🌻 ぼくのなつやすみ / Boku no Natsuyasumi (Game Club) - Week 3

[Daisoujou]

Welcome to Week 3 of ぼくのなつやすみ Club!

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Week 3	Mar 9th
Start Point	Day 8
End Point	Finish Day 11
Previous Week	Week 2
Next Week	Week 4

Walkthrough: English | Japanese

Participation

Will you be joining us this week?

• Yes, I’m playing along
• I’m still playing but haven’t reached this point yet
• I’m just here for the discussion
• I’m playing after the club has ended

Game Systems / Tips

• Saving happens at the end of each day when you write in your diary.
• Remember that starting on day 2 you can pull out your bug net at any time (right trigger on PSP)!
• Registering the bugs (creating a 標本) can be unintuitive at first – First, this must be done in Boku’s room at the desk (it’s a good thing to do before bed!). Select the bug in your box, select 出す, pull it down and place it on the screen below. Then you use the needle, into the pink liquid, and finally into the bug. This removes it from the box, registers this specimen permanently, and gives you a little description.
• Try to interact with anything that looks interesting. There is a lot of flavor text and even many paths where Boku can hop to places that require pressing interact on them.
• I have heard time passes when you transition between screens, so you don’t need to feel rushed within a location. When the day ends, Boku’s uncle will find you and take you home.

Game Manual

In this post TheNerdyNova helpfully provided us with images of the game’s manual which include a map, tips for bugs and fishing, advice for progressing certain quests, cute art, and more!

Boku no Spoilers (Please read)

It’s customary in these clubs to collapse or otherwise hide your in-depth explanations of what happened for the week. I would just like to also request that because this game features so much optional and non-linear content, that you use your best judgment for what might be worth hiding, and do your best to make it generally clear outside the tags what you’re discussing. For example, in my week 1 post I referenced locations (the hideout and the shed) where I think interesting things happened but I further spoiler tagged discussion of what happened within them in case anyone who hadn’t visited one yet wanted to save the surprise.

Set this thread to “Watching” to get updates!

[Daisoujou]

Hopefully I haven’t messed things up! This time, the way things have been in my life recently, I’ll be playing along with you all right now because I haven’t managed to prepare.

[WeepingWeeb]

Spoilers for my log today, same as @downtimes last week

Day 8

What an exciting day today was!

• Finally knocked down the beehive and got access to the new area
• Found a well that when I looked at it it did some swirliness so I wonder if that means or will do something
• Got stopped when I took a route because Boku had to look at a tree, and there was a beetle! Now I can finally do beetle battles with the bros. Beautiful.
• On that note, looks like checking a tree over and over can reset the bugs on that screen, including the chance of tree beetle, so I might spam this at some point to get all the beetles I can
• Found the waterfall and lovely hill with a view
• Caught a couple of fish from the pond by the falls, its so hard to tell if they’ve bitten or not, I keep expecting a splash like in animal crossing but its just the bobber going crazy
• Boku stopped at another tree on the exploring route so I guess he’s just pointing out all the trees you can get beetles from, very handy thank you Boku
• Caught 4 beetles total
• Big cous was playing her clarinet again
• Registered all bugs except for the beetles

[Daisoujou]

Day 8 and 9 (including much the same spoilers as the above)

Day 8 - Started the day by hearing from the aunt that I should check out the girls’ room on the second floor, and sure enough, I can go in now! Moe is nice to talk to; we chatted about school a bit. Boku is so blunt sometimes; he keeps asking Shirabe if she has no friends (and calling her by her nickname lol).

After that I had a mission in my head to go attack the bees and it worked straight away! I think others needed multiple attempts, I dunno if it’s because I’m trying later or what, but one poke knocked it down. There are so many beautiful views past the bees!

No people but the highlights were getting on top of this hill for Boku to do some big yawns

And finding a well that plays a little cutscene with the camera diving down it to emphasize how deep it is.

The bugs are cool over here, too.

At night I received the photo of Boku and Shirabe and it’s the cutest thing.

Day 9 - Kite making! There is a kite that looks like Boku and I need it, but right now I think I can only pick the simplest one. When I talked to the uncle about ordering it he also told me there’s an old axe and to not touch it. Are they doing this on purpose by now? These people don’t understand what happens when you go out of your way to tell a kid about something and then say don’t go do it. Well, time to find out why the Japanese call this an “oh no.”

But first, a stop in the hideout to meet new friends. The kids are funny. One who has a crush on Moe wants to secretly swap places with me for a day. They didn’t explicitly tell me about beetle fighting but the setup is there so… good enough? I could interact with it even, but have no beetles yet. Hmm.

I ran into these 2 and I can definitely confirm they were later additions because I asked the professor how to swim in the ocean and he told me to buy Boku no Natsuyasumi 2

While walking past the water Boku went “what’s that?” and walked to the edge, then a cutscene played of a fish staring into my soul and Boku seemed rattled. So that was… odd. Took a minute to fish then, but nothing unusual happened.

I put a little chip in the tree with the axe, but Boku is tired and said he’ll continue tomorrow.

The last couple days I’ve been too busy to try the guessing game. Sounds like I missed seeing the fireworks yesterday, the uncle was like “oh it’s someday soon” and I didn’t know I needed to do something to see them that night. Hope someone here catches them . Missing out on some fun things is childhood too I guess.

Stopped in Moe’s room before bed and her dreaming of any way to get out of schoolwork, whether war or whatever, is so real.

[downtimes]

You had baumkuchen I’m envious now.

[Daisoujou]

It was delicious actually she manages to say that word instead of フィールドワーク somehow so it’s just a joke

[Daisoujou]

Day 10 and 11

Day 10 - Big day! The flowers are finally blooming! I haven’t checked in a few days at least so I dunno if my first chance to see was any earlier, but they’re pretty, and I got praised for taking care of them! Still on a perfect streak, I think.

No kite ready yet.

I stopped at the hideout again and this time they told me to play 虫相撲, but I don’t have a suitable bug yet.

Bumped into the teacher again and asked him about how to raise my luck and he said to pray to the jizo. Which makes me wonder again if that reading is affecting something? But I have no idea what.

The chip in the tree trunk is getting deeper! Not done yet though. With the time I had left I ran back to the bee path and Boku spotted beetles in the trees now that I know about that. So I got my first fighter! Gotta try that tomorrow.

Boku asked about the giant fish and the uncle said we need to make a special lure from deeper in the mountain area I think? Sounded like we needed a specific bird feather or something, though I missed a little of the detail. Gotta remember that goal, I guess catching that is the big event of fishing.

Day 11 - Even bigger day! My kite is ready!

First off I had to hit the tree again, and it’s getting so close, I can feel it.

Next up, 虫相撲. Apparently I found the world champion bug. I set it to easy, won several rounds, so I followed my hubris and pressed the king option… and still went undefeated for a while til I decided to stop. Boku is so good at bug collecting. 13-0! I thought with 虫交換 you could take them or something? But I just saw a list and couldn’t do anything with it. Shrug.

I made it back up to the hill in time to use my kite, [spoiler]
seems like you pull against the wind and just give it more string. I maxed out all the meters til deciding to quit after a bit and the aunt showed up to take a photo so looks like I did it right. I want to remember to try to order a new kite next time we play.

[/spoiler]

The nighttime event is so cute; I’ll leave it at that. Every time they pull out the music it’s great. I wanted a quick photo of them but it got particularly ruined by glare.

The uncle knows the axe is missing and was like “maybe a bear took it” or something. They aren’t… the most attentive guardians!

I might’ve missed out on a possible diary image or two by doing so much all together today, we’ll see.

Very interesting place to be stopping with the event they tell us about tomorrow.

This has all been very cute so I’m still having a great time, and it’s nice to slowly learn more about the people here.

[Daisoujou]

Oh! I wanted to post this with the thread but times have been rough since I got unwell right after this club started. How’s the pacing feeling?

• Slow down!
• This is fine.
• Speed up!

[WeepingWeeb]

Day 9

• Today uncle told me about kites and the book in the bookcase so I ordered the first one from him, said it will take 2 days
• When I visited him in his workshop he also mentioned the axe in the shed, which I forgot to go look for but that’ll be good for exploring that area with the tree
• Went to the bee area to look for big cous like the others found her but no luck
• Got another beetle though
• Headed to the hideout before it got dark to try out this beetle battling
• Went on weak mode and beat them all fine, then it looped back around to the first kid (Is there a purpose to battling? If you beat them all X number of times do you get a beetle trophy?)
• Uncle came and found me for dinner
• Tried to go to the shed (if I was in the right place cause I forgot where exactly it is) but the door was closed so couldn’t grab the axe

Day 10

Wow what a day

• Went to get the axe from the shed
• Then on the way to the tree Boku stopped to stare at an unnerving scene of a big fish
• I tried to catch it for ages but no luck
• Chopped at the tree once then Boku gave up
• Headed back to the forest to go beetle hunting
• I wanted to try again to catch the bees in my net but Boku poked the hive with the fishing pole again and then I thought I broke the game because the screen went black except for Boku, turns out it was because the bees attacked him and then he passed out. Aunt found him and took him home lmao
• Headed back to the forest when he woke up and got quite a few beetles including a big one and a king one which I’ll use in the beetle battle
• At dinner uncle told me to find a feather or hair (lovely) in the woods to make a better lure for the big fish, hopefully it’s easy to spot
• My kite should be ready tomorrow as well so sounds like a good time to go to there
• Went into the girls’ room for the first time and talked to big cous a bit
• Registered many beetles
  
  

Day 11

• Moe said she’s going to go deliver a letter today and aunt asked her to buy something while out
• Then when I went to talk to aunt in the garden she was singing a song about important letters lmao
• The flowers bloomed today! Aunt mentioned something about taking a picture
• Picked up my kite from uncle and headed to the forest
• When I reached 120m with the kite Boky said yatta and the height was flashing
• On my way back down, aunt was standing in the forest! She said she took a pic of Boku flying his kite up the mountain! She took a photo of Boku then left
• Tried to look for the feather/string but uncle came to get me
• We lit sparklers! It was pretty cute
  
  
  
  
  

What I need to remember to do next week:

• Chop tree
• Beetle battle
• Look for new fishing material
• Order new kite

[Sisthra]

Day 8

I spent this day wandering around a bit aimlessly; I was trying to find the well and discovered that if you poke the beehive again after you dropped it ( I was actually wondering if you could catch a bee and tried to swing my net at it), Boku will get stung and wake up back at the house. I met the watermelon thief back at the hideout, I will have to check back there in the following days.

Day 9

I found the well! Complete with little spooky cutscene. There doesn’t seem to be much else I can do there for now, but maybe it will trigger some event or interaction in other days. I also found the cliff were you can apparently fly a kite but I don’t really know how to get one yet… Found a couple more bugs, but it’s all still butterflies… I’m not sure how to get beetles for the bug fighting thing mentioned by the kid in the hideout.
I’ve also been looking for something to help cross the river at the collapsed bridge (the one where Boku wants to cut down the tree), but haven’t found anything yet. I wonder if you have to stumble into sensei and ask him about it…

[Daisoujou]

How I think beetles work, if you want to know: After you learn about the game in the hideout, the next night or so, sometime after, Boku will ask the uncle about them. After he explains where to find them in trees, Boku will sometimes stop and point them out to you (maybe only in the path past the bees? not sure) and if you go check the tree you’ll get one. Presumably you’re on your way to these things triggering automatically, just a little early.

[Sisthra]

Day 10

Lots of things done today! I found the kite book and ordered my first one from uncle, got the axe and started chopping down the tree at the river, caught a couple more bugs and met the rest of the kids in the hideout! Great voice acting, they all have so distinctive voices. At dinner uncle mentioned how to find beetles for bug fighting, so it feels like this day was spent advancing lots of little plots… Really excited to see what’s past the fallen bridge. Probably lots of new butterflies.
Oh and the flowers blossomed! They’re pretty!!

[downtimes]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I finished some more of my days. Let me tell you about them

Day8(23min)

• After starting the day as usual I found uncle who wants to get rid of an axe and put it in storage. I smell a chance for me
• Visited the hideout to get the beetle questline I read in other topics running. I like メガネくん
• Went to the well again and got an FMV, but nothing happened after that
• Went to go fish, on the way boku inspected a tree but found nothing.
• Wanted to go up the mountain again to prepare for my kite tomorrow, but uncle stopped me for dinner
• Dinner we discussed kabutomushi, what they like and where they live
• I take a bath in preparation for tomorrow
• Talk with all the family members
• Uncle says there’s a 花火大会 but forgot which day it is
• Moe plays clarinet, I interrupt her. Second time I talk with her, she tells me the 花火大会 is TODAY
• Go up into my room, catalogue my few bugs and watch the fireworks out the window
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Forgot end picture but was the same as some had last week with the “bugs like sweet things like me” line

Day9(31min)

• Big day today, so much to do
• Got the axe from the shed where uncle put it the day before
• Mother commented on the 花火大会 being beautiful
• Got my kite from dad
• Plan: chop tree, go fly kite, hope both is possible in one day
• On the way I met the head teacher for the first time (知らないおじさん) asked if I should rat out the thief to uncle
• He didn’t answer me and only said he didn’t steel the watermelons
• Had a stare down with a scary fish on the way, what’s that all about?
• Chopped the bridge tree for the first time
• Found my first bug in a tree on the way up the hill
  
  
• Fly the kite, although it is already late.
• Managed 140m, I think 120m would have been enough. No idea how to stop flying it though so I had to crash
  
  
• On the way おばさん took a commemorating picture of my first flight. I’m slowly assembling pictures, yay.
• Didn’t get back to the house, uncle caught me right next to the bees
• Got the first picture with shirabe after dinner
• Uncle finally remembered that the 花火大会 was yesterday… yeah I know, nearly missed it because you forgot
• The TV asserted today is the first convenience store in Tokyo opening its doors. Wait WHAT? The internet becks to differ with 15.5.1974!
  
  
  
  I think I missed many interesting end slides that I saw with other people because too much happened this day again.

Plans for the next days: keep chopping the tree, try to get a more complicated kite, battle with my first bug, hope the flowers bloom like they did for some other people here.

@Daisoujou

Stopped in Moe’s room before bed and her dreaming of any way to get out of schoolwork, whether war or whatever, is so real.

Oh, that is possible? I tried to go in last time on day 6? I think and it was still locked. Have to try that as well.

[Daisoujou]

@downtimes

Oh, that is possible? I tried to go in last time on day 6? I think and it was still locked. Have to try that as well.

I forget when exactly but the aunt mentioned to me that I can go in now! I think it was just a random time I talked to her during the day IIRC. Since then it’s been open so I try to check in at night.

Thank for for the screenshots too I’m so happy you saw the fireworks cause I hated missing them.

@downtimes

asked if I should rat out the thief to uncle

I assumed nothing would actually happen but I’ve been eying that option and too scared to ever pick it for fear of actually setting it in motion. I don’t want to be a snitch!

[downtimes]

Finished day 10 and 11 as well. Let me tell you about them.

Day10(34min)

• I checked, and I can order harder kites now. I chose this one にな凧. I think it looks cooler than the alternative
  
  
• The flowers are blooming now, obasan said to take a picture later, but I haven’t found out yet how to trigger it.
  
  
• obasan also said the ban on the girls room is lifted now, yatta!
• I went to order the kite from uncle, he said it takes 2 days again
• Went to the hideout and got mushi sumo explained by the members
• Battled a few rounds on hard until I lost: 4勝ち1負け
• Found the teacher again and asked him where I find rare bugs. He told me there’s a hidden mountain path and I should learn the details from the other children.
• Chopped the tree again.
• Went back to the house since I felt like I did enough today, first day I don’t get caught by uncle
• Did the dinner quiz, but even after looking into the fridge I wouldn’t have expected Italian cuisine today…, guessed wrong.
• Dinner talk was about the fish incident from the day before
• Uncle is always asking for beer to be brought to him, he will never learn
• Went into the girls room and moe was talking about which classes she likes (Japanese, arts, music) and which she hates (English)
• I didn’t catch any new bugs. Only catalogued my fighter from today and went to bed.
  
  
  
  New goals are to get new fighting bugs and better fishing equipment until my new kite is ready.

Day11(25min)

• Breakfast talk was about a 命日 that is tomorrow and a monk that comes for it. They did lose a boy child at some point, am I understanding that right?
• Moe has some errands to run in the city today and is tasked with other stuff on the way by obasan
• Shirabe only talks about 給食 for the last few days. 給食 this, 給食 that… it’s getting a little annoying
• Went to the tree again to chop it some more. It’s really far away
• Then went to the mountain area for my bug hunt.
• Got a nice FMV when visiting the mountain. There’s a satellite flying over the head and boku is enchanted by it
• Caught some new bugs for fighting and some more butterflies:
  
  
  
  
  
• Uncle caught me while trying to get as many bugs as possible
• Moe brought some omiyage from her errands. So we had 線香花火 in the garden in our cute 浴衣s!
  
  
• Uncle also finally realized his axe in the shed is missing…
• Went to their room where Moe was talking a bit about the sparkles.
• Cataloged my bugs except for the ones I need to fight still.
• The satellite apparently left a big impression:
  
  

I’m now up to 55 catalogued insects (the last one is another beauty):

With 5:32 playtime

[TheNerdyNova]

Day 8

WAHHHH GUYS I LOVE THIS GAME

The aunt said I could try going to the girl’s room, I was hoping I’d be able to talk to Moe more!! I noticed the sign is now the other side of the 「はいちゃだめ！」and it looks like it’s a… panda face? Some kind of face

But she leT ME IN HER ROOM AND SAID I CAN PLAY WHENEVER YAYYY!!!
The background music was cute too. And I love the little music box! After she talked about the nice view I thought you would be able to look out the window, but it seems you cannot

Finally got the beehive down woooo!! I tried but couldn’t catch the bees

With that I unlocked the new area, with new bugs!! Also ran into where the well is that they were talking about the other night. I don’t want to interact with it anymore in case it would trigger something!! I don’t wanna fall down there

Boku made point of seeing if anything was on the tree? And I missed what that was supposed to be (just kidding I think it was the tree for the beetles because then they talked about that at dinner)
As the sun was setting and I was on top of the hill, it was so pretty!! And there was a specific bird cry (I think it was a bird and not a bug) and we hear that same bird where I live!! I always liked that specific bird cry so it was fun to hear it in the game
I definitely didn’t get to see all of the new area, but I will of course be back!!

After dinner, Moe was playing the clarinet again!! I took a bath and you could still hear the clarinet
The dad told me there’s a 花火大会 soon! And then once I talked to Moe she said it’s tonight!! And the aunt told me the view from my room is best!!!
Boku and Moe talking and giggling together was so cute

I was able to see the fireworks!! I like how there was an outline of flashing colors on the windowsill before you even looked out the window!
I relistened to it a few times, but I think, present Boku looking back said he had a strange feeling like he had seen this view from this window before. But in a very light non-literal way? I wonder if others understood it the same way.

命は2週間？？

I also thought these two new butterflies were pretty

Day 9

The family told me about kites at breakfast, and because of it I found the bug encyclopedia for the first time! I assume it was always there

I went up and talked to Moe in her room again

I went to hill area again, to some spots I didn’t go yesterday. I found the little fishing area there!!

Found this cool butterfly as well, the orange looks like flames kinda
I also found a second kunugi tree, so two spots to find beetles!
I feel like maybe there’s still another spot in the area past the bees that I haven’t seen yet?

Earlier I when I looked at the kites, I thought you were supposed to choose, and then when you spoke to the uncle in the shed you would tell him what you want. But after going to the shed earlier in the day I realized you have to click a button on the kite guide lol. So I looked at the kites again and properly requested the first one
I went and talked to Moe again before heading to bed!

Day 10

This time when I asked, the uncle said the kite will be ready in two days!
I went back to the secret hideout, and the three kids talked about the beetle battles and explained the rules for me (even tho I don’t got none yet)

I went to go see the tree where there’s no bridge, but stopped at the fishing area because a bIG FISH looked inTO MY VERY SOUL. I tried for a while, but couldn’t catch it
Then I went back home and looked for the axe in the pottery shed, and then by the house and found it!
Ahhh, at dinner I talked about the fish and the uncle explained what I need

Also, in wanting to find beetles I remembered that they said sugar water worked well. So I looked around and sure enough, I was able to make some! It kind of seemed like I was sneaking around by making it though, because Boku looked to make sure no one was watching(?) lol
Talked to Moe again, and she said she’s writing something very important. もしかしてラブレターかい～？

Day 11

Ah, they said a monk is coming because it’s the anniversary of a relative boy passing away My assumption is it’s their son? But maybe it could mean another cousin or uncle?? I missed that nuance

AHAAA I THINK IT IS A LOVE LETTERRR
I tried to get fur from the dog and he didn’t like me after that lol
HAHA, the mom was singing all happily about the letter
I accidentally poked the beehive again, because I was trying to catch one in the bug net, but bro freaking passed out haha. At least he recovered quick! I was worried it would make me lose a whole day

After the aunt taking care of me after the bug stings, I checked on the flower, and they’re blooming!!

Then I went to go find beetles, and I found a bunch! Maybe 7 or 8 total? But only like 4 different types.

I was using the sugar water, and I worked to get 大吉 before catching them, so I wonder if it was thanks to that that I caught so many. I also got doubles of a few types to be able to use one for beetle battles and the other for my bug collection.
I went to go chop the tree down but uncle got to me first :((

Moe brought omiyage back! And we took the change to wear yukata!!!
omiyage!! YUKATAA
(Ah… just now as I’m about to post this all I realized… I wonder if it was a brother sibling that passed, and this was his yukata… NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT… I always assumed the room Boku’s temporarily using is Shirabe’s, but after entering their room they have a bunk bed so… Is Boku’s room the now passed son’s? Maybe all of the action figure posters and stuff were his… wait no this is so much sadder the more I think about it AHHH)
Oh no, after the sparklers Moe seems sad!! :(( Maybe it just makes one feel very wistful. I went to see her in her room to check on her, and she said sparklers are sad.

I figured out for sure that I could log my beetles too!

Responses to Other's Notes

@Daisoujou

I asked the professor how to swim in the ocean and he told me to buy Boku no Natsuyasumi 2

HAHA that’s awesome

@Daisoujou

Which makes me wonder again if that reading is affecting something? But I have no idea what.

Yeah I’ve been wondering that too. I think it makes a difference for gathering beetles? But I also wonder if it has an affect on catching fish too or something?

@Daisoujou

THIS DIARY ENTRY DRAWING IS SO CUTEEE

@downtimes

Got a nice FMV when visiting the mountain. There’s a satellite flying over the head and boku is enchanted by it

Oh my gosh that’s so cool!! Especially since I think you’re the only one who’s encountered it so far!!

I really like seeing everyone’s journals as well! Even if I have done the same events, you can only have one journal entry right. So sometimes if you do too much in a day you don’t get to see all the cute journals. So thanks for sharing everyone!!

[downtimes]

@TheNerdyNova

present Boku looking back said he had a strange feeling like he had seen this view from this window before. But in a very light non-literal way? I wonder if others understood it the same way.

It was another one of these scenes where the sound mixing was horrible in my edition. I basically understood nothing there.

@TheNerdyNova

and she said she’s writing something very important. もしかしてラブレターかい～？

Haha I was having the same thought when she told me that.

@TheNerdyNova

So I looked around and sure enough, I was able to make some! It kind of seemed like I was sneaking around by making it though, because Boku looked to make sure no one was watching(?) lol

Great find, I have to get on that next week.

[Daisoujou]

@TheNerdyNova

命は2週間？？

That reminds me, every time the year comes around for the cicadas to come out here to fall all over us and scream a bunch my mother pretty much makes them her mortal enemy and I get how they’re pretty unpleasant all around, but I’m always like “hey they only live a couple weeks up here, that’s kinda sad so go easy on them.” Sure doesn’t work on her though

Also I’m glad you were able to get a screenshot of the fish lmao, since I’m over here taking literal photos of a portable I was totally take off guard but, wow, what a cutscene. And the diary entry! I’m so glad I get to see people’s alternative ones because it seems there are a lot and so many events end up overlapping.

[Sisthra]

Day 11

Got a bit done today, I kept chipping away at the tree, found my first beetle, caught a couple more bugs and in the evening we lit some… Fireworks? Not sure how the little ones are called.
I’m really curious about what’s over the tree, but it takes so long to get there that I’m always a bit afraid of running out of time, we’ll see…
Am a bit behind but will slowly catch up with people!

[Daisoujou]

@Sisthra

Fireworks? Not sure how the little ones are called.

Sparklers, if you’re talking about what I think you are!