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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 125

The Investigation Team ascends to dungeon nirvana to do battle with a... formidable foe.

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?

Aug. 7 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

326 Comments

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the wierd thing is i have a feeling u guys have already beat the game, how come u guys are dying during the endurance run?

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Still lovin' the endurance run! I'll be finishing up P4 this weekend (time permitting). It's been a blast watching you guys play. I hope you'll do another ER after you finish up P4. 
 
One suggestion I'd like to make is to use Magic Mirror items (or similar block/reflect items) instead of 'Guard' from time to time.

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@Ravenousrattler said:
" come on guys, always keep your main character at full health, frickin rpg 101 type stuff. Ya had charlie at like 1hp for so long it was just a matter of time before he got stomped "
Charlie was at full health on the final attack which One-shotted them
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Jeff sounded kinda sad or something in this one... he didn't talk very loud or anything. :(

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@Revenant86 said:
" KICK CHIE OUT "
hell yes
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@DannyJ said:
" @Ravenousrattler said:
" come on guys, always keep your main character at full health, frickin rpg 101 type stuff. Ya had charlie at like 1hp for so long it was just a matter of time before he got stomped "
Charlie was at full health on the final attack which One-shotted them "
He wasn't. Close, but not quite.
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@DannyJ said:
" @Ravenousrattler said:
" come on guys, always keep your main character at full health, frickin rpg 101 type stuff. Ya had charlie at like 1hp for so long it was just a matter of time before he got stomped "
Charlie was at full health on the final attack which One-shotted them "
False.
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@ashogo said:
" @DannyJ said:
" @Ravenousrattler said:
" come on guys, always keep your main character at full health, frickin rpg 101 type stuff. Ya had charlie at like 1hp for so long it was just a matter of time before he got stomped "
Charlie was at full health on the final attack which One-shotted them "
He wasn't. Close, but not quite. "
And when you noticed that, you knew what was coming.  Well, you also knew because the video's playhead was almost at the end.  Spoilers!
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That was tragic

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Jeff sounded like he landed an indelicate joke on a funeral and just didn't want to talk about it never, ever again.

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Tragic, but you made a lot of mistakes (eg not having Charlie at full HP ALL THE TIME and using Hariti's Mediarhan), so its somehow understandable. Just try to save turns by using mediarhan (and never Mediarama since its nearly useless) and you should be able to make it, he isn't THAT strong.
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You do know that you guys (Vinny and Jeff) have a persona whit MeDIARAHAN. Use it when everybodeys low on health. Or go back in a dungeon untill Yukiko gets it and then fight the boss again. Also I think you have items that make a magic barrier so you could have used Chie to throw that on Charlie. Items are really usefull in boss battles.

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My advice would be to go back 1/2 floors and grind up a level or two, since you get like 2-3000 experience from each one, it would take like 6 battles for a level, which will puff up the hp by bits which always help.
 
Also stat debuffing and buffing is the way to go for boss fights

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Edited By EnchantedEcho

Awesome episode guys, keep the good work up!
I would pay to see this, its that good !

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man i loved the "2" kanji s part... 
 when nametame says "STHU"

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@bahimiron said:
" Jesus Christ. Watching some of you guys acting like complete assholes about this ER makes me wonder if they'll bother doing a new one. Christ, I wouldn't if I were them. "
THIS.
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@Archleone said:
" you have a persona with mediarahan on charlie, and the item soma will automatically restore the entire party's HP AND SP "
I usually hate people correcting Vinny and Jeff but, this is so obvious!
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The comedy felt REALLY forced in this episode, nothing comedic happened and yet you guys tried to crack jokes, which I think made them fall flat. Anyway, good luck next week.

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@North6 said:

" Garuda is *not* a magic guy.  His magic skill is awful, his garudyne does like half of Yosuke's.    Also the guys should play to their strengths, in a boss fight especially.  They need to bite the bullet and accept they have made an awesome healing persona (2 actually, Kikure-Hime and Hariti)... and like.. heal.  Have Chie Tarukaja everyone else and let them attack.  Also, find a persona with TARUNDA, and put it on the boss.  It makes the freaking thing do 50% damage.  Done, win.  Tarunda Tarunda Tarunda... this game can't be won by ignoring the stat buffing / debuffing skills.  Its night and day.  If you are going to ignore them all except one, just pick that one to do. "

This message really says
"Im a fucking genius and everybody who doesn´t study persona on the   university and agrees with me is a fucking idiot. Cocksuckers"
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@slaneesh: True, but he is right nonetheless. That defeat could've easily been avoided.
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God! many of you people are acting like total dicks. You are watching a endurance run with two guys chilling saying funny stuff and shit like that. Would you stop saying oh I could have done so much better.  If you can't watch this as entertainment, which it is, then go back and play the game yourselfs. Obviously your ocd is getting in your way when you watch this. So do us normal people and vinny and jeff a break and go sit in your dark room of solitude and let the rest of us watch this in peace, without any angry comments about I would have done something totaly different. 
Giving advice is one thing, being a dick while giving advice is something completely different.

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@atomic_dumpling: 
 
This indeed. Sheesh. 
 
(Sheesh count 197)
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Remember when Charlie attacked with a golf club?

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Not like this.  
 
Ah well, I thought you guys did okay in the "for what it's worth" category.  I was sure you'd pull it off in the end.  No hate from me - you guys were doing well, you just underestimated how flipping punishing that Wind Break can be.

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@gakon5: i kind of ment using items and spells to cancel it out, not change persona's.
Resistances debuffs carry over, ikno.
 
But doesnt Amirita cure all status alements xcept for 2 like death and something else?  (The item or the spell)

Alternatively, yes, cast a wall to counter it. Though killing the wind break would return their elemental resistances to normal, thus either drain, null or reflect =] 
 
Garuda definatly reflects wind. my swiss cheese memory remembers that lol
 
[before anyone nags, i don't care about grammar nazis, obviously. Im not natively english speaking and i don't chase perfection]
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@Zaerus: Amrita/Salvation can only cure status effects, not anything else.  I think their best bet is using Tarunda (and maybe Marakukaja as well) to lessen its damage; they got, what, 2/3 of the boss's HP without any of that?
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Whoa, when a character is in critical condition the TV frame on the battle screen flashes red. Can't believe I haven't noticed it all this time.

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Black Frost is 12 or 13 levels under you...

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Bummer, that was going so well... Next time, guys.

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Hah not to be a dick but it's nice to see you guys lose on one of these bosses for once. You destroyed the Void Quest boss which took me forever to beat and you almost beat this guy on your first try. He's a rough one you're probably gonna have to grind a few levels before you can really handle him.

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@cronox2 said:
"Hah not to be a dick but it's nice to see you guys lose on one of these bosses for once. You destroyed the Void Quest boss which took me forever to beat and you almost beat this guy on your first try. He's a rough one you're probably gonna have to grind a few levels before you can really handle him. "
I'd actually like to see them take him on as is, it's a bit more exciting to see a battle in which the outcome is uncertain. =) Though I bet they're going to go down a floor, fight a few guys, and go back up since as exciting as such a battle may be, it would be annoying beyond belief if they lost to him more than once.
 
Is it me, or does the character he takes control of influence which element Quad Coverage will be? I noticed that when I fought the boss myself he took control of Chie and the element was Ice. Here he took control of Yosuke and the element was wind. Coincidence?
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@DavidSnakes:
His stats are still pretty damn high though
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Jeez reading these comments is really disappointing, come on guys this is supposed to be fun for everyone stop being so demanding and telling Jeff and Vinny how much they suck even though this is the first Boss they have died on since the King in the very first castle! Just watch the videos and enjoy them if you have some honestly good advice give it without coming off like a complete asshole... 
 
Long Live Endurance Run!
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@cronox2 said:
" Hah not to be a dick but it's nice to see you guys lose on one of these bosses for once. You destroyed the Void Quest boss which took me forever to beat and you almost beat this guy on your first try. He's a rough one you're probably gonna have to grind a few levels before you can really handle him. "
I'm in the same boat (lost to the void quest boss and considered him one of the hardest bosses in the game), but it also took me a couple of tried to beat this boss.  Also, the only reason they died is because they were stingy with the healing.  If Mediarahan had been cast instead of Mediarama near the end, Charlie would've survived the attack.  The boss was already near dead.
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@Mikeymania: Stop linking to that spoiler comic. Seriously.
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@DragonofFate said:
" @Mikeymania: Stop linking to that spoiler comic. Seriously. "
This goes for everyone.  Anyone who posts that comic again will be hearing from me.
 
This is your official warning.
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dead!
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@DragonofFate: how is it a spoiler comic?
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@Mikeymania said:

" @DragonofFate: how is it a spoiler comic? "

(spoilers if you read this comic and didn't get the joke) 
 
 
 
 
 
Because it employs a type of humor which relies on something similar to sarcasm (kinda like the joke in the panel with Mitsuo) with the main spoiler that people are talking about. Sure, some people might not get it, but to others is painfully obvious. Had I read that before I beat the game then I would have figured something was up. Granted much of the game was already spoiled for me before I even started playing it so I'd be okay with it, but still.   
 
Not to mention that I read in the P4 forum that Jeff asked people to stop sending him the comic "with a big spoiler in the first few panels".
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@SaraHysaro: well sh*t, i just thought "hey, this is amusing, other people might find this amusing" but then i got hit with "OMG! OMG! OMG! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! BURN THE WITCH!"
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@Mikeymania said:

" @SaraHysaro: well sh*t, i just thought "hey, this is amusing, other people might find this amusing" but then i got hit with "OMG! OMG! OMG! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! BURN THE WITCH!" "

Yeah, people tend to overreact (though I've seen worse reactions before elsewhere). It'd be better if the default response included a please, but hey. That's the internet for ya. And yes, that comic is definitely amusing. I hope the artist continues with it. =)
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My god 70% of you people commenting really like listening to yourself huh? Damnyou people like telling others what to do.
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"Why are you doing this?"
"What is the  Matrix?" 
"Let Nanako go!"
 
Well, that was fucking disappointing. Oh, well, at least we can look to episode 150.

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@slaneesh: Et tu Brutei?
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What was that spell called again? which boost defense on all party members?
I used that spell the whole game with my MC, and it worked perfect vs every boss.

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What a sad episode... 
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Thanks about riasing the volume,btw. Did appreciatte. Hope for good this week. 
 
Oh yeah, choose your worlds like a crazy mon..
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@quezen: 
 
Marakukaja,Auto-Maraku (party)
Rakukaja,Auto-Rakukaja (individual)
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@amino said:
" @quezen:   Marakukaja,Auto-Maraku (party) Rakukaja,Auto-Rakukaja (individual) "

yeah, I finished it on normal with the perfect ending, and that spell "marakukaja I transfered to every new Persona, it was IMO the best spell, obviously there are betters like that spell from trumpeter but still...