Shin Megami Tensei V - How to Attain 'True Neutral' Secret Ending

I struggled to piece together info from many sources and had to experiment a lot to get this ending myself, so I thought a video explaining the general method for getting the ending would be helpful to others! Note that the spoilers "ramp up" with a countdown warning for the huge spoilers. I tried to omit unnecessary spoilers where I could.

[Trauson]

xD The most interesting thing is no videos in your channel for like 8 years and now you bring this one.... misterious ways xd

[blastersilver]

Just finished the game and got the neutral ending and it will be a pleasure to make another run aiming for the true ending. But I wasn't that far....
It was the first megaten and the experience was great.

[iwatchyoutube]

The last amanozako quest you don't really need to say no to the Kurama tengu because any choice will lead to the same outcome cuz i have tried it myself

[hungrytaco]

Funny how you have to do even the Shiva super boss before all the Nahobino and Lucifer fights. Dam, he’s even 8 levels higher than Lucifer

[Minarreal]

The dude with the exotic name at 4:40 appeared to me before doing the Egyptian questline, just so everyone knows.

[jwallen]

For Fionne, I've only done all the fairy village quests and spared Khonsu, and he still appeared at the summit.

[MogekoMagica]

Thanks! Back when i first got it people were swearing you could only get the true ending on ng+ so I was going for chaos. Now that i'm picking the game back up so much later your guide is very helpful!

[nahobino]

Now that I know about this ending, I'm going to make a new save just to see the last ending. but I will use your video to get to the secret ending. thanks!!!

[noway]

Hey, I got the true ending. You need to make sure to defeat Shiva before the cutscene where you have to make a choice between lawful, chaos and destroying the throne.

[kevintorres]

Dude ty with this i was able to unlock this ending. Great job explaining

[TwistedFoo]

So the main thing is to have all the quests done BEFORE you get to that choice point in the final area. I did the shiva quest after since I wanted to save it for later, completed all quests. But didn't get the secret ending.

[PhazonKing]

So... The so-called "true" ending is creating a world for humanity alone. So this basically means you're committing genocide against all angels and demons??? Wow, that's pretty dark :-O I couldn't choose that ending. Actually, I went for the "protecting Tokyo" ending. :-)

[jojomojo]

got this ending first play through very happy with my decision

[kenjean-baptiste]

I think you gotta beat Shiva and all the other requirements before you chose the the destroy the throne the first time. I beat Shiva before the fight where the true ending scene takes place but after I picked destroy the throne.

[moe]

How is this "true ending" satisfying ? Isn't the regular neutral ending better with all humans and demons coexisting in the same world ?

[anastashiawallace]

This video is amazing thanks for all the help.

[mmhmmmyearight]

Its not a secret it shows u missing an ending in the save file if u dont get it

[TheGlasses]

Okay so I did everything this way except... The first thing. I offered to hand Amanazako off to the Tengu. I'm guessing I'm locked out?

[alihamdy]

I only defeated Shiva on smt v vengeance and Nuwa just showed up. I knew that I was supposed to complete multiple quests that's why I saved it as the last ending for the platinum but I don't know that just killing Shiva was enough. But actually it seems it is ture you do need to complete most of not all the quests but not in a single playthrough as you can do some in one playthrough and the others in a another playthrough

[thiagoguilhermedeoliveira]

Not sure if they changed the requirements for the V vengeance edition. But all I did was the Japanese gods quest and the fairy land quests. Yet, I have managed to do this secret neutral ending.