioned in my PMs.  I mentioned that both he and Jeff should consider some other things.  I mentioned the true ending stuff here, because many others had already referenced it.
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Well with all this true ending/normal ending talk, I'm interested to see what happens tomorrow. I don't know how much better the true ending is, but if it is significantly better than the normal, I hope they go for that.

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If this is the end then it'd be nice to see a video compilation best of moments of the endurance run (both in game & from the guys playing it) also a new shirt with life lessons (or best quotes) from Persona 4 is always an item many people would be interested in.
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im sad its almost over.

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HURRAY!

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Yay that was such a great run! I'm going to miss everyone :( I was no disappointed by Jeff and Vinny's reaction to Charlie's epic one-liner ("mmph!"). :D 
 
Oh and before you talk to Dojima on the final day, head to Junes food court TWICE after you talked with every crew member. There will be a nice surprise! :D

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jesus christ, is it still not over? i mean i don't want the endurance run to end, but if they drag this plot out much longer it'll just be ridiculous.

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@trimon said:
" Yay that was such a great run! I'm going to miss everyone :( I was no disappointed by Jeff and Vinny's reaction to Charlie's epic one-liner ("mmph!"). :D 
Sounds like one more T-shirt in the making...
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The true ending must be achieved! Do it! For Great Justice!

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My name is Hov! Hov!
H to the O - V 
I used to sell snowflakes by the O - Z 
 
 
(Totally made my shitty morning to laugh and spill my tea)

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@MiserableGerm: XD it's so sad and yet so true.
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@spilledmilkfactory said:
" jesus christ, is it still not over? i mean i don't want the endurance run to end, but if they drag this plot out much longer it'll just be ridiculous. "
I'll admit, it starts to get redundant and crazy in the path to the true ending.  But the plot comes to a close before it just gets ridiculous so it's still good.  The plot twist helps too.
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Congrats, but the true ending is in another dungeon.

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It's cool how Yosuke had the final hit on Adachi because he killed Saki. And then Charlie got the killing blow on the giant eyeball. :)

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@trimon said:
" It's cool how Yosuke had the final hit on Adachi because he killed Saki. And then Charlie got the killing blow on the giant eyeball. :) "
I agree, Charlie dishing out the final can of whoop-ass was a nice touch.
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Was Jeff doing a bit of soul searching in this one? Eye boss looks great but for a maximum of 99 levels didn't seem that hard.

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I love Kanji. 'Long story short, you're the one behind all this?' That's how it's fucking done, ignore the psychobabble
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I've known it for a while now, but this episode makes it painfully obvious I should never have switched chie out for teddy. GOD'S HAND. DAYUM. 

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I love Jeff/Vinny's Adachi impression.
"Yeah... yeah... bitches!!"

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Wait a minute, how the hell did Jeff know that Adachi would have Evil Smile + Ghastly Wail?

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Ameno-Sagiri looks uncannily like the Wise One from Golden Sun... but with more gun turrets.

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@ 29:11
 
Ameno-sagiri: You played your part well...
 
...except when Vinny cast bufu on Shadow Teddie. That was pretty lame.

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"I'm afraid if we kill him he might explode or something." 
 
Best video game advice I've ever heard.
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you know what I love?  that the devotion to chie paid off with the most powerful attack you guys had.  THE POWER OF LOVE.