Welcome to Week 11 of Mother 2 Club
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Another short post this week (been keeping busy), but I’m sure you know the drill by now.
| Week 11 |
Jul 10th |
| Last Week |
Week 10 |
| Start Point |
Traverse the Swamp |
| End Point |
Borrow a Book |
| Next Week |
Week 12 |
A guide to this week 🐊🪨❄️📚
Make your way through the swamp. If you end up in the dark, you’ll reach a dead-end until you use the タカのめ item you received from the pyramid.
The swamp gives way to a cave. You can heal and save in here, but there’s not much else going on. Locate the guy with the horns and speak to him to learn about the next item you need to fetch.
Step outside and you’ll get a couple of phone calls. It turns out Apple Kid borrowed the book you need, went to Winters, then was kidnapped. Off to Winters!
You’ve been through the path from the boarding school to the lab, so just follow the same route as before (with a shortcut this time if you’ve brought the Octopus Eraser).
Once you reach the lab, heal up, speak with the mouse, and then head to Stonehenge. Check the note at the end of this post for information about Poo’s best (and only) weapon in the game. Then take out the boss.
The final leg of the fetch quest libraries. I don’t know if you need to speak with the guy in the mask first, but check the bookshelves and you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Find a place to save for the week (Onette, the swamp, or the cave village).
Walkthrough: English | Japanese
Script (with kanji!): Script
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
Set this thread to “Watching” to get updates
Important: This week is the only chance to get the Sword of Kings weapon. Once you reach Winters, read up on it here if you want to go for it. If you’re not into hunting for a rare item drop, feel free to skip it, but there’s no other chance to get the item later.
If you do grind out the Sword of Kings, be careful about getting too high of a level. Ness needs to level up later in the game to get a bunch of stats. Don’t go above 75!
Also, don’t grind out the Sword of Kings it’s just not worth it 
We’re finally to the pun this week with the こけしけしマシン! Honestly this is one of the best examples of localization I know of.
My experience this week was pretty good. I picked up quite a few words, like the name of the book, by just knowing what it would be in English.
I don’t know if you need to speak with the guy in the mask first
I am pretty sure you do. If you talked to him earlier he didn’t say much, similar to the lil guys in the village.
🍔 Mother 2 / Earthbound (Game Club) - Week 1 - #47 by ChristopherFritz it indeed was a club you took part in before 
I was the one who brought it up in the first place but @ChristopherFritz had so many examples that I just linked their post instead
I got lots of screenshots this week, as well as lots I could just talk about instead of showing, and normally I’d organize them a little bit, but that’s because there’s usually just a few so not having a preview isn’t much of a problem. But this week there’s a lot so they’re in no particular order!
Say cheese sandwich!
I’ll start with the screenshots I didn’t upload
I thought it was so cool when Poo showed up, what an entrance. I was kinda worried I stumbled into an unbeatable fight because last time you needed the はえみつ which was now with escargo
And then I had a few screenshots of stuff I thought was funny, this game’s humour was on a roll this week. I liked when the mouse in the lab mentioned the “!!!” before Apple Kid got abducted, and when the Starman called him ちえのリンゴ.
This felt like that line I talked about earlier in the club where かのじょ was のかじょ and I was like “What do termites have to do with any of this”
I didn’t think about rearranging it until I was thinking about parsing, I was like こない? こないだ? だれも?
This part is disturbing it just came out of nowhere
The death beam just lying in the garbage got me good, mainly because I’m so used to finding Jeff’s weapons in a broken state that when I saw it I was expecting it to be a こわれたデスビーム
I was so glad I remembered I could search for magic truffles at the right moment in time, I couldn’t while Poo was gone because he had the nose. Just finding one was all I wanted, and they restore 80 PSI
It somehow clicked that the enemy’s name was the name of the flower, and then I thought “Wait a minute, I’m not just guessing, how do I know that” and it’s because the Pokemon Vileplume has the same name in Japanese (minus the oni part). Speaking of Pokemon I just found out that Jirachi not only represents wishes by being like a shooting star but also by having wishing tags like the ones you’d use in the festival Tanabata
Stonehedge was no joke, but the こけしけしマシン was joke, I liked it. After seeing けし in my inventory for so long, when we returned to Winter’s to get the melody, I saw the こけし and then I realized what the joke was going to be, the setup and wait was so worth it
It was a miracle I made it to Stonehedge’s boss the first time, everybody was around level 50 and when they used PK Starstorm against me they took out everybody except Ness almost immediately. I then grinded him up to level 72 taking the opportunity to gamble for the sword, and at that point I felt like I didn’t really need it. It felt like I went through like 50 gold Starman’s but idk if that’s how many I actually went through
By the way, I found not one but two broken items Jeff can fix while in Stonehedge
