I absolutely love everythibg about smt 5... I just dislike the dampeners Like they were always a thing but before it felt like "nice i have a phys dampner so i can have a free turn" and less "my dumbass forgot to get the elec dampener and now i am dead"

@@valletas true but its basically like having a team to reflect or null it but easier and always scripted

I must be in the minority, since I liked the English VAs. They added to the kind of anime charm that the game has.

Haha, I am glad you asked! SMT has often been called "dark Pokemon for adults", and that's not far from the truth. All games start you with weaker stats and demons, you gradually level up both, only to trade those same demons for stronger (that is, ones that can adequately counter whatever boss you are faced with) and so on. The endgame parts can get brutal, through, because they often throw at you optional / DLC bosses or sidequests that can be much tougher than the main story foes. You die, only to get back up and come up with a better strategy for success. The allure of the series is that it makes you come back for more, even when "more" means yet another lost battle.

It is called "Battle -gliding-".

Read my earlier comments to your question in the other vid. If you still can't find it, I'll make a brief video to show the path to Kresnik.

That's been my experience, too.

Normal.

100%. Obviously though it's just a game, and some people just don't have the experience with it. Nothing wrong with that or learning over time. What jumps out at me is that they're literally not even using press turns. Why waste a turn on Tarunda, especially as your first action? Why Life Drain with Mermaid at full health when you literally have Bufu/Stormcaller's song, already see that the enemy is weak to it, and could at least generate a turn for someone else to use? You basically always should attack with an element weaknesses first to gain a press turn before going for debuffs. You also literally would've seen he gathered Magatsuhi the previous turn, hence the guaranteed magic crits. Why not guard at the very least, if not use a Dark Dampener after having Spyglassed them to see their moves? This is also a subquest miniboss, so you're reasonably expected to adjust your team before it. Level 9 Neko Shogun is also just too low level for a level 16 boss - it's base level 5 in this game, meaning they manually leveled it up to level 9 when they could feasibly have fused something 5 levels higher like Obariyon or Halphas with good resistances and with Bufu passed on, Azumi if you want the +2 Bufu, or Daemon if you want a low level demon to null the Dark attack and instantly end the enemy's press turns. Also I don't remember how the party member switching thing worked for the humans, but Yuzuru instead of Yoko also has Bufu.