Welcome to Week 1 of Mother 2 Club!
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Game Club
| Week 1 | May 1st |
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| Start Point | Begin the game |
| End Point | Explore Onett, learn the secret of Giant Step by defeating Frank |
| Next Week | Week 2 |
A guide to this week (spoilers)
This section is relatively linear, and the English guide is very helpful if you get stuck, but I figured Iād give a quick summary and any specific tips I have in these threads similar to the FF club.
Make sure you get and equip the baseball bat from Nessās sisterās room, then once you get dressed head to the west to check out the commotion. Right now Ness can only really use attack, but soon you learn a heal spell which is highly useful for sustaining on this trip. Unfortunately the police wonāt let you all the way to it, so return home after meeting Pokey. Youāll soon get a visitor, and before you leave make sure to grab your dog, who will occasionally help a little in fights. Afterwards, itās right back to the same place you were just turned away from, and after those events, back next door to your home to visit Pokeyās lovely family.
Buzz Buzz gives you your mission for the game and a very important item. Heading back home and talking to mom gives you a free heal so be sure to make use of that when needed, and before heading to town, go back to the cabin on the way to the meteor site. If you talked to this guy on the way back with Pokey he told you he had something to show Ness alone. I donāt believe you technically need to come here but itās interesting and might be relevant one day.
When thatās all finished, head south and youāll come to the library pretty soon! The map you get is quite nice and there are lots of little tutorial tips from the kids around. Check out the path to the northwest to learn about the suspiciously locked door (maybe even check out a secret hideout for a rewardā¦?). From here youāre free to explore the town.
Most dialog and exploration isnāt necessary for gameplay, but itās full of character so I recommend it. Above all I suggest equipping Ness with the new bat and bracelet purchasable in the drug store. The objective is to clear the gang out of the arcade, and those enemies and especially the boss can hit hard. If you rush right in there, like I did first, well Iāve already gotten a game over. You can level quickly by fighting the gang outside the arcade; with the drug store items plus the hat from the hideout I managed to clear it at level 6. Just donāt risk not healing, psi will do most of the work for you but itās good to bring a few emergency burgers too. When you beat and talk to Frank youāre ready to save and finish the week!
- The A menu lets you select check, talk, etc, but for interactable spots you can also simply press L and it will do the proper action.
- Saving is done via the phone. Black phones on desks are free (such as in Onett hotel), the payphones (such as in the Onett drug store) cost one dollar.
- Use the ATM! Money is deposited there from fights and you have to withdraw it to use it. Most of the time there will be a convenient nearby ATM with stores. You have a smaller limit on the money you can personally carry, and if your party wipes, you lose half of all your held money (but nothing from the bank account).
- For a fee, hotels will heal you. If you all need is health itās cheaper early game to eat food such as hamburgers, but right now only the hotel and the magic butterflies you can find will heal your PP. Or you can run all the way home at first to heal for free, but money is easy to come by.
- New equipment can be purchased at the drug store.
- The doctor and healer in the hospital cure two different types of conditions, while the nurse is for reviving party members (when we have 2+)
Walkthrough: English| Japanese
Script (with kanji!): Script
Participation 
Will you be joining us this week?
- Yes, Iām playing along
- Iām still playing but havenāt reached this point yet
- Iām just here for the discussion
- Iām playing after the club has ended
- Yes, English
- Yes, Japanese
- No
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Fun Stuff
Iāll be attaching selected parts of the English and Japanese guides to these threads to add some character. There is a lot Iām cutting out where itās more directly a strategy guide, and itās also just a ton of stuff, so feel free to find them online sometime if you desire for yourself, but Iāll try to clip out the most interesting and charming stuff for you all! Especially because the guides are structured in a way that makes it easy to stumble into spoilers.
English version auto-fill entries if you don't pick names, favorite food, etc
I like to imagine someone discovering their friend selected love as their favorite thing and theyāre like āOhā¦ mine was slimeā¦ā
Very cool
) Since Seiryu represents Spring, wood, and water, among other things, I then decided the favorite food would be vegetables and the favorite thing would be rain.
. I did err on the side of slow text for my own safety.
