Best of Giant Bomb's Persona 4 Endurance Run--18, The Finale (Parts 151 to 155)

Episode List:

• Episode 01 (Parts 001 to 015): Funky Student, Everyday's Great At Your Junes, and luchador masks.
• Episode 02 (Parts 016 to 030): Young Detective, Mysterious Fox, and balls
• Episode 03 (Parts 031 to 045): Ghoul, weird feelings, and how popularity leads to intimacy
• Episode 04 (Parts 046 to 057 + Behind the Scenes): Mystery Food X, Risette, and taking quests
• Episode 05 (Parts 058 to 068): Meat Gum, Sayoko, and Bufu
• Episode 06 (Parts 069 to 078): Guy Teddie, melons, and the quest for Invigorate 2
• Episode 07 (Parts 079 to 087): Hama, Rank 10 with Chie, and the return of Ghoul
• Episode 08 (Parts 088 to 094): The Summer Festival, fried rice omelettes, and watermelon
• Episode 09 (Parts 095 to 100): King's Game, Naoto, and Aha! Is this our chance?
• Episode 10 (Parts 101 to 108): Rank 10 with Yukiko, Black Frost, and Tentarafoo
• Episode 11 (Parts 109 to 115): Rank 10 with Nanako, Shadow Naoto, and Abaddon
• Episode 12 (Parts 116 to 122): The 'Miss' Yasogami High Pageant, the hot springs, and a car chase
• Episode 13 (Parts 123 to 129): Heaven, a rescue mission, and Rank 10 with Rise
• Episode 14 (Part 130, "Judgement"): A dark turn for the Persona 4 Endurance Run
• Episode 15 (Parts 131 to 135): The true culprit, Rank 10 with Teddie, and a creepy raper guy
• Episode 16 (Parts 136 to 144): The revenge of Funky Student, Trumpeter, and a very surprising Enemy Advantage
• Episode 17 (Parts 145 to 150): God's Hand, an ending, and Christmas Eve with Chie
• Episode 18, The Finale (Parts 151 to 155): Summoning Satan, the True Ending, and the end of the Persona 4 Endurance Run

The Best of YouTube Playlist

Alright, time for the grand finale!

This Best Of series for me is both: 1) Finally sitting down and watching the Endurance Run for myself; and 2) Highlighting the funniest or my favorite moment from all 155 parts of their playthrough. Typically I picked the moment that made me laugh the most, but I also wanted to capture what it is like playing this game. (As in having a balance between when certain characters, Personas or mechanics are introduced, Social Links, and dungeon crawling.)

This video features clips from Parts 151 to 155

Highlights from this episode include: summoning Satan, the True Ending, and the end of the Persona 4 Endurance Run

Even with this and other Best Of videos, you should really see this series for yourself. There are almost too many funny moments to cover in a highlight video like this and the Persona games are really entertaining to watch someone else play.

The Persona 4 Endurance Run: Part 001

The YouTube Playlist

I am currently writing and editing a longer write up on this series and a few other Persona 4 related stuff, but for now I just want to say thank you guys for watching this series. I had a ton of fun watching the Endurance Run and editing these videos together, and I hope you guys enjoyed watching them.

Congratulations on finally finishing this!

The fact they really did hit 99:59 on the nose is hilarious.

Thanks for this series, duder.

Thanks for all the work, watching one of these videos inspired me to play the game, three months later I have finished the game and watched the anime, and am seriously considering playing Persona 3 now. Thanks again.

Thanks so much for your outstanding work with these. I also watched the ER for the first time this year and played P4G myself. It's hard to let go after several months of regularly consuming P4-related stuff. Your videos were a great way for me to get my P4 fix without commiting to another 100 hours of playing it or rewatching the whole ER.

If you don't know anything about Persona 3, it is also an exceptional game. It is definitely a darker game and there are fewer "fun" moments (there's no crossdressing pageants or anything like that), but it still has that great dungeon crawling, social linking, persona fusing goodness. I'd say the Persona 3 Portable is the way to go, but Persona 3/Persona 3: FES are also fine. One leg up that Persona 3 has over Persona 4 is the central conflict. Things get really dire in that game, and the way they connect everyone's stories together with the central themes of the game is really incredible. Also, P3 has one of my favorite endings to a game ever. It reaches a level that P4 never does.

I like Persona 4 more, but both games are great and are more or less on the same level for me.

I didn't include this clip, but in one of these episodes Jeff mentions that people sent him Hiimdaisy's Persona 4 comic, which spoiled who was the true true culprit for him well before they reached the ending. Watching the Endurance Run, it seemed like Vinny was oblivious to most of the big spoilers. It also didn't seem like Jeff knew Adachi was the killer. Maybe he did know about a few other things, but Jeff at least knew about the gas station attendant.

Thank you so very much for the highlights to relive this awesome thing.