Persona 3 FES: (11/3) - Full Moon Boss 7 & Boss: Strega + Hanged! Celebrating, but... Plot twist.

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Published on May 10, 2022 1:33:24 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAxo3lS8SSY

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This episode is INTENSE. This is by FAR the longest Full Moon Operation I've ever done. It was complicated, and intense. I did NOT feel like recording this with OBS, too much lag. That's why I relied on GeForce Experience's built-in interface. So, as expected, we confront and face Strega; Jin and Takaya.
I had to rely A LOT on Mind Charge on Thor, and then elemental skills.

Takaya repels Light and Nulls Darkness. He uses all 4 main elemental skills, heavy scale. Agidyne, Bufudyne, Garudyne and Ziodyne. Takaya apparently also makes use of Megido and Mind Charge supposedly but he never uses them in this fight. He also uses Pierce Attack, which he does rarely.
Jin repels Fire, repels Dark and Nulls Light. (why even use instakills? lol)
Jin may often make use of the Fire Attack using his grenade. He also uses his Persona to use some skills, such as Maragion, Mudoon, Mudo and Tarukaja. Though the only skill I've seen him use is Mudoon...

Strega in my opinion is an easy subboss to this operation. Hanged is what makes it tougher.

3 statues protect him. If you defeat them, Hanged will fall, and then you'll get to deal damage to him. And usually, when the shadow falls, you can launch an all out attack for more damage! It solely relies on physical skills such as God's Hand, Akasha Arts, Strike Attack (which he never used in this fight lol). And Armed & Ready, which supposedly sacrifices a Devious Maya (the slime Shadow, not the statue) to deal heavy almighty dmg to us, which he never used either. Hanged nulls Light and Dark. No weaknesses. In this fight I especially relied on Thor's Mind Charge, and the fusion spell Thunder Call, hence why I possess Take-Mikazuchi in my inventory! Shocking the enemy allows for opening to critical hits. Switching to heal/support tactics is essential in this fight, to cast debuffs, and buffs. The enemy uses physical skills that can deal a lot of damage to an individual party member (God's Hand), or everyone (Akasha Arts).

Having Counterstrike on party members (including yourself) you bring into this fight can help. Also Berserk's Seal that grants High Counter. (Works best on Yukari or Mitsuru). Mitsuru learns Mind Charge at level 50, so she can help well against Hanged. I didn't pick her because I mainly relied on a healing (Yukari), Elemental+Support+Physical (Akihiko) and Physical+Support (Junpei)

Physical as in using main weapon. Junpei's skill Blade of Fury learned at level 50 isn't that bad, but would be even better with matarukaja and power charge. Sadly I don't have matarukaja anymore which sucks but ah well. What can you do. Anyways don't give up, constantly cast buffs, order team to cast debuffs, order healer to heal and support, cover your weaknesses! Increase your attack power at any occasions available using Matarukaja, Mind Charge and Power Charge. I used mainly Thunder Call for this one, and it did really help. I didn't want to use Power Charge because I feared both Strega and Hanged would repel and/or be immune to physical skills, so I choosed not to risk it.

I was wrong, but better safe than sorry I guess.

Now, plot time! And oh boy, it's overwhelming.

The day after the full moon operation concluded, SEES is celebrating in Iwatodai Dorm with some good food at the table, and Takeharu and two of his assistants come in too! Junpei volunteers for a picture to remember, in memory of concluding the final full moon operation. However, the shocking truth arises soon, at midnight. The Dark Hour is still active, Tartarus still remains. Aigis and Ikutsuki are there. It seems Ikutsuki had more than one trick up his sleeve. Ikutsuki shamelessly admits he lied, and tricked SEES into defeating all 12 full moon shadows which supposedly would erase Tartarus and the Dark Hour, except he now explains the actual opposite. He explains his intention and his plan, about reuniting Death. The 12 shadows were part of one, all dispersed. Defeating them would reunite one, called "Death"... And that would supposedly be the bringer of the Fall. Ikutsuki wants to convince SEES into choosing death, but they deny. So, he summons Aigis to insert them on crosses, to sacrifice them-- SEES is becoming harbingers of the Fall! So that they witness the Fall. Takeharu shows up, realizing Ikutsuki's betrayal, and arguing about his father Kouetsu. Ikutsuki reveals he admired him, followed his ideals. He supposedly worked as a scientist in the project too. He may have prepared all of this for 10 years, which Kouetsu failed.
Not accepting this ideal, Shuji shoots Takeharu. Takeharu, severely injured, exchanges back a bullet to Shuji Ikutsuki. Takeharu collapses to his death.
Ikutsuki then orders Aigis to execute the sacrifices, but fails to obey, and thus saves her friends instead. Enraged, Ikutsuki tries to take control of Aigis, but Koromaru steals the remote. And thus, he falls to his death, saying how close he was to achieving his goal.

Mitsuru mourns her father's death...
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