The past few weeks I've been working on a pretty big review - the Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei novels, the anime adaption, and the Telenet and original Atlus games released on the computer and Famicom respectively, all in one video. Unfortunately I've been stuck on the grind for a while but hopefully it'll be all done within a week or so. If I'm still alive you'll see it soon.
I still don't know if he genuinely understands japanese or if he just bullshits his way through the game's text; both sound like the lead to pain and exhaustion
I can read the Japanese in these older NES games because they don't tend to have complicated text, though after so much grinding it started to add an extra layer of painful immersion
Don’t mess with us megami tensei fans, the only game we ever emulated was megami tensei 1/2 and we somehow managed to get 15 viruses on our computers when downloading the English patch
Hey guys, it's Marsh. So, I'm convinced that Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei for the Famicom is actually brainwashing software disguised as a video game. I've been grinding for like, two days straight, okay? Just to get strong enough to fight the boss in this section. Now, the game's in a foreign language, alright? I'm tired, I feel like I've been drugged, ass-pounded, and left in a dirty bathroom in Shanghai. This little puke-colored room is just gonna be burned into my mind forever. Here's the deal, there's a Rag shop here, right? Y'know? This little bastard, Rag, you know him? He takes your gems and you can get items. Now, this is a little known Megami Tensei lore fact, but Rag is a lazy piece of shit. Because you can literally take TWO STEPS outside his shop, and there's this giant pile of gems, and this little nut just keeps taking them. This game might as well be like a medieval peasant mining simulator because sixty percent of the time, I'm just grabbing rocks and shoving them up Rag's ass for more health items. This room is perfect for grinding. Like, you do some battles, you grab a crystal, you trade it to Rag for some health; rinse and repeat. Except I've been rinsing and repeating for like, eight hours and my hands are about to fall off. I swear this game has permanently changed the chemicals in my brain. Like I've been mentally reprogrammed to think auto-battling the same demons for hours on end is fun. I've become like a Japanese sleeper agent. By the time I'm done, if I ever see gems again, like say I'm walking down the street in real life and I see a jewelry store, I'm just going to ape the fuck out and start climbing on the walls. Listen, you don't want to be in this situation. I don't know why I keep going; it's like... Do I hate myself? Am I trying to prove something? Or deep down, do I secretly like all this? I don't know man, I just... I don't know anymore, okay? Anyway, that being said, pretty fun game, I think you should give it a try. Thanks for watchin', and see you guys next time. this has been a megami tensei moment
That mask puzzle is so funny, and I talk about it a bit in my upcoming review of the game. When I got one gem wrong and was teleported back to the start of the game, I literally laughed - I'm so glad I had a save state or I would have probably dropped the game for a few days.
Ngl I am terrified to try the old SMT games and end up like this. The more modern games already turn me into a gremlin doing things that 5 years ago would have made me want to game-end myself. I should just go fight this upcoming boss... But, in just 1 more level I can fuse a really strong Spriggan. I just need to get enough Macca to perform this string of 12 fusions. OH but now that I have my spriggan if I go 1 more level...
Same bruh, in every single entry half of my time in dungeons is spent recruiting and fusing demons until I get the ones on my current level, then tracing a roadmap of future fusions as I level up, which always gets destroyed when in a few floors later new demons appear. *SEND HELP*
@@toryficarola The next time I watch this video I am honestly going write down everything he says in this video and make it centered around this video rather than the game. Because I am also convinced that the chemicals in my brain are getting absolutely f"cked by this man's videos.
I just discovered this channel after emerging from my JRPG cocoon I've been in and I love it. These little quick ones are really interesting to me because some will make me laugh really hard. Like I'll think about it an hour later and chuckle about it. Then I see this and I'm just like nodding understandingly like "Yeah that's MegaTen in a nut, bro." It's too perfect.
I love your fuckin videos dude, I’ve been playing through the SMT series and seeing you make videos about the older titles is entertaining. You funny as hell good luck with any future videos
Really? I ended up beating it a few days ago, but that would have saved me a lot of time. I know at least you need a few bosses to break Izanami's mask - or do you even have to rescue her?
@@MarshSMT you don't have to rescue her. I think it's just for the item that lets you not take damage in the fire dungeon place. And also to get another item in the kmt version of mt II that lets you not take damage when walking across poison tiles.
@@2tehnik IIRC most of them either block you from getting past areas meaning you need to beat them to get past there (first boss and hecate are two main ones I remember) while others give you items needed for progression or do something else to let you progress (iirc loki, medusa) I might be forgetting some bosses (it's been like 2 years since I played the game) but from memory all of them give you something needed to progress.
You know, I had a similar experience with Nocturne the other day. I was trying to grind to get to a high enough level to fuse Metatron (and some other demons I like) and I had Pisaca use his riberama skill and I just run around in circles in the tower of Kagatsuchi. 3 hours in and I wasn't even fucking close. I love megaten, but damn some of the grinding in these games are enough to make me wanna wipe out existence. Which I'll do in Nocturne eventually after I beat Lucifer.
Hey guys it's Marsh. So I'm convinced that Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei for the Famicom is actually brainwashing software disguised as a video game. I've been grinding for like, 2 days straight, okay? Just to get strong enough to fight the boss in this section. Now the game's in a foreign, language, alright, I'm tired, I feel like I've been drugged, ass-pounded, and left in a dirty bathroom in Shanghai. This little puke-colored room is just gunna be burned into my mind forever. Here's the deal; there's a Rag shop here, right, y'know? This little bastard, Rag, y'know him? He takes your gems and you can get items. Now this is a little known Megami Tensei lore fact, but Rag is a lazy piece of shit, because you can literally take 2 steps outside his shop, and there's this giant pile of gems, and this little nut just keeps taking them! This game might as well be like a medieval pheasant mining simulator because 60% of the time I'm just grabbing rocks and shoving them up Rag's ass for more health items. This room is perfect for grinding, like you do some battles, you grab a crystal, you trade it to Rag for some health, rinse and repeat. Except I've been rinsing and repeating for like 8 hours and my hands are about to fall off. I swear this game has permanently changed the chemicals in my brain. Like I've been mentally reprogrammed to think that autobattling the same demons for hours on end is fun. I've become like a Japanese sleeper agent. By the time I'm done if I ever see gems again, like say I'm walking in, down the street in real life and I see a jewelry store I'm just gunna ape the fuck out and start climbing on the walls. Listen, you don't wanna be in this situation. I don't know why I keep going, it's like, do I hate myself? Am I trying to prove something? Or deep down, do I secretly like all this? I don't know man, I just, I don't know anymore, okay? Anyway that being said pretty fun game, I think you should give it a try. Thanks for watching and see you guys next time.
Looking at the old games, what Japanese nutjobs bought so many copies of these cryptic tedious grindfests that allowed for so many sequels that the games eventually started becoming playable for the average person?
@@MarshSMT I've noticed the most popular upload of Dreamscape (with 36 million views) also got blocked for some reason, so I'm guessing something weird is going down in Denmark.
i actually did something kinda like this when i played MT, except i made sure to head to Infini and grinded right in front of the shop, it was hard and i died alot but it helped a ton
Grinding for 8 hours straight, eh. Sounds like early Dragon Quest to me. And every DQ clone ever made. Also Phantasy Star 1 and 2, come to think of it.
Pokémon FireRed does the same against the E4....you have to grind since ypu stop below lv 42 and the E4 is 50~64 if I remember correctly And the mons hit you hard depending on your strat and dont give at least 1000xp which is annoying gain around 700xp maximum per battle for a fking graveler that can explode in your face....
bought a repro translation cart for my nes and ive just gotten mazurka, im level 41 and i can comfortably say fuck rag he should go to hell, like mega hell where its all frozen and just fucking never come back. i am going to lose my god damn mind if i have to see rag or have to auto battle one more time
I love how some friends that they say they are "HARDCORE" "rpg gamers" tell me how pathetic i am for loving Persona, as they are casual games, if they knew i spent like 3000 hours grindind in these obscure hell holes....
this is me right now doing the platinum trophy for kingdom hearts chain of memory how about beating a game 100% and then having to beat it again 5 more times? thats fun!
I literally started with Strange Journey Redux on Expert (I ain't no casual!), spend like 3 hours grinding before Orboros and I wondered "is every game in the series like this", this video was enlightening. I think for my own happiness, I WON'T get the other endings, I'll beat the final boss and never touch a SMT game again. But yeah it was pretty good
Pretty it's a rule of the internet at this point that when you point out the lack of dislikes on a youtube video, it will ensure that somebody will dislike it just to screw with you.
I've played many JRPG's on the NES. I've beaten and mastered Might and Magic, Dragon Quest 2, Final Fantasy 2, Ghost Lion, Mother, Wizardry, and many more. Even games with RPG mechanics like Zelda 2 and Crystalis I've found joy in. I can say with utmost confidence that Megami Tensei is by and far the most obnoxious and tedious JRPG on the whole system.
I did an LP of this game a few years ago and spent an entire week just grinding at one point also the items you need to get to progress are fucking autistic and ridiculous to find 10/10 game
You should learn how to program your own games using Unreal or Unity and then make this game and balance it out and change the battle system a bit to make it modern, that time would be more worth it instead of grinding in the original game.
@@dante5247 Proper elemental Resistances became a thing from Megami Tensei II onward, and were added back into Megami Tensei I as part of Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei. The original version apparently does have a very rudimentary elemental Resistance system where certain demon races are resistant to certain spells, but I honestly don't feel like going back and experimenting with it at the moment.
The past few weeks I've been working on a pretty big review - the Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei novels, the anime adaption, and the Telenet and original Atlus games released on the computer and Famicom respectively, all in one video. Unfortunately I've been stuck on the grind for a while but hopefully it'll be all done within a week or so. If I'm still alive you'll see it soon.
wow this is a certified Megami Tensei Moment
trademark
™
This is a certified Megami Tensi classic™
this is totally me when im left in a dirty bathroom in shanghai
"Don't fuck with us MegaTen players, we don't know how to program stuff and we procced to grind 10 hours straight"
I seem to be out of the loop. What's the not knowing how to program thing about?
@@JellyMyst I think he's implying marsh could program a bot to do the grinding for him
@@Aeon_Is_Near I suppose. It was just a bit of an odd non-sequitur.
"Rag has wears if you have jewels."
I swear if there was an option to kick that guy's face in.
@@wanderin_stud499 Do it.
The Marsh Manchurian Candidate
at least it’s not as bad as the sloth dungeon
Word
I'd beat the sloth dungeon before I'm done laughing at this.
Picture this being your starting point for mainline SMT. ....Yep, that's me. *Please send help.*
Why... I don’t think anyone can help you.
@@eldrasgames5008 but those crystals might, why don’t you pick a few up and give them to Rag?
same :)
I still don't know if he genuinely understands japanese or if he just bullshits his way through the game's text; both sound like the lead to pain and exhaustion
I can read the Japanese in these older NES games because they don't tend to have complicated text, though after so much grinding it started to add an extra layer of painful immersion
@@MarshSMT damn. That's actually cool.
@@MarshSMT The first 2 MT games have an english translation right?
@@XeviousvSBlackmanta im pretty sure NOPE
@@Fizz-Q Also, part 2 is unfinished.
I think I found the cybershell of megami tensei
I had the same idea man😂
DIGITAL DEVIL STORY: RAG to RICHES
(... with help from some bitch named Nakajima)
from riches to rag
Don’t mess with us megami tensei fans, the only game we ever emulated was megami tensei 1/2 and we somehow managed to get 15 viruses on our computers when downloading the English patch
every person who emulates megami tensei 1/2 gets hypotized by loki
If you get viruses with emulation, that's a skill issue.
I beat KMT1 just yesterday and coming back to this video, bruh i left so many comments here that i forgot about
Hey guys, it's Marsh.
So, I'm convinced that Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei for the Famicom is actually brainwashing software disguised as a video game.
I've been grinding for like, two days straight, okay? Just to get strong enough to fight the boss in this section. Now, the game's in a foreign language, alright? I'm tired, I feel like I've been drugged, ass-pounded, and left in a dirty bathroom in Shanghai.
This little puke-colored room is just gonna be burned into my mind forever. Here's the deal, there's a Rag shop here, right? Y'know? This little bastard, Rag, you know him? He takes your gems and you can get items.
Now, this is a little known Megami Tensei lore fact, but Rag is a lazy piece of shit. Because you can literally take TWO STEPS outside his shop, and there's this giant pile of gems, and this little nut just keeps taking them. This game might as well be like a medieval peasant mining simulator because sixty percent of the time, I'm just grabbing rocks and shoving them up Rag's ass for more health items.
This room is perfect for grinding. Like, you do some battles, you grab a crystal, you trade it to Rag for some health; rinse and repeat. Except I've been rinsing and repeating for like, eight hours and my hands are about to fall off.
I swear this game has permanently changed the chemicals in my brain. Like I've been mentally reprogrammed to think auto-battling the same demons for hours on end is fun. I've become like a Japanese sleeper agent. By the time I'm done, if I ever see gems again, like say I'm walking down the street in real life and I see a jewelry store, I'm just going to ape the fuck out and start climbing on the walls.
Listen, you don't want to be in this situation. I don't know why I keep going; it's like... Do I hate myself? Am I trying to prove something? Or deep down, do I secretly like all this? I don't know man, I just... I don't know anymore, okay?
Anyway, that being said, pretty fun game, I think you should give it a try. Thanks for watchin', and see you guys next time.
this has been a megami tensei moment
Doing god's work
@@complete-and-utter-fool yhvh*
Appreciate you helping out the blind
This isn’t even NEARLY as bullshit as the Izanami Mask “puzzle”. Record scratch save you
That mask puzzle is so funny, and I talk about it a bit in my upcoming review of the game. When I got one gem wrong and was teleported back to the start of the game, I literally laughed - I'm so glad I had a save state or I would have probably dropped the game for a few days.
@@MarshSMT i would have dropped the game forever
@@MarshSMT i would have dropped the game forever
Ngl I am terrified to try the old SMT games and end up like this. The more modern games already turn me into a gremlin doing things that 5 years ago would have made me want to game-end myself.
I should just go fight this upcoming boss... But, in just 1 more level I can fuse a really strong Spriggan. I just need to get enough Macca to perform this string of 12 fusions. OH but now that I have my spriggan if I go 1 more level...
Same bruh, in every single entry half of my time in dungeons is spent recruiting and fusing demons until I get the ones on my current level, then tracing a roadmap of future fusions as I level up, which always gets destroyed when in a few floors later new demons appear. *SEND HELP*
How to trigger PTSD in a person who finished MegaTen 1 for NES? Just play Rotting Sea of Flames loud enough
At least Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne wouldn't take advantage of our innate gullibility!
Is like if avgn and Moist critical Secretly made a clone out of their DNA
I can't stop rewatching this video. It is so god damn funny.
Same here. *lmaoooooooo*
@@toryficarola The next time I watch this video I am honestly going write down everything he says in this video and make it centered around this video rather than the game.
Because I am also convinced that the chemicals in my brain are getting absolutely f"cked by this man's videos.
@@toryficarola It took an extra year but I did actually rewrite the video.
I come back to this video every once in a while and it never fails to amaze me
The auto-generated chapters are making me lose my mind lmaooooo
I really love the new marsh gaming content
Watching this after the MTG: Shinyaku video
I just discovered this channel after emerging from my JRPG cocoon I've been in and I love it. These little quick ones are really interesting to me because some will make me laugh really hard. Like I'll think about it an hour later and chuckle about it. Then I see this and I'm just like nodding understandingly like "Yeah that's MegaTen in a nut, bro." It's too perfect.
I love your fuckin videos dude, I’ve been playing through the SMT series and seeing you make videos about the older titles is entertaining. You funny as hell good luck with any future videos
ARE YOU WINNING SON?
Its called "Suffering", dad and im sure am
"ape the fuck out"
When SMT is your job
The Angry Megaten Nerd. 😂
This is the moment when Marsh became MarshSmt
if it's like the kmt version the bosses aren't necessary for beating the game (except Lucifer)
Really? I ended up beating it a few days ago, but that would have saved me a lot of time. I know at least you need a few bosses to break Izanami's mask - or do you even have to rescue her?
@@MarshSMT you don't have to rescue her. I think it's just for the item that lets you not take damage in the fire dungeon place. And also to get another item in the kmt version of mt II that lets you not take damage when walking across poison tiles.
@@2tehnik I think you need to beat Hecate and Set, as well as Medusa and Loki, unsure about Minotaur.
@@PaynePlayz_ what for?
@@2tehnik IIRC most of them either block you from getting past areas meaning you need to beat them to get past there (first boss and hecate are two main ones I remember) while others give you items needed for progression or do something else to let you progress (iirc loki, medusa) I might be forgetting some bosses (it's been like 2 years since I played the game) but from memory all of them give you something needed to progress.
thats me in shin megami for snes farming demons and exp for hours xD
Medieval peasant mining simulator LOL
Aping out sounds like fun, imo.
Cry for Help Gamer Moment
This alex jones level insanity
JRPGs be like
Kyuuyaku megami tensei might have made the game easier
I definitely don't remember grinding as much in kyuuyaku but I'm pretty sure it's the exact same
I think it did but that shit is still quite insane & tedious,, especially by today's soyboypersonoy standards. 😒
You know, I had a similar experience with Nocturne the other day. I was trying to grind to get to a high enough level to fuse Metatron (and some other demons I like) and I had Pisaca use his riberama skill and I just run around in circles in the tower of Kagatsuchi. 3 hours in and I wasn't even fucking close. I love megaten, but damn some of the grinding in these games are enough to make me wanna wipe out existence. Which I'll do in Nocturne eventually after I beat Lucifer.
Easy mode came in clutch for late game grinding in HD
@@aaronr.265 Unfortunately I was playing the original
@@destroyerdan6945 I’ve done that grind on the og version so I know your pain
Hey guys it's Marsh. So I'm convinced that Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei for the Famicom is actually brainwashing software disguised as a video game. I've been grinding for like, 2 days straight, okay? Just to get strong enough to fight the boss in this section. Now the game's in a foreign, language, alright, I'm tired, I feel like I've been drugged, ass-pounded, and left in a dirty bathroom in Shanghai. This little puke-colored room is just gunna be burned into my mind forever. Here's the deal; there's a Rag shop here, right, y'know? This little bastard, Rag, y'know him? He takes your gems and you can get items. Now this is a little known Megami Tensei lore fact, but Rag is a lazy piece of shit, because you can literally take 2 steps outside his shop, and there's this giant pile of gems, and this little nut just keeps taking them! This game might as well be like a medieval pheasant mining simulator because 60% of the time I'm just grabbing rocks and shoving them up Rag's ass for more health items. This room is perfect for grinding, like you do some battles, you grab a crystal, you trade it to Rag for some health, rinse and repeat. Except I've been rinsing and repeating for like 8 hours and my hands are about to fall off. I swear this game has permanently changed the chemicals in my brain. Like I've been mentally reprogrammed to think that autobattling the same demons for hours on end is fun. I've become like a Japanese sleeper agent. By the time I'm done if I ever see gems again, like say I'm walking in, down the street in real life and I see a jewelry store I'm just gunna ape the fuck out and start climbing on the walls. Listen, you don't wanna be in this situation. I don't know why I keep going, it's like, do I hate myself? Am I trying to prove something? Or deep down, do I secretly like all this? I don't know man, I just, I don't know anymore, okay? Anyway that being said pretty fun game, I think you should give it a try. Thanks for watching and see you guys next time.
Looking at the old games, what Japanese nutjobs bought so many copies of these cryptic tedious grindfests that allowed for so many sequels that the games eventually started becoming playable for the average person?
DON'T FUCK WITH US DIGITAL DEVIL STORY MEGAMI TENSEI FANS
WE ARE CRIMINALLY INSANE
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You're fantastic.
Dude, subbed.
The main video that you uploaded on this game got blocked in Denmark : (
For real? Maybe because of copyright, that's pretty weird
@@MarshSMT I've noticed the most popular upload of Dreamscape (with 36 million views) also got blocked for some reason, so I'm guessing something weird is going down in Denmark.
@@MarshSMT The video was finally unblocked, there was a problem with CZcams and a composers' union in Denmark
Some of my videos also were blocked there, something may be going on with copyright on Denmark
Please don't stop making these kinds of videos. Thanks for the laugh 😂
yes
Ohhh....Here we go. Here's the pain. lol
i actually did something kinda like this when i played MT, except i made sure to head to Infini and grinded right in front of the shop, it was hard and i died alot but it helped a ton
AVGN, is that you?
This has truly been a shin megami tensei
Beautiful
Indeed we are criminally insane
Go touch dia spells.
Might and Magic 1 would like to know your location.
I'M FUCKING DYING OF LAUGHTER THIS IS THE BEST XD
Grinding for 8 hours straight, eh. Sounds like early Dragon Quest to me. And every DQ clone ever made.
Also Phantasy Star 1 and 2, come to think of it.
The snes version is good
Kyuuyaku is a truly under rated gem....OMG...I JUST SAID THE "MAGICK WWWOOOOOORRRDD...." *goes ape shit and climbs up the wall*
The one dislike is rag
subscribed thanks
I can attest for that
Nice
Pokémon FireRed does the same against the E4....you have to grind since ypu stop below lv 42 and the E4 is 50~64 if I remember correctly
And the mons hit you hard depending on your strat and dont give at least 1000xp which is annoying gain around 700xp maximum per battle for a fking graveler that can explode in your face....
RPGs were never meant to be liked
bought a repro translation cart for my nes and ive just gotten mazurka, im level 41 and i can comfortably say fuck rag he should go to hell, like mega hell where its all frozen and just fucking never come back. i am going to lose my god damn mind if i have to see rag or have to auto battle one more time
I love how some friends that they say they are "HARDCORE" "rpg gamers" tell me how pathetic i am for loving Persona, as they are casual games, if they knew i spent like 3000 hours grindind in these obscure hell holes....
How can they call you a casual your a megaten fan and you have a fei fong wong profile
this is me right now doing the platinum trophy for kingdom hearts chain of memory
how about beating a game 100% and then having to beat it again 5 more times? thats fun!
game shark
I literally started with Strange Journey Redux on Expert (I ain't no casual!), spend like 3 hours grinding before Orboros and I wondered "is every game in the series like this", this video was enlightening. I think for my own happiness, I WON'T get the other endings, I'll beat the final boss and never touch a SMT game again.
But yeah it was pretty good
Me!!!!
lol
I love how there's no dislikes
not anymore :
@@franciscarlo7711 hecc ;-;
Pretty it's a rule of the internet at this point that when you point out the lack of dislikes on a youtube video, it will ensure that somebody will dislike it just to screw with you.
OK who are the 4 scumbags trying to screw with Marsh??
Dont worry guys. Theres no dislikes anymore
So it's better than Tartarus
But is it worse than Eridanus?
W
mk ultra is megami tensei
Mt2 is way better.
Rag is the MVP of that game
I've played many JRPG's on the NES. I've beaten and mastered Might and Magic, Dragon Quest 2, Final Fantasy 2, Ghost Lion, Mother, Wizardry, and many more. Even games with RPG mechanics like Zelda 2 and Crystalis I've found joy in. I can say with utmost confidence that Megami Tensei is by and far the most obnoxious and tedious JRPG on the whole system.
I did an LP of this game a few years ago and spent an entire week just grinding at one point
also the items you need to get to progress are fucking autistic and ridiculous to find
10/10 game
The grind is unbelievable, it's just sheer willpower at this point pushing me to the end
You should learn how to program your own games using Unreal or Unity and then make this game and balance it out and change the battle system a bit to make it modern, that time would be more worth it instead of grinding in the original game.
This sounds like more of a waste of time than just playing the damn game.
U dont rlly grind in Megami Tensei games whole point is to find abilities that work not improve their strength
this game doesn't have elemental weaknesses
@@MarshSMT up to what point in the series did they change that? Just curious
@@MarshSMT sounds unbearable
@@dante5247 Proper elemental Resistances became a thing from Megami Tensei II onward, and were added back into Megami Tensei I as part of Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei. The original version apparently does have a very rudimentary elemental Resistance system where certain demon races are resistant to certain spells, but I honestly don't feel like going back and experimenting with it at the moment.
what😦😦😦!?:!3€61 not eveygame is liek Cockturne!!!!!!
Just translate it lol