down bad for dragons (also the world is ending) [STRANGE JOURNEY REDUX - Part 24]

[@raud5106]

The end is near... Because Mad Gasser will spray that stuff all over the world, dude is broken. Poor Alex, I love her Demonica.

[@stiriann]

😂😂😂 mad gasser will take control of the world in no time

[@woolcaparmy]

always catch these uploads at 4am when i cant sleep, always perfect timing! lol

[@stiriann]

yeah my timezone isn't good for a lot of people 😂😂😂 but good thing it works out for you!

[@demi-femme4821]

Okay, this here? Alex's inclusion here is where she mars the whole plot. She's there to yell at you that your ending is bad and you should feel bad so that you go back and play the correct routes. Nocturne doesn't do this shit. If you don't engage with the TDE path, the only new things that the Maniax edition and other rereleases of Nocturne make you deal with are the fights with Matador and Dante/Raidou. The original Reason, Demon, and Freedom endings are entirely unchanged. TDE is not treated as the correct route. It's certainly the canon route like how Neutral is the canon route of IV, but it doesn't make the other routes invalid. The extra kick in the teeth is the Neutral route, where they need a reason for Alex to be here to try to kill you. Their solution? Well, you see, your protagonist destroyed the Scwartzwelt, but then people got lazy and another one came and consumed the Earth. Do you see the problem here? Not only does it literally not make any sense (ah yes, my problem is that the Schwartzwelt will come back and destroy the Earth, so my solution is to kill the guy who destroyed the Schwartzwelt the first time so that the world will get destroyed even faster), but it also ruins the original Neutral ending because all the hope is gone. Alex is right there to tell you that you're only delaying the inevitable. Also New Neutral ending sucks because their solution to the contrived problem of "well humans are lazy so the next Schwartzwelt will kill everyone" isn't "alright, let's make sure we keep a record of all this so we can prepare for next time and destroy the Schwartzelt immediately." No, it's "let's make the protagonist and Arthur immortal and have them do all the work that humanity won't." This is why I never play Redux. Their Labyrinth of Amala ripoff is apparently fun but if I want a Labyrinth of Amala to explore, I'll play Nocturne and explore the Labyrinth of Amala. Edit: sorry for ranting it's just...fuck. I hate how they shoved Alex in.

[@stiriann]

nah nah i feel ya! 😂 honestly alex was so inconsequential to me that i can't even really get into the whole "she ruins all the other endings thing". like to me she was just such dead air that it's impossible for her to impact my feelings of the game at all 😂😂😂 what a waste

[@anonymoususer2784]

Mastema was just in it for the promotion.

[@aboveaveragegaming5503]

i can live with manipulation but draw the line at lying is one of the biggest oxymorons i have ever heard

[@stiriann]

hahaha my point was that if you're gonna be an asshole, you should own up to it instead of pretending you're a good person 😂 be an honest menace if you're gonna be one, do it properly!

[@aboveaveragegaming5503]

@@stiriann oh i am very aware of your point and it is fair simply put the statement is an oxymoron not hypocrisy it is funny as how do i manipulate you without lying or better yet why would i make my job harder for no reason lol

[@stiriann]

@@aboveaveragegaming5503 i guess at that point it's like... if your cover gets obviously busted, don't try to act all high and mighty about it? i just hate the whole thing of "no i was righteous all this time!!!! i'm such a good person!!!!" like no you're not, i know it and you know it, gtfo law rep! 😂😂😂

[@aboveaveragegaming5503]

@@stiriann yep wish we had a good smt law rep tbh since really smt law is so biblically inaccurate it hurts but it also makes sense for smt since the thing with demons is it is based on humanitys perception of the topic and biblically god functions outside of humanity and is honestly the only god to do so in religion to my knowledge so a real law rep would actually likely fight smt "angels" and kill smt "god" beccause it is a fake version of god twisted by humanity and their beliefs of what God is imagining that play out really gets my creative juices flowing tbh

[@OwlsAndDevils]

You know, the more I follow your playthrough from a 3rd person's perspective, I'm starting to think how skewed towards Chaos people would be if they didn't choose Neutral, just because of all the reps that are present. Aside from the main alignment reps, every sector boss is Chaos, the victims of Jack's Squad were demons for the sake of sympathy, you get to see a nice demon in Bugaboo, Lucifer makes some decent points while law only has...three old guys having a latte in their crib and Mastema. That's about it. Like, aside from Power, I don't think any angel demons showed up at all in the story in the first 4 sectors. Like, I dunno, sometimes I feel like people picked Law either because it's the hardest route in the original (which is kinda ironic, given what Chaos is meant to be), or they were just trying to be nice and hoping maybe the angels aren't THAT bad.

[@stiriann]

you're completely right! to me, aside from the ideology that i agree with, a big part of why chaos is appealing is because of how much time you spend with the demons. you get to form bonds with them, realize that they're actually pretty darn funny and more honest than humans! i think the reason why some people also pick law is because they desire that sort of a hivemind society? like, it is true that all war would end and we'd have an everlasting peace if everyone was religiously lobotomized, but yeah.... personally, i can't see the appeal of the law alignment at all. not even just in this game, but i just really hate everything they're trying to do LMAO 😂

[@DarkJ1425]

You don’t want to join thier latte party?? Your lose. ☕️

[@secondmemelord8859]

Just a list of things to mention : - Tetrakarn´s damage is calculated based on how much damage it would have done to the intended target. Some people just use low level Demons to maximise reflect damage ( it´s not even the most broken form of Tetrakarn, that honor goes to the karn spells in Soul Hackers 1 where they don´t go away after 1 attack ) - there´s still the quest you can get in Sector F to get a really good gun - The theme for the last floors of Sector H hits different on a Neutral Run - If you did Womb of Grief and agreed to potentially help Alex then she will talk to you instead of fighting you ( you can still reject her, which leads to a different fight then the one you encountered ( it´s also neccesary to do so atleast once in order to unlock a new demon for fusion ) See you in the next and presumably last episode.

[@stiriann]

i actually haven't been using tetrakarn at all in this game, but that's a fun little tidbit to know! :-) with the other stuff you're unfortunately late haha, i got the ending i wanted and the last episode is gonna come out next week! 😎

[@ostail]

Mastema is a weird law rep In the smt IV DLCs he summons flynn in the past to fight the archangels cuz he thinks they aren't actually following God's will, and that's how they end up as humanoids who don't remember anything in the main game

[@stiriann]

mastema just rly is balling huh

[@ostail]

@@stiriann there archangels give you a quest in IV(law) to kill mastema, they really hate each other

[@Arngrims_Deadend]

When are you finally embracing the dungeon music.... Great as always Stiria made my day Also : One more Gore joke and there will be heads rolling...

[@stiriann]

as long as they reuse the worst tracks in the game, never! 😂 the red area has good music though

[@izanamyi]

Im glad im not the only person who starts singing the tokyo ghoul theme when playing videogames

[@stiriann]

every time 🫣😂

[@CarlosSilva-bh4bi]

Pro Tip: I dont know if its still there on Redux If you have finished the game and try another route or New Chaos, get in Delphinus on the place/floor where you get the cosmic egg and use enemy search, If you find "Seth" get that forma out of his insides until you get new gear availible, good luck, that B-ch's rare You are going to probably need 1-2 formas of him and some formas of Horologium May the cosmos bless you P.D: You dont need NG+ for this, or at least I think, I plaayed the original game

[@stiriann]

thanks! i'll try to remember that if i ever replay this game :D

[@muddak3292]

Light-Based Law-Pilled Mastema strikes once again Genuinely sad that we never really see him again in 3D. Would love to have him involved in an SMT plot where he is part of the law and/or neutral group (as in IV he says that whatever decisions you make, eventually you and others will realise that the way of YHVH is another option to consider so he is chill with it). One of the best non-human characters SMT has.

[@stiriann]

maybe he will return someday. i love the concept of an angel being corrupted by their own greed, so mastema is a really cool character. i just hate him as a person 😂😂😂

[@battleon81]

I like Alex, but that's only because I went through all the Redux content. When you take that out, she does seem rather pointless. She's an interesting take on how all the alignments are cartoonishly extreme, hypocritical, or overly-optimistic. Too bad you don't get to see any of that unless you spend half your playtime grinding through an optional dungeon.

[@tomatopawah6877]

Okay so there's a lot to unpack here, first of all Horologium is a really long Sector but that makes your progress feel even better and I'm really glad You were able to feel that way too. In case you haven't noticed the Chaos Demon coop is red and has explosions while the law one is blue and sounds like a laser gun Alex actually has a cutscene where she explains her past but Womb of Grief so yeah...the only way to talk to her before the final battle is by, again, making progress on the Womb of Grief. I personally prefer the new chaos ending but oh well, opinions. And lastly oh boi Mem Aleph, probably one of the WORST final bosses in the entire series. Bringing a ton of demons who resist and/or null elemental damage and Tadano with the dragon armor is a must, if you buff/debuff more than once she'll heal herself. On the DS the resistances of the 2nd phase start with a fire weakness, random repels/neutral resistances and then it's random, the only way to know which element she's currently weak to was having a sub-app equiped. Redux Made that sub-app part of the base kit unsurprisingly, and then there's MA chance of instakill that ignores instant death resistance, how fucking fun. Phew that was a Lot, really excited to see the end of this playthrough

[@stiriann]

LMAO that does sound like a bother and a half 😂 also i hadn't noticed the difference between the co-op attacks! i didn't use enough law demons to notice, i think 🫣🫣

[@jjpemfr8882]

Hey, now you have ads 😮 Adirias

[@stiriann]

i hope there's none inside the video itself! i manually opt out of the midroll ads, but i thought the skippable ones at the start of the videos would be fine 😌

[@jjpemfr8882]

@@stiriann yeah I have seen no midroll ads at all so everything's as fine as It gets

[@Enrikuh]

At this point I think you should be enjoying the dungeon crawling part of SMT. Nor should you mind the maps full of teleports, labyrinths and traps. (You are censoring the best part. 😭 )

[@stiriann]

the dungeon crawling is just fine, but obviously i'll be annoyed if i get sent back a bunch of steps 😂😂 that and i hate how they reused the worst track in the game for the last two sectors, made it really feel like a slog the same way how YHVH's universe theme did in smt iv apocalypse

[@Enrikuh]

@@stiriann They chose to leave it as it is in the original, with the reuse of the same songs. (Although I like them. I think every OST with vocals from this game is very bizarre and that's why I like it.) But hey, SMT never messes around with the dungeon crawling part haha. It will always be a patience challenge for the player. Unless you love it.