Video links mentioned in the video:

Emperor and Empress Fight Without Attacking: https://youtu.be/Qsj-QWVVMO8
Hierophant Fight Without Attacking: https://youtu.be/uZniiHUdMvE
Persona 5 Royal Without Attacking by Jack Benci: https://youtu.be/MObH8WZmBSY
Persona 4 Golden Without Attacking by Dead Shot: https://youtu.be/6Yz8g80b3Qc
Skill Mutation Guide by Legendary#7: https://youtu.be/f-uURY6jlYI?si=WqQh_rQmBPIHzd4Y

Persona 3 Reload Without Attacking Stream Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxTXhwRY8meNZSoIHtmRl-kJDEj5AMj1z&si=d90AWrLUDBYZstRG

Challenge runs by yours truly:
SMT Nocturne Without Using Skills: https://youtu.be/HzaFfzi2qjc
Sonic Adventure 2 Without Collecting Rings: https://youtu.be/tokidO0U_Cs
Majora's Mask Without Rupees or Item Drops: https://youtu.be/v32EvLr04ZI
Persona 5 Royal By Doing Absolutely Nothing: https://youtu.be/guC_xW0NcWU
Persona 3 FES With Only Mandatory Battles: https://youtu.be/_YacACFVdWs
Persona 4 Golden Without Taking Damage: https://youtu.be/CrTSL0RT8eY

I'm glad you're prioritizing your mental health over a challenge run. Hope the next one you pick is less awful

The fact that you decided to release this Video anyway, a very well-edited one as well. While also admitting that you have been defeated by this challenge. Is a big achievement for you. To accept, let go, and move on took a lot of effort, especially considering that you managed to pull through with Do Nothing by eventually relenting to No Joker Run in the end.  So yeah, congrats, and good luck for your future Challenge Run endeavors.

So that's why it's called Persona 3 Reload for the countless times that where reset

SEES but they have actually want the fall to happen

It seems the Reload in the title refers to the RNG. Thank you for finishing this video, I'm glad we got a glimpse at the suffering you endured

Posting this will probably inspire someone to try it to do it themselves and finish it.

OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN  🗣🔥🔥🔥

Man I absolutely love your persona vids. Seeing them pull up on my recommended always brightens up my day. Please keep making them! (Love your other stuff too but INTENSE Persona hyperfixation makes those ones feel a lil bit more special to me)

After finishing the vid yeah
im glad you ended this because this does look horrid

even if you did try mutations (sorry for my poor mic quality on the video)
that requires alot of money, rng and just overall pain that im sure you were already going through

congrats on the attempt tho and I am excited to see what you cook on next!

This video feels like environmental storytelling from a horror game... the journal of someone slowly losing their sanity, a warning to all who would follow in their footsteps...
Also: split the difference, they're Tartarus Guardian Gatekeeper Girlbosses
Do not blame you in the slightest for not continuing this, you've tortured yourself for this channel more than enough.

Soul drops are a 5% drop rate in first area chests.

There are also specific floors that won’t spawn the 3 chest IDs with it in the loot pool. When they spawn in breakable objects later those are a 16% drop rate.

Fair play for even attempting this. Something I think you should consider for future challenge runs like this is a rule TheBacklogs used for his Souls 'One Shot' contests just to save the runners time and sanity: if you can provide proof something is an infinitely farmable resourse, you should be able to spawn it in using cheats. That way you get to actually focus on the meat of the challenge instead of just spending multiple days grinding. Obviously you'd want to apply your own restrictions to that given the genre differences (technically XP is an infinitely farmable resource but you wouldn't want to cheat that), but it could help make things like this less of a slog. I.e. could spawn in Soul Drops when you reach the 2nd Strata.

It's a bit of a shame the run is so tedious because it does seem interesting, especially with most bosses in the game being immune to status effects, and most of the later game bosses having a lot of Almighty attacks, it would have been interesting to see how you'd handle that. Looking forward to the next.

man, 5k views in 3 weeks for this amount of work is crazy...

i wish you the best of luck

19:47 there's a lot of... reloading you say?

youtube is awful even though I have the bell activated I was not alerted to your video. Great challenge though and for what you went through and the delightfully entertaining video you deserve far more views.

Thats so cool to see a persona upload from you, your p4g run was so cool so this one will surely be

Haven't watched the run yet (past the disclaimer), but I have seen a video about defeating the reaper at lvl 16(?). Although he does "attack" it deals basically no damage, and can be substituted with a guard (in the spirit of this challenge)

Getting Makoto to lvl 99 pretty early on would be a pretty big boon if you ever choose to retry the run for some reason

TIME FOR PEAK!!!!

Well, I've been waiting for this