Can You Beat Shin Megami Tensei: If... Without Demons? (Part 1 - Reiko Route) 

The early game questionnaire has a little easter egg. Normally there are only 10 questions, but if you are on track for the Luck build the game will ask a secret 11th question: "What kind of underwear are you wearing?" And both male and female protagonist have "commando" as an answer

Had to check the wiki to see why there's a boss called Mary Jane, only to find it's supposed to be Melusine, which just raises further questions. What a mysterious translation.

Man's gonna complete the entire franchise before getting to P3R

Here before the blindfolded SMT NINE challenge video

Middle school project dub

Wake up babe, A new Nyarly challenge video has dropped.

Another challenge idea I had for SMT5 is... Beating the game... with the *slime* affinity!

The voicing is so funny at the end

I feel like Nyarly needs a title because of all the Demonless Challenges he‘s done. Something like The Demonless Lord

ideo and reiko's "ahhhh" killed me lol

16:40 rooms where you can't use your what now

Everytime I see these videos I get excited to see SMT games Ive never heard of or seen before

The voice acting is so damn bad... 10/10 would listen to it again.

New challenge! Damn this vids are such a blast to watch❤

I was just thinking "Is that P3R review going to come today" lmaoooo

28:28 "And he always goes for this on Hazama" But Hazama is the enemy...

Vote for Devil Survivor Hero Only Run!

Hmm an smt if video without the main man Marsh, it’s unorthodox but I’ll allow it

i mean you can get the hino kagutsuchi WAY early if you survive with no demons to a certain extent sooo yeah i think is possible

Ok so with this challenge now its all smt main lines with the branching to persona (smt if) and persona mainline too expect for persona 1 WE NEED PERSONA 1 TO COMPLETE ALL THE LINES

Hope you get along well in your new place

Nyarly's next video is rumored to be a live action rendition of the smt nocturne plot recorded in his backyard if another person mentions p3 reload

HOLY SHIT NEW NYARLY CHALLENGE

Yay, Nyarly Birthday video, W.

“I love this game but f*** this dungeon” a perfect one sentence review for SMT if

Bro is on that challenge run grind lately

Not going to lie I love ps3r and can’t wait for nyarly to drop it but been waiting on an smt v run more. Unless I missed or he lived it

wake up honey new nyarly challenge run just dropped

No matter how long I’ve been watching Nyarly, his voice still reminds me of Tim Hansen.

I wonder what the p3r video is even gonna be about like will it be a challenge run or like a meme run like "Can i beat P3R.......lets get right into it"

Hazama's voice actor channeled RE1's Richard there for a bit, impressive!

Fun fact about the Hazama fight: if you're using Hi-no-kagutsuchi, Makarakarn is actually his scariest move because it reflects all elemental damge and Hi-no-Kagutsuchi is fire elemental. I'm guessing it wasn't a problem for you becuase your agility was high enough that you always went first.

14:58 If this dungeon is supposed to represent sloth wouldn't it make more sense if the solution was to stand afk for like a minute, Pokémon did that if you don't know in order to catch regice in the gen 3 Pokémon games after unlocking the quest for the regis you need to find its cave (which is north of Dewford town), enter it and stand still for around two minutes

Jesus that VA at the beginning sounds like dubs you would find on early RU-vid in like 2010 from people who have no business voice acting lol

2:12 I Immediately think the translation Is taking some liberties, because I'm pretty sure It's meant to say cellphone.

15:07 This is coming from someone who used to the Bullshit that is SMT. The resentment is deep with this one.

4:21 while charlies route is shorter you do infact fight the final boss in that route and its arguably the hardest version since he has the same stats regardless of which route your on. The world of wrath is a huge difficulty spike but you will still be sevearly underleveled by the time you get to the demon emperor

When the world needed him most he came back

what lilith doesnt know is that the bat status gets a wind weakness, something she cant use (doubt thats an actual thing in if but it is in dds)

How are you playing this in english? I'm running the PS1 version, but AFAIK there aren't any translation patches available for that version. But this doesn't look like the SNES version either.

Fun fact:after you're gender and name have been inputted, the questions asked actually determine you're starting stats but I'm pretty sure party members are randomized regardless. If you do the Reiko route first than you want to ensure her build is a balanced one for all stats or else you have to reset. You're build depends on what you prefer but Reiko must be balanced. If you picked Yumi or Charlie than you want a magic build for Yumi and a strength build for Charlie. Yumi has weak physical attacks so magic is more important for her and Charlie has somewhat weak magic so being able to whack stuff with a weapon or just punch them in the face for massive damage is more important than him being able to cast spells. In addition, if you pick Charile as you're party member you are unable to visit a few dungeons and miss out on the strongest weapon in the game. Akira is a character you can only choose to be with on a playthrough after you're 1st and his is the hardest one to do. For his route you might want the luck build for the protagonist which is obtained by giving the 4th answer to all questions at the start of the game. Akira is a special case because his stats are...something. I never played his route but I believe you want a balanced build for him as well if possible and also some bosses in his route do not need to be fought as if you go to them on certain moon phases, they will either let you pass to the next area without a fight or offer to join you're party. Unlike other games where a boss becomes stupidly weak when playable, in Akira route they are actually vital because y'know...they be overpowered for a huge chunk of the game. But in a no demons run...just kill every demon that spawns. And when looking for demons to negotiate with do not do it with ghosts because things can get...spicy with them and you will get paralyzed from it.

All of the voices were recorded in a closet I swear

The voice acting of those two are terrible

Asking if you won a smartphone in the beginning is an Aeon Genesis thing. The original japanese version asks if you own a Pager. I guess AG wanted to update it for modern audiences.

That is some fine voice acting. XD

I know it might be difficult to do, and I don’t even know if it would be even doable, but I’d love to see how far someone could get in SMT: imagine without demons. Probably manageable with other players? I don’t know if it would be fun enough to do though, with imagine being way more grindy than the regular games.

The return after two hours

They really should remake these older games even just reskin them

I don't know if you'll see this comment or not but I'm gonna ask anyway. Will there be a new episode of the Megidolaon Podcast coming out soon? Great new video btw!

I always thought If... was the predecessor to Persona because the latter was inspired by the former's success.

The option to choose between boy and girl is back in Dx2.

Did i see the ark of the covenant at 21:48 as a dungeon chest?

He's so omniscient, he pronounced omniscient wrong 33:35

Warped Mind Hazama is worst final boss in SMT history. One-shotting attack requires always having Tetraja up, but it falls after he cast useless Hamaon too. Don't have? Then use half of place in your stock for Final Guards. I was very satisfied when I finally beat the guy. And then Akira route was much simpler. Also, HGK sword was nerfed so hard... ouch. In SMT 1 and 2 it was phys.

SMT IF... LET'S GO

He doesn’t own p3r yet it’s super expensive so that’s why there’s no video he’s just waiting for it to go on sale

Rasta Candies = Edibles

I got the 50th Anniversary special edition of this in Japan a couple of months ago

That's some Megaman X4 levels of voice acting for Hazama there, holy shit...though I guess they were released just a few years apart. Maybe voice actors were just bad in those days?

Yay a new video, I don't care if it's not persona but it's still persona smh

Great video. Too many Atlus games to play, not enough time

Good luck on Akira route with world of sloth...

Please make a Serph only run for DDS2 🙏

Man is going to defeat a godly being while only using a Logitech controller before he does a p3r video

Take as long as you want with p3, I don’t think persona’s games should be rushed the first time around

I know everyone's wanting a p3r video and I get that, but I'm really curious if there'll be a DDS2 challenge run

dam seems like the devs took naming that dungeon after sloth seriously. Also hazama is basically the exact opposite of the lead of a persona game. He all alone and got no rizz. If you think about it his story is pretty depressing.

Is that actual in game voice acting, or dubbed from outside

Hey, how abaout a demonless challenge to soul hackers 1?

I said it in another video about this game. But I really hope they remake this game and enhance it well.

Lets go! A smt If video!

I don't get the hate of gender stat differences. It's basically a build choice of STR/VIT or INT/MAG.

take your time with that stupid persona 3 reload video this came for a perfect time i really hoped for it ^^;

Yo! What did Reiko say?! 👀

Bro will not make a SMT V or Apocalypse challenge run

Im not sure IF you could do it

"Pixie is easy to recruit" Seriously? She's supposed to be easy? All she did was mock me, took my money, and runs. It took forever to actually recruit one. I guess there is a very specific dialogue tree you got to follow.

I want to say I don't really care for a P3R video. I get the algorithm wants things while they're new but I like seeing the videos in the order they're made

i did this by accident but on the easy route

Why? Why?

Moore Mark Wilson Mary Perez David

I am fine with him doing other videos. I'm just not a fan of him disappearing randomly.

Shin megami tensei if...? "If" what?

W

pls. never have those ppl voice act again.

You can’t avoid P3R forever 😂

The voice work was bad, please don't do it again

>SMT game without demons >literally the first thing you do is get the Partner a demon Why the fuck would you even make the video if you break the premise as your literal first action in game lmao. "It's like a Persona it gives stat buffs and lets you inherit magic" yeah it's a fucking demon. You should have at bare minimum gotten as far as it's possible to get without using a Guardian if you didn't think it was possible.

Yo let me know if you ever need a voiceover would love to do that for fun

You should've done Koromaru in P3R, W dub.

Yeah. Definitely voice acting was... oof. There was just nothing behind them. Sounded exactly like someone reading a script with no emotion

Nyarly would do Akira's route demonless, blindfolded, and with the controller upside down before he makes a P3R video

The voice acting though 😭

SMT If... was so good, can't wait for SMT Maybe...

The HP Penalty thing is supposedly because of recycled code, which A: Makes it that Males will always have more HP than Females and B: Partners will always have less HP than the Player. This means playing as a girl will give both you and potential partners an HP Penalty. This code was in place as both SMT 1 and SMT 2 had Male main characters.

2:11 That's a change in the English patch, in the original Japanese script it asked if you owned a pager

World of Sloth: you can cheese the moon cycles making them go faster by going back and walking around the school

>Reiko dies to a demon. >ohshit.jpg >Panic as you have a dead companion on the floor. >Glowing light suddenly appears, floats around for a bit, then turns into a demon before shooting into your dead friend's corpse. >wut.gif >Reiko then suddenly rises from the ground, no longer dead from her critical wounds >"You thought I was dead, huh?" >Doesn't explain >Leaves

AKIRA Leave me alone AKIRA AGHHHHHHHHHHH

I like videos on these older games. Take as long as you want on reload.