: So, uh.. I posted the last LP update not knowing how long it’d take to get the results I wanted for the final battle against Nyx. It didn’t take that long.
: I figured it’d be kind of a cop-out if I didn’t show how to get the Spiegel gear. The Spiegel gear is not even remotely worth it. Talking to Kandori on the 8th floor and telling him to send you back to the 1st floor will put you back here. I didn’t cap it, but he says something like “Heh, you came all the way up here just to go back down?”
: My goal for Nyx was to get a team very similar to what we had for Pandora - that is to say, with as many reflects and absorbs as possible. Elly’s Persona was trash, so I fused Tensen Nyannyan as a stopgap. I’m not going to Personalog it because Tensen Nyannyan is just a bastardization of Taishan Nyang Nyang, the Chinese name for Apsaras. The wiki also gets her stats wrong, which is another reason I’m not doing a Personalog.
: Anyway, the Spiegel gear is extremely well hidden. Remember how Brown made that joke about finding a 10,000-yen bill?
: This is the confusing part. What you have to do is walk past the frozen girl, then turn around and press X in front of her, while facing the way Jihei is facing in the screenshot. This will let you find a note.
: This is the only good piece of the Spiegel set, and it’s useless for Jihei. I wish I could put this on Elly, because it’d actually be worth a shit there.
: Back to the 9th floor. You can see that everyone in the party is poisoned - as it turns out, about half the damage floors here poison you instead of doing damage.
: What you’re supposed to do here is walk around the damage floors.. or you could just use a core shield. The gem store sells them.
: The 9th floor isn’t the best for EXP, but with an underlevelled party it’s the best you’re going to get. The encounters are shaken up a little bit from how they were in Avidya World: this encounter here with four Vetalas is worth some 9,800 EXP.
: The 10th floor is technically better EXP, but has two major issues. Paimon is one of them - they reflect Nuclear, are frequently paired with enemies that reflect Gun, and have a combination of Curse damage and instakill spells.
: Rangda is the other problem. They’re not nearly as deadly as Paimon is, but they reflect Nuclear and have a lot of HP.
: I actually explored the entirety of the 9th floor using core shields. There are a lot of damage floors here, but with a core shield you can go right from the healing spot down to the stairs.
: I spent a few hours grinding Elly to 62, specifically so I could fuse Michael. With Michael, Elly can pretty much solo Nyx.. even if Michael’s moveset kinda sucks.
: Nyx is immune to Expel (which is the damage type Makouha does) but Tarukaja is extremely useful for gunning stuff down faster.
: Jihei gets levelled to 60/59, and I fuse Barbatos for him. Ignore where it says Odin, I wound up giving that to Ayase. Barbatos, if you’ll recall from the SEBEC route, is much like Michael in that he reflects magic.
: Yukino gets levelled to 55, and gets Armaiti. Armaiti has the same resists Michael does with one big exception: she doesn’t reflect or nullify status effects the way Michael does.
: Brown had Tensen Nyannyan until I tossed Lilim on him. This makes three out of five party members that reflect magic, and one who absorbs it.
: With that setup, I went to the 10th floor and pushed right through. Everyone but Ayase is basically invincible.
: Fafnir and Fenrir are both giant sacks of EXP. I managed to get Ayase up to like.. level 53 I think.. by the end of the 10th floor. Theoretically, if I was insane enough, I could have gone back to the 1st floor and fused a Succubus for Jihei (which absorbs magic and reflects status) and then given Barbatos to Ayase. I didn’t.
: Most of the 10th floor is a giant dark zone, but with a map it’s easy enough to get through.
: Here we are, at Nyx’s boss room.
: Meet the dumbest-looking boss outside of Pandora.
: Nyx gets her own boss theme, and it sounds like it belongs in an SNES Final Fantasy game. Anyway, Nyx has a gimmick that’s kind of like Pandora’s only way more dickish.
: This position, which she starts in, is called “Center Head”. In this form, Nyx takes 2x damage from weapons (which will do nothing anyway) and becomes extremely resistant but not immune to guns and magic.
: Center Head uses nothing but spells and a weak physical attack, alternating between Mabufudyne, Maragidyne, Mazandyne, and Maziodyne. You’ll notice that all of these are regular spells and not the resistance-penetrating ones that Pandora had.
: This is Nyx’s key weakness, and also how you can cheese her to death at a low level. See how Brown absorbed 592 damage? If you have Lilim, Nyx pretty much cannot kill you.
: This position is “Left Head”, where Nyx turns her face off and lets Maki do the work. Left Head is annoying because it can remove your buffs and also has a heal, as well as a move called All Guard. It does not have any attacks or damage spells.
: All Guard causes all attacks to miss for one round. Left Head takes 2x damage from guns and magic, but resists everything else.
: This position is “Right Head”, where Kandori takes over. Right Head has Makakaja, which increases magic damage, as well as some debuffs. The idea is that Right Head buffs with Makakaja and then switches to Center Head to cast ma-dyne spells.
: Theoretically, Nyx should be a really challenging (and kind of cheap) boss: it has a higher Agility than most of the party does, meaning it can cancel out your attacks by switching heads after you’ve chosen your actions but before they go off. With this setup, we can simply set the game to autobattle and gun her down.
: Like I said, Lilim will ignore every single thing Nyx can do without grinding at all. This setup was just overkill. I actually did a second run of this that I didn’t record where I had everyone guard, and I won simply by virtue of Nyx reflecting spells onto herself.
: I doubt it.
I mean, it’s not like Atlus made an entire sequel about this or anything.
: “Your name was Suzakin, yes? I have a feeling we’ll meet each other again.”
: And with that, we’ve finished Snow Queen and also finished Persona 1. The ending is kind of weak, but you’ll see why.
: “Yeah, there’s still some business we’ve gotta take care of. Right, Jihei?”
: “We gotta find Maki.. she looked like she was in pain to me.”
: “…Alright. Then you go do what you gotta do!”
: “You’re adults now, setting out on your own. I won’t stop you. But promise me this..”
: “Huh? Like what?”
: “Come back and see me before you get all old and wrinkled! And come back to report in when it’s all over with!”
: “You should try being in my shoes, getting yelled at every day by the vice principal!”
: “Haha… it looks like this incident has given him second thoughts, though. He asked me to thank you guys. Maybe now he won’t be so strict.. for a while, at least.”
: “Hah! That cueball? As if!”
: “Oh, he’s not really all that bad. But anyway! You should stop chitchatting and get going before it’s too late!”
: “Right!”
: “The school’s returned to normal, but that’s only the beginning. Our true battle comes later. First, we must restore peace to our city.”
: “We’re still young.. there’s a lot of life yet to fight through. I’ll rise to the challenge!”
: “Y’know, up to now, I’ve just been doing whatever I feel like. But when I see Yukino and the others try so hard, I feel like I can do way better.”
: “I dunno how exactly, but that can wait until after we save the town. Catch you later, Ms. Saeko!”
: Unfortunately, Yukino never becomes a teacher. In fact, I’m not even sure any of the Persona 1 cast wind up going to college.
: “Thanks for everything, Jihei! Looks like they have ideas for their future. How about you?”
: Well yeah I mean, we’ve still got Innocent Sin to do.
: “Great! You’ve done something amazing here. Savor that feeling and give it your all!”
: The game makes you wait until the end of the credits to find out how Snow Queen fits into the timeline.
: So yes, canonically Snow Queen happens before the SEBEC route. I believe Snow Queen is the canon version of events, so the entire beginning of the game happens differently.
: I can only imagine how much better the SEBEC route would’ve been if we never had Nanjo or Maki in the party and started at level 50+.
: And.. that’s Persona 1. I think in the end that it’s not a bad game, it’s just a game with incredibly dated and flawed game mechanics. Someday, I’d love to see Atlus remake it in the canonical order and fix the SEBEC route so the plot sucks less.
: I’m probably going to need to go back and finish the alternate party dialog for SEBEC, but once I do that.. it’s on to Persona 2: Innocent Sin.
