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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: Persona 4 - Part 136

Seekers of Truth to glory and higher levels!

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. 24 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

127 Comments

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They didn't notice that demon was sitting on a toilet.

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Counter skills do NOT stack. However, Boosts and Amp skills DO stack.

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Edited By Chaossebba

I acrtually think they got all for trumpeter, taowu is that weird Hanged Man thing with the fairy wings and long tongue. And yeah, since they got perfect on the exam, check the cushion where nanako used to sit for item

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@FluxWaveZ: 
 
Sometimes they ask for advice, so that is why I posted it. I've heard them say, "I was looking through the comments...", so I figured I would post something for them.
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Did Jeff just (unknowingly maybe? )  reference a David Cross bit?... 
 
or is "Hurricane Wrapped in a Tsunami" a common phrase that people just dont use around me.

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Edited By Dr_Feelgood38

There is something about the Endurance Run that just makes me... Hungry. I'm always eating when I watch these.

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I missed those dungeons.

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Ah man, was hoping they would fuse HELL BIKER

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I loved how Vinny is repeating what Rise is saying and doesn't realise thats her new ability.

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Edited By skippyscissors
@Curufinwe: I was surprised too. I hope they fuse him and watch his spell-casting animation...
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@AuthenticM said:
" @Vinny&Jeff Since you got the highest mark on your last exam, you can find an item on the cushion on which Nanako used to sit in front of the TV. It's a pretty good accessory; I suggest you get it. "
I quote this for emphasis.
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@Philosopher1701 said:

" @FluxWaveZ:   Sometimes they ask for advice, so that is why I posted it. I've heard them say, "I was looking through the comments...", so I figured I would post something for them. "

That was months ago before the rabid P4 fans started the whole "don't get the bad ending you douche bags!" craze with spoilers everywhere. I am pretty sure they don't read the comments anymore. If someone reads it, it's probably Drew.
 
EDIT: Heatwave, not so great
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@Vorbis said:
"I loved how Vinny is repeating what Rise is saying and doesn't realise thats her new ability. "

Exactly.
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"Let's throw useless spells at stuff. Let's have a good time!" 
"Let's go fishing?" 
"Yeah!" 
 
Moments like these is what the Endurance Run is all about. Keep on truckin' you guys.

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Edited By Livewire

 
I present to you, the tsunami!
 
 http://www.surftaco.com/food/food_tsunami.html

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FINAAALLY

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@atomic_dumpling said:
"@Philosopher1701 said:

" @FluxWaveZ:   Sometimes they ask for advice, so that is why I posted it. I've heard them say, "I was looking through the comments...", so I figured I would post something for them. "

That was months ago before the rabid P4 fans started the whole "don't get the bad ending you douche bags!" craze with spoilers everywhere. I am pretty sure they don't read the comments anymore. If someone reads it, it's probably Drew.  EDIT: Heatwave, not so great "

Yes, they never ask for advice anymore.  That was in old episodes.  Now it's a waste of time if you''e trying to help them.
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I have watched 1-135 in 2 months man i'm glad i caught up.

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woah u guys are only at 62?
prob caz u just ran the last few floors of heaven dungeon lmaoo

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Edited By Hashbrowns

Someone with a lot of time on their hands should go through all the ER episodes and record every time Vinny hums or otherwise sings Persona 4's music and string them all together. 
 
I don't know why, but it really annoys me when he does that, and it happens so often I have to assume it might add up to several hours of "doo doo doo doo, babababaaa!"  Seriously.
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I just hope they actually read some past comments to know about the deadline and the christmas event so they dont miss it >.>'

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Use mudoon? and tentarafoo? and then go fishing? Jeff has lost his damn mind!!!

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Edited By Zeik

Death spells aren't that hard to understand guys. If they're weak against it then it will almost always work, if the aren't then there's a percent chance of it instantly killing an enemy, which is pretty much exactly like  every other instant death spell in any RPG ever. <_<

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@Livewire said:
"  I present to you, the tsunami!   http://www.surftaco.com/food/food_tsunami.html "
I was hoping for something more elaborate. Just a giant burrito? Where's all the crazy stuff? Now, if like 3 of the ingredients were labeled Mystery Ingredient, now you've got me interested.
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@Sarumarine said:
"

"Let's throw useless spells at stuff. Let's have a good time!" 
"Let's go fishing?" 
"Yeah!" 
 
Moments like these is what the Endurance Run is all about. Keep on truckin' you guys.

"
QFT  I'd rather watch them muck about and be entertaining than see them taking the game too seriously
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I'm sure this has happened to me people here, but let me add to the list of people who bought this game cause of this ER. Atlus owes you guys huge!!!
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@Revenant86 said:
" Hey guys. Since your Reaching the end of the game,I Want you guys to start taking this seriously    YOU MUST FUSE TRUMPETER -HE HAS THE MOST USEFUL SKILL IN THE GAME,DEBILITATE WICH LOWERS ATT/DEF/HIT/AND HIT/EVASION  YOSHITSUNE-HE HAS THE GREATEST PHYSICAL ATTACK. IT HITS ALL ENEMIES 8 TIMES.   beezlebub,hes a fucking badass  and MAra. you'll love him <3 "
Flagged for all-caps.
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omg omg omg

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FINALLY! We're back up to nearly an hour after a week of skinny endurance runs. :D :D

AND the JRPG cult returns to tell Jeff and Vinney how to make the game easy and less fun to watch.

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ATN Stupid People:
 
Jeff is on vacation this week meaning that all the episodes for this week are recorded already. Your dumb advice means nothing.

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@Milkman said:
" ATN Stupid People:  Jeff is on vacation this week meaning that all the episodes for this week are recorded already. Your dumb advice means nothing. "
No need to call them or their advice "dumb". It's likely superfluous, yes, but not dumb.
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@Hashbrowns:
He does a lot of stuff in many episodes. There's that, the Kaching noise everytime there's a SL rankup, there's Roll Credits, there's restart the game, and there's we got the Bad Ending. I don't think they're annoying I think they make it awesome!
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I would want Ozzie Smith on my investigation team, too.

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with jeff on vacation, who's gonna sub in the second seat in the p4er?

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@Milkman: Attn Dumber People: These comments are even more worthless.
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I like yelling at the guys for dumb moves too(watching them skip over perfectly good fusions is still painful for the backseat gameplayer in me), but I mostly keep that to myself. It's hard to blame people for getting frustrated at all the little mistakes the guys make, but by now I've just given up on having the guys follow any advice posted in the comments. At this point they're probably just hoping to get the game done with and don't care too much about following all the advice they're getting(especially since they HAVE gotten this far without really understanding fusion, or remembering which personas have which skills, or realizing that it's a waste of time to wait 2 minutes for shadows to turn around, or...).
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You know, delibitate and the skill who hit 8 time are great skill, but they are not needed.  
  
The time you wil need to get them far exceed the time you will saving. 
 
Plus i don't see the benefict of trading  
fun but hard boss fight  
for  
2 turn boss fight with no skill involved 
many many many  hours of midless grind. 
 
Even with max tower link before getting   Hassou Tobi you will need to level it from 80 to 83. that will take hours.(without xp tricks) 
 
Since they don't have the social link they will need level it from level 75.  
 
That is at least 10 hours of grinding. 

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@Mistral said:

it's a waste of time to wait 2 minutes for shadows to turn around, or...). "

That remark is interesting from a meta perspective, because playing Persona 4 and watching the ER are both gigantic time wasters in the first place. When you look at it like that, a little waiting for shadows to turn is just a drop in the ocean. It's not that bad, really.
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@lishi said:

" You know, delibitate and the skill who hit 8 time are great skill, but they are not needed.    The time you wil need to get them far exceed the time you will saving.  Plus i don't see the benefict of trading  fun but hard boss fight  for  2 turn boss fight with no skill involved many many many  hours of midless grind.  Even with max tower link before getting   Hassou Tobi you will need to level it from 80 to 83. that will take hours.(without xp tricks)  Since they don't have the social link they will need level it from level 75.   That is at least 10 hours of grinding.  "

Fuse them on a +slink experience day. Problem solved. For trumpeter at least, they probably wont get Tower to a high level, but Yoshitsune is really pretty good even without it.
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@Dragoon14 said:
"I have watched 1-135 in 2 months man i'm glad i caught up. "

I envy the hours of enjoyment you have had over the last 2 months. I watched 1-105 or something in about a month and a half over the course of my exams, which did not help my revision :P
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@atomic_dumpling said:
" @Mistral said:

it's a waste of time to wait 2 minutes for shadows to turn around, or...). "

That remark is interesting from a meta perspective, because playing Persona 4 and watching the ER are both gigantic time wasters in the first place. When you look at it like that, a little waiting for shadows to turn is just a drop in the ocean. It's not that bad, really. "
It's actually more of a waste if they get attacked first, waste more sp healing, more items, the possibility of getting killed is greater, so it's fine to wait for shadows.
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All this useless grinding. Don't you know you are destroying people's egos needlessly! What have those shadows ever done to you! 
 
Get to Adachi and skip the wimpy shadows.

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@anamanaman said:

" All this useless grinding. Don't you know you are destroying people's egos needlessly! What have those shadows ever done to you!  Get to Adachi and skip the wimpy shadows. "

The item at the top of this dungeon is so mindblowingly useful that it would be retarded not to get it (ESPECIALLY if they want to use Naoto). Though fighting every shadow on the way is kinda fruitless, 10 fights here are probably worth 1 in the next dungeon.
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@Revenant86 said:

" Hey guys. Since your Reaching the end of the game,I Want you guys to start taking this seriously    YOU MUST FUSE TRUMPETER -HE HAS THE MOST USEFUL SKILL IN THE GAME,DEBILITATE WICH LOWERS ATT/DEF/HIT/AND HIT/EVASION  YOSHITSUNE-HE HAS THE GREATEST PHYSICAL ATTACK. IT HITS ALL ENEMIES 8 TIMES.   beezlebub,hes a fucking badass  and MAra. you'll love him <3 "

This post is so true. Even if Jeff and Vinny were to not read these comments, I'm sure that P4 players can learn from them. With so many people agreeing that Yoshitsune and Trumpeter are amazing, I find it amusing when others tell people like us to stop posting awesome suggestions. I know that they aren't saying that Yoshitsune and Trumpeter suck, but they might as well be saying that if they don't want to see the personas being mentioned all over the place.
 
You're either for Trumpeter and Yoshitsune or you're against them. :P
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@Nario said:
" @Revenant86 said:

" Hey guys. Since your Reaching the end of the game,I Want you guys to start taking this seriously    YOU MUST FUSE TRUMPETER -HE HAS THE MOST USEFUL SKILL IN THE GAME,DEBILITATE WICH LOWERS ATT/DEF/HIT/AND HIT/EVASION  YOSHITSUNE-HE HAS THE GREATEST PHYSICAL ATTACK. IT HITS ALL ENEMIES 8 TIMES.   beezlebub,hes a fucking badass  and MAra. you'll love him <3 "

This post is so true. Even if Jeffy and Vinny were to not read these comments, I'm sure that P4 players can learn from them. With so many people agreeing that Yoshitsune and Trumpeter are amazing, I find it amusing when others tell people like us to stop posting awesome suggestions. I know that they aren't saying that Yoshitsune and Trumpeter suck, but they might as well be saying that if they don't want to see the personas being mentioned all over the place.  You're either for Trumpeter and Yoshitsune or you're against them. :P "
I'm for these guys playing the game without cheating off the peanuts gallery.
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It's amusing how some of us have been criticized just because we wanted to help them out. Personally, I would have enjoyed watching them become more and more "godlike" as they began to absolutely decimate enemies. Perhaps they could have even cracked a few jokes about how powerful they had become. I've never posted or read comments until now, so I was not aware of any potential controversy that could arise simply by posting advice.

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@Philosopher1701 said:
" It's amusing how some of us have been criticized just because we wanted to help them out. Personally, I would have enjoyed watching them become more and more "godlike" as they began to absolutely decimate enemies. Perhaps they could have even cracked a few jokes about how powerful they had become. I've never posted or read comments until now, so I was not aware of any potential controversy that could arise simply by posting advice. "
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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They should do a SMT: Nocturne endurance run; it would be pretty amusing watching them die as they'll be forced to play smart for once.

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At what level will Chie learn Godhand?