Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance - Boss Mastema [HARD]

Mastema supposed to be a challenging boss fight in the series, here he is just a push over for an antagonist.
Tiamat was a lot more harder due to healing / buffs final stretch, dunno why they made Mastema this easy.
No piercing skills...refuses to use his unique almighty skill...full drain/repel force/light/physical shuts all those extra press turns down.
If you fought him in smt4/SJ, hes a lot harder there with almighty spams / instant kills.
Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance - Boss Mastema [HARD]

[@jacopoarmini7889]

I love Mastema as a character, he is both perfectly memeable and serious at the same time. I also adore the fact that they cite his floor-smashing skills from Strange Journey.

[@Voltan]

_"How many Seething Mansemats?"_ _"Yes"_

[@JackFrostAegirine]

Unironically the best animation in the game. The name, animation and the way the skill actually works are the perfect show of Mastema's character.

[@duyanhbui5386]

at least it not great lament and a cool refrence to strange journey

[@akirahisui-lucario5636]

Drinking Game. Take a drink of your beverage each time Seething Mansemat is used

[@user-jf4uv4nt7f]

Mastema is rocking these Adidas pants.

[@jood.q]

In the name of our hallowed and mighty lord, evil be gone

[@bluenightgenso6390]

wait, is he punching the ground a reference to Strange Journey when he punched a hole in Sector Bootes floor?

[@swedishdistortedyanma3741]

Could be hope so if that is true then amazing refrenece

[@JackFrostAegirine]

Handsome angel time. The Chaos route may be kinda iffy this time, but Mastema is the absolute highlight and he is great as always. They really went all out with his animations and voice acting.

[@toony1232]

I guess if anyone wanted to fight him in Strange Journey... There you go

[@peropero2208]

Omg Law Roach I'm a big fan

[@rosenthal1466]

he’s rocking that balenciaga fit 😭

[@mrex666productions7]

I suppose he was deliberately easy for story reasons? It's supposedly like nobody can stop you from obliterating the entire universe anymore

[@jaffinator2166]

In the name of our Hallowed and Mighty Lord

[@skweedskweedson8432]

Evil BE GONE

[@DMSwordsmaster]

The only really noteworthy thing about Mastema is he's got a whopping three signature skills, none of which he uses frequently. (Edit: 2:56 - Well he never used that one on me four times in a row...) The only one that's noteworthy is Great Lament, which is the only skill in his set that could be any challenge since it's Almighty and does way more damage if you have an ailment. So naturally he basically never uses it. His other two signatures, which coincidentally you can't use yourself because Lol, are Seething Mansemat (10/10 name btw), which is just a whatever all party physical move that always crits and basically does more damage upon a crit (and is pathetic otherwise, and frankly already is still pathetic because with crit bonus it's still weaker than Hades Blast), and Untainted Winds, which would be kind of interesting, but still isn't very good. It does really mediocre Force damage, less than Mazandyne lmao, but it has a 50% charm proc (for whatever reason) and has a double debilitate effect. The latter quality is the only good part of the move. It's still lame and can't pierce Force immunity though. He could actually be threatening if the game made you fight him back to back right after Tiamat... So naturally he doesn't, so he just gets mad at you and gets ready to fight you, and then just sits there and lets you waddle off to the nearby leyline fount to freshen up. Yep. I don't care for back to back bosses with no opportunities to save, but this still seems really stupidly put together.

[@mrex666productions7]

The one on the Law Route was way more annoying though.

[@DMSwordsmaster]

​@@mrex666productions7 Aye, I'm aware. Haven't actually done New-Law yet myself but I've heard a lot of not nice things about the exclusive boss there.

[@mrex666productions7]

@@DMSwordsmaster And I'm 100% sure it's deliberate for story reasons, if you're in V-Chaos the game pretty much just assumes you're straight-up going to White everyone off the Universe past that point so whatever left that stands in front of you tends to be not very powerful, if it's V-Law then you're going to see much worse because the game assumes you're still the same old Nahobino as prior, you're very powerful, but at the end you're still a human. I don't know how to word this properly, but it sorta reminds me of the situation in Apocalypse where the Massacre route gives you much easier boss fights than the Bonds Route would.

[@toony1232]

I just came from a video where he used Great Lament five times?!

[@jaffinator2166]

“Does not use his unique skills very much” 2:56

[@eazybuxafew]

He has soooo many turns wtf!!

[@Glansi-kq3cu]

Yamata no orochi be like

[@zaqareemalcolm]

it's his innate skill Crime and Punishment, gives him an extra flashing turn icon per attack hitting his weakness or scoring a critical hit, up to 8 icons max

[@37Jhian]

Shame his AI is crap, if only there is a way to punish the player for covering their light weakness

[@hantosuhanto8284]

Wait!, Really?! 8 press turn?!!

[@user-wj2be8vu8q]

Ishtar moment

[@NeoCoyote]

i dont hate it but this was kind of a goofy boss imo, i was expecting him to have a transformation or something lmao

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

i mean....technically he does havee one in this game...but its a side quest lol