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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 109

Listen, Naoto, trust us. You don't want to say it. You don't -- ah whatever.

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. 16 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

209 Comments

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You finally got a fusion accident! Congrats.

And thanks for slowing Vinny down, Jeff. Hell, I know that a lot of the scenes are kind of sappy and full of exposition, but the characters do have interesting things to say if you pay attention.

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Why do you guys keep using black frost so much? In that fight, you could've used rangda and probably done way more damage with his agydine without mind charge.

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Wow, Naoto's a girl. What a twist.

Jeff and Vinny's refusal to believe in her masculinity have finally payed off.

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Don't forget to fuse Tam Lin :D At Level 59 you get a passive skill which revives you if you die once per battle.

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Mind Charge/Power Charge are pretty useless spells unless you're using them with some of the higher-tier spells or in cases where they would do more damage next turn. In other words: Power Charging Chie and then having her kick a dude is just wasting 15sp, unless you're factoring missing.

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Edited By KowalskiManDown

You guys will need Soma's eventually.

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You might have noticed but the fox price depend also on his mood

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"it looks like Chet."  Definitely looks more like Chet from Weird Science than Slimer.  Just started watching these the other day....I have NO CLUE what is going on...but the commentary is grade A stuff.

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you're forgetting to register personas??

And yeh Mind Charge seems pretty useless, if you kick twice, wouldn't that do more dmg than kick once with mind charge??

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@Nasar7 said:
" Vinny look here! You're thinking of Skooma from Morrowind, not Soma. "
That's what i thought.
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@Nasar7: Yeah, my mistake,  you're right. Being a portuguese speaker I should know that body in latin is "corpus" and not "soma". XD
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Mind Charge and Power Charge will last until you decide to use a corresponding attack.  Example: you use mind charge on one turn, the next turn you guard, the turn afterwards you will still be mind charged.

As for Naoto, she's a cool character, but is pretty useless in the dungeon especially against bosses.  She mainly has light and dark attacks, which bosses are always Nul against.

Other than that stuff, you breezed by this boss, good job guys.

Also the fusion accident was hilarious.

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I know you guys like Black Frost, but he is ten levels behind you. Its about time you used more than one persona.

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Should stick to letting Youske (sp?) trying confusion to help thin the numbers while you kill the rest. Loved the appearance of Abaddon as it was completely out of the blue & the reactions at Giant Bomb were priceless.

Edit (spoilers for people not keeping up): Am i the only one who's wondering why Naoto isn't really developed compared to Chie & the other girls who are only a year older? Even with many anime/games well known for the gender switch, on times like this, esp. with the female voice on the character it's pretty obvious that most people in the game would catch on or at least see Naoto walking in/out of the bathroom.

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They should sell a 50- disc  DVD Endurance Run boxed set. I'd take like a week to watch all the way through.

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*Abaddon appears*
"Oh GOD!" D8
"Holy Christ, what the hell is that?" )8

You guys crack me up.

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You definitely don't have to worry about hitting the level cap in this game...it more or less defies you to even hit 90...

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good one

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My first thought when I saw Shadow Naoto transform...Buzz Lightyear!

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Black Frost Fanboys

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wow you guys are stupid, you power charged chie like 3 times in a row 

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@VisariLoyalist said:
" wow you guys are stupid, you power charged chie like 3 times in a row  "
Seeing as how that is IMPOSSIBLE, I'd have to say you're being stupid. If they try to power charcge more then once it says that "it is not needed" or is "already in effect."
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@fox01313: You may already know this, but idk how far along you are with ER, Naoto is actually quite a bit more developed than it originally may appear.  They first foreshadow it at the hospital they go to, my guess is that her jacket is soooo big and thick that you can't see anything.  
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WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING?!  
I think I want me some Abbadon. 

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power charge is for conserving hp on physical attacks.
 
so  -60 hp x2 becomes -60hp x1 +( -15sp )  , should be saved for bosses
mind charge is for the megido- spells, since all other spells would either WASTE sp, or just save 2 sp.
 
-34 sp x2 = -64 sp ...     while -34sp + (-15 sp) = -49 sp
 
i beat this boss on normal, lvl 47. MC,kanji,teddie,chie .  just healed and normal attacked.....took forever, but not one offensive spell.

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Man, Charlie barely took any damage during that boss fight.
 
I bet it was Black Frost that made him awesome.

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Holy Crap i never knew you could spin the monsters in Analysis, and im like 50 hours in lol.

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ABBADONNNNNNN

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@Urmean:  I COME WITH YOOOOOOU!
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Abbadon is great, I used him alot. My wild card (only got one) sucked so much I don't even remember what it was, so cheers to you guys even though you've long finished your 2nd endurance run since then.

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you know this is the only boss I've seen that actually looks even a little like the guy  it came from.

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"I'm a little pixie jedi! YAY!"

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@doublezeroduck said:
" "I'm a little pixie jedi! YAY!" "
yeah that part is pretty awesome.
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I think overall Jeff and Vinny did a pretty good job. Although Naoto is probably the easiest boss in the game, in my opinion.

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"Suckin' on Yosuke's SP."

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Wow, what a totally unsurprising plot twist.

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@PerfidiousSinn said:
" Wow, what a totally unsurprising plot twist. "
I thought it would be the other way around.  Naoto being a boy who wanted to be a girl.  That's the usual path these things seem to take in anime.  :p 
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@jikoku13 said:
" you know this is the only boss I've seen that actually looks even a little like the guy  it came from. "
...which makes it the least creative. Sure, some of them like Yukiko's were blatantly metaphorical, but at least they tried. "Naoto Prime" was just silly.
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A year and a half late but I wanted Adachi to say, "Are you two fighting?"

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Oh, the God Hand.


This episode is great.
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That's a real saying. Fortes fortuna juvat. :D

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Some anime told me what Soma is o.o

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weird ... I did this fight yesterday and Shadow Naoto never casted anything like Bufu on me ... he/she reverted my resitences a bunch and casted a lot of that enervation/1 hp spell but that was about it.

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Fortune Favors the Bold
Fortune Favors the Bold
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Jeff's reactions to the wild shit that happens in this game REALLY make this endurance run so eminently rewatchable.

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I love how Vinny will make the Chet from weird science look a like comment again in the DP endurance run.

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There is some irony in the fact that the name "Naoto" means honesty.

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Props to Jeff for warning Vinny to not skip the talking scenes. Some of us are watching for the story as well.

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