# Sin is In - Persona 2: Innocent Sin

**URL:** <https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834>\
**Category:** Completed Let's Plays\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834 "2020-03-27T02:46:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/timrod/32/85274_2.png) [@Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/u/Timrod)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/123 "2020-07-28T21:38:51Z")

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![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Hoo boy do I have something for this thread.

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Around the time Eternal Punishment came out, Atlus released a whole bunch of artbooks centered around Persona 1 and the Persona 2 duology. Some (like the Innocent Sin World Guide) have been scanned, but others haven’t. Someone dumped a scanned copy of Persona Club II: Innocent Sin (one of three artbooks in the series) on 4chan today, weighing in at a massive three gigs of scans. You can find it here: [Google Drive - Virus scan warning](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1Ce_osOwbCP9xvNk81qtu5VroMcdCngdw&export=download)

I highly recommend that you do NOT look at the artbook until AFTER the LP is finished as the first page has a picture of the final boss of Innocent Sin. Thankfully there’s only one more story update left.

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Unfortunately, the pages are WAY too big to post here, but I’ll post some of them.

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/4/94a9cb1b1c1842995141fd8375b6a3be47a4ce25.jpeg)

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Here’s a shot of all the ultimate Personas. From the left you have Apollo (Tatsuya), Artemis (Maya), Hermes (who isn’t actually an ultimate), Venus (Lisa), Chronos (Jun), and Hades (Eikichi). Sucks that they put all this time into them when they’re crap in-game.

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/5/35daaef27cd08b7455ac09d49729d3efedf0a91a.jpeg)

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Each character also has a massive amount of fanart, except the scanned pages are so big that I can only post a quarter of a page at a time. Seriously they’re like 20 MB each.

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/1/71fc2387b559d8661b5cbe79874553fa66a9a174.jpeg)

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/4/14d2ad98bb150560f9d9d823e08e5dc5c8a070e7.jpeg)

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/5/d5a4080621a588731cdda27266bd3326b40f52eb.jpeg)

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): They also do an entire Q&A section in the back about plot points in Innocent Sin. I really, really wish I could read these. Here they do a character comparison chart.. where Yukino somehow gets compared to the two worst girls and also Mark for some reason. They got this wrong because Mark was slow and shitty and Yukino is the exact opposite of that. Eikichi is actually the slowest character by far.

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/9/79a04458d2a45140c373a8e86dc184f1f69eddd5.jpeg)

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The back also has maps of all the Innocent Sin dungeons, including one of Silver River which I could’ve used. I had no idea the encounters were fixed or that there were dead ends, which might explain why it took forever when I did it. I think I fell for the first one, where you can turn left or right at Maya. According to this, I fought probably 20 encounters (the longest route is 16). No wonder I hated this so much. Can you imagine how bad it’d be if you got all three dead ends?

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6ba1ef71c392b667acc18169dd38e9ab5b3285a0.jpeg)

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Here’s a thing of all the SMT/Persona protagonists up to Innocent Sin. I don’t even know who some of these are. From left:

- Tatsuya (P2 PS1/PSP)
- Jihei/Naoya (Persona 1, PS1/PSP)
- Non-Canon Male Protagonist (SMT If, SNES/PS1)
- Protagonist (Soul Hackers, Saturn/3DS)
- Kyouji Kuzunoha (Devil Summoner 1, Saturn)
- Unknown

Right side:

- Nakajima (Megami Tensei 1, NES/SNES)
- Protagonist [Green Jacket] (Megami Tensei 2, NES/SNES)
- Protagonist (Majin Tensei 1 and 2, SNES)
- Protagonist (Shin Megami Tensei 1, SNES/PS1)

I’m not sure why Aleph (the protagonist of SMT II) isn’t on here.

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Anyway, that’s about all I’ve got. Take a look for yourself once I get around to finishing the LP, which should be fairly soon. Trust me, you don’t want to know what the last boss is. Well, there’s also this (presumably Western-made) fanart I liked.

 ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/9/5920cb9afdb531b2178e137cac75edcaffa7106d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![CommanderKeene](https://www.lp.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CommanderKeene](https://www.lp.zone/u/CommanderKeene)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/124 "2020-07-30T00:44:32Z")

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> [@Timrod](#):
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> ![](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6ba1ef71c392b667acc18169dd38e9ab5b3285a0.jpeg)

MT Wiki says the guy you couldn’t identify in this lineup is actually an early official design for SMT 1’s protagonist.

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**Author:** ![Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/timrod/32/85274_2.png) [@Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/u/Timrod)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/125 "2020-07-31T02:46:53Z")

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> [@CommanderKeene](#):
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> MT Wiki says the guy you couldn’t identify in this lineup is actually an early official design for SMT 1’s protagonist.

Oh, right! I forgot about the 30-year time skip (at least I think it’s 30 years) in SMT 1 after the world ends. Presumably they put that in there because the SMT 1 protagonist is still alive in the Persona timeline because Thor and Gotoh had their shit put down before they could do anything, so that’s what he’d look like if SMT 1 had never happened and he hadn’t gone full-on late 80s cyberwarrior.

I kind of wish I had a full-sized arm keyboard.

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**Author:** ![SpammyV](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/spammyv/32/85288_2.png) [@SpammyV](https://www.lp.zone/u/SpammyV)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/126 "2020-08-01T23:11:31Z")

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Also I know that someone hadst invoked the processed one earlier (I’m the processed one) but I’ve been either busy or out of it but I didn’t forget y’all so have Shadow Eikichi and Shadow Tatsuya:

[![](https://i.imgur.com/nmj0yfZ.png "source: imgur.com")](https://imgur.com/nmj0yfZ) [![](https://i.imgur.com/Z32peGo.png "source: imgur.com")](https://imgur.com/Z32peGo)

I was working on Shadow Maya but the way she’s got her head angled I wasn’t sure how to lazily draw in a pair of sunglasses and have it look halfway right.

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**Author:** ![Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/timrod/32/85274_2.png) [@Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/u/Timrod)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/127 "2020-08-02T14:48:40Z")

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![Update 23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/a/2acaa1beb36fb8baae954256bba66ebabf97b248.png)

> **Click here for Update 23**
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-03-04-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6b257d3bca49d657e0f6e18cc28a37cfe81c731d.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I know, I keep delaying the final update. I wasn’t actually planning to go as far into the legendary weapons quest as I did, but then I did it and I’m kind of glad I did because there’s some good scenes here.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-03-06-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/f/6f2f0f9262da036dca218936449295237a4fc758.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-03-12-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/371065fd54e4554165e2f578e1155cd88e693c3a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is the final note we need. It’s big, long, and only really covers things we already know. The only thing we might not know is that the first worker to see a demon appear was not the one who spread the rumor initially about the liquid waste facility underneath the factory.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-04-34-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/c/bc5343a29cca32acf57f3138dd790b740b7aaef0.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): In this locker is the hardest fight of the entire game in the PS1 version. We do not want to do this yet. We do not have the tools.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-04-42-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/5/e5a01f17a6f2ede49ce6cceac2e3332bbe22133e.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Inside the locker.. is Alice. Alice is level 80, extremely resistant to magic, and has two different full-party instakills, one of which bypasses resistances.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-05-51-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/e/7e1d8654f4ce1a91c198a0cb095ba031fb387d32.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Alice opens every fight by using Megidolaon, which three of our five characters reflect back for around 400 damage. Alice has 4,500 HP.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-06-01-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/6/f6cce768cfc1d7e7bd75b9c46cc3941ad2dd1064.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-06-04-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/0/8073399239a3540ec08be434c389209c13d28e13.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-06-06-02](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/5/95275a5c6c89560c7d94ad4099a7c65de7fb80d2.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Megalofire is a fire-based instant kill spell, which theoretically SHOULD work on Alice as she’s not immune to fire. However, it doesn’t work because fuck you that’s why.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-07-06-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/8/e8e321c7e135b984740a32e01bd831efa87ea2c4.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-07-08-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/a/7a68ee3e11fe4a6888e534741f8e30acf8f3918e.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Alice responds by casting Another Dimension, which is a full-party instakill spell. It cannot be reflected and cannot be nulled, even by Makarakarn.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-07-49-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/8/e880690f26d2ad062ddc9fddc892fe0ddad50489.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-18-12-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/f/7fbd9ffca4a3e1fa0724f3c24df11803ea1e91c8.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Once I get out of there without fighting Alice, I get to farming demon rumors. Each legendary weapon has five rumors associated with it once you obtain it - one for each base element and one for making it do Almighty damage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that one.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-20-39-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/b/fbfc06f2035cb325415e289b656c5d695d0bb342.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We also pick up the rumor for Eikichi’s ultimate weapon. The problem is that even after I was done escaping Liquid Waste Disposal I only had around a million yen, which would just barely cover Eikichi and Maya’s weapons. Unfortunately, Eikichi’s ultimate weapon has more to it than just a demon rumor.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-29-59-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/0/40bd4c971b15f6365a747bec819b414ee6c9a3df.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): After half an hour of getting useless bullshit rumors about demons I don’t give a fuck about, I finally get it.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-33-10-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/1/f108e48f55c0cdc7de98cab5a0f6d3e592000969.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): There we go.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-36-07-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/6/a629254656a109d6ee382eaa12c654156bbef080.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): For some reason, demon rumors never go away, so you can spread the one about the hidden door in the office even though we already did that.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-38-24-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/6/6695e224aa158bd277367e101444981966a0e291.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-38-30-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/4/14697e15ec043e85a8ed081aa258d7d954994414.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Liquid Waste Disposal is easily the worst area in the game. Walking into it is a lot like walking into Thanatos Tower in the first game: you have demons that are up to 30 levels higher than you wandering around in here.. in addition to Alice. This entire room is also a gigantic fucking maze with random encounters every three steps.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): HOWEVER, if you’re over level 70, this is where you go to exploit the game. What you do is hit 70 and then use Estoma. You need two characters to do this, because you need to exploit a fusion spell that I never bothered to get.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The fusion spell is called High End Crusher, and is performed using Zanma and any dark spell. High End Crusher reduces the HP of the highest level enemy in the fight to 1. This works on Alice. With Estoma blocking all demons under level 70, the only thing you CAN run into.. is Alice.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-38-55-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/b/2b9258a588b4998c659ad3a5b30d577fc225a621.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-38-56-05](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/5/6525ce63db344cacc18be329721788e472ea944a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-38-56-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/0/50dafb33888e73cae8a873eb11142c2c4541e8d5.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This particular encounter is a pain in the ass. Fenrir is immune to fire, meaning Meltdown won’t work. Adramalech has a physical-based instakill move that he loves using. All in all, it sucks.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-40-31-49](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/0/f0752cb8f1fe615d0cf8afc17092b0a493686d28.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-40-32-35](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/8/f8d441b6e25a2123372d2132f3d8309efcbbb18e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-40-30-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/1/a104992ca47a76dfac09fb11f0c5eec44db5b8ff.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Girimehkala is extremely weak to magic, as is Valkyrie. Valkyrie gives out an ABSURD number of cards if you can make a pact with her - 70 star cards and I think 50+ free ones as well.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-47-15-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/0/b08f7d37d46540a030526d65638668256322eddc.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, remember those 1% spawnrate demons? Guess what I ran into! The worst one in the game! Gaia is a giant blob of HP that does nothing but spam Myriad Arrows for loads of damage. In fact, it has the same amount of HP that Alice does - 4,500. I didn’t test Megalofire against it but I probably should’ve.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-49-55-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e2c247c57dfe32c4fe6b76e1755d82343f2f2374.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Cradle of Creation makes Gaia, a level 72 Empress Persona. I’ll do a quick log of it since we’re never going to make it.
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> # NEW PERSONA: GAIA
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> ## Origin: Greece
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> ## Persona 2 Original
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> ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/f/df86b8b3f700bb7d4920d4c9ce593a4317888f1e.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Gaia isn’t worth fusing. At all. By level 72 you can do far better. Futsuno Mitama is also pretty meh, having a 2x weakness to magic.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-57-04-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/1/91b4b0a9975a14f61a1bb41927ef42bec296c0b4.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-57-05-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/7/c77081344ba9b35320ef1d2e5c65263d35571e28.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Ouroboros and Ah Puch both die to Meltdown pretty quickly. There’s a palette-swapped version of Ah Puch that I didn’t capture as well.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 21-58-57-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/4/e49ccebd95a0060fe96707dda8f4bd5016f268ef.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Then, something bad happens. I run into Alice, and hadn’t saved since before I fought Gaia.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-05-10-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/e/aed4ac081d6133d1a989eba883913dee4c16129a.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I didn’t think to take any screenshots because I didn’t think it was going to end well. What happened was that Alice kept using her other two moves: Megidolaon and Omega Blaster, which is an instakill that targets the lowest-level enemy first and then moves up, killing one enemy per turn. The trick is that Omega Blaster can’t bypass resistances. I only had her use Another Dimension once and it only killed one person. Most of the damage was Alice having her spells reflected at her.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-05-14-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/e/1e33b0a24c715846f8769061ad3d10b888e70b9b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-05-18-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/9/191af22d706de684dfc829f292e5fa87f7fcc61a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The entire party levels to 55 off just that one encounter. Keep in mind that this is with everyone alive: if you kill off all but two characters, they’ll get 150,000 EXP each.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-12-44-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/a/3ae227e0e8ca917bfe501d26eb6f9a2f1c8fee8b.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): After forever, we’re here.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-13-29-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/4/645e56c1a200d8a82999b10d3297729e1c7340b5.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-13-40-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/a/caa30dce9c7f0b484344ea5c220cd3d1d5731340.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Wait, who the hell is this?
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-13-45-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/8/d8953bfc248414a9185c4bba15f54a7def51a025.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-13-49-55](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/2/42401ba1e4868959c24db655541a7f48c9b2c672.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-13-55-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/9/8992639b7e1ea53073b5d3d6b21c4fa51b6aa747.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): If you’ll recall, comparing him to Kandori was the one thing that would piss Reiji off like nothing else in Persona 1.. given that Kandori was Reiji’s half-brother before he got eaten by Nyarlathotep.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-04-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/8/5871b57e4dbffdb9c29bbb69f7bf2dc3b29db807.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): And there we have it. That’s all the Persona 1 cast members accounted for, apart from Mark and Ayase who both died on their way back to their home planet.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-09-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/f/ff2e917e9056cd39a19a1a7cd4bcdef64a98a8a9.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So uh, let me just spoil Eternal Punishment. Just a bit. If you do Nanjo’s route, there’s a rumor that Kandori somehow survived Persona 1, even though the entire P1 cast knows he’s dead. It’s actually Reiji, and this exact scene happens in EP except with the EP cast.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-20-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/b/eb98f67d3483adb31436c90f0d757b226d1684d2.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-24-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/5/f53c41fc58fe564248e7643673076378928aec1f.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I bet it’s because people who want to buy from him have to go through a series of sidequests spanning half the game while also spurning the attention of all the other salespeople.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-30-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/3/a3383c836ddaed15815cc2562b8b47bb48a4ebc9.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-34-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/3735f1d53d49ab9eed64b0157051e2617b384cf3.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-40-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/d/2dad08ccc1effbabb0c165acedece141f4c987cb.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): A.. naked.. Boss?! We have to defeat him now so Tatsuya can earn a title. Something meant for someone who could defeat even The Boss.. we could call him.. uh… Double Boss.
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-47-35](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/9/a9debb161992fe9385243faad2e39ae5638bcac6.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-50-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/7/97d57d90e3174180bde1f37289dfc9cef75ee96d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-54-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/d/dd5eb83439e7016dc60d4b08fa4f2b0ca6f3c7b6.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-14-59-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/8/d86a50cf531b1ba3bd08df7d4a8689fe22c08dfc.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-15-06-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/2/32fac5220d5560c146ffe22471559d526c55ee00.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-15-11-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/c/0ca2d240ec0a5ccb65272e49c489bdda7c95442e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-15-18-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/7/a757d8bde7043dd22325b14d20d6309fb8e925b6.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Can we just like, ditch Stinko and pick up Reiji again? Maybe call Elly and see if we can throw Maya somewhere?
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> ![obs64 2020-07-31 22-15-42-55](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/96c8b2f8c9afad7d1fd89943db8de1cc9c92a413.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 09-42-20-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9c510163ab19b1d72e375c55843f2d74601b0b5d.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): On the way back from Reiji, I noticed that Quetzalcoatl was continuously getting stat up mutations still. He uh.. he has higher stats than Lucifer does now, and better resistances to boot.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 09-54-10-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/8/78c975961ec6ae69d0cc6597f34d8684b64fa11b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-03-49-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/4/64023fe1e1b8bba4ca151f00f0352b83596caec7.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Once I got back to Room 6, I kept grinding rumors and got the one I wanted for Tatsuya’s weapon. This rumor is the only way the legendary weapons will ever be better than the store-bought ones: spreading the rumor about “hidden power” raises their attack to 160.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-04-26-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/d/7dba64b8e37e6a045b88f738be5c9e48a7d78128.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Note that you’ll always get the weapon rumors in a specific order. The first one will always be the element associated with the character (Fire for Tatsuya, Earth for Lisa, Water for Eikichi) and then the other three elements followed by the “may by the strongest” rumor.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-19-26-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9c69dad39c9dd3f68af288ad10f191abe9c95fd9.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I also grabbed the rumor for Maya’s legendary weapon. Jun’s is a bit different and does not require a demon rumor - instead, you need to have all the other weapon sidequests done (even if you don’t actually buy Eikichi or Maya’s weapons).
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-15-38-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/c/8c14b9f6c10b611eada1344516ca45c5244fd939.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I accidentally summoned Valkyrie not realizing that her resistances are garbage.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-27-36-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/a/dadeb1cb20ad6d9ff0a875ccf8e5c6a189cae5d2.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Then I did something real dumb. I looked at the higher-level Personas and figured that only one is worth it - that being Brahma, who is level 67. I am not grinding that shit, so instead I decided to see one of the five-way fusion spells. This is the one that requires Suzaku, Genbu, Seiryuu, Byakko, and Abe no Seimei. I spent all our remaining cards on this shit.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-51-18-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/b/db37dc206b96c8f5b88b8dbea7f065ca2a91e3df.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-51-21-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/6/e68d54afd4f783188f7917f7b34ababae5b3235e.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Death Spirit is the worst fusion spell in the game next to the one that randomly kills someone (including your party members). The description states that it “raises all allies’ MDEF and targets enemy weaknesses”. In reality, it’s pretty useless.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-51-25-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62359598322cae1c387bc2cbedc3e874f69b7198.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): 159 damage. 159 fucking damage for an action that took all five characters. Note that it’s not even hitting a weakness, because Death Spirit only hits a weakness if it’s to water/fire/wind/earth. I don’t get why this is so shitty, considering it requires using Genbu and Byakko who both are low level. Time to reload.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-37-29-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/7/a7d8647ead3fbb764b45cfd2ea73631959776767.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Eikichi and Maya’s legendary weapons have two parts to it. The first is getting the rumor from a demon, the second is actually spreading it. For some reason, even though it’s a demon rumor, you can’t spread it through demons. Instead, you need to talk to the owners of Shiraishi Ramen and Claire de Lune using the “small talk” option which does basically nothing throughout the game.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-37-34-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/4/a414398c8a9bd7eedbd81a2aa36ebe85c9fd529f.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-37-37-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/d/fd7e23e01945abe9d8ed26d93000305bd2cdc8f5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-37-41-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/1/71108fc3f5c65a3245dab07bb68085b6d661dca7.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I mean, we did kind of turn you into a Russian spy, but.. yeah.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-38-49-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/7/b7158ed7b96769f0a285ae8631101e7e1d66a44b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-38-52-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6bb8558b3a85fdaab9dd3c460c37c0f88cfa51c5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-39-30-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/1/314131607fc18f7a688b6c713b45eecf1a778470.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-39-31-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/e/6ee549d3fa68d973f026689a8c806b898b06ffd3.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Once we talk to Soejima and Ma’am, we have to go to Todoroki and pay to spread the rumors. Now please, sit back and enjoy this footage of Eikichi getting owned.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-09-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/1/81c5ed13bc5b259944c300480b98f5023cfea94f.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-16-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/4/840b09e2752ecadcf70272b4f1d8d936bdaa98fa.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-20-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/7/87395e07959c0db937b19d18b1f133f98b7b0486.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-25-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33e812f42fed6b637c7032aa5972b842873b302b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-31-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/8/1858f07529f295b0d99e9f3ee9e7cdd5af4f5f62.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I like to think that the ramen shop owner has an old, beaten-up guitar case somewhere and she’s like “Oh man I can sell it to this idiot for money, let’s see how far I can go with this.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-42-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/d/4d2157df0d5c19d8f5750be9bec8c5c5314d6186.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-46-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/5/657a6e4524d8ded9cdcb81789f60648811d89dca.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-51-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/e/4e5aa440a5fb871a49a4af56c2006d93551fd730.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-40-57-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6baba49870d6be708274ad295cbaaec88cd6a7d2.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I’m not sure if this is better or worse than the banana char siu ramen. I mean, assuming it’s fruit yogurt and you don’t put spices or seasoning on the ramen it might not be bad.
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> ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/6/1609561581c8997a3a11f5442c4b94000ecc6429.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Oh god. I looked it up and apparently, this is a thing people actually do. Notice that last bit there about “can eating ramen kill you” because the answer is yes.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-02-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/4/34b78c138d905cd682b3df84f009f09df8c1ae35.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-06-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/f/6f2f0a32394186f8b7db14efa5c5b369155edaac.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-15-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/d/cd725ea2d2484a30327ebd32584f1ebd5c33dd74.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-18-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/8/e837409e7888c6a37343257c0f4ffc922b29dca2.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Picking the second one locks you out of getting the weapon. We don’t want that.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-29-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/5/c50377f1454ccc7bfcf3378d65677e17588e14d6.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-34-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/3/23076e9ba1e1ac83aeffc047dd2966f7e80fe4e1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-40-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/0/100214c3762142fd8998477943bc83a4be1e83e5.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Strawberry potstickers actually probably wouldn’t be bad.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-44-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/8/a835f59958b36f442ca3b9dffbc0eec3984e45de.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-47-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/8/d839ee6ad6d4494c3177adcb743bf739c31bd05c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-51-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/5/95cb5264d3a80cf0113b06da514b3ccf3b8ec665.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-55-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/9/c9786e21be3db9b2cca87abece621fc486e4d2ea.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-41-59-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/2/a2a3803d9508a31f0947a4a9198ff7afd6bb91ca.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-07-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/7/47621ccc14a01d30589c3923ed1ed2fc560f6623.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-10-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/9/d92d7d833c4543347cc6e5056e6191441d20709b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-16-49](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/8/7803463212516a7e25729a4d474d120e8a87d0de.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-17-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/f/4fcda8df153a4929ece0215138eb96f8aa08cb20.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-19-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/868c91dfbd16ee102556312af28b1f6ba5ce31b1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-24-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/8/f841a4e9333b2b8a7e874d74212760628ddc3fda.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-42-32-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/d/9d4851114df6ad8d312b5ed75f3c87a79503c2bb.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): And that’s 500,000 yen down the drain. By the way, please note that Eikichi is currently poisoned, so to whoever asked that question, yes ramen can kill you.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-43-39-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/e/ae435aa617b68b0e00d2e382cd6890b91866193d.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Please also enjoy the following footage of Maya getting owned.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-43-42-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/f/8f9f37d8bf1989a16c2721811fd464d7bf3997e1.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-43-49-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/7/e706ee44a297429dc4728f6ffd85e14c73c420ea.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-43-54-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/0/c0e72cbeccae06eb47d29231c493765744b75793.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-00-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/e/6e784909f0a47871dd2eb2a4614613421d434db0.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-05-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/a/aaf1fe8bbc8afa90fe7b9dc63f4da1339d7d9cba.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-10-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9c17a093fc696d47717167fadcf22c7164abea01.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-15-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/c/5c40ae8f66dec6ef1407aa33aeaac34ef85993ad.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-22-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/4/9481ac8cf99def66f06ed3950645e40b29921cf1.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): If you don’t know what kusaya is (because I sure as hell didn’t), it’s dried and fermented herring. It’s kind of like lutefisk, only it’s herring instead of cod. From what I’ve read, it smells like death but has a relatively mild taste. Wikipedia says you’re supposed to consume it with large amounts of shochu or other alcohol, and I can probably guess why.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-42-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/a/da9594a62f63fd25de7b6387298570874aed88df.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-50-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/9/696ce038dc1f1d1ebab64ac8f919f5e0f9f70c5b.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I wonder, is Sumaru City like Silent Hill, only for food? You go to a restaurant and they just hand you a phone and there’s a guy like “You want to order food? I’ll give you whatever you hate the most..” and then I get handed one of those “corn potage” flavored snacks I got in a Japanese snack box for Christmas one year. I ate that on stream but I don’t think I ever saved it. It was so bad I had to stop the stream. Corn potage, never again.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-44-55-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/c/3c58cde96e89c327aea2d35022602d482ca08097.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-00-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/86337ddf49f0fb155a4d7ca65a48d83f3e3b5f43.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Oh, okay, I think I get the game’s title now. The “innocent sin” is spreading rumors to get things, and the “eternal punishment” is disgusting food. It all makes sense now.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-05-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/e/ce1e6596e8e64140a24f79caee27fe371e1e7f9d.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-11-43](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e23e12f3a1b05a7479cae8a3b53e2b952c74a1c9.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-17-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/6/f678f23654aafa4c89baebc124e31ab4e66bab22.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-23-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/86ea4ca8e4e407394a65ca6e992f05c679a142e6.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-33-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/0/609608e4a3dab4145076debe1077cb3eb92ab06c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-37-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/d/7da01d1e3b28c347dfee78129bc4fa5e2c976234.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-42-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/5/b587b0ad6d5e3210f62423ae19e1160d78d24a5f.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-44-32](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/8/d8bd9f5fa6944ae50eb156fbab1c387056734de8.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Welp, Maya’s dead.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-46-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f7082e58cade2e2e8e9b3f06941ff8c3f4d68c12.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-51-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/0/a0a2df99683df723d02f62ae125bf63414db8243.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I like that he asks Tatsuya even though Tatsuya never ate it. We want to pick the first one.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-45-57-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/0/4024d88c3077552a811c637e1d4b13506b24ad10.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-46-04-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/b/eb846d49158e929d7c4405098bf44f88875857c3.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-01 10-46-33-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/5/c50e587dfbb7097d85e9f6ac2c65362b9a76d03a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Next to the Eagle-brand Deagle we find the Legendary Gun, which I spend the rest of our party’s funds on.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-09-11-31](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/2285dc80529caa3a4ba864fd3555d4ebc214c753.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Jun’s legendary weapon is both the easiest and the hardest to get. I have no idea how you’d know to find it without a guide. To get it, we need to go back to the Alaya Shrine.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-09-50-97](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/d/2d6d69782f392d23f502d47a80100aed65d7cdf5.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Behind the shrine is this kid. He will only appear if you’ve done the sidequests for Eikichi and Maya’s weapons (you have to have the ability to purchase the weapons but don’t need to actually buy them).
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-09-53-94](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/9/09cce10773c3e18219aa6abf9f175a72e95482be.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-09-57-04](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/1/812a3b62fcba9ec002210e63f7f0b8df9c4dc474.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-10-19-34](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/2/f23adf85a820b4e148ab25e843f944f1588bd394.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Honmaru Park has become a meeting ground for a cult. By the way, there’s a hidden clue here as to who Sudou’s father is - this is something that will come up in Eternal Punishment.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-11-14-14](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/f/0fa03a790cd897d66738d25f10d13afc06edf0da.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-11-39-77](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/a/da9452d895b92d5c8fcd2a4aba0c8c35eabbd7e5.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): There’s a bulletin board here which I honestly never noticed before.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-11-44-07](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/0/70014856e94465ef381406d33e7aab5dc71ee4f1.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-12-14-64](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/6/06c4a9287ab73bc31a362f43c78b87cbb88dc3df.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Kaori, by the way, is one of the healers in Rengedai. She runs an aromatherapy business - because weirdly enough, all of the healers in this game are alternative medicine except for Hiiragi Psychotherapy where Maki works.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-12-41-07](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/0/70a7c938e457cde07569eaba77bff492e59dee46.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-12-48-31](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/d/9db3a46f150f3af19c43dcfc3a6bf3b419079d12.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-12-53-11](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/3/c346c1310c70bd93b40a5eae1ce995bfc7d761b5.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): How the hell did they find out about that? We bought those not even minutes after spreading the rumors.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-12-59-44](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/c/6c1bd962f7713162bb97d3f6050256f6f7bdd39e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-05-11](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/b/8bf677e6df87f352214c2528bdf94f42e2dae966.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-08-87](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/1/a1d60276cf4f7a251904ebb3cb46fac2d682fe6d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-12-50](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/8/48138ada82c0e190ce4dbe084bcb9774d6244f98.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Alucard here has Jun’s weapon.. sort of.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-17-57](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/6/06d0f2801e43dfe9070af08de75b9ef55b602977.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is directly foreshadowing how we’re going to get the weapon.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-22-74](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/0/90b5835d3ca3bf911af8234fd34d6a08a2e0966d.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-27-34](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/8/582939fbbdc7ae2f54f35e1b0ac8bca29e80e14f.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-30-47](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/b/0b36f91c460e4f2dc0574a12b87f3dce1ee64ed1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-13-34-41](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/b/dbfabd777d14e96f35fc7046c3e9e521ba8bc0ec.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-14-46-34](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/9676121fd38f71ae74a0779a2ecfc2fb825526e8.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The final part of getting Jun’s weapon is talking to all the rumormongers. Each one has a different rumor about how you get the flower, though I know Baofu has the best one because he’s in the sequel.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The possible rumors for what happened to the flower are:
> 
> - The Count sold the flower to someone (this locks you out of getting it)
> - The Count has it for sale but is hiding it to drive up the price (you can buy it for 800k)
> - The seller is in the Abandoned Factory (spawns an NPC in the office area who will sell it for 500k)
> - A demon stole it (you can win it off Fenrir in the Liquid Waste Disposal area which.. no)
> - The Count gave it to a woman as a gift
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-15-07-47](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/f/1f89ad60ee000850cf5d0a92a5f522b8fd2a4d28.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-15-12-34](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c6c2406cd3be6ceba624b6d3f01659bd1f453d87.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We want that last one because that means we get it for free. I wonder who the short-haired woman could be…
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-15-55-17](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/f/cf65b9fa5e3a460a38b052b287d8d655a989839e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-18-24-47](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/c/bc292eafd742badcaf5ca948423a092225869b86.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is one area in which it’s more convenient to say that Hanya lived. If you did, Maki will be at Tony’s Shop instead.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-18-26-97](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/4/a478e7ca2fb124d07b40708ebbb7d9f6cb9a8d94.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I mean, I don’t even know what Maki would do with a flower given that in Persona 1 she used bows.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-18-33-57](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/1/c104eaa486f00393fbe72ccc841024c8df3733ba.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-18-35-64](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/6/a6939361418e03b052c0982b7f5c77409ac450fc.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-18-44-54](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/b/3b793079d4d0e20792383226cdff295cdf62c1e3.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): And with that, we’ve done all the sidequests in the game.. apart from that one at Sevens. And the one in Kasugayama High. And the shitty one post-Caracol where you fight that demon that reduces your Persona’s rank to 1 and don’t get a reward for it. Next time, we finish Xibalba.

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Oh, right. I know we’re not done with Xibalba yet (plus there’s some side scenarios I may or may not do in their entirety) but I think I figured out what my next LP is going to be.

 ![A Royal Pain](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/f/effeaaec4c93d828e800e06faa7e368680ed0eed.png)

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I enjoy the fact that Jun just throws flowers at people. Everyone’s got cool powerful legendary weapons and Jun just hucks a bouquet at a demon and it dies.

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> [@SpammyV](#):
>
> Also I know that someone hadst invoked the processed one earlier (I’m the processed one) but I’ve been either busy or out of it but I didn’t forget y’all so have Shadow Eikichi and Shadow Tatsuya:
> 
> [![](https://i.imgur.com/nmj0yfZ.png "source: imgur.com")](https://imgur.com/nmj0yfZ) [![](https://i.imgur.com/Z32peGo.png "source: imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Z32peGo)
> 
> I was working on Shadow Maya but the way she’s got her head angled I wasn’t sure how to lazily draw in a pair of sunglasses and have it look halfway right.

There’s a slightly better Shadow Maya from the original version of Innocent Sin, but it’s still got the weird head angle. Those are great, though. Just what Shadow Tatsuya needs. There’s a whole side dialog thing that takes place across multiple shops once you’ve finished the four temples that I didn’t get most of because it’s really hard to find in order.

 ![obs64 2020-08-02 10-07-04-77](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/1/b17a6cf729ea3c9c62c425777d394c1514872c06.png)

Well of course you’re the real ones, Jun. The fake ones had the sunglasses on. Classic shadow mistake.

> [@LaZodiac](#):
>
> I enjoy the fact that Jun just throws flowers at people. Everyone’s got cool powerful legendary weapons and Jun just hucks a bouquet at a demon and it dies.

My theory is that all the demons know about the wedding thing where the bride tosses the bouquet and they all want to grab it so they can be the next ones married, except none of them are good at catching things so they just fall flat on their faces and take damage.

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**Author:** ![SpammyV](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/spammyv/32/85288_2.png) [@SpammyV](https://www.lp.zone/u/SpammyV)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/130 "2020-08-03T01:07:57Z")

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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I wonder, is Sumaru City like Silent Hill, only for food? You go to a restaurant and they just hand you a phone and there’s a guy like “You want to order food? I’ll give you whatever you hate the most…” and then I get handed one of those “corn potage” flavored snacks I got in a Japanese snack box for Christmas one year. I ate that on stream but I don’t think I ever saved it. It was so bad I had to stop the stream. Corn potage, never again.

“I was weak. That’s why I needed you… Needed someone to punish me for my sins… But that’s all over now… I know the truth… Now it’s time to end this.”

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”

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**Author:** ![Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/user_avatar/www.lp.zone/timrod/32/85274_2.png) [@Timrod](https://www.lp.zone/u/Timrod)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/131 "2020-08-06T21:28:24Z")

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![Update 24](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/b/5b01bbd0563362369af54f8ae9c5efb8d173b72e.png)

> **Summary**
>
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-21-00-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/b/bbc8441e00966b90c0ad624de1a6ee4100873b6c.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Before we do Xibalba, I tried to kill that Alice in the locker in the factory, because I realized we actually have the cheese combo to kill it. The bad part is that Alice is so fast that she will always go first and will generally fuck up the combo with bad RNG. I actually streamed this and I swear to you that the first time I tried this she used Another Dimension EVERY SINGLE TURN and kept killing either Tatsuya or Eikichi in a loop.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-21-56-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/c/3cb540152bf137cba1b4da5ac57cb74d8e240f5e.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-22-00-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/2/f2b4fa4b7b4b6aeb263ac394ebe7bd5c2cdfad0f.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-22-03-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/e/fed8d86fbe2d33ec074187f53cd2978fb946ad43.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): High End Crusher is performed using Zanma and any Dark spell. Has to be Zanma, nothing else. The game claims this to be an “instant kill on the highest level enemy” but what it actually does is reduces the highest level enemy’s HP to 1.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-22-09-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/9/89c9834153e277cea9e9b5ddceb48aaa7f58d3f3.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-22-16-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/b/eb4b7f489d8195ab0e885d6b08b13f5199086d47.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The Karma Ring is a great accessory if you’re planning on transferring your save to Eternal Punishment, because it increases attack by 100. The thing is, we have a better one because I cashed in Eikichi’s Persona and got one that, while not necessarily better, allows us to get through the next several boss fights much more easily.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 21-54-25-43](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/9/d9a5d3cc641633f5af50a0bb29ba08ef081f907a.jpeg)
> 
> # New Persona: Vritra
> 
> ## Origin: India (Hinduism)
> 
> ## First Appearance: Megami Tensei II
> 
> ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/c/5c60d7f3a10e92c212e9fd3be43ef1c4fcfedbb6.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): What the summary doesn’t mention is that Vritra is the Hindu embodiment of drought, and also evil. Vritra has decent resistances, a moveset that’s honestly kinda garbage apart from High Pressure, but most importantly enables us to do a special boss killer fusion spell when I put a Zio card on him at creation.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-20-27-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/c/bc6910f41b1529a1c59047492d73aa31f8b50228.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Mucalinda returns a Linden Amulet, which increases Defense and Magic Defense by 80. This is another really good accessory to bring along to Eternal Punishment. I gave Tatsuya the Karma Ring and gave Maya the Linden Amulet.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-30-28-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/f/2f2a4e51c853c82891e088a988b9c754bfa2555a.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-30-52-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/2/a25fc56bc2aedcec291985c945233ac0f6ec3b25.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-31-14-43](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/f/9fce3c0079ec0adc7c234d015181eacd1e8dc3c6.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The last floors of Xibalba are the worst. They’re full of damage floors, have random encounters every three steps (often with enemies who have instant kill spells and are very fast) and just generally feel like the writers realized they had no idea what they were doing and just kind of crammed whatever together at the last minute.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-32-46-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/0/709314a9adc296ceafb3fbe7138127e8094bc6a6.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-34-03-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/d/7d544572a8562fa01e71100a7193cd552184b452.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): See what I mean about damage floors? Anyway, you might notice that Eikichi’s portrait is flashing. This is because I got him a food buff - you can do this at any of the restaurants in the game (Shiraishi Ramen, Clair de Lune, Peace Diner) and they buff your stats for a pretty long time. The reason I did this is because I assumed that the food would clear Eikichi’s poisoned status after we got his legendary weapon.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-34-20-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/6/f66d34851598c86a747719de498b706995385903.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Inside that box are five Valkyries. As we know, Valkyrie has a 2x weakness to magic. One Meltdown clears them all off the board before they can move.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-35-06-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/3/83ba6f280d1ab3e1afe03d7909e87ed19df45f7c.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-35-20-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/8/98f8755562fa1ac1e11e17b88150a8a1f0e51235.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): While it’s not as good as the Linden Amulet or Karma Ring, the Mysterious Armlet boosts all stats by 8. I give this to Eikichi to make him a bit faster. There is a way to fix his speed issues involving returning one of the 1% encounter rate Personas and getting an item called an Agility Source which boosts his agility every level, but.. yeah fuck that.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-37-24-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/1/61336d023ba33cc6e8e2249dca6c5f4ff1d26a61.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-39-38-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/f/0f56082bf000ab5063060d902a6186be3053aea6.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-39-41-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/5/35901fae6fffa5ff0e8fd5f9ee98dcb7f82c41f7.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Oh right, let me show you our new fusion spell. Dashing Strike is performed with Zio (has to be Zio, not Zionga or Ziodyne) and Tackle. What it does is performs six random physical attacks (I believe the damage is Havoc type) that are randomly split between any enemies on the field. If used against a single enemy, Dashing Strike can do upwards of 1800 damage.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-11-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/3/43c19607497214349558875606663e78459c225c.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-18-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/6/e631e8e3f2ff9427e936a553a51a37a340f2f1df.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-25-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/f/dfd56e12022ff40995ce5680ef384d6ba09c78f5.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We very briefly get a glimpse of Tatsuya’s father and Lisa’s mother. We never actually meet either of them, even in Eternal Punishment, though we do get a portrait for Tatsuya’s father in one of the additional scenarios in the PSP version of EP.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): As it turns out (because I looked it up) you can actually find out about Tatsuya’s father in Innocent Sin, but it requires talking to an NPC at the police department who you’d have no reason to talk to otherwise. Fortunately, I have backup saves but I’ll just summarize because there’s a bit to talk about with these next two scenes.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The idea is that Tatsuya’s dad (who I’ll call Dadsuya for simplicity) was a cop who investigated the Alaya Shrine fire and subsequently arrested Tatsuya Sudou (which is why Sudou was put into a mental institution). Sudou’s father, Tatsuzou Sudou (who at this point is a high-ranking government official and by EP is Japan’s foreign minister) bribes Dadsuya’s partner to fabricate charges against him. Dadsuya goes to jail and loses his job as a cop, which is why Katsuya is a cop even though he’s wanted to be a pastry chef his whole life. This is also supposedly why Tatsuya is a mute protagonist and kind of a delinquent.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is also why there’s the little detail in the Innocent Sin World Guide about how Katsuya wakes up at 4AM to make cakes that Tatsuya refuses to eat because Katsuya makes them too often.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-34-40](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/2/f2bc7fd3e23b5854902215eef88f1266ad679346.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-39-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/0/008c4114204987d012cdfefb9a9637daf0951c97.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-43-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/e/3e44eefad3857b64a11d066ae3199e513b877e1f.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-41-50-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/c/ecabb943bfecc5c8228837f97cf5e8e0dbcd0202.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Somebody’s got a complex. Here’s the thing. We never find out anything about who Jun’s mother is until about five seconds before the final boss, because Innocent Sin is a game with a well-designed plot.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-04-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/4/245619cc039902dc2c1dc66f99781e5d3d942956.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-14-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/e/0ee83b477c38f7f55761631198cd0b583f463512.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Okay, so. This cutscene and the following one are a confusing clusterfuck. Allow me to explain. This is Akinari Kashihara, the ghost we met in the clock tower at Sevens. He’s also the guy who wrote In Lak’ech with Maya Okamura and Sudou.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-20-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/8/287f6c17fdbd75c2ae6b6ae7e0255c2919ca890b.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Jun doesn’t recognize his father. I wonder why?
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-35-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/d/6d6b3f3b0aab76faf729b7f9f1881f5136c09020.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-41-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/2/a28c32e1d352bfd87a8bdaea2d7ce14e4cbb2d97.png)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-47-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/7/c7a207b4278b18b7cd9ed546eff8d43b53f2afb8.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is where it starts becoming a clusterfuck. You’re supposed to recognize that this guy is Kashihara and remember the ghost in the clock tower from forever ago. This is actually his dad, and I can see people who haven’t LPed this game and aren’t constantly checking the wiki forgetting this because the last time we saw this dipshit was at the beginning of the game.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-42-54-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/c/fc4151f78dc0529b716a3dd8c87fec7d092b7b93.jpeg)
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-43-03-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/37836c5829b60e3fb936a5c4055bdde5943eedbc.png)
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/683d55ce55a90c5ec2bb439c7a03f39dafcac694.png): “Dude.. are you okay, Jun?”
> 
> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “That’s right.. my mother is someone else. I’m all right now. Come on.. let’s go.”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): There’s some optional dialogue here which is supposed to remind you about the whole Kashihara/In Lak’ech connection. Let me just go through it anyway.
> 
> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “Uncle…? That’s right.. my father is further inside… I have to stop him.”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/683d55ce55a90c5ec2bb439c7a03f39dafcac694.png): “Jun’s uncle, huh? He looks a lot like Jun’s dad. Definitely different personality-wise, though.”
> 
> ![Surprised](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/e/feb9279f1a7ec82162198eba09fbb651f1f8d95c.png): “That guy… didn’t he look exactly like the ghost from the clock tower!? Huh…? Wait.. Jun’s dad wrote in the In Lak’ech, right? And the one who died at the clock tower is supposedly In Lak’ech’s author… then Jun’s dad is.. no way! The man we knew as Jun’s dad was…”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “..I need some time to think, Tatsuya-kun.”
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-47-23-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/d/2d118a5086e91b1a0b3f48b00fe6c86478ce2839.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I’m cutting a lot out here, because most of it is just fights against enemies that we saw in the Liquid Waste facility.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-50-42-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/3/e3ae12ce0667aa58a4c1a777e23a3daa70fa7099.png)
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/221897fb56a7f5c92df5a44f992248a7e2dcb797.png): “Indeed… we do have four of the skulls, but the one the Fuhrer holds has quite a lot of Ideal Energy stored within it. If he awakens Xibalba’s inhabitants, it would be a serious problem..”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Hmm.. what do you guys think? Are we close to the goal or not?”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/221897fb56a7f5c92df5a44f992248a7e2dcb797.png): “Hm…? Well, given how long it took us to make it this far, I assume they’re much further ahead.”
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-51-05-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/a/eade8b0400252be982742f5fe241f4def602faab.jpeg)
> 
> ![Smug](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/8/b8e6d4fe2e711567a9b12f0cb285866baf058f83.png): “Uhh, hard to say, but… we must be almost caught up with them by now, right?”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Okay… so basically, Jun-kun thinks that ‘they’re much further ahead’. Eikichi-kun thinks ‘We must be almost caught up with them’… and Lisa ‘doesn’t really care’. In that case, I’m going to guess they’re just around the corner.”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c60edbe64dc5709a15100bc42882ac44e6b5b91f.png): “Huh? What’s this about, Maya-chan? You’re acting kinda weird here.”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Bear with me just a little longer. Umm, so this might sound vague, but.. if I go by our guesses as to the distance left, Jun-kun says far, I say close.. and Eikichi-kun is somewhere in between. Now, whose guess do you agree with, Tatsuya?”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): God dammit I really wish I hadn’t already used [that DBZ Abridged clip](https://youtu.be/m0JME7eodTk?t=532) like four LPs ago.
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-52-48-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/f/5fa2ac3f93b174bdc74cc337ad69de685d3e7b30.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Have you figured out what the gimmick to this part of Xibalba is? Think about the laser room.. and the thing with the Velvet Room.. and then the microwave corridor. Yes, we’re in a dungeon powered entirely by people being dumb. Here’s how this works. Right now, we’re on B6F. B7F has three different variants depending on how you answer this question.
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> ![siverber7](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/5/4598acd427b8c80f1dcdd6f0eba995bfddbfaa86.gif)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Agreeing with Maya gets you the “A” variant, marked “B7F-A”. This is the shortest route but contains the fewest items that we don’t need. If you agree with Lisa or Eikichi, you get the “B” variant, which is significantly longer. If you agree with Jun, you get the “C” variant which is very long and also a teleporter maze.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): If I’ve learned one thing from this game, it’s “never take the long way around”. It’s a good lesson, kind of like in Ni no Kuni 2 where we learned to never do bossfights on extreme and absolutely nothing else because that was the only moral of NNK2’s plot.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-52-53-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/a/4a9e18014e74af10b7a1aea31d44b40e9e150d2e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-52-57-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/9/b9cb92d3602ac99f4f908d89d65d262df0f2098c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-53-15-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/3/1361dba91335e218a5325f68db6a33d9e395d2cc.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-53-33-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/9/5968e10f6076f7d514c1257dcee489c622e6655e.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): On B7F, we start encountering two new enemy types: S.S and the Metal Drachen. I assume S.S. stands for “Sunglassstaffel” and was Hitler’s private military branch responsible for supplying sunglasses. This is why Hitler lost WWII, because the army kept getting the two S.S.'s confused and would frequently deliver crates of sunglasses to the front lines by accident.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): S.S. can use Sharpshoot for an instakill, and I believe the Metal Drachen also has one but it’s so slow that I kept killing it before it could go. They’re like the Metal Zentaurs in that they’re heavily resistant to all magic but lightning.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-54-43-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/0/209e475c12436c9854fb5abe19ca86020cd5118c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-58-56-70](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/8/a8447ca5c963880b0aff9721e6b6da9a820fafb1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 22-58-57-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/6/d6ebe46da2c91d5ca6c0621903781f77958db527.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): On the next floor, we start running into Mucalinda and Adramalech. Mucalinda is way better as a demon than as a Persona, being highly resistant to most magic types.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-00-08-00](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/f/ff22bf8dd6799bfd0f46ef0e271ffc6f0dcfcb12.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Phoenix and Kinich Ahau (in the back) also show up. They’re annoying because Meltdown doesn’t work on them and without Mucalinda I can’t do Undine or Bane Splash.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-01-32-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/4/444f1b722c641572feeaf45de29345a8bdad0125.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-13-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/1/e141e2de025df8b43642b627eb73c8df5353c3a3.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): As soon as we enter this room, the Holy Lance theme starts playing. Clearly, we’re about to fight..
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-17-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/e/9ea683d4ed8c79e704b86cf07d6b5989b9839965.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-32-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33f79259381759d2ff5b274eaea076ed1adb1c92.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Oh. No, this is one of like.. I think six boss fights before we even get to Hitler.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-38-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/7/d7236452a77afe0862734c6e0721e1349feef8af.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-41-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/3784e3404a7186bfcfb455847132b0562f0aac8a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-46-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c448e475a69ab205484001e7e3466d26a761e5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-50-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/8/d8532ade8aa53befec84f8531569891896583220.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-56-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/0/20b5f9dac9140b4d2fc7fa36346537afbdcc68d5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-02-59-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/2/824c51efd450ae21462cc531ade682623a0537de.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): You’ve caught on to the gimmick, right? Picking the second option makes an already annoying fight even more annoying. The Holy Lance has no chance in hell of killing anyone, but picking the last one makes the fight more annoying in that it removes their elemental weaknesses. Not that we’re going to exploit those.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-03-24-49](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/a/2ad6051e2e75d404e80edffa6e7a368c98276d14.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-06-52-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/96acdc93da21a84f2d2d9a46806410e4c3ebf6aa.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I forget what their weaknesses are, but this is how the fight ends up going. The Lance spam their Longinus Copy and seal everyone’s Persona. I mostly spent the fight just putting out whatever spells I could and using God Hand whenever possible.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-10-10-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/8/5801f88cba3f6e2728e0299f6edaa1b2f8e62a9f.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, see that item? That item is going to be very important to a certain boss fight. It stops the effects of the holy lance.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-10-45-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/3/f367f53ee184eba85ff0ae34b7a6d8fb612fb695.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-10-46-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/9/6913c591cd39e79804104448e10af561f9bd64cd.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I honestly laughed at this because it just explodes out of nowhere.
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “What…? Ngh!”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Jun-kun, don’t let them get under your skin… you need to focus on stopping your father and returning the city to normal!”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c60edbe64dc5709a15100bc42882ac44e6b5b91f.png): “Hey, Maya-chan… what’s going on? All this stuff about ‘secrets’.. you’re acting weird.”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Sorry… I don’t think I should say anything just yet. But I’ll explain myself later. Let’s keep going. I think.. no, I KNOW we’ll be catching up with Jun-kun’s father soon.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-11-22-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/d/3da4bba9fe02a6690b3ed8653604cfbed58ef928.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-11-29-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/3/032f97dcbb972df103d46e4f03267af641010632.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-11-36-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/6/b6b6de837e9a5a3e21c5bbb785908a1d2c43f30a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-14-36-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/4/74730429d2683ad2d82293de35608abdd45f4909.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Just outside of the room with the Holy Lance is the other half of the elevator we saw back on B5F. Why the party couldn’t have just used this to skip three floors, I have no idea.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-17-08-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/7/97906e1dc3785971a5ac2a5002a0a5fc13ccbf67.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-19-14-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/1/911087bc71dd825b5970decf544c4bf86752495a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-19-28-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/f/cfc545d24edf71f1025fe52c7d332cd103133bbc.jpeg)
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> ![Smug](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/8/b8e6d4fe2e711567a9b12f0cb285866baf058f83.png): “Hey, Big Maya? Isn’t it about time you told us about this secret of yours?”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c60edbe64dc5709a15100bc42882ac44e6b5b91f.png): “Yeah, Maya-chan! Don’t you trust us?”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Oh, of course I do! I trust you all, but…”
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> ![Hurt](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/e/9ec0a5b55497f9fe620ccb0ad77baf94e9654cc5.png): “I think you’re right. It’s not good to keep hiding it. Alright, I’ll take the plunge and spill the beans, but…”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-20-00-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/0/8084c763424aed4066a9e8125ad53022243b518a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This entire dungeon is just the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Yes, this is the dumb gimmick Xibalba revolves around.
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Whoa, whoa! Before you lock me in the nuthouse, think back on everything that’s happened so far.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Well okay, let’s see.. first there was Tatsuya at high school trying to find his guidance counsellor, and then the scene where Eikichi supposedly abducted Miyabi, and then Joker shows up.. and then nothing much happens for a while and then the game turns into 24 and then suddenly it’s Ancient Aliens and Hitler and now we’re here.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-20-12-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/b/bb08fd4d0293b68260df27f801a96e2a1bb2aa6c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-20-19-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/e/3e1aec72b65495aa5ad8bc2d2eb03b6fbff584f6.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The PSP version of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment was released in English in 2012… the PSP version of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment was released in English in 2012…
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-20-28-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/a/fa239bdb98e92522f3a03b76816a79da42253815.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-20-32-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/5/15117fb3cc1079b49981fc50d537f76a37a0a162.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): If you answer anything but yes, you lose Lisa’s group contact for the rest of the game, so I did that despite the fact that I have never once used it and we’re in the final dungeon. I said yes if only because I can imagine Tatsuya pretending he’s not gay with Jun laughing in the background.
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> ![Happy](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/8/c8c429e44edc6b8347890aae3181ce4accdd74f8.png): “Hoisamuro! This is great! It’s just like Maya-chan said!”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-21-07-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/2/0285980db64f8deb9a9999890462dc1be2eb5743.jpeg)
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “I’ve been concentrating this whole time on the city returning to normal, or meeting Jun-kun’s father soon, but no luck so far.”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “So I’ve been pondering it some more. It could be that fear and other negative thoughts get priority to become real…”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This would’ve been the perfect time to have someone get horny and Mara shows up as a boss. Such wasted potential..
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/221897fb56a7f5c92df5a44f992248a7e2dcb797.png): “But the healing spring and Velvet Room appeared just like Lisa and Michel wanted.”
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> ![Hurt](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/e/9ec0a5b55497f9fe620ccb0ad77baf94e9654cc5.png): “That’s the thing.. I’ve been experimenting, but I just can’t figure out the pattern behind it. Everyone sharing one thought hasn’t done the trick, and it’s not just one strong belief.. maybe there’s an outside force at work.”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/221897fb56a7f5c92df5a44f992248a7e2dcb797.png): “You’re talking about Father, aren’t you?”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “I don’t know… there would be no reason for Jun-kun’s father to think things that would benefit us.”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “Still.. we can’t rule out the possibility that he’s just toying with us.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-21-57-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/370aab48d5f7f44c668c9bcad1d1ee0f6eed34df.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Here’s the deal with this line. At one point, you can go into Maya’s apartment and find out from Ulala that the only two things Maya eats are ramen and canned crab meat. She also really likes Clair de Lune.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-05-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/d/3d388ee9801143d6e9e4eb486274b4163d281c6d.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-10-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/3/13d93a9c1209c7e8337d5c38789e0155e2bfeba4.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-15-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/68669fb8c79294b96a3d3dfb83fa8a552b29c129.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-23-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/2/329158588da9aa2ee2e15b38fce34b43ae82ef5b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-27-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/3/838dbb12c7ab8b6605d944a684015b825acc0f30.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Meet the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, aka Eikichi’s dad only made of gold.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-45-49](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/8/585c0c3d86c9e5ee610e8ac2b47c32e9b9b438aa.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-22-52-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/0/b04c44839e5e3b3aeb43cc9b34794ec5cdddefbc.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-24-23-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/8/8811efd4bb7fe98d3df2bde5d407fc3ea32101e8.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Supposedly, “Metal Daddy” has some physical-based instakill skills and likes to target Eikichi with them. He gets off a single themed lightning attack (“Yell”) before Dashing Strike takes him down in one turn.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-25-01-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/5/f5c1a388e220d634baed48a319390f109fcdaafc.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-25-21-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/b/0ba13a62eb86be68f91784bd0d57476b49f95ea5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-25-47-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/6/06c4d8993fe9ea05088aae8543cc1ed47db6bd8d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-25-53-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/4/d43f2e2ee00f8f3e5e2498421ae86ed648dccbe1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-25-57-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/0/c077742ddb80c7df4a419257a5c4c4e59a25d0cf.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-06-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/8/f8f760bcde5efddf07919729e56de2c8683bb5f8.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-10-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/5/e5e69ab5e367941a6772f1f8369fde9397216b27.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-14-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/22c9b8e1977cbf6d8b72a62792082b8adfdd5e83.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-20-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/4/14a3b950130f73c0691a6907a05e855cffe97d25.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-26-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/1/11810d16ab44c805f53e471b110ce0ac7e8811a9.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): How do you even get stuck in a gutter? Is Eikichi like Reed Richards or something?
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-26-51-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/c/ec717ca8e46d12d75fd9b46372fa2b7de4cbfea7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-37-05-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/8/0895c2761661c7190868507c46d207dff592d942.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-37-16-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/b/9b296924caf42720a7d8ca88efa8ec28ac5e3895.png)
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> ![Jun](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/a/6a00876164142d0213a71e12831608d90066334c.png): “M-Maybe… but.. he’s really busy, so..”
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> ![Eikichi](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/2/82b9664451257661c7e4dee0c91d1390a5b2bb31.png): “I-I wish m-my dad didn’t w-work a a sushi restaurant… s-seriously, I have to eat s-s-sushi every day.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Let me tell you, sushi’s just a disappointment. I ordered from this Chinese place that also does sushi once, and they gave me the wrong order - it was like $40 of sushi instead of my beef lo mein. I mean, it was a great deal (I paid like $8 for it) and I ate it because I didn’t feel like returning it but still.
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> ![MayaSmile](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/7/477bf6ffeba5b388fb0fe0d250c0d7aef51a3f33.png): “It’s almost time for your families to start coming to pick you up.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I just now realized that Maya is basically an unpaid babysitter for these kids.
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> ![Lisa](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/0/5070614c352896da7f89d99a134234ba72e5923a.png): “I wonder if my mommy will be first today? I’m hungry!”
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> ![Eikichi](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/2/82b9664451257661c7e4dee0c91d1390a5b2bb31.png): “Oh, s-someone’s here. I d-don’t recognize him.. b-but he looks cool!”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-37-53-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/6/7673aaf4f5247d9ebae195636577548560f26347.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This entire scene is not going to make any fucking sense until after we fight Hitler. There’s three different explanations for it, one of which is actually pretty cool and would make for an interesting light novel. Yes, the writers are still trying to pull off a plot twist at the last possible second and it’s not going to make any goddamn sense.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-37-58-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/1/e1fa913312dcd2702263128849b1e33eb26f633a.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-01-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/6/e66e4a345a7c007dd7ba8f0fd979c7b500c834de.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-07-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/4/045da914d5772209c13fd9cb0548a1065f740df8.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-11-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/6/167c0e23dc0fbb62a8896659e5d5d3539fae8c4c.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, I had to watch a video of the final boss because the last few floors of this are such a clusterfuck that I had to do it in two sessions. The English voiceacting in this game is godawful and I’m very glad I’m playing an undub.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-14-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/1/311625152d3bd4d0bf49473ed1f05afab6e59f2c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-19-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/d/4d11f6344bcc58aceec3e36d23aa3080703d86a0.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-27-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/4/d4deab4cf931a9dc6ccc671a89421b3b0b7660b6.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-39-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/0/600fe4025a832ed78ecace8a10f45e2ecdca5605.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-38-50-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8efbb4cc7d2eff06d38611c3405210c0a77ed221.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-39-01-10](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/2/522de35cf4617f0ea76aa4c6e3c17b09bea94fe2.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-39-03-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/2/a26c4fcde8aa9a8c6d66b40be29029a96a0611b3.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Meet the manifestation of Jun’s mommy issues. We still don’t know who Jun’s mother is, and I don’t believe the game explains who she is apart from a VERY brief glimpse during the final boss.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-39-09-70](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/3/63a4e8bdfcb97989f8f33ef7e5a0041db3b83ed8.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Jun’s mother is a woman by the name of Junko Kurosu. In either Eternal Punishment or the Innocent Sin World Guide, they explain that she was a former model and also a student of Kashihara’s. She was an idol for a few years, and then married Kashihara because someone at Atlus (looking at you, Satomi Tadashi) had a thing about May-December romances.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Junko’s career as an idol ended when she got married, and then she had Jun. A few years later, Kashihara starts spending a lot of time with Maya Okamura/Ms. Ideal while writing In Lak’ech. Junko assumes that Kashihara is cheating on her and spreads rumors to drive him to suicide. Basically, both of Jun’s parents are cartoonishly horrible people.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-39-27-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/0/b01323c79b63b77785fd45f43a74ef245cbbbad7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-39-33-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/6/7631ec2e44338bacf673f342561e461a534da974.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-40-45-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/3/c393c642e474e8eb3cf89fec8e532c38b96ed8e1.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Metal Mama is immune to magic, so our only option here is Dashing Strike. We also don’t have Jun because he’s busy having an existential crisis, but it doesn’t matter.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-41-11-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/3/f38d814f48305189fce8a0688ccfa07c89579810.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I like that she melts into a puddle when she’s at low HP.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-42-19-43](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/7/877938e8e8461e47d7e9e5e3db51e34959d08aaf.jpeg)
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c57e91c44121448fafd69c0f1e156ced703de7.png): “Jun-kun, no matter who else says they don’t need you, we need you.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): No we don’t. Jun is basically useless unless I need to cast God Hand and Maya has a status effect.
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c57e91c44121448fafd69c0f1e156ced703de7.png): “You would leave us behind…? You’d leave Tatsuya-kun behind..? The boy who’s practically your other self?”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “Tatsuya.. I.. I finally.. remember everything.. we need to hurry.. and defeat him…”
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c60edbe64dc5709a15100bc42882ac44e6b5b91f.png): “Him…? You mean your dad?”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “He’s… you’ll know when you see him. We have to keep going.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-09-63](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/4/b497bd9cec653928725d11094858c2a0bb32331f.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-12-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/f/dfc66b39939a52354140c461978d21165e386d77.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-16-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/e/2e1c9cb6fa18a867beb5ae00a11bc235487c786f.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-21-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/6/c63d26c04f357f052e44877f8102ac6c485c96fc.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-33-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/8/78e7b676c77fd3d9715cd2fa46daeb79bb72e268.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So here’s what’s up with Jun’s dad. Kashihara is definitely dead, but may or may not have actually died in the clock tower at Sevens. Being crushed by a clock tower honestly sounds like something a crazy bitch of a mother would tell her kid in lieu of “your dad killed himself”.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-43-48-90](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/a/9a5c451b79431014bf9e75416b375231e305e393.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-45-41-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/a/9a8254a49ad30fa236147d5ccdaf94a7879451be.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Ah Puch is another demon that’s new to Xibalba and I didn’t see in Liquid Waste Disposal. I only encountered it here because I popped a Clean Salt (does the same thing as Estoma) to stop random encounters.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-46-42-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/f/3f402a8c52b9d64d1ece21ced5f3373d836f34aa.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-47-52-83](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/7/776443ff81e927e1460002c373a3f3bddce6d169.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-47-55-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/d/ed3035fa1f855c93e8cc81ef117d950633e235ee.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-48-18-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/4/04c34a8d0d9141dd3890e0e213d552a971dbeda2.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-48-24-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/5/452619550c81e5aa4a659de613add5568e4909d8.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-48-50-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/7/071890b480219a32b41d90f0c60d6de1f61a4aa7.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-03-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f764844be219106a71cf4ddfb338b06e45c1297c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-10-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/c/3c3480dea277d51e07fecb34ea532a3325f44231.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-17-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/4/5418758482dba6ff2a43f8604a5f2708e457a7cc.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is supposed to indicate that she’s completely lost it, rather than that she’s just made the switch from bottom to top.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-22-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/2/f239fcc9d32cfa1f2f3ff717595124c6b8a239f2.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-30-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/b/bba4af62134f3056706b1daaa992270e25e0452c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-42-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/c/bc99ccdbe8020521fd351e797e0ed45a8f292345.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-51-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/d/fd4454dfb94bb32c1143061ad43d4efe0a62e77d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-49-58-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/a/4aba9beeda22527212b35a35460f226cdaf840c0.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-50-06-43](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/f/3ff7e9016d66d9523085417765173540ed7aee1e.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is the game’s only indication about the whole “Jun’s mother drove Kashihara to suicide” bit.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-50-14-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/9/4973e0c70b4a5a828d8d8939fbc451eed2ef76ae.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is another thing that’s kind of unclear is whether Kashihara and Maya Okamura were actually having an affair. Part of the reason Jun’s mother did what she did was because she suspected he was.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-50-42-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/7/57ebfc337e6194788ef9ae043a0bce621cbe70ce.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The greys then emerge from their sleep and punch Maya Okamura to the ground. Who’s ready for another stupid boss fight?
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-50-58-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/7/6751d48222eca055489c944e69a289390ab2b56e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-51-05-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/2/32f9f540b66db01ab72131d00971e6703b31027b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-51-10-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/1/e13b2cbd0c1fa4690c036edb6ce375c338d45b57.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-52-44-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/4/d4058b514f9dac22fc3cce6dee54eb0df721fe93.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The aliens are actually just carbon copies of each character’s shadow - they each have the signature spells from the ultimate Personas that the shadows used. Each one has an elemental weakness, apart from the bottom-left one who is immune to magic.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-53-18-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/e/6e2b0fa821841411af438bb96d567e0f4e691188.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This fight isn’t that hard as long as you have God Hand and Dashing Strike. Terror Fortune is the absolute worst thing they can do - it targets the entire party with random status effects ranging from poison to instant death.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-53-25-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/0/90b9cc827bb2b9ecf28c84293c1bca663f3637ac.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): And naturally, they get lucky. Thankfully, they only used Terror Fortune once - most of them just kept spamming Asteroid Bomb (a full-party magic attack) and getting it reflected back at them.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-56-40-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/7/6709889c4afdd918f1ed295f188cb7e765796d53.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): My strategy here was very simple. God Hand the first four to death, and then Dashing Strike the last one.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-57-03-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/37812dd65221d13c7b7768ce9a223ae2364878f4.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-57-18-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/e/0e9baa9ada613cec6815dc9080167d3496582ed5.png)
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “I think.. she really was willing to die. The final step in the Oracle is the sacrifice of the Maia Maiden. Father seems to have thought that the Maia Maiden was someone with a strong blood connection to the Maians.. fulfillment of the Oracle meant that whoever it was would die. But that was all a delusion. It doesn’t exist…”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f7c72f01bf5fb01354971aad2571850d1959d116.png): “Jun.. a second ago, you said your dad was dead. Then who was that we saw…?”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “He’s not my real father. It must be–”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c57e91c44121448fafd69c0f1e156ced703de7.png): “An impostor born from our beliefs.. just like our shadows. Like the other “me” created by the circulating rumors…”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I mean, apart from that not being at all what a Shadow is, that kind of makes no sense.
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> ![Surprised](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/e/feb9279f1a7ec82162198eba09fbb651f1f8d95c.png): “No way… seriously!? I mean yeah, we had all kinds of crazy theories about Jun’s dad back then, but…”
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> ![Confused](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/f/ffca3ad3bb32884a7bf8ae7f11dfdccccea54acb.png): “Does this mean… rumors were coming true that long ago!?”
> 
> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-58-16-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/1/118300bfaef9054a1e0021a86c0e154c9ca052f7.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-58-20-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/4/04efb4fc38c57409f7091a68fba7baf931274b8b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-58-23-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9cf4ee30546a6e70c0868045912cba1c6025df62.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Honestly, it’s hard to take anything Maya says seriously when you realize she’s a gremlin who subsists on ramen and canned crab.
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c57e91c44121448fafd69c0f1e156ced703de7.png): “And one of these 'me’s manifested through rumors.. talk about a sick sense of irony.”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “It’s all my fault… I didn’t want you to know who my real father was… so I lied to you all.”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62c57e91c44121448fafd69c0f1e156ced703de7.png): “It’s not your fault, Jun-kun. Someone’s been watching us all this time, ever since then. I’m sure of it now. It’s a tremendous presence, filled with malice and insincerity.”
> 
> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/683d55ce55a90c5ec2bb439c7a03f39dafcac694.png): “Whatever that is… is it the real enemy who’s been making rumors come true? But why…?”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-00-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/4/140fc41044e0d36b23f8321b3c23746bb46c0462.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): There’s also some optional dialogue we kind of want to do.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-08-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/8/f8a52b25cc5eb364ac395c29e3e9ee0ed4bc0456.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-12-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/f/6fb3400634884e2633edbb970b0efc9b92c57af2.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-14-23](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/4/e4821dde80f5f494fd253e58b57a743ca0e0e983.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Keep this line in mind for a bit.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-18-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/e/fe65a7601b0e00d0fe56ba3427d995091e768b72.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-21-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/2/02a248050701839c0daf8d8c6adfa3227aa02494.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-25-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/0/901a41da2580c9f764f633519c390411678bfde7.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-28-93](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/1/d11578b7bbd57d37108d60fa990b858c56a91084.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-32-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/a/1ab4e5fd57bc12cf416c7669ab62118784719d50.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-03 23-59-38-33](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/b/5bc284cd7916dc2d7eed3a1d81f631dc517c61c2.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I’d like to point out that from when I re-entered Xibalba B5F to when I got here, roughly two hours elapsed. The final few floors of Xibalba are easily more time consuming than the first five. What I didn’t realize when I stopped was that we’re like.. half a floor away from the final boss.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-15-44-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/c/2cb204e17995d99baf1784452f16c956b01f7c46.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-16-17-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/f/2fdc113cb6bb9d813470b1cd7786de64898bfa95.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-17-46-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33faeef0fcf9be5feede3ebd6a53d3adfa06a990.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): In an ideal world, I’d have grinded Eikichi’s new Persona up one more rank. I didn’t.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-15-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/8628b70b72911ba19303fd0a9baf1b1754fd7f5e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-21-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/2/a2bce8b13fc179ec42410368e9a6528bab703694.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-24-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/7/1761314ede7941ebaa0f5711fc51a5efbff190b8.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-29-02](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/e/aeefe1739447bebc97cf14d56f6e71a0e5b26421.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-31-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/2/42a4f1c0c215ff4b538acc1654ea7727760e982d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-33-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/d/9d7f66807e8e1f7744ae3cc8b45e1c6a203da439.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-18-53-02](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/68c3c5a3f7228b7befeb9cb950f269758cce15b7.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We’re in.. isn’t this Philemon’s space dildo?
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-19-00-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/e/ce93e0fe2c04b7dfb4840b1715767ab58768b95a.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-19-04-32](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/2/72f36a74facbb66b420bba9111ae1affeaed77f1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-19-11-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/0/704ae246aa78d47d4d7147b872e967fbf9f2f910.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-19-18-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/9/599a775d25eea53ddf7a9773443b775548e00962.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): And it’s time for us to fight Jetpack Hitler.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-19-22-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/8/98151efb7222f724c50869421df4a53019ea6f3a.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I uh, I think you’re looking at it. I mean, I think your daddy issues are kind of less important than the fact that Hitler is sitting right in front of you and has not yet been scalped.
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> ![Fuhrer](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/8/b86fd8afe36eb8a6881274c0b515415f942b9dc9.png): “What a terrible junge, referring to your father that way. You’ll never grow into a fine man if you keep that up.”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I like that you can read this as Hitler being Jun’s dad.
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> ![Normal](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e0995a48ee3e0ddacb2a2a4d7b8ea68ac9ed9fff.png): “We’ve beat your minions, the Masked Circle executives, everyone who can use the crystal skulls! We’re the only ones left who can use them, aren’t we? So I don’t think it’s much use for you to hold onto it anymore.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-20-11-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/5/b55365d9d35d92cd12a4b093365027e2341a1e2b.png)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Hitler then drops the skull like Dracula dropping his wine glass in Symphony of the Night. It just kinda bounces off into space.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-20-17-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/7/47e1ee256070cf0dcda1d5aab435660bdc198117.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-20-22-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/5/250ceaa3c2eff4b610e450ea74b286046ab0f728.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): What he means is that the entire plot is a fucking trainwreck. This ending is so dumb that I honestly can see why Innocent Sin would’ve bombed in Japan.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-20-41-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/f/bf525a08300b8650c028a467a4c43b6965f0f881.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-21-09-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/a/ba9d2bfd43d7246232c319b505fe15125b9e1953.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I mean, you’d think he’d use a knife and a gun. You know, weapons Hitler would’ve actually had access to.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-22-22-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/5/c54f23b4051c574444aae5add545fd8d13a9630b.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I got VERY lucky with this Hitler fight. Hitler spends his first few turns being as useless as his art career and using Holy Ark, which does jack and shit.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-22-32-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/627bbdb5571b4314c6042970c7d99e291051ca75.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We reply with Dashing Strike, because as everyone knows, the only way to scalp Hitler is to pummel him into submission and then take the scalp.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-22-43-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/4/0470c21b7c2fda35b0e33a8618f96c0c00fa74c7.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We get two Dashing Strikes in before Hitler decides to use the Spear of Destiny. Unlike the Holy Lance mechs, the Spear of Destiny does not go away on its own - you have to use the Spirit Rib you go from the Holy Lance.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-23-11-49](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/f/6f3231d5439efd7855ca2c4d2d87c0dcdea4a566.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I used it three times, and it never worked.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-24-42-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/2/920c205a4bbc0a69f0c2380d39e3b2bf3e198581.jpeg)
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): At this point, using regular spells will out-damage fusion spells, so I just use those until Hitler dies.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-25-07-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/5/15716a3a675ee870c941797caede4f92c8de0d89.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I was really afraid that the Holy Lance status would carry over to the final boss, but it doesn’t. The key here is to have all of your characters at a point where they need under 60,000 EXP to level up. Hitler gives exactly the same amount of EXP Alice did. I also like that he crouches down when at low HP to get into an ideal position for scalping.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-07-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/2/329b905aea3da233d090a276fc703e08f022ffcf.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Everyone levels up except for Jun. I really should’ve done a few more fights.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-38-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/1/0191a34ae3c9d7b5fedb2c151fd5dbc99cbcf9bf.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-42-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/4/8402a90e9e0888650975af779bf1bff8da9f2c1f.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-43-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/9/69007747216a6e92ac5e1cf48a0c6b939c0a84c9.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Holy shit! Jun’s dad really was Hitler! So, remember when I said that the cutscenes with Jun’s dad were bad? Here’s the thing about them: they’re wrong. Maya is wrong when she said that Jun’s dad was affected by rumors.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): When we see him with the black coat, that’s actually Nyarlathotep. That’s right, Jun’s dad is a Great Old One, which actually could make for an amusing light novel where a couple of Cthonic entities decide to disguise themselves as people and raise a normal family.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-47-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/7/1787d023bdf8abdab864a5f8bd182996e78425bc.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-26-54-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6b7c84abb51bf2c601a29eced901d55bf43d2380.png)
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> ![Surprised](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/e/feb9279f1a7ec82162198eba09fbb651f1f8d95c.png): “Collective… what..? This isn’t outer space!?”
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “This is the place where the guinea pigs known as humans are born. What appear to be stars are what you call consciousness.”
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “All human egos are born here and return here. Into me, who is like a father to all…”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I really, really don’t understand why this isn’t an actual mythological being instead of Nyarlathotep. This kind of isn’t what Nyarlathotep does at all in the Cthulhu mythos: he just kind of exists to be a dick. The worst part is, there’s several entities that would’ve fit the bill better.
> 
> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “The crystal skulls and Xibalba are only a fragment of me, manifested by your kind’s yearning for such things. An alien spacecraft will lead to you becoming gods? You guinea pigs are such fools. You cling to fantasies by desperately rationalizing them.”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This sounds like the most generic JRPG villain ever.
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> ![Angry](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/a/2a78fa5eb74bef629c77ef614c83b846efb3da78.png): “Guinea pigs!? Then what the hell are you!? Show us who you really are!”
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Given that most of the Great Old Ones more or less instantly cause anyone looking at them to go insane, it’s probably a good thing that he’s not in his true form.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-27-40-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/6/065d8f6e22de7ab7dd434b9a9c1f0c460496357e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-27-44-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9c335531f2eef5266a1ff36321e725f7fa4e4574.png)
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “That’s rather harsh. You’re the one who desired that I exist. You hated your mother who wouldn’t love you and insulted your good-for-nothing father… all while embracing an illusory ideal..”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So yeah, this pretty much all but confirms that for some period in Jun’s life, his dad was a Great Old One.
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “You’re lying… I never wanted this chaos… I just wanted everyone’s dreams to come true…”
> 
> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “Why do you persist in deceiving yourself!? Your only reason for terrorizing the city was to make amends to your father.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-20-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/a/5a134c7c6308614925971180ccdee8b9051dc21b.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Kashihara then appears on a cross, because we haven’t had enough pointless religious symbolism in this trainwreck of a plot.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-28-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/7/07c9a3843101dab8af9787116669165f29bf1c12.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-33-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/8580b7801c3ceed6fa24738fd4ffac7caf70ab7a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-39-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/b/6bd7c321eca34846a2962f2f75756bff816a3479.png)
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “It’s the touching reunion you’ve been waiting for! Now hurry and repent! Your last wish has already been granted, after all.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I don’t get how this is supposed to be effective. It’s clearly not actually Kashihara, because if Nyarlathotep had the power to raise the dead he’d have actually resurrected Hitler instead of just disguising himself.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-50-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/4/5476adb0249f5f0debc9007aff578dd734870c78.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-28-58-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/5/657b4f7a9b8d03684fce9e38f3008c19afcc325b.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): It’s here, minutes before the end of the game, that we find out that Jun’s mother was Queen Aquarius. The game won’t even refer to her by name, because of course it won’t this plot is a fucking trainwreck.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-29-13-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/5/751067bca2eda4f00cda29005a608d8701b4edd1.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, there’s one thing that Eternal Punishment points out that I didn’t know because I never talked to him, but the Count at Time Castle is also Nyarlathotep.
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “Don’t you recall that woman telling you her dreams of staying young and beautiful? Her face when she found out her son was Joker was a real sight to see!”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-29-33-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/8/a8f415eb3b82066e98ee710b1e79138652fbe643.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-29-44-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/d/dd400211e1be80f7e0f7e350220f3363c3f27fdb.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-29-55-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/c/5c52b51f23f4a5e622c49cadad17619fa85ee7a0.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): When I streamed this, I think it was here I was like “Can we cut the pseudo-intellectual bullshit already?”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-06-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/d/5da1b70843e6f260f6f1cc588bb200ba8aa114b7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-08-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/b/ab9daa649c302ade10bf6519817d840bd378fe2b.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-09-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/6/7648b93e34d335df803ece3a5badaf32d8e4d2f1.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Lisa tries to punch Nyarlathotep in the face, and he just kind of makes like Naruto and teleport-slaps her. Clearly Lisa needs to go back to her village and become the hokage first.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-12-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/d/fd2b7b2c6962b92447d95958d3cfed08b21afb82.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Eikichi, you’re the slowest person in the party.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-13-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/d/9d88c72ffc196e6a896b6c832477a189ad150784.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-15-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/4/b4145f8e39992c46664c273f40ba5e7a6ecb4c1b.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): You know what would’ve been way more effective? Have Nyarlathotep just take the bullets. Go full bad RPG villain and just be like “I’m a fucking Great Old One, do you really think a couple of bullets are going to do anything to me?”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-21-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/4/d470232b26ff419a5c759c8b9e280529e656663c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-24-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/4/a47ab0d47a14e19d1979535fa685df93e98ee9b3.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-31-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/e/3ea3d3d769cef095861782086b8fe244eac11a71.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-30-48-02](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/0/508ba257ecc9d12356f16ceff83a35322ecbc1a6.png)
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “This is my world. If I wanted to end your measly existences, I could do it without lifting a finger. Still hot on taking me on here, knowing you have no chance at winning? The contradictions keep piling up..”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Honestly, the way Nyarlathotep is written sounds more like a fanfiction by an edgy 12 year old instead of, you know, the way he’s written in the Cthulhu mythos.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-31-05-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/86a33374646d0b3f0ac09cd71272ae67d2767885.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Anyway, who’s ready for the dumbest final boss in any SMT or SMT-adjacent game?
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-31-25-13](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/a/4ab4f839340184b7db79532ab8b86ac4836b7c4a.jpeg)
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> ![image](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/8/381b2fa88ab8801c2936454fda1915ce926075e9.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Remember when I did that update on the artbook and told people not to look at it? This is the front cover. Meet the Great Father, a beast consisting of each character’s dad in the form of a single monstrosity. I’m not sure which is supposed to be which because of how the artstyle changed from the PS1 version. I know Kashihara is the one on top, and the top-right is Maya’s dad.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-31-50-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/4/c434dd504e9a049eac28dc3d2228f4aa08ae464c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-31-54-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/6/a61f733507fd092c869cdbc3b284bb23dd008473.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-32-31-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/1/81f9410f1b68ad00abc4e3c38f5c41265a9f1c81.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The Great Father is a glitchy piece of shit largely defeated by the fact that three of our party members reflect spells. The legs have 5,000 HP each while the top part has 13,000. Here’s the problem though: Meltdown doesn’t work. I don’t know why, but it just won’t hit them. I had to resort to God Hand, and this is why I wished that I had ranked up Eikichi’s persona one more time.. because then I could’ve double God Handed each turn.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-32-35-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/3/d3fb59ea8f1a9ec0bca28f8db1d2d2bd877f4775.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The most deadly attack it has is Master 18, which is launched from Eikichi’s father. This is a physical attack that hits 18 times and has an extra status effect (I think it’s Panic) if it hits Eikichi. Each one of the Great Father’s attacks works this way. The one for Jun charms him, the one for Maya puts her to sleep, and I forget what the one for Tatsuya does.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-43-50-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/6/76d49d2811c87b65177916520c762c66f0570e5f.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Right as it stops mattering, Eikichi’s Persona levels up, allowing me to double God Hand. Most of the fight I spent just using whatever spells I had handy, because Meltdown refused to work.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-43-25-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/4/74a7108f7ff444410b9a2d6e5f84733d2f732840.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The legs die one by one and it gets easier each time. The reason they didn’t all die at the same time is that I did Dashing Strike a few times on the assumption that Meltdown wasn’t working because even though there’s five targets, only one actually counts. That’s not accurate: in reality there are five targets and this game is glitchy piece of shit. By not working, I don’t mean the boss nulls it, I mean Meltdown straight up does nothing.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-44-54-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/3/c3e9bc8f78313e00207fb51dde9d147b519434a4.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, there’s a trick to this fight where you can have all your party members guard and then cancel the guard after the boss has attacked but before your turn comes up.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-45-40-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/a/ca4698529c1d70f656897ade478ccc1962a0711b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-46-00-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/6/56a53f612cf7af9ab4899ea9290fc9c40fc7e253.png)
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “Ha… you were right that these humans may make for good test cases..”
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> ![Angry](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/7/37d9660ae5e6ce650020655599b26a55283ebb21.png): “What is he saying…? Philemon!?”
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> ![Philemon](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/8576a1bf7a18c3f633b8ec6d32de67872994f619.png): “We are the sources of people’s souls. Incarnations of the collective unconsciousness, indivisible from one another… we have watched man’s strivings for eons. I lead those with strong hearts, and the Crawling Chaos drags the weak into the abyss.”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-46-30-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/0/a0d26736c5abadd7f96dc153bc9b648cf50e11af.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-46-33-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/8/184e8a4fdaf4f0652b9b09db620b54975b2187f3.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-46-39-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/5/0556dbf55c56092c6ae4a068b5b2b5910a830d6c.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So yeah, Philemon is kind of an asshole. Nyarlathotep’s entire motivation is that he’s in a bet with Philemon about whether or not humanity will destroy itself.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-46-54-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/b/3bda59d70b5da06eb7f207461ff8376b4cdf0e3b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-47-02-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/b/5b258844e36e9e240039d9545d69cd0b080e95e2.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): He then teleports in Maya Okamura, who for some reason has the Spear of Destiny on her.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-47-03-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/1/61cb4925a19e900a22826025a7d0f25066f661fe.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-47-08-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/f/0fa4b6a5220c6ccfda0f581b00ba40ee7a923048.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-47-11-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/d/9d2671b6d6617897d0111f07e19aca978188ce78.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-47-19-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/d/0da8ef05af893bf08f9cc323a541d3e29ca21317.png)
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f7c72f01bf5fb01354971aad2571850d1959d116.png): I’m trying! But.. but.. the bleeding won’t stop! Why… why aren’t my spells working!? Philemon!’
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): They’re not working because the only spell you’ve had since like, Mt. Iwato is Maragidyne. Tatsuya has Diarahan and Samarecarm on him.
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> ![Philemon](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/8576a1bf7a18c3f633b8ec6d32de67872994f619.png): “Nyarlathotep… this was your reason for creating the legend of the Spear of Destiny..”
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> ![Nyarlathotep](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e376665d711eb696ed1d9e0ffacaa89d4cd6a47.png): “They say that when Jesus Christ’s corpse was pierced with that spear, blood continued to spill endlessly. You humans have passed that legend down for 2,000 years. It’s one hell of a strong rumor. A fatal wound would take effect immediately.”
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): It’s too bad that the whole Gabriel Knight 3 rule of “touching anything that had Jesus blood on it makes you a vampire” doesn’t apply here.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-04-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/0/501c3f3235d84cedf7696ea8437e46bc3897fd8b.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Is it being stabbed? Because I would think it’s being stabbed.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-12-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/8/6864ce73885c711b64ad39c454748609f804ea9d.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Remember that line in the alien room? Maya knew there that she was going to die.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-32-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/b/1b69906b6cca3c2d924443efdca09ef1ff22c2b4.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-37-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/5/c5783a11010b4d866ad0712d8eb47c0d9eba8bc3.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-42-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/e/3e845f4dfb0c558676ec29b36c7a41f3ad8c3275.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-49-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/1/d17b5aed1d0f375b31165d49826f30c20a390127.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So, I get why they did this. They did this because in Cthulhu stories, there is no winning against Cthulhu. But still, this entire game feels fucking pointless. You don’t kill Nyarlathotep, you don’t even stop him the way the P1 cast did with Nyx, you just kind of.. lose.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-48-55-32](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/1/71c905bfbdb4c51bb88c47934283ce581ada9d6e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-00-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/1/3101f9533e21dda2431c2b2c9e69284bc027fab7.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-06-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/0/e00c6707110bc12934e3d44d699420bbec0ff2e5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-11-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/a/7aeaca60264332b0a86e5c2bd874b304a77cc710.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-24-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/6/8687e94e75d3628317f0b5b509272f4e0ffee264.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This whole thing just feels stupid. Nyarlathotep has already admitted the Oracle of Maia was a farce, so why the hell did he ever bother playing along in the first place? What was the point of the whole crystal skull thing? What was the point of this entire fucking game?
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-28-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/4/b49b78aa0b9e4b7d1b66b746d5c83f134a3d32ac.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The thing is, it’s possible to write a Cthulhu plot that still feels satisfying. There was game in the mid-2000s called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It wasn’t 100% accurate to the Cthulhu mythos, but it ends with the protagonist driving a Navy destroyer directly into Cthulhu at ramming speed.. which actually works to stop Cthulhu.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-56-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/a/9a3e9e3065f9be7df5dbe09eee234d00b75855f7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-49-58-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/e/7e90b5aa0951cefa645b780d5f8f9654050a2e54.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-06-53](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/a/baef3ad87400b83ebb2fb0bb9701a0a881917226.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-11-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/2/2275536ded8bfed9958b761ccdc64437148179c0.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-16-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/f/3f1d3cd7eb4388df1e4edc200a1523c16ccac2cf.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-22-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/a/0ab9c2b0f4c6f1c6694028203577d7ec03661f24.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So if you’re wondering what the fuck is going on, Nyarlathotep is stopping the rotation of the Earth. I’ve seen screenshots where Jun mentions this being part of the Oracle of Maia, but I couldn’t find the room where he says it.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-28-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/a/caf5cfd36376cf5c8d22498a3dccc934412e848e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-32-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/f/ef9ecdaef61f61e5f1a5a2327bb9e4582a3f49ee.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-33-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/9/99672441ddfd06fb48b176f66d06b2cac701597a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I didn’t capture it, but there’s a shot I missed of Earth being destroyed. Basically, the scientific concensus is that if the planet’s rotation was suddenly stopped, the planet’s surface would be wiped out because the atmosphere is still moving at thousands of miles per hour.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-48-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/1/710e16acaa5b85633b3b27d36d2c000521b131c3.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-51-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/e/5e0c3b1d3c43c4b49d8b464009586229d8f2807e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-50-56-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/2/42aceb78c42450a584e75d231a1bc9579ea366ec.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is more or less word for word what Nyx says at the end of Snow Queen. Can’t have anything original.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-04-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/5/65c10c92bf2dd30094131e6867e0c32a95937fe3.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-05-92](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/a/7aa53f20dc901fc4103d77cf14606e3bd437352f.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Tatsuya even tries to hit Nyarlathotep.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-16-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/5/e55c1203e12ab94d80a1c88352db8bd6049104b3.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is why Philemon is an asshole. Not only did he basically cause the end of all life on Earth, he also had the power to just straight up make a new world the entire time and didn’t for some reason. He’s outright lying about the “I’m only an observer” thing.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-18-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/c/dc326d454c57ddfb9ba560fc756e49564e731821.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-21-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/9/29810c40c2e28e3f223fda9ec653ff31c97fa673.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So here’s the thing. Philemon could outright go back in time and make it so Maya never died in the first place. But he doesn’t.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-53-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/b/3b1ee4b6fd35e04a9561fb56f737bada1efadc9a.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-51-59-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/1/01f97b65c6e80114b66aa77910246d721e3bc334.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-52-03-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/e/6e29d002b3a41c6dcb5b359993a3912408a50bf5.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-52-09-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/7/97b466b41a2fe67b13afab28e0d186447a72b6b2.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is dumb as fuck.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-52-17-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/7/4737c7b07dc414a18b10bcfe309fcb5b274f899f.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-52-25-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/b/4b9d6aab1890a603a1e7f12bbe049f117a83f215.jpeg)
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> ![Philemon](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/8576a1bf7a18c3f633b8ec6d32de67872994f619.png): “There is none here, in the seat of his power. He draws strength from the negative emotions of people unconsciously desiring destruction… if you are to stop him, then mankind itself must change. You must create this new world.”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/3/33cb90c8b3ab1282f18b6a17ccd53a58b312f0f2.png): “I’ll never forget… I don’t dare to…”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/a/1a0fd35b61dd4e1ee4a4212fd2d1c398fb2745ef.png): “Damn straight.. I’m not gonna let myself forget any of this! If that bastard set all of this up, then let’s do this.. we’ll show him that not everything goes his way.”
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> ![Sad](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f7c72f01bf5fb01354971aad2571850d1959d116.png): “We’ll… meet again, won’t we?”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-24-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/9/d9f9e0f5df183f95513826da36ca6cbead33ab89.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is basically YIIK now and I’m starting to wonder why the Allansons didn’t list Innocent Sin in their bibliography.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-30-76](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/d/3de230f82b680e98b9a9da91d935b5b7fee9d648.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-33-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/a/5ac656249284c342e6d53cc68cd9dcec71590442.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-42-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/3/73f0f2441cd6e6207639e308201e5ec3fe210a8a.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-47-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/8/f86374d43e1593621e7e3713874d02603e599bce.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Lisa insisting on kissing the gay guy.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-49-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/f/efa53eb939c70f2369e2e3fe5df369b51d4c15ca.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-53-57-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/2/52e6470a3f2ae6d5a10caae1ca093e06b1a96325.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-54-02-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/4/849bd06455b573a4137346c47644a03099f8646e.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): A long time ago, at the end of the Persona 1 LP, when Philemon takes his mask off at the end of the SEBEC route, I said that his appearance there was not canon. It isn’t. At the time, the character designer planned on making Philemon look like Zhuang Zhi, the guy who wrote the “Dream of the Butterfly” poem.
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Anyway, let’s just thank Philemon for being an asshole and..
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-54-12-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/7/f7c12d90725da2d7648b7e181c70f4b700719622.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-54-14-99](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/a/9a992e3e13d59ec9fb918a3b7818f98ea38106e9.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Tatsuya punches him in the face, taking his mask off. You don’t get to see him maskless if you pick the other option. Trust me, if we ever do Eternal Punishment, you’ll understand why Philemon deserves this. As it is, he deserves it for trying to kill Yukino off.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-54-23-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/2/92223c92d5888fde20c6e7a6c1c1085ed89ac132.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): THIS is Philemon’s canon appearance as far as I know. Under the mask.. he’s you. This works way better than making him Zhuang Zhi.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-14-09](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/3/b31e5dc87f5731ac682778465308a240d3cbf6d2.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-27-59](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/f/1fd0fb68f99b97652b0fe5234a58d2b64548f2ec.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-33-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/f/dfef2386b3a8483e11148713fa123f3c8a0529d7.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): There’s voices in this cutscene, which was added for the PSP version. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them and I was talking over it when I streamed it, because the person who did the undub forgot to undub this part and the English voices hurt.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-34-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/8/884a8699682f9f230bb47bf4710de68b2c1adc4c.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): From what I remember, Eikichi says something like “You’re gonna join my band, right?”
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-43-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/8/18b401d399fbc93661124b54e48c2f12b2f871aa.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-48-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/0/40225d99e856457fee9667f7d99dbfa82d064d22.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Lisa’s was something like “Chinyan… I’ll always love you, no matter what”.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-55-59-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/e/ce65d00b252ccb1c965952a283d8ca154f9d1156.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the time it got to Jun’s I had removed my headset, disconnected it from the cord, and tossed it across the room to stop the godawful English voices from getting out.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-56-19-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/9/e98d30704847de1d6ead326c2f23e80b1e6ce579.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-56-32-29](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/b/5b242a4acec9cc185d4be5561b15400dfc17636a.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Now that we’ve reached the ending, you probably have a lot of questions. The first is probably “Wait… what was the innocent sin?”. The answer is that it happens in a fucking mobage from 2007.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-56-56-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/854693abf6f8b0f864999cd6599e50625536196a.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): See, I know how Eternal Punishment ends, but I thought that ending actually happened in Innocent Sin. It doesn’t. In fact, as far as I’m aware, the ending for Innocent Sin isn’t even canon. The events get basically retconned immediately after they happen, but are brought up again in Eternal Punishment.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-02-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/a/8a564ff273b7bff02ec8e513044d8d2ff234c72c.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-06-26](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/1/e14af239c7ef2d21f56843b2ca11e781badc9233.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): So anyway, what is the innocent sin? In the mobage, which was never translated and only works on pre-smartphones, it’s explained that there’s a second part of the ending we don’t see, where the party have to fight their shadows one last time with the help of their “Ideal Selves” in order to fight Longinus to make the new world. Tatsuya doesn’t defeat his shadow, and as a result doesn’t lose his memories. This is the innocent sin. Eternal Punishment has a SLIGHTLY different explanation but as far as I know the mobage one is canon.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-12-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/2/b2f008e44c301cbf3b73500c928cecbebb1fc3ee.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This is a major clue to a plot point in EP that I’m going to spoil. As a result of not killing his shadow, the Tatsuya Suou we know is stuck forever on the “other side”, in the postapocalyptic world left over after Nyarlathotep kills everyone who wasn’t in Sumaru City. The Tatsuya we’re seeing here is a different person, who spends most of EP being possessed by Innocent Sin Tatsuya.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-24-16](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/9/89ba087526a6d030ef6fe88f6f427e3ac6a3292e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-27-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/8/b81540c4e49cf88a226d7e3967ed5c3ab122c8b1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-31-62](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/f/4fc4ea3ab5e1a662c10cdca9cbe36d6849c34740.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Yeah, I think he already decided he’s going to marry Jun, since the thread decided he’s gay.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-42-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/1/817777b38ce537abec5ea2853fd93dae4178228e.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-57-56-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/2/d2080b0ab7defcdcc2a84f7ff368eff9d0a5b6b4.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-02-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/1/f1f23c5b939ea1194bb181e63235a711f19eaba7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-09-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/7/9791e6b5df7b8091db9b90f4454478c7bf5debca.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-13-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/2/42d29f95b8acc111b65c8801e58053ef9cd7439a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-20-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/8/08ed913bb9d15cfd0735e40acb3b7a076fc13134.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-24-56](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/f/bf285e930e990a9fe2652590ddd7e2c21b4673e5.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): By the way, this is what happens to the rest of the party members in EP. Lisa and her friends form MUSES in EP, but this time aren’t a front for Joker and the Masked Circle.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-38-03](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/9/29d146ba6ec615813784f504023081179e09cfdc.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-41-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/6/b681efc52caa9903c06dc3f4d97e14799a377061.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Eikichi has an actual role in Eternal Punishment, but isn’t playable. He shows up for a few scenes, but in EP he’s the leader of his band and looking to scout Tatsuya (not knowing he already did this in IS).
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-46-42](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/0/d01bcf8e0a8c3e710afab5c15f23e235696e2aff.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-58-52-86](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/9/099f1089b668ac0f4aa3e1cae6a2f234baa374de.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Miyabi gets to be thin because Philemon decided to make a world where everyone but Tatsuya gets to be happy.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-02-39](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/4/741380d6e0ef09453769a96d0a3b787192b3cb33.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-21-06](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/9/19eb67028e8c492363d20e3705b44e7019749561.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-26-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/9/39985e3cdd29b7de429ea6a57b62fee5971478ab.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-29-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/6/16221d6f048db21ec8a945eb7a353c46251c8899.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-34-02](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/9681fc27acef9bc141f3797e906b274ab6dee58a.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-41-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/0/d074efb7b40d9bf2cafe501df7942d98264d1b0b.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-51-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/1/817de1a0a16998ba5350b289530ac4749b1ed97d.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): Jun doesn’t have much of a role, other than near the end of the game and a brief scene outside of that. In Eternal Punishment, his name is Jun Kashihara, since In Lak’ech was never written and his mother never drove her husband to suicide. Jun’s mother also uses the Kashihara surname.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 22-59-57-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/c/ecb4276341fabe87a8ce08391cda1c57c0e04e1d.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-00-22-73](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/969ebf1b80416c91cb480a3cc886ae94c716457e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-00-30-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/b/1bea101dc2290a8cc77d0a05f8071b45b7077feb.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-00-58-82](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/6/9622481801a4d43543b8f57201db7d792893a99e.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-00-59-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/6/b6a3620220286117776679b65f02f64b309f0a02.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): This scene.. I think it happens in Eternal Punishment, but I only read a bit of the LP for that because the PS1 localization bothers me.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-02-69](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/f/7f8303d401511ea9b6091e947001f569cc54a51a.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-12-22](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/1/41d2494b1a38a667b430305c4aaa78c4f6e73608.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-18-36](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/6/f611f85d6ce4c5037c853a647396aa5303e64b3c.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-20-19](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/7/e75ee20a554a79eb9918ecc97b46ce6b7742c094.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-26-66](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/7/17ede4afca6fc6162957e868535898161960507d.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-28-89](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/f/0f7b5cfa2152f43508dedce9e9db4f12882fa2e1.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-35-12](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/1/21ae6f4ce7d6e3276d01df4131eb4fe2c01695be.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-36-96](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/c/6c8cf1f0884b2d82268b83f445b915df9d2552bf.png)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-01-39-32](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/7/2/72a37a0ce60b2f7ad2654e660a9d15abc7dd6bf8.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): I know for a fact this CG is in the start of Eternal Punishment. And with that.. Innocent Sin is over. It’s time to move on to Persona 5 Royal, where we’ll see a lot of the same themes IS had. In a lot of ways, P5 was a re-telling of Innocent Sin, only done in a slightly more coherent way.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-02-54-46](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/0/20e2ec9e203be3dbb0555d9638f3d838984c6be7.jpeg)
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-02-55-52](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/6/e6fe4784abb4ad4cb52fd0858f90fc17ea6ab178.png)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): After the credits, this happens. Let me explain what this is. I think I did once earlier, but I’ll do it again.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-02-56-72](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/1/d1bcd247c7ea9a50aebfb13fd758bd6c19fd2233.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): In the Japanese PSP version of IS, Atlus included a mission editor that was available through the “theater” option on the world map. The mission editor was stripped from the US release, but three (non-canon) side stories written by Satomi Tadashi are still available.
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> ![obs64 2020-08-05 23-02-58-79](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/5/f5c7f0fe83beec895965da788b18c1b61f3da27f.jpeg)
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> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): The first two take place at St. Hermelin with a villain who looks a lot like Yuriko from P1, and the third is a re-telling of SMT If where Tatsuya visits the high school from that game. The reason I didn’t mention this earlier is that the first side story at St. Hermelin opens with Maya’s death portrait and a line about her “not doing that again”.
> 
> ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): We can do these if people want, but.. I don’t know if I want to. They’re kinda bad, and I think I’m ready to move on. Plus, a lot of what made the theater work (you got ranking points for clearing custom scenarios and could carry EXP and items over to the main game, which is probably why they got rid of it) was stripped out of the US release. As far as I know, the servers are no longer up for the Japanese version so I couldn’t do that either. Otherwise, I’ll wait a couple weeks and move onto Persona 5 Royal.

 ![9_2iVBrO_400x400](https://d1f06i8bb2eer3.cloudfront.net/original/3X/a/5/a5caedba8650f123508225feb35ae88685f0a852.jpeg): That’s Innocent Sin. The game was kind of a trainwreck in a lot of ways, and I know Eternal Punishment fixes a lot of the issues (including the godawful load times).. but I really don’t want to play it until I can do the PSP version. I still don’t think it was necessarily a bad game, but it’s nowhere near the instant classic people said it was and I can see why it never got localized on the PS1. I’ll put up a poll for the side stories, I guess.

_Poll ([view on site](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/131))_

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I’d say that even if I am curious about the side stories, if you’re feeling done with the game, it’s probably time to move on. I’d rather have an LP the creator is enjoying rather than one they’re doing out of a feeling of obligation, it generally leads to a more entertaining LP. If you’re feeling better about P2 after Royal, you could come back to the LP, but even if you don’t it’s still a finished product.

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So, I waited until you finished the LP because I didn’t want to disrupt it with the following. On the SA forums someone brought up Yukino and I mentioned your LP and your thoughts of how she was portrayed in this game. Then people refuted those thoughts and I thought some of the comments might have discouraged you from playing the game. If you want to see what was said, here’s a [link](https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3428684&pagenumber=1595&perpage=40#post506179985) and it goes on to the bottom.

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> [@CommanderKeene](#):
>
> I’d say that even if I am curious about the side stories, if you’re feeling done with the game, it’s probably time to move on. I’d rather have an LP the creator is enjoying rather than one they’re doing out of a feeling of obligation, it generally leads to a more entertaining LP. If you’re feeling better about P2 after Royal, you could come back to the LP, but even if you don’t it’s still a finished product.

I’m not really burned out on it so much as it is that the last three floors of Xibalba took probably longer than the rest of Xibalba and the Abandoned Factory combined. I probably won’t post the streams I did of them since there’s a lot of me fucking up in it, but needless to say by the end I was groaning every time I hit a random encounter.

> [@Mraagvpeine](#):
>
> So, I waited until you finished the LP because I didn’t want to disrupt it with the following. On the SA forums someone brought up Yukino and I mentioned your LP and your thoughts of how she was portrayed in this game. Then people refuted those thoughts and I thought some of the comments might have discouraged you from playing the game. If you want to see what was said, here’s a [link](https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3428684&pagenumber=1595&perpage=40#post506179985) and it goes on to the bottom.

Oh, I don’t even have an SA account. I’m old /b/. I think that person is kind of over-reacting and I’m going to let the LP speak for itself.

One thing I do want to clarify is that I absolutely believe bisexual people are valid and that it’s entirely possible that any of the characters in this game (except for maybe Jun who is said to have no interest in women whatsoever) could be bisexual.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/135 "2020-08-07T02:16:52Z")

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And so it ended as it middled: with me not being able to tell why anything was happening.

I knew about fighting Hitler going into this game, but I didn’t know the final boss was the, uh…Great Father. Isn’t the archetypal father as adversary Freudian, not Jungian?

Either way, it’s a dazzling moment, because the final boss being the Archetypal Father should be genius, because the game was leading up to that and you just didn’t realize it. Except that the game _wasn’t_ leading up to it at all. It makes me wonder if like, while they were making the game somebody was like “hey did u notice all the party members have dads” and so they made you fight a dad.

> [@Timrod](#):
>
> This is more or less word for word what Nyx says at the end of Snow Queen. Can’t have anything original.

All Japanese final antagonists are the embodiment of evil and as long as there is darkness in the hearts of man they will return. It’s at least as old as the Great Leader from Kamen Rider. It’s an attempt to persuade the audience that something of significance happened, I guess.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://www.lp.zone/t/sin-is-in-persona-2-innocent-sin/3834/136 "2020-08-07T02:25:13Z")

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> [@Timrod](#):
>
> I mean, you’d think he’d use a knife and a gun. You know, weapons Hitler would’ve actually had access to.

Well lets be fair here. Hitler did try to hunt down the Longinus Spear, and crazy conspiracy theorists say he actually did. So it makes sense that secret Hitler would have the secret spear.

… 50% chance to get rid of one of the worst status effects in the game? What the fuck Atlus.

> [@Timrod](#):
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> Remember when I did that update on the artbook and told people not to look at it? This is the front cover. Meet the Great Father, a beast consisting of each character’s dad in the form of a single monstrosity. I’m not sure which is supposed to be which because of how the artstyle changed from the PS1 version. I know Kashihara is the one on top, and the top-right is Maya’s dad.

Well if it helps, bottom left dad has the rope head band thing sushi chefs wear, so that’s Eikichi’s. Middle left dad has a top knot which is what Steven Segall has so that’s Lisa’s, and bottom right is our dad by process of elimination.

> [@Timrod](#):
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> This is the innocent sin. Eternal Punishment has a SLIGHTLY different explanation but as far as I know the mobage one is canon.

This is incredibly stupid and I’m going with what I’ve always thought was the innocent sin; children being awful but without really realizing it, forgetting or hurting people and not really understanding it. So you know, 20th Century Boys but stupid.

Anyway yeah don’t do the side stories. This was… certainly interesting, but god what an absolute mess.

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> [@drcakey](#):
>
> I knew about fighting Hitler going into this game, but I didn’t know the final boss was the, uh…Great Father. Isn’t the archetypal father as adversary Freudian, not Jungian?
> 
> Either way, it’s a dazzling moment, because the final boss being the Archetypal Father should be genius, because the game was leading up to that and you just didn’t realize it. Except that the game _wasn’t_ leading up to it at all. It makes me wonder if like, while they were making the game somebody was like “hey did u notice all the party members have dads” and so they made you fight a dad.

Yeah, it’s more Freudian than anything. Jung shared some of the same ideas, but as far as I know it’s primarily Freudian - Jung believed in the complexes and archetypes more than he did repression.

While it’s not impossible to figure out that all of the characters have issues with their fathers, you more or less have to actively seek it out. I know I showed one of the scenes at the sushi place with Eikichi’s dad getting angry at him for dressing up as a visual kei star, and there’s one I probably should’ve shown (but had no idea when it happens) at Lisa’s house where her dad says something like “I wanted to raise you to be a proper Japanese woman!” and she replies by saying “I go out clubbing and stuff, this is what Japanese women do.” There’s also the scene in the police station I missed, which I had no idea even existed. Some of that’s definitely my fault.

If you’ve read all the optional dialog in the game I suppose it’s possible to figure out, but the problem is that it shouldn’t be optional dialogue. It should’ve been really obvious what was going on, and it isn’t. I’m actually kind of glad on some level that I missed the optional dialog, because this is what a typical player would experience going through P2 without knowing all of the plot beats.

One last thing I want to add is that even though I thought the plot was a mess, there were parts of it that were definitely enjoyable. I liked the whole “Oh my god JC a bomb” arc a lot, and I think if the game had just settled on Sudou as the main antagonist it would’ve been a lot better. Having Hitler show up out of nowhere to be the main villain was just kind of over the top and I think it distracted from the overall narrative. Most people only know Innocent Sin as “the game with Hitler in it” rather than “an okay-to-good 90s-era JRPG”.

> [@LaZodiac](#):
>
> Well if it helps, bottom left dad has the rope head band thing sushi chefs wear, so that’s Eikichi’s. Middle left dad has a top knot which is what Steven Segall has so that’s Lisa’s, and bottom right is our dad by process of elimination.

Okay yeah, that makes sense. I had a hard time keeping track of which leg was doing which attack because I pretty much stuck the game on “skip combat animations” early on and never looked back and I was so busy trying to figure out how to work around people getting charmed and sleeped that I kind of killed half of them before I started paying attention. I believe the exact line I said when I got the second God Hand was “And now we can set it and forget it and I can sleep through the rest of this boss fight.”

> [@LaZodiac](#):
>
> This is incredibly stupid and I’m going with what I’ve always thought was the innocent sin; children being awful but without really realizing it, forgetting or hurting people and not really understanding it. So you know, 20th Century Boys but stupid.

Oh, I absolutely thought going in that it was the kids locking Maya in the shrine not knowing that Sudou was going to come and light it on fire. Then I realized that doesn’t really make sense when you know what the Eternal Punishment refers to. There’s a pretty good reason that Eternal Punishment is, at its core, a remake of Innocent Sin with the plot fixed.

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Alright of all the things that I expected when this thread started, none of them were that the final boss would have Steven Seagal in bondage clothes for its right arm.

But yeah aside from that; you beat the final boss, then the final boss says “nuh uh” and kills one of your party members in a cutscene and blows up the world and then everyone’s gotta give up being friends to fix the world is **far** from the most satisfying plot conclusion I’ve seen in an RPG.

But in the end I guess there’s still one real question that’s still weighing on me.

…

If Ms. Ideal has the sunglasses does that mean we’ve been seeing Shadow Ms. Ideal?

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So like… IS could have been a lot better had they picked one plot thread and stuck with it. As it stands it feels more like the “rumors become true” thing ended up as a framing device and was otherwise waylaid by less interesting plotlines and bad philosophy. Buuuuuut I feel like it would have been way more interesting of a story if they just focused on the rumor thing and expanded on the implications of that. But I guess that wouldn’t have led to the Dad Amalgamation (Dadmalgamation? Amaldadmation?) so who knows.  
IS also would have been better if you could play it and not think, “this _has_ to be the worst dungeon” for several dungeons in a row, but it’s Atlus so I assume they’d see it as a failing if the player didn’t suffer.

Anyway, can’t wait to see Lupin ~~Ranger vs PatRanger~~ Teens but with slightly more stuff that will most likely feel super clunky instead of actually fixing the plot. I say as if I didn’t already accidentally spoil myself on some of that content.

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I figured I’d make one last post in this thread before asking [@moderators](https://www.lp.zone/groups/moderators) to move it to completed (but not close it in case I do the side scenarios at some point).

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xi-zt8FtA5o/maxresdefault.jpg "Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Fan Translation Test: Mark 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-zt8FtA5o)

This was just streamed on Youtube today. It’s a video of the Eternal Punishment PSP translation, showing that it’s still alive and being worked on. Hopefully I’ll have just enough time to finish P5 Royal before this comes out.

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