50 - Here We Go Again
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Last time we started a New Game Plus. This time we're going to run through the Japan map and see some of the new things that show up.
Deep Purple's basic attack is way better than Quicksilver's, innately hitting all enemies and potentially inflicting Poison or NoBreath status, but it also gets saddled with the intense Short-range damage falloff.
Nothing creepy here. Just a close-knit community.
Aaand now it's weird. I stop here, but if you keep pressing, your character gets saddled with the "lolicon" trait. You can figure that one out yourself.
Quicksilver's powerful multi-target attacks take a bit to start rolling, but Deep Purple gets this at Level 2. Since we're a few levels ahead from Dragon Question and also wearing the endgame-tier Speedwagon Armor, every normal battle in Japan drops in one turn.
Remember the bloodstains in every map? Sure you do. But do you remember the visual-kei weirdo who hangs out next to them?
Fans of Part 5 will recognize ol' Diavolo, the actual user of King Crimson. He now spawns on every map as a bonus encounter as part of his final fate to die over and over again for all eternity.
Level 5 Bradio is not really strong enough to take this guy in a straight up slugfest. But we have contingencies.
goddammit
FUCK
He reappears after a screen transition, at least.
Diavolo's constantly freaking out during these fights which means he almost never attacks you directly. He's a great early-game piñata if you're feeling a little cheeky.
The 4444s are because in many East Asian languages, the words for "four" and "death" sound very similar (in Japanese, it'd be "shi").
A solid like eight or nine levels from that. Cascada wasn't level 13 until the Polnareff fight.
Off to the schoolyard.
Specific Stands catch this cat for free, but otherwise it's a stat check you can't reasonably meet at early levels. Ain't shit for us though.
Despite only ever being referred to as "Schoolgirl" in-game, the event files refer to this character as "Fumitake Katsumi" and describe her as "a rough girl with a foul mouth but a gentle heart". She's meant to be the 7th Stand User's friend from junior high, a cheerleader, and a secret Jotaro fangirl.
Clubs are only in NG+. Back when I first played 7SU, this opened up a text-entry menu and you sort of just had to make an educated guess about what kind of clubs there were. Here we get a big nested menu of options. The text entry is still buried somewhere in there though.
That's "Audio-Visual", not "Adult Video".
Almost all clubs give a tiny stat boost, and a few other besides have minor dialogue changes throughout the game. If you're using the Mid/Speed Stand (which is sound-based), you can learn some mid-game skills early by joining the modern music club.
Bradio probably goes for the glasses girls.
As far as I know there isn't even a Chemistry Club in the game, nor any bonuses coded in for starting your own.
...what would you even do in a chemistry club? Light shit on fire?
This girl is probably the obligatory mad scientist side character in a high-school comedy happening completely offscreen while the Stardust Crusaders are off travelling.
This gives Bradio the "perverted" trait, which I believe mostly affects dialogue with Polnareff.
Bootleg games have certainly caused more good than harm in the long run. I'm told Gianna Sisters is a C64 institution.
Moving on.
We joined the Handicraft Club but there isn't any new dialogue in here. Alas.
The rest of school is pretty much how we saw last time.
Hey, now you've got context! The full text of these books are back in Update 3.
If you check the notepad without writing anything first...
Unlike Diavolo, you can't bail from this one. This guy would chase you down to the ends of the earth.
Too bad for him, we have our own bomb Stand.
And also a burlap sack full of nukes.
SHEER HEART ATTACK HAS NO WEAKNESSES
He gives about half as much EXP as Diavolo despite being a much harder fight.
This sets the Holly Timer back to Day 1... which doesn't matter because we haven't started the plot yet.
I check it again to see if it's repeatable... without healing. Oops.
I lose a good ten minutes of gameplay here and have to retrace all my steps. The things I do for the entertainment of strangers.
Alright, let's fast forward to Jotaro fighting Kakyoin.
Maybe a smidge overkill.
lol, lmao
Jotaro pulls out the flesh bud, et cetera.
In NG+ something is slightly different when we check FP with Steel.
Hmmm.
Additionally, King Crimson gives Steel a couple shops we can access at any time.
Pretty useful.
Keep it moving!!!
This was locked! Now it isn't!
He still wanders around the maps like normal, but if you have the cash you can just mash the action button here and get your stats up.
If you push into the wall at this spot, you get a sort of knock-knock sound, until...
The Ghost House from Part 6! Every main hub map has an entrance to this place somewhere. Often it's in an incidental building with like one NPC inside.
The sink gives you unlimited Bottled Water, if you're so inclined.
Okay, left door.
For now, this room is almost completely empty. It fills up with all of the named characters you kill across the game. You yourself show up here as a ghost if you die during certain major battles, like the final boss fight with Vins.
Dio's shitty dad continues to be shitty.
Maybe another time. It's not here yet.
Okay, looks like we did get a special family event from Chaos Mode. This one is meant to signify that the 7th Stand user is secretly a descendant of the Zeppeli family. Another version of this in Chaos Mode straight up changes all of their sprites to be different Ripple-using characters: Mom becomes Lisa-Lisa, Dad becomes Will A. Zeppeli, and Lil' Sis becomes Big Bro Caesar.
...Ignore that we had the whole set in our pocket the whole time.
Not quite yet. One more thing, on the school rooftop.
See you again!
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