FOUNTAIN DRIFTWORLD CORE - Let's Play 「 Absented Age: Squarebound (International) 」 - 10
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Absented Age: Squarebound (International)
Developed by Terunon w/RPG Maker MV
Published by Gotcha Gotcha Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1615930/
Walkthrough/Playthrough/Let's Play
Description:
Satsuki/Karen finds herself in the mysterious Driftworld, a spiritual world where one can find Heart Fragments. Shen has no memories of she is and turns into a ghost when she tries to interact with the outside world, so she must team up with the spirit cat Tarte to find all her Heart Fragments and restore her humanity.
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0:00 Fountain Driftworld Core
I didn't really see any new enemies. The first half has wind effects and shouldn't be too hard.
0:32 Fountain Driftworld Core: Hollow
There's a puzzle where you have to position iron balls so you can wall-jump off of them.
7:06 Fountain Driftworld Core P2
An NPC mentions something about an ominous red orb on one floor that caused a denser concentration of monsters on the next.
7:48 Arc Monster: Chimaera
This thing is really hard compared to previous Arc Monsters, since it can debuff your Max HP. It can also summon high level Pucks. Unlike me, you should probably find a way to inflict silence, since I think that might prevent it from summoning minions. I can't confirm it though, since this is just an educated guess based on an Arcade Mode battle where I silenced a boss and somehow never ran into its minion summoning skill.
The boss can also inflict poison, so Track Headband could be useful here as long as the Pucks don't knock it off.
Sadly, because I didn't silence the boss, it gets regular heals from its minions and it can even absorb HP from them.
16:39 Fleeing From the Puck Army
They have a massive ranged advantage and can remove Karen's gear. I had to waste so many resources trying to survive against them, loop them through the area, and claim the Chimaera's gem. Sadly, I lost the Wellington Glasses in the process, though it's easy to reobtain in the Crossing Driftworld.
30:27 Monster Room
Unfortunately, I must have missed the red orb, since I ended up getting a Monster Room in the very next floor. I screwed up the first attempt and had to load the autosave. I had to somehow get to the corridor to be less surrounded.
39:25 Boss: Titanoboa / Boa Alias
The boss is much easier than the Arc Monster and Monster Room IMO. He'll often sit on his throne to stay out of reach, but he'll eventually come down and try to rush you, giving you an opportunity to attack him. If you get him to run into an iron ball, he'll be momentarily stunned and you can break his shield.
The boa is weak to ice, but he can also use poison, so you'll need to equip against that. After enough cycles and damage, he'll eat shrink and eat Karen.
Fortunately, the stomach is basically a mini-dungeon where you have to traverse north until you can beat the target, the innards. Note that every enemy in the stomach must be scanned, or you'll have to come back and fight this boss again later. I'm kind of disappointed Tarte didn't say anything about this.
49:04 Heart Fragment
We don't even get a flashback this time?!
50:26 Mika's House
When the team hears an explosion, Karen's heart fragments pop out of her. You have to go around the house to reclaim them, but the last one will jump away from you a few times.
Turns out that the Ganger is almost done stealing Karen's identity, meaning the fragments now gravitate towards it.
We talk to Hayato and Suzu, but they can't avoid resigning from the Super Live, since we can't get around the issue of the headcount. Our only hope is to get all the fragments, but there's not enough time!
Hoop has a proposal that might work out for us though.
1:00:39 Flappy Question 7
Adding dex and speed adds technical to an item's name. I think this might be the last question.
1:01:32 Yayoi and Hoop's Proposal
The two want to team up with us to defeat the Ganger. In exchange, they'll use Necromancy to temporarily materialize Karen for the concert. However, we can't trust him due to that vision we save explaining his rationale for sparing us earlier.
1:05:33 Warehouse Driftworld Entrance
The flower shows up and gives us Ice Essence, a long-range style for Tarte. Unfortunately, it guzzles MP very quickly.
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