61 - Aswan, Astwo, AsGeb, As'Dour
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Last time, Jotaro convinced a bikini girl to join the party. This time, we're going to see what happens if we bring her to fight a bunch of zombies.
Midler always leaves your party during major transitions, since her presence would perhaps overly complicate certain confrontations. Like the one we're about to revisit.
With the addition of the 8th Stand User, the party's finally back together.
We never actually met Enya on this run due to taking the Submarine Route, but it's not a stretch at all to assume Bradio was simply told about the other adventures offscreen. This also hints at how Deep Purple has a unique interaction in the battle against Enya.
We're a bit slower than Cascada for now, but I guarantee we'll make up the lost time soon.
There are no Chaos Mode events during the N'Dour battle nor does Deep Purple have any more unique lines during the sequence, so let's fast forward.
I do give it the ol' college try since we've got inflated stats, but, well.
Even Contaminate doesn't work.
While I like this fight in general, it always seemed kind of iffy to me that Abdul couldn't just blast the water instantly.
Thanks to Chaos Mode, we can theorycraft how Midler would have performed. High Priestess can turn into any mineral, so she could have probably manipulated the sand for an easy win, right? By the same token, if Iggy took the battle seriously then it would have been no contest. There's enough "minerals" around to either completely fend off the water or to otherwise blunt N'Dour's vibration sense.
Still being in Part 3 gives it a bit of a pass, but this is a fairly bland idea for what a sand-manipulating Stand is capable of while in the middle of the desert.
Let's give him the business.
...okay.
Hey, a DEF-piercing attack actually did something!
The SP cost is a non-factor once you have enough curatives, so Stop Time is on a cooldown to make sure you can't chain it indefinitely. At least one or two full rounds have to pass after time resumes.
If Iggy dies, it's Game Over, and I cannot be assed to do this again. We gave it a shot.
There are still two of them we have yet to see in this Let's Play.
I was about to complain that Steel knows enough about the "real" timeline to know Dio isn't here... but I suppose he can't necessarily tell what might change from the 7th Stand User's actions. It's not an unreasonable thing for him to say.
Well, since Jotaro starts in our party, and she's right there...
We're doing pretty well on FP overall, but the neurotic part of my brain still makes me go around and do everyone's FP events.
It's going to be weird when the Steel Ball Run anime comes out and all the characters have new voices.
Now wait a moment, who's that?
Without having recruited Stroheim and Speedwagon, we'd be stuck hunting down the key like Cascada did. This story path also prevents Gallahad from joining us here in Aswan.
The temple in question, dedicated to Isis and located on a small island in the Nile, was mostly flooded for decades due to the British construction of Aswan Low Dam in 1902. The construction of the modern Aswan High Dam in the 1960s threatened to submerge it completely. During the 1970s, UNESCO funded a reconstruction operation that involved damming off the island, pumping out all the water, then dismantling and reconstructing the entire temple on a different, higher island.
Midler may only join the party if we're rolling with Jotaro, but that doesn't mean she leaves if we start hanging with someone else.
With Polnareff's FP event out of the way, we head back to the inn and grab some souvenirs. I also ditch him to get Joseph's event on the way up there.
We stock up on Game Boys since money is no consequence. They don't do anything, but it's nice to see the sprite in our room at the start of the game.
Last time, this gave us a hint towards where to get the key for the ruins, but we have that already.
Abdul's FP is high enough that he won't gain any from mere edible arrangements.
I miss out on a solid 1 FP here by playing sub-optimally. Kakyoin's at 9, and the Game Boy gives 3. Fruit Baskets can increase FP up to 10... which means I should have given him that before the Game Boy. Damn.
Here is where I realize my foolish mistake. I should have reloaded a save but I am committed to depicting my fuck-ups true to life.
We will once again be bringing Iggy into the ruins in the interest of getting his FP past the 10 threshold as quickly as possible.
We only had Gallahad guesting last time. It's pretty rare to have a full squad of four in this game.
Good ol' shortcuts.
Well they weren't there before.
We met this guy back at the radio station. Even if our levels were all at normal numbers, Dire could probably solo the ruins. He's got high stats and while he only has a handful of Ripple moves, they're about the only ones you'd ever need.
Yeah, yeah, zombies.
Zombies, rocks, whatever.
Freu is meant to be the "what if a regular dude got a Stand" character. Hence he's kind of sad and pathetic, and maybe a little too familiar.
The way the game calculates "range" is that Short, Middle, and Long are all internally considered different types of elemental damage. Freu's set to take 0% damage from the Short element.
I'd love to skip, but this sequence probably plays a little better if you have a better idea of what the game is actually about.
We've learned by now that the Slaves to Fate weren't founded by Vins; she basically just wormed her way in and then killed all the execs with zombies. This vague bullshit pretty much is what they're actually about though.
It's weird because her kid will still be dead; going back to the main timeline is just going to cause universal recursion again, causing her kid to die again. I imagine this is more about reclaiming her spot as universal observer.
We have two Lv50 Ripple-users here. This is not a fight.
lol, lmao
And that's pretty much a wrap on Aswan.
Kind of weird to have Speedwagon deliver this line here seeing as Steel does it otherwise.
This is all certainly a bit more relevant now with Stroheim and Speedwagon. I almost wish that they did a little more with it; when I first played the game I assumed the actual 7th Stand User themselves was also a revivified corpse somehow.
See you again!
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