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Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (2004)

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Rules of the challenge run:
- Everything we do must be done in human form. This includes Damage, Healing, Reviving, Deploying, Using Attack items and Withdrawing
- If we ever forced into Demon Form, We must immediately revert back to Human Form (EG. First tutorial battle, Hunger Wave)
- I did All bosses apart from Demi-Fiend (Obviously not possible Human only, Not even humouring that)
- Everything else is fair game!

Because this fight is so easy, I'll take this time to explain what I do in terms of my build, Mantra paths and Party here. This description should answer most of your questions but if your question isn't answered here, leave a comment.

One thing I'd like to clear up is how I'm playing NG+ without any mantras. This is due to a cheat that I found on complete accident that let's you save a clear game save on bootup.
This is the cheat if you are interested:
//Extra Game Save
//patch=1,EE,2011CC88,extended,A4831364

Serphs Build:
- Strength is absolutely useless in this run as it doesn't affect how much damage our guns do, so no points will be pumped here
- I choose to Power level Vit early on as survivability is quite important as battles will be lasting for much longer here. I also may be going crazy but it seems enemies direct more of their attacks to the highest hp party member? Can someone actually tell me if I'm right or if I'm crazy.
- I put one point into Magic every level until I max it because it affects Magic Defense and affects our damage and accuracy with attack items, It also affects our healing with the Graven Shard/Image (Basically Dia/Diarama) So its an overall nice stat to have
- Agility is the last stat I pump although it may be a good idea to pump it earlier. This affects our Accuracy and Evasion which is nice in a run like this
- Luck affects Critical hit rates which we need as our Gun damage is gonna become piss without it, I pump it after I get 30 Vit and Max out through noises

Party:
- Argilla is the only one who matters here as she has the best gun that isn't Serph's. Her gun is single target and has the best crit rate. She also pumps Magic about as much as we do and keeps other stats around the same. We can easily fix her Vit with noises throughout the game along with HP noises.
- The other choice doesn't matter as much as Heat, Gale and Cielo's Guns suck pretty bad. For this run I choose Gale because he has a nice stat spread and pumping magic noises onto him catches him up with Serph and Argilla. You can pick whoever you want though.


Mantra Paths:
- We're obviously going down the second phys path (Branches from Shura) Since it gives us Critical passives which we'll want for more crits (I'm not sure if the actually are compatible with guns, I'd assume so since they are basic attacks and work with counter but if I'm wrong please correct me), while also giving us defensive passives like the Life bonus and gain, Null Critical, Quick Cure and phys resist. Solid path to go down
- We'll want to grab Counter and First strike on everyone ASAP, I go down the fourth Phys Mantra path to grab Counterstrike and High Counter but through my limited testing they don't seem to increase our gun damage, According to the game they have higher odds so I guess its still worth it. We want to go down two phys mantra paths that connect back so we can get Life Surge and Null phys from the Destroyer mantra, two very useful passives in general.
- We want go down the ailment mantra tree (branches of from Protection) on everyone to grab all the null ailment passives on them, very useful on a couple of bosses (Huang Long in particular)
- We want to go down both the death and expel paths so we can get Null death (Absolutely required for Beelzebub Fly in this run)
- Beelzebub's Mantra gives repel element which comes in handy for a couple of bosses, Null element however is probably better although it requires going down an elemental path.

Trust me other descriptions won't even come close to this length.



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