Can You Beat Persona 4 Golden Without Taking Damage? Part 1

It's time to seek the truth, say no to the impossible, and find out if it's possible to beat all of Persona 4 Golden without getting hit! The rules are simple. Don't let a simple point of HP drop for any reason. Will this run be just as torturous as the Doing Nothing Run, or an absolute blessing as we break the game in so many ways possible to make it possible? Let's find out! Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for the next two parts in this damageless run!
Co-commentator from Yukiko's Castle: / theeggpaladin
See playlist of all steams doing the damageless run: • Persona 4 Golden Damag...
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:57 Twisted Shopping District
5:48 Shadow Chie
15:09 Yukiko's Castle
33:27 Kanji's Steamy Bathhouse
48:55 Striptease with Rise and Teddie
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[@NitsuaGamer]

Wow, over 10K views already! Thanks everyone! Be sure to give this challenge run another view and share it to your friends! Also I just passed 10K subscribers as well which feels too good to be true, but couldn't be happier knowing my hard work paid off. Took over 10 years to get there, but glad I got it later than never! Once again, thank you everyone! It means a lot to me!

[@roqui_]

Gl with the run man

[@OrcaIguana]

I just found this channel and the quality is so high, can't believe it's taken you this long to hit 10 k. Good luck with the run man, the video is great.

[@lostsauce911]

Good on Spain for saving the entire run

[@roqui_]

@@lostsauce911 what

[@lostsauce911]

Oh man the nostalgia is real

[@greenstatic180]

The absolute missed opportunity of naming Yukiko's fire special "Burning Petals" instead of the infinitely better "Amagidyne"

[@handleshnarda]

Oh damn that's awesome!

[@EraVulgarity]

Write that down…WRITE THAT DOWN!!

[@skycats6663]

It suits Yukiko so much cause of her tendency to laugh at weird thing which includes puns.

[@espurrseyes42]

@@skycats6663 It also would've been fitting given that Mara had a unique Fire move, Maralagidyne, also being a pun of his name. Coincidentally also a Fire move.

[@InquisitorSinCross]

The original pun is in the fact that the kanji for both "flower" and "fire" are read the same way

[@hussainsaifee3376]

Yu got so traumatised in the battle with Shadow Yosuke that he swore to never let himself be harmed again

[@Freedom-yv8gv]

True

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

I like to see it as Yu becoming so much of a gigachad that he made it a point to not be touched without his permission after that.

[@Aichi1138]

I can see the Shadow Yosuke fight being the point where Yu decided "Pain sucks... let's never have to deal with that again!"

[@thejonbrownshow8470]

I bet he visited a traveling therapist who always offered the best snacks in his office...

[@chaosamber7719]

1:04:31 - "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT WAS A BACK ATTACK?!" - Brings a couple more hands with him - Zios Yosuke for 1 damage - Refuses to elaborate - they all leave

[@stargazersdance]

It was so disrespectful too LMFAO

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Lol

[@Redder_Creeps]

And all that shit, mind you, for 1 damage. *ONE* .

[@darkmatterpancake9824]

I like how the co-commentator is asked to do some navigation and does about as well as Teddie does

[@coltonandjen]

Bro was as helpful as Fuuka in P3FES 💀

[@valonyaver600]

I love how the makarakarn you placed way earlier on yukiko in the teddie fight ended up saving the run

[@Abedeuss]

That Chie AI costing the hand encounter... painful.

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

Ah yes, the life action adaption of popular LN “I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Emotional Pain instead”

[@SumitoMedia]

I hope more people adopt this method of doing a challenge run that basically starts after you get Chie, maybe even Yukiko. Love watching challenge runs but so many possibilities just end bc you wouldn't be able to pass the first dungeon abiding by the rules.

[@doublechindoge7]

_i love finding random seemingly completely unrelated youtubers in the comments section of other smaller youtubers_

[@jcs3146]

@@doublechindoge7 yeah i just had to see the reply like WHAT

[@tezcanaslan2877]

You can prevent physical damage,but you cant prevent emotional damage

[@matty4351]

if youre in kanji's bathhouse on 5/20 you can just get a random skill change to get megido regardless of level, in speedruns we use this to get megido, repel physical, mind charge, brave blade as well as some other abilities on this day way earlier than normal

[@NitsuaGamer]

Huh, fascinating! I had no idea! That would have sped up the run by a lot!

[@Mageman17]

Is this the Kaiwan skill change exploit?

[@matty4351]

@@Mageman17 in the route i use yeah it has kaiwan involved, i don't know if it's dependant on him though. we just use rng manipulation on random skill changes from fusion to change specific skills to others so we turn dekaja to megido, tetrakarn into repel physical and repel physical into brave blade and then pass them all down onto a single persons all on 5/20 which is when we first start kanjis dungeon

[@Mageman17]

@@matty4351 Nice. I really should try that. I've heard of it and it's potential, but it seemed long-winded.

[@ysmahelyfilho9998]

@@Mageman17 It's worth it. I got Victory Cry exploiting Kaiwan and never had to bother doing the fox quests

[@angwelio]

My dude grinded up to level 70 I finished my first playthrough of golden at 80 This is pure dedication, I genuinely admire it

[@PurpleDoshi]

If you Guard you can’t dodge attack

[@BorderFreak]

Didn't know that good to know whenever I boot up p4g again ty for the heads up

[@pocketinfinity6733]

yea he says that around the 50 min mark of the vid, makes sense though

[@snaicproductions]

I love how in the tier list every party member has their normal portrait, and then there’s Rise with just the persona Q portrait

[@lowfatslaplordofcheese6410]

Waiting in fear for shadow Misuo’s almighty spam (dragon quest sprite w/ baby inside guy)

[@nitumaki3817]

1:04:33 got to be my favorite moment. The fucking hands breathes in Yosuke’s general direction then left

[@bubbasgotback431]

So the Reaper seems to always start each battle with a mind charge, so if you use trifuri (the escape skill) you can always run from him. Helpful for when you want to continue picking up items from chests as escaping from his battle resets his counter.

[@magicball3201]

Alternatively you just leave the floor when you max the counter (21 chests), and that resets the counter to 0. You miss one chest, but don't have to spend SP

[@bubbasgotback431]

@@magicball3201 that doesn’t seem to work for me because the Reaper will just appear in a chest on the next floor. The sound effect still happens. You seem to have to encounter him to reset the counter.

[@magicball3201]

@@bubbasgotback431 my understanding of the reaper is upon getting opening your 21st chest if you interact with a chest with an enemy in it, it is replaced by the reaper. If you interact with a chest with no enemy, or leave the floor/dungeon, the game resets the counter. I've not extensively challenged the reaper, just 2 random encounters plus one more I forced to beat him, so perhaps I'm mistaken. The internet/wiki seemed to indicate as such though

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Yukiko, you have a frisbee that allows you to evade physical, use it you goddamn...blah!" Peak Persona statement.

[@RoyalFusilier]

I wasn't sure about going it on Easy, until I saw, uh, basically how this run actually went. It was definitely a wise move, and still this challenge led to so much pain, which ofc as viewers we love to see. P4 is such a world-class gem in any kind of run.

[@jstormy8168]

I’m throwing a like on this video for the torture of that grind you had to go through that much work deserves a like

[@1aaspraker]

Excellent video; looking forward to Part Two

[@starempresshel1211]

Short answer: No. Long answer: No but it's fun to watch regardless. Congratulations on that double boss clear without getting hit because I can't even begin to imagine that pain it caused to level up all that way so early.

[@MothQueenEffect]

That Teddy fight is bound to be hell.

[@Krondies]

52:35 Kanji is out COLD AHAHAHHAA GOOD ONE TEDDIE

[@fantan123]

This is the first time someone calls Goho-M as 'Go-Ho-M' rather then 'Go-Hom', seeing as they are a pun on Go Home

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Just making it to where you have in this vid is an achievement in it's own right... Serious props for having the willpower to put up with this.

[@divineinsanity652]

Your friend doesn't seem like he's all the way there.

[@thestormybee5442]

Your excitement when you accomplish something brings a smile to my face ☺️

[@Jonesy55626]

The shadow Yosuke kinda looks like ryoji from persona 3 funny since Yuri Lowentheal voices both characters

[@gabrieltheprooficial316]

I love that at 21:11, Yu only reminds you of the Jack Frost name. lol, pure synchronization

[@_gremlinboy]

It's funny you mention the gas station attendant's gender, on my first playthrough I somehow missed the first couple times they're called a guy so I assumed they were a woman until well into the endgame stuff

[@mr.barrel9359]

This has got to be the saddest thing you could put yourself through

[@NitsuaGamer]

I guess you haven't seen the P5R Doing Nothing run yet. THAT is sad.

[@maidenless_alan5136]

Second saddest thing

[@dalejhunter1]

I admit, I was thrown off by the leveling not increasing your current health, just your capacity, but I got used to it. Same could not be said for my fear of the Reaper, which people tell me can only spawn in chests after opening certain amount of them. Point is, I knew this was coming up so I never doubted you.

[@PriceAintRight]

This seems impossible as fuck, and you're a madman. Fuck it, I'm in.

[@Jaydenbb5]

this is the reason why I hate people saying doing this strat or that strat "isn't the way to play the game". The amount of patience and time taken as well as game knowledge is what can make the game so much fun to people

[@SeanieDew]

Dude! I love this video a ton! such an interesting concept for a challenge, and I love your passion and know how for this game. Quick tip, try and cut out parts where you repeat yourself a ton, like in the beginning you repeated why you have retries on for Yukiko's castle on several times and most of the stream reaction can be covered in post commentary. All this should give a quicker, more animated video, and help increase your watch time. Best of luck man, looking forward to the next part!

[@AutumnQueen.]

Holy moly it's seaniedew :o

[@TetsuRiken]

So I was looking at the wiki and since it gives an extra turn it's probably impossible to dodge Nullity Guidance

[@jenoyt1337]

If I had a shadow that can turn into some weird unholy monstrosity, I’d be willing to accept it

[@ChainedChutoy]

You guys sound like the the "ACKSHULLY" meme irl

[@codywhite6337]

Love this and cannot wait to see more!

[@killjoy_ao4653]

Here we go again Mr. Nitsua. Prepare a good therapist and sit tight !

[@namoma4922]

Also called "Yu narukami is overly cautious" run

[@Stringfox]

I just finished P4G for the first time and the first thing after was to run to see your P4 videos! I like your Persona content alot!

[@cryptowl4533]

Good job! Keep up the good work!

[@naosouemo8700]

masochism has reached a completely new level.

[@UpItIsMe]

Even though i watched through all the streams the video was still a great watch

[@sampfrost]

my sympathy for having to tolerate marie’s poetry

[@SonicBahasa]

This is such a nostalgia, i really wish another season are released...😢 Thanks for uploading this tho...

[@tete130]

Here for the preview!!

[@NitsuaGamer]

Plugs: Streamed Sessions of the damageless run: kzbin.info/aero/PLTRfJmgg7fWrV9MdpzpcNbCmifbETbjL8 Yukiko Castle Co-commentator The Egg Paladin: kzbin.info Patreon to get your name at the end of the upcoming big projects: www.patreon.com/Nitsua NitsuaGamer's Twitter: twitter.com/NitsuaGamer And be sure to check out my other content on NitsuaGamer!

[@RosyMiranto]

the Perfect Intro, starting at 4/20 Also, F for Dojima, Adachi, and ESPECIALLY Nanako :(

[@krsnadasafernandez7105]

If you spot a golden hand, go up or down a floor and comeback to that floor it's mega likely another golden hand is going to spawn on that floor. So you wouldn't need to save reset a lot of times, just one to get one hand (it might be less time consuming without the saving)

[@ronniedanner2250]

I have to admit between this and gamechamp no damage run at pokemon I am astounded by the commitment and care that goes into these runs.

[@mdg456]

my guy, u are a fking madlad for doing this, props to u for doing the run i will never even attempt

[@tyrahnon]

I was gonna day Wouldn't the Chie fight have been better not doing All out attacks and just doing Once mores since your wind damage was doing way more than the all out attacks but you seemed to figure it out on the 5th retry. Crazy run idea though looking forward to seeing the rest!

[@SonicTheCutehog]

Shouldn't the true final boss also be in the category of "damage is allowed in this instance"?

[@Linkforlife199]

After having recently beaten P4G for the first time, something occured to me watching these challenge runs of P4: Kamoshida's Castle looks strangely like Yukiko's, at least from the outside. I mean, I love both games, but I just thought I would bring it up. I saw you uploaded this but instead of jumping right into the video, I wanted to wait until I played the game for myself, the same thing with the P3 challenge run.

[@Kurumisama]

using physical skills shouldn't be considered having taking damage, tho that trivializes the run once you reach 75 and are able to fuse Yoshitsune

[@trom_my]

(19:07) the only time the game crashed on me was during the backtracking part of secret base, which was quite annoying..

[@patrickkwon3351]

I'm late but this might b on par w nyarlys orpheus only run. This one one of my top 3 persona videos ATP period good video!

[@patrickkwon3351]

hoyl crap not even 30 minutes n i get liked what a G

[@ronaldwangdra9675]

These Persona challenges just get crazier and crazier.

[@ConnortheGonnor]

I just got p4g last Thursday and I'll try this challenge because why not

[@NitsuaGamer]

Highly don't recommend as a first playthrough. You can take tips from this run, but allow yourself to get hurt on your first playthrough.

[@siph0r154]

Seriously. Take it from us. Do have fun with the game first before jumping into despair and agony xD

[@Bulkynemesis4534]

Dont do that please. You dont wanna hate a game that is actually good

[@CheesyLizzy]

It took many many hours of grinding to be able to do this run I recommend just playing the game casually ^^

[@mehdisilini7296]

Everyone gets caught by the killer twins at least once in P4

[@Kurtistrent007]

Damn that shadow Kanji tbh you should have used the magic mirror to reflect that fanatical spark.Since its Electric attack unless magic mirrors tetrakarm and makaram arent aloved.

[@FoxGamingWoah]

Sick video ngl

[@CuratorKay]

I checked myself: yes, the Teddie attack is scripted unavoidable.

[@can9910]

Oh shit this video 3 days old... i thought this was old so i would watch all of them...

[@inugamix7288]

Yo nitsua love you're content great vid as always keep going bro you have a thank from France ;)

[@NitsuaGamer]

Merci Beacoup!

[@eat00002]

Thank you for clarifiying insta-death counts.

[@wolfherojohnson2766]

3:54 Out of curiosity, what’s the best awakening in your opinion? Is it Zenkichi? Also, do you think Yu’s awakening is better in the animes or the game?

[@danemr6808]

It's obviously the awakening in Persona 3, especially with thanatos ripping itself out of orpheus.

[@Txur_Itan]

Damage-less huh? Alright, I'm listening

[@JGIF229]

Mate well done for that

[@drvofoka7033]

This video is unBEARable!

[@AniGaAG]

Meggy dough and Ska-DEE are my favorite Personas. ... okay, sorry, couldn't resist! Sorry! xD Great run, man. Good grief, I wouldn't have the sheer patience and mental fortitude... x)

[@mrnulif]

18:17 This is an actual issue with the game. no matter what kind of computer you have, if you stream P4g by OBS or you share screen in discrd, or do both, the ga,me WILL crash eventually, what varies is the amount of time between startup and crashing, it can happen on the title screen, or mid-way into a boss fight... I Would know, I tried this while showing my friends the game.

[@Kairos_Akuma]

I feel like there has to be an issue with Yukikos Dungeon in General. I wasnt Screensharing or anything, and it crashed so offten in this Dungeon. Never had it that bad ever again, just this specific Dungeon.

[@guardian299]

Funny to find this video and it started on my birthday

[@davegl9305]

This is going to be interesting....

[@monkey-ette4651]

jack frost was the persona i used for the entirety of persona 4 golden for me. at first i did it as a joke because i would get a better persona but i slowly just got jack frost insanely op. i did over 1k damage on the final boss with jack frost on very hard mode. all of his stats were in the high 70s low 80s but his magic got maxed out

[@dimatat]

Absolute madman

[@magatsudreemurr7717]

isn't using sukunda helpful cuz the enemy will miss more?

[@footsoljier6468]

Grinding is so easy in this game, set xp gain to more and you are over leveled for the next dungeon

[@jackofsouls4551]

52:38 Teddie makes bad dad jokes as well I love it

[@isuckatgaming1873]

This is pretty cool, but seems crazy painful

[@Laphi_desu]

32:39 my favorite social link, "A"

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Don’t grab Hunting Nata, go to Konishi Liquor for for a nice strong Yosuke weapon capable of Poison, helped me very much in my first run Edit: what I should mean is, the Skill Spanner is first available on 5/1

[@artificialaceattorney6822]

As far as I know, you can't pick up the Skill Spanner until after you complete Yukiko's Castle.

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@artificialaceattorney6822 yeah jsut realized that actually ;-; I’ll fix the comment lol

[@mjbrownii]

19:00 too much ice attacks

[@vampforte793]

That bufu item froze the the game

[@silentstorm5757]

This is a great video! If I can make a suggestion: you could consider putting your vods and these more edited videos on separate channels (maybe keep the edited videos on this and make a vod channel). These videos tend to get more views and generally KZbin's algorithm favors channels with exclusively videos that do well; uploading long videos that get few views ruins your chances of getting recommended. Just a suggestion though. Keep up the great work!

[@pringleman6932]

You said Yu’s awakening was the 3rd best in the series, but what are the other top 2? I just started the series with P5R so I need to know how they compare to the other games🙏

[@thechaoticvideogamer]

Is the Golden Hand RNG manipulation in the recently released ports? I'm genuinely curious.

[@frodofranz]

wouldnt yukikos castle golden hands still be better than no kanji golden hands? but i guess the item drops from the new place could be the other factor

[@AtlasPicking]

I wonder how many hours it to this guy to figure out Garu, AOA, Garu, Garu on shadow Chie

[@mniamburg6405]

When will you release the part 2?

[@infiniteshay8660]

And here I am calling Goho-M as "Go Home" lol

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Nice bear pun lol 49:02

[@rawrdino7046]

Wait this game has its own version of the antique shop from 3? Tf

[@PocketShark]

52:16 where did you find such weapon for Kanji?

[@irreverentizzy5426]

Here before the algorithm catches this! I know this is gonna be pure agony

[@akuma8192]

I thought the bear puns were beary good

[@randomindividual948]

I suppose they're considered POLARising.