Can You Beat Persona 5 Royal with a Nuzlocke Ruleset? 

I love how he calls everyone „best girl” and ohya is just, ohya xD

The paths in Mementos are named after the Qliphoth, the Tree of Evil, which is the inverted version of the Sefirot, with Adam Kadmon representing transcendence of the Sefirot. This is why you go up the paths instead of down them in the third semester as you're quite literally walking the path towards Adam Kadmon.

Ann's Sexy Technique confidant ability would be almost essential on this style of run, being able to completely stop an enemy from attacking could be a literal lifesaver. Nicely done clearing through this challenge, was interesting to watch.

Well, Ann actually can't do the Crown one. I think it's the only case where a party member can fail it just for being a party member. Kamoshida won't take his eyes off of Ann.

52:57 I'm sure it was just a mistake but "3rd trimester" instead of "3rd semester" is hilarious.

For those unaware merciless mode makes you do less damage against enemies however it drastically increases your exp, money, and weakness striking damage unlike hard mode which has normal exp and money and you don't get the massive weakness strike bonus so in a lot of cases hard mode is harder than merciless unless you are facing an enemy with no weaknesses. So if you want to do this and have an easier time while not making it that much easier merciless mode is pretty close.

Great video as usual and I appreciate you sticking with the plot by killing off the only character who actually dies.

I'm glad everyone agrees the Ryuji/Morgana fight is the worst part of the game

When I fight akechi I always make the rest of my party leave my team because he is my rival and it feels like cheating winning with a full team

I find it hilarious that Akechi often rants about the PT being babies that don't know shit about the Metaverse.. and he was the only one who died in the run.

I think for a challenge like this, Merciless would actually be more difficult. Crits will randomly kill people sometimes when they do triple damage.

I honestly would prefer SMT nuzlockes to include fusion as it a core mechanic that makes it a dance of trying to recurit worse personas/demons for better fusions later or recruiting the best demon in every palace/dungeon with the knowledge that you'll have worse fusion options

Shiki and Girimekhala carrying the Persona 5 challenge run yet again

40:54 Sae will be pissed off

3:32 that made me laugh real hard

I think this challenge would be really cool in SMT 5

it's hilarious that the only casualty of this run is Akechi.

the fact only akechi dies is ironic since he dies in the story

Even though people have done this run, it's nice to see a video of the Nuzlocke done on this game.

just came across this video! honestly makes me wanna do and actually finish a P5R playthrough with nuzlocke rules, great video!!

23:54 IIRC, that mini-boss Sui-Ki has Freeze Boost 47:07 And I know for a fact that that Forneus mini-boss has Fast Heal

That was an awesome run, well done!

Great video! I did something similar where I did an "Only Arsene, Merciless, No Velvet Room" run. The key to making the run smoother was utilizing obtaining skill cards from shadow negotiations. There's actually a lot of good skills able to be required as you progress through the run.

I love this ruleset from Pokémon, so I'm excited to see how well you can do with it in this game! Seems way more difficult with only a few party members.

Honestly, one of your most interesting videos, together with the no random encounters challenge. Only complaint is that, in this specific setup, I believe merciless difficult would actually be more dangerous, considering that a random technical or weak hit could suddenly kill a teammate, which again, in this specific setup, could be very problematic Best part was seeing you use royal mechanics to get through, such as alarm skill carfs and acessories, but I would also love to see how you would fare without them if you were to try this challenge in an older persona game

I've done a nuzlock with SMT4. Do recommend. 3 demons per area, when they die you can fuse corpses with others to get stronger demons.

Awesome video. Really enjoyed it 👍

Yknow I've happened across multiple videos of yours now, I should just sub at this point since I just keep getting recommended your solid content. Always have a great time watching, love your energy and voice, dude!

now try this with P3 lmao

First video of yours I've seen and I enjoyed it a lot! Subbed and about to go down the "Persona challenge run video" rabbit hole.

man you might be the last stand of p5 chalenge runs, you the GOAT

I started watching because the last video I watched from you was amazing, then remembered partway through that I never actually finished P5 and do plan to one day so I can't finish the video without spoiling myself. I'll be back! It'll be... a while, though.

This is a actually good content to show about persona 5. The only thing that make me tilt my head is about the nuzzlocke rule of catch the fist pokémon that appear on grass. Here on Persona you should translate to encounter the first shadow on each palace/memento, but that make the option to get Personas very shot and I undertand that. Nice work here, you deserve all praise!

11 out of 11 video length, great number

Thanks to your comment on the last video, I finally found someone completing this challenge! Cudos to you!!

Great stuff man

No random memes, no annoying sfx, just your commentary and footage. Best challenge channel yet.

now i really wanna try this challenge for myself, it looks really cool so far

At this point you’d practically just make this a deathless run but with extra restrictions.

This was so much fun! Think you can do this with SMT V?

Dude I’ve been thinking about doing this for like a month!

I actually did a run similar to this a year back. I did use fusions so this run is harder but damn is this a fun challenge to do

Dope channel , should have discovered it sooner but better late than never

Good shit bro. If you want a harder challenge you could try itemless. Love persona but I'm more of a pokemon challenge player. Seems like this run went like a lot of nuzlockes where it's very tricky early but once you have more resources at your disposal it becomes much simpler. Not diminishing the accomplishment whatsoever though!! Very well played!!

i did a no fusion run last year, it was pretty similar to this but not as extreme on rules. the only things I would do differently would be going to the gym early to get 999 hp on joker, and using haru more. (because makoto's makajama + haru technical damage is busted) This seems like a lot of fun to do

Isn’t Maruki a higher level than Fafnir? I’m pretty sure the game intends for you to be level 99 to fight him, as at level 86 there’s a chance you could lose to him using a Megidolaon with unfair damage, which only happens if you take too long.

This is an interesting concept but I feel for it to be a true nuzlocke, you can pick unless Futaba position hacks you an "all downed" before you get your desired persona. Then you have to take or leave what you get as your encounter. That said, I wouldn't do that kind of run, so ignore me. Fantastic video all around.

I feel like a lighter difficulty can be to have it where you can get one Persona per "chapter" of each Palace. Thinking about when you're booted out to get a new party member or unlock a door through the real world.

peak cinema is back

Great video, however for actual nuzlock run you need to get first encounter only every round or you skip it. So technically it should have been 1 shadow you see would have been your encounter.

That rainy day music brings back memories

I tried a different take on the Nuzlocke Run for Persona 5 Royal because I wanted to take advantage of the all of the different elements of the game. Also it’s hard to do a typical Nuzlocke since the Persona don’t have individual health bars so they can’t die or faint like Pokémon. I called it the Fool’s Journey Run where you can only use 1 Persona of each Arcana. The first Persona you obtain for an Arcana are the only ones you can use. Fusion is still restricted but you can still use it. If the first Persona you obtain for an Arcana is a Treasure Demon, you can fuse it with one of your other main Persona. So you’re essentially sacrificing the Arcana of the Treasure Demon to strengthen one of your other Persona. Now if you max out a Confidant, that unlocks the ability to fuse using the Persona of that Arcana. The other Persona being used needs to their Arcana to also have a maxed out Confidant. So you need to max out at least two Confidants before you can fuse your main Personas. After fusing them, the new Persona counts as the main Persona for both Arcana. So with this run, you can potentially use 24 Persona. But since there’s 9 Treasure Demons, the average number of Persona you’ll be using would be closer to 13. The main issues I had with this run is that I wasn’t sure if the starting Persona should count. We of course start out with Arsene but the game forces you to get certain Persona in the tutorial and even forces you to fuse. Also the Strength Confidant requires you to make specific Persona and I wasn’t sure if it should count if one of the Strength Confidant Persona ends up being the first Persona you get for an Arcana. If I make Seth to finish the Confidant and he ends up being the first Tower Persona I obtain, should that count? I had a lot of fun with the run but I wasn’t able to experiment enough to polish the rules.

dude I love these kinds of videos and would be willing to watch through the entire nuzlocke but after playing through p5 regular on the ps4 after watching trailers and letsplays of it and being like meh after the fact I wish to play through p5r without spoilers about what is extra added into p5r compared to p5 because of the story being much more complex and less predictable than your average pokemon game I will like the video and sub and put this in my watch later playlist for when I eventually beat p5r because this game needs to be experienced first hand and I don't want to take that away from myself but want to enjoy the experiences others do and how they make the game harder on themselves

Well done, though I will never do a nuzlocke. Half the fun for me is fusing, so this is a nogo for me.

This is respectable 👏🏻

I'm pretty sure he said third trimester when talking about Makoto learning a skill. Do Joker and Makoto have something to say to the team?

Love this

The main thing I’m taking from this is that the PlayStation version has much, much smoother animations (and even extra ones, like the jazz club barman actually serving you instead of the drinks just appearing after a black screen) than the switch version. I don’t regret getting the switch version cos I travelled a lot while playing but wow. Night and day!

The pronunciation for every demon is in the game lol

"best girl ann, best girl kawakami, best girl kasumi, and ohya."

A NEW VIDEO! let go!!!

Loved the video!

Woooo!!!!!! New video!!

3:33 I had to stop and comment for this WOW

My friend, I did not know that Joey Wheeler played Persona 5 Royal. Haha That's an advanced Brooklyn accent. Awesome vid, man.

You only got 7k subs??? We have to get this up to at least 10k

Haru's dad fight took me over 2 hours to beat and I was on easy difficulty! My main issue was that I had not leveled up my baton pass at all and I had no backup save, so I just had to continue trying to get through... it was so painful!

I haven’t finished the video, but 100% know Okumura might be one of the hardest.

After i saw you do did this i did my own nuzlocke and i did it and crown is still alive

shiki-ouji getting picked for madarame makes me happy :)

"Here one persona sticks out" JACK FROST JACK FROS- "Shiki-Ouji" FUCK

One thing I noticed that could be interesting in a second try of this challenge is that instead of choosing which shadow to pick per location, you do like most nuzlockes and only pick the first one you fight, and if you lose this one you can't pick another in that place.

I like how bro is casually running this on 200 fps

I tried this challenge and honestly i wanted to end it all by the second palace, i was screwed over countless times that the moment i got to madarames boss fight i was afraid to attempt because thatd mean id have to restart the playthrough if i died 😅

Cool idea :)

hold up. using showtime with akechi after akechi is dead should be illegal right? at 1:03:35

I'm late, but Reaper was lv85 so the 3rd semester cap being about that high makes sense in that way too. Also, level cap prevents you from the increased damage multipliers for enemies being much weaker than you so that did make things tougher. Joker with 80 St would still deal extra damage at lv80 compared to lv70 if he fought a lv70 enemy

Huh, flavorful run. Only akechi died. Seems lore accurate. XD

I feel like P5 Royal has a serious power creep from vanilla P5. Would this challenge have been harder in the regular version of the game?

I did this in smt Nocturne and IV Apocalypse and it took me 3 years to beat both on a single run with those rule

Damn no fusion or compendium sounds super hard. Thats also my personal favorite part of the game so idk if i could do this lol

I lol'd at the fact you called all girls best girl except for Ohya.

I like that you say best girl to everyone except ohya

i swear im not here to find a way to beat okumura

i want to see an hardcore nuzlocke i think it would be more challenging and interesting

Futaba with the absolute CLUTCH at Sai

Idea: Can you beat P5R without the hide mechanic? This means that you can't use prompts to jump into hide spots that make you invisible to all enemies. You're allowed to use the thief assist tools, so smokescreens are fine, and you can manually "hide" by putting a barrier between yourself and a shadows FOV so long as you don't use the actual hide button to become invisible, ambush, steal, or hop to different spots. I assume OHYA and Ryuji (instakill) will be very useful for the challenge.

I have over 250 hours in p5r and i haven’t played it in about 2 years. Now i want to replay it after i’m done with p3r.

I like how you have a level cap for each dungeon. It’s way too easy to overlevel in persona games, especially Royal.

Man watching this video just makes me want to see an smt nuzlocke run

Wonder how it would go with first encounter rule

what are the confidant levels for everyone at the end of this run?

I've been wondering if this was possible, kinda want to try it

Soocubus 😂 Girimikhala (spelling?) always ends up my main persona for the entire rest of the run. Also screw the Okumura boss fight in Royal.

F in the chat for Akechi. I mean he was gonna die anyway so I guess it’s fine lol

1:03:37 Shouldn't Akechi being dead at this point disqualify using his Showtime?

ah masochism. My favorite okay at least you didn't play on merciless. It may be technically easier than hard, but realistically if you got ambushed on merciless you would lose at least 1 party member. Now I know getting ambushed is very rare, but in 100 hours it will happen

Very smart to call all the girls best girl to not anger there fans.

Fun fact - in every version of Royal if you rewatch Mona and Ann’s showtime attack exclusively in the thieves den, in the top left of the screen during the whole thing is a Mac mouse cursor. It’s still in the game. Never patched. Funnily enough, a Mac version doesn’t exist at all.

Funny enough the only death is actually canon