Trying Persona 5's First Boss in Coop

[@Flygoniaks]

"I failed my finals because I couldn't get the book off the end of the battle pass" has to be the most underrated joke of this playthrough so far.

[@MrTailson1]

I'm surprised that anyone I watch who plays this recently doesn't think to send Morgona, the smallest party member and self-proclaimed thief, after the crown during the boss battle. I didn't even know that you could win the fight without doing that part.

[@raid--er4083]

I did the same but I ended up killing him since I failed too many times sending Morgana

[@chetsevern]

I did but I ended up not needing to.

[@guardiansparky1766]

Morgana is always my healer, so I always end Ryuji instead because he's an athlete etc

[@MrTailson1]

@@guardiansparky1766 Oh yeah, that actually makes sense too. I never thought about that aspect.

[@Laenthor]

They screwed up the difficulty so bad that it's basically impossible to do enough damage to keep him distracted on hard/merciless, at least not without a lot of grinding.

[@Ghostel3591]

Killing someone is an easy way out. Changing their heart while also morally dubious but end result is you get: - A changed man actually regretting their actions who will never hurt anyone else. - Satisfaction of watching them destroy everything they've built and LIVING to suffer the consequences and stuff. Ann by sparing Kamoshida basically just chose "Fate worse than Death (Light Edition)" for him. She didn't want to give him an easy way out - she wanted him to suffer.

[@invertebrado]

she even says that verbatim later in the game

[@heello2u465]

What makes it less dubious is that the phantom thieves would otherwise have no agency to defend themselves in the real world as Japanese children in a society that does not defend them.

[@chameleonfoot]

morgana's "ill back out and focus on support" line when he dies is just because he still gives you advice and stuff in battle even when he's "dead"

[@evilpoptropica]

making kamoshida repent w/ anime magic was the only way he would ever stop and repent for his crimes. he was a truly evil man and no amount of therapy or help wouldve fixed him, that's how evil he was. the only way to end the cycle of kamoshida's abuse was to have him admit to his crimes. killing him wouldn't have brought anything to light, ppl wouldve probably just been like "heaven gained another angel today🙏 changing kamoshida's heart was the only way

[@lweaver2988]

Nah, once he's dead all of his victims would have started bringing it out, because they have nothing to fear anymore.

[@ultragamer4465]

​@@lweaver2988 but it would be in poor taste to shit on a dead man and loads more wouldn't believe them to begin with. A confession is a perfect ideal victory. It's a cheat code. Which has it's consequences later

[@smashkid9196]

@@lweaver2988That would be an even shallower victory because he wouldn’t be alive to face justice for his crimes

[@Ray_Moses]

I love them absolutely predicting that the phantom thieves sell kamoshida's medal

[@gajaan316]

Shout out to Tree dude for being the one to give such a legendary name to the group, who's legendary tales will arise

[@treedude4246]

:3 you are welcome! Im very proud of the name

[@popdog165]

@@treedude4246 ITS THE MAN

[@jg.steven6827]

Binged all these episodes yesterday at work lol glad to see another one up today

[@sonals7549]

Hot take hard is kinda harder than merciless, cause with merciless all weakness are bumped up quite abit to the point where if you play around it you can start to one shot shadows around the half way point, although if joker is hit with an attack that's his weakness without decent armor he getting 1 shot, doesn't make the series any less injoyable just an though I've had after playing through p5r afew times

[@ruiyan6797]

I mean, in Merciless you start one shotting shadows from the get go

[@BraveShowBoys]

This is super obvious when you get to okamura. Merciless makes that fight easier than easy

[@ChaoZzBladex]

i Played on hard in my first playthrought, and the second i put it on merciless thinking okay this gonna be even worse... but turned out after a bit of a struggle in the start it was alot easier than hard the weakness damage is just to insane pretty bad difficulty setting should swap hard and merciless arround tbh

[@av34life]

Overall, if you cant crit or hit an enemy weakness, merciless is harder. Though normal fights are definately harder on hard since u dont one shot them

[@dragonarchive7443]

Coldest take 💀

[@Joker_Kirby]

48:31 Dude just foreshadowed Morgana's arc

[@raymaikeru]

You should probably adjust it down to Hard. Merciless has this thing where hitting enemy weaknesses is like 3x more than Normal? Only thing about Merciless is just if you yourself get hit, then prepare for a dump truck ramming into ya. If you want a bit more of a harder experience via doing less damage to enemies, then might as well adjust it down to Hard.

[@ihavenonamestilldonthaveon8970]

Merciless gives you less fusion bonus exp from confidants, I'm pretty sure. So there's that at least

[@dartoney]

I do disagree with the views on the stealing of hearts thing, from what i got it was the only way to make him realize how bad his actions were, and the only way to stop him other than killing, in other words he was too far gone so his heart needed to change

[@WakkaMadeInYevon]

The way they phrase it is as if he's confessing to something he didn't do. In reality, all they did was remove what made commit these crimes in the first place, and what's left is for his conscience to reason with. They aren't forcing a confession, the criminals choose to do so. Like the entire point of P5 is that the law won't do jack shit to these people and they'll only keep hurting others. The game does highlight the dubiousness of changing hearts on multiple occasions. But claiming that just offing him is the better option is naive. The victims would never get closure that way.

[@GhostHunter-lm8tv]

I would absolutely pay to watch this version of X-Folders 😂

[@sgtboom7]

TL;DR: If "stealing someone's heart" is morally wrong than are police questionings where the suspect confesses also morally wrong? Since both required an outside force to achieve the same result? I never thought of "stealing someone's heart" as morally dubious since to me it's like convincing someone they did/were doing something or (and this is more appropriate) them coming to terms that they were doing something terrible. If that is morally dubious than legal interrogations/questionings where the interrogated person confesses is also morally dubious, more so even, since the person being questioned is aware of what is going on in front of them. At least with this way, sure you beat the shit out of their shadow, but afterwards without that shadow to twist what they are doing they see what they had done in a clearer light.

[@sirshallot3036]

Love this editing style. High quality stuff

[@caioc.c.b.2001]

NEW EPISODE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO I fucking love your coop videos.

[@treedude4246]

Im so happy u guys used my suggestion

[@dragonarchive7443]

This needs to be a 50 part series MINIMUM

[@novaausakura5898]

The "we should have just killed him" argument is such a shallow view of what's going on. Kamoshida would never change on his own, is protected by the school and parents despite them knowing what's going on, the aligations against him are coming from people who have been labeled as delinquents or untrustworthy and killing him in the real world would only make it more likely his crimes will be covered up permanently and you'll be put in jail while he is memorialized and remembered as a good person. This game even touches on this later because the moment someone the thieves targeted dies, the thieves start losing everyones support and are turned into public enemy #1. Is that really the outcome you want? Death is not the worst punishment you can give someone, its actually kindness in most cases. You can't just kill scum like this and expect it to work out, especially for someone in Jokers position. People who immediately jump to "let's just kill them" usually don't actually think about the consequences of their actions and usually end up making things worse. Also the rebuttal of "what if they just don't confess their crimes" ignores the part where they become a truly honest person crushed by the weight of their sins and thus are incapable of doing that. Just because you don't like the method doesn't make it the wrong one. Not to mention, even if the world tries to let him off, he won't be able to do that for himself and thus is guaranteed punishment for the rest of their lives. Which is worse, dying or having to live the rest of your life crushed by your own guilt with no possible chance of escaping it?

[@ShinyMew888]

"That was the old me, kid" I dont know why that got me so hard, but I couldnt breathe for a second there lmao

[@rembrandt_15]

Good strategy for the Kamoshida fight: Have everyone at level 11 cause Morgana learns Media, Ryuji learns Headbutt, and Ann learns Tarunda. Fuse Kelpie and Jack-o-Lantern/Cait Sith to get Obariyon. Snap deals medium gun damage so it's worthwhile. During the battle. Ryuji cast Tarukaja on either you or himself to increase damage. Ann cast Tarunda on Kamoshida to debuff his damage. Morgana cast Media to heal the team. Spam Ryuji's Headbutt and Obariyon's Snap after Tarukaja and Tarunda. Other personas that cast useful buff or debuff skills in your inventory can help in a pinch. Rinse and repeat, should work wonders.

[@downbeatdialga1341]

35:10 The Principal: “I smell a dateline special”

[@jacobgalindo7872]

Ago ngl? When persona 5 first came out, I was one of the teenagers who started drinking and making coffee because of this game 😭

[@adamkampen]

A home run in 18 hits? Man it took me over 200 to get my first

[@aquadiamond4384]

The moist protein gives more permanent hp and sp increases when going to the gym

[@-Kaeya-]

These always make my day. Waiting for more, stay safe guys!

[@Flutterdark_]

soooo if you would have met the dps check long enough and taken the crown you would have just set his defense to like -1000 and rekt him. thats what the special order was meant to do

[@SonicTheCutehog]

Sending Morgana would have made the fight so much easier

[@majidoujaa5592]

No it wouldn't, they are not doing enough damage to trigger the next phase

[@SonicTheCutehog]

@@majidoujaa5592 Ryuji does more damage than Morgana

[@jadesgay444]

i sent morgana for my play-through. i figured since he doesnt know who morgana is it would make it easier. and it did lol he didnt even notice we were down a teammate until it was too late

[@Flutterdark_]

yo i cant wait till they can get king frost and stat max him :D

[@brynex666]

Pls continue this series 😂

[@borombab4816]

They should try doing this for persona 1 It would be so funny 😂

[@ChivalrousThief_Zelnir]

Backseat gamer comment, honestly don't care if its not needed cuz watching this made me upset. Whoever is playing Ann....for the love of crying fuck USE MAGIC!!! SHES THE BEST MAGIC DPS!!!! I have a feeling you were thinking about saving SP for debuffs and healing, when you could just easily do more dps. Leave heals to Morgana- thats his job.

[@Vulnresati]

Yeah, I actually love this series

[@eljoel89]

TheHambrglrs!!!

[@BakedBanana]

oh!

[@BuddyArmstrong5445]

29:17 As a teenager who tried drinking coffee because of the game. It tastes like shit!

[@ChaoZzBladex]

why do you drink it if it tastes like shit? xD also coffee is love best hot drink there is. :P

[@BuddyArmstrong5445]

@@ChaoZzBladex “tried”

[@reinfall]

I tried it not long before I started my playthrough and winced every single time Joker took a sip because i HATE it and sometimes I tried to feel like I was Joker

[@yoshisaur4713]

It’s probably because I like bitter drinks, but coffee taste great!

[@random1237]

hard is probably harder than merciless cause merciless benefits the player while hard does not.

[@kritikalKreznik]

Use Protein at the Gym. It'll make the MC SWOLE

[@Verithiele]

Is there any way for us lowly mortals to play Persona games in coop?

[@WafflePhattdippa]

The lowest budget makeshift substitute I could think of is having 4 people in a room and passing around the controller. Online though, it's not possible without a pc and some software. Check the first video in our p5 playlist for the pc rundown.

[@Medici-Anon]

Did you upload videos playing persona 3? I was under the impression you played it but i only found the persona 4 ones

[@Penqu]

Weve played and basically completed 3 now, them videos planned to be released after 5 then 4 are done

[@PatriciasWorldPW]

ok small thing but it's spelt co-op. saw the title and was like what's coop? like I thought it was related to a chicken coop

[@ytallopontoexe]

42:39 Brazil Mentioned

[@HyperShadow42]

What game was shown in the X Folders footage?

[@FerGz-]

Alright

[@mask_vids9834]

The principle should have been the next target tbh. The literal drug dealing money lender& the famous artist was waaaay too much. For the early game.

[@RockR277]

I remember being unable to steal the crown my first playthrough as well. It just makes him weaker for a few turns. Speeds it up but isn't necessary.

[@aquadiamond4384]

L?

[@RockR277]

@@aquadiamond4384 what?

[@redsp1rit]

What's the name of the game he showed at 31:40?

[@evilded2]

Is this a blind playthrough?

[@8pierrot89]

Fantastic new channel for me to sub ☆

[@link8743]

Could you possibly release the mod or is it in the discord already?

[@vagabondlibrarian]

they say how to do it in the first episode (kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5PCoGmDi9tmiac if i can paste the link)

[@DJ-0]

It's not a mod it's basically just sharing a controller online

[@link8743]

Oh okay thanks I'll check it out

[@RasenShot]

@@DJ-0 could you share the details on how to do that if you know, though? Like, can this be done on console over online and the like and whatnot.

[@PoisnedArtist]

​@@RasenShot He explains how he did it in the beginning of the first episode. He uses apps that aren't on consoles so you won't be able to there.

[@lol-2247]

Hello there

[@onetitwndr]

Dude I hate the fact that the solution to every problem even S-Links is let's just magically "change their hearts"

[@technic1285]

You have to understand this is set in Japan, and considering some interesting statistics, they clearly don't have a very good grasp on therapy quite yet.

[@Whispersmith646]

Its...the plot of the game? I understand therapy is a better solution, but the whole point of this game is the phantom thieves. And your upset that the game uses them?

[@onetitwndr]

First off shoutout to Hunt man I love that game. Second yeah I just wish there was more variety and that the solution to every problem wasn't just magic

[@Whispersmith646]

@@onetitwndr *Cough* Mishima *Cough*

[@onetitwndr]

@@Whispersmith646 N that's it

[@gabeclenney6372]

Wow I'm early

[@federicodimattei5703]

To be completely honest, I've always felt like the change of heart thing was a shallow victory too. I understand the point of it and everything, but to be honest... the post-change-of-heart versions of the villains aren't even themselves anymore, they just magically become good people. When I played the game, I didn't want to see "boohoo I've been so bad" Kamoshida get punished, I wanted to see the actual, evil piece of shit Kamoshida get punished and suffer for it, 'cause at that point you're not even punishing the same person who did those things. Killing him wouldn't have been enough, but I'd comfortably take that over the "magically make them good" consolation prize.

[@Yuki-sy6jv]

The protein shouldn't be used as a healing item, you should use them to boost your training