🍔 Mother 2 / Earthbound (Game Club) - Week 12

[ChristopherFritz]

Welcome to Week 12 of Mother 2 Club

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Another busy week on my end, so another brief post. Week 13, I’ll have even less time and will need to get the post up either 12 hours earlier or 12 hours later than normal. Then for week 14, there’s a 50% chance I’ll be busy and may have to delay posting. (My schedule should free up after that, but we’ll be about done by then…)

Week 12	Jul 17th
Last Week	Week 11
Start Point	Return to the Swamp
End Point	Be undressed…?
Next Week	Week 13

A guide to this week 🪨 🦕 🌋

Return to the cave beyond the swamp. Give the shyness-curing book to the horned villager, then stop for a cup of tea if you’d like.

Conduct any business you’d like in the cave, then head to the boulder and speak to the strong guy to open the way forward.

You’ll find yourself in the next dungeon. You’ll probably want to find the present containing おうじゃのバンダナ while here. Defeat the boss for a nice show.

The next section’s a big map. There’s a lot of ground to explore, and a gift box holding a おうじゃのマント waiting to be found.

When you’re ready to continue on, locate the enclosed village. You can buy Paula’s best weapon here. Talk to the rock, then look for the next cave to continue on your journey. (If you don’t see lava, go find another cave.)

This cave is the last dungeon for the week. Find the boss. Defeat the boss. Get the melody.

That’s just about the end for this week. You’ll find yourself taken to the next section, but don’t travel too far. There’s a nearby building with a phone to call Dad and save for the week.

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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

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Important: Just beyond the village cave, you’ll find an enemy called クリーピーボール. There’s a 1/128 chance of a broken item drop, which Jeff can repair to become his strongest weapon. Might not be worth the hunt right now if you can’t handle defeating the enemy in battle. If it helps, you can level grind against the デヘヘラー for a while.

[Daisoujou]

At first I didn’t notice the tiny Ness & Friends in your picture, well done lmao.

Week 12

My memory gets haziest for this area, shrinking down on the world map and finding dinosaurs was the big memorable image in my brain, but otherwise… I guess it makes sense, the story stuff is dropping off for the moment while we mop up the last corners of the world to finish getting the melodies. If there’s a lull in the game for me I guess it’s this area, but we’re just around the corner from the grand finale and the area we end in is also interesting so really it’s just the calm before the storm.

The diamond dog fight was rough; I made it through first try but we burned out on most PP in the first phase and it became this endurance test chipping it down, digging through items to squeeze out a little more healing, reviving a time or two… pretty memorable and cool in the end but I need to find another place to buy rockets cause I was out from the previous boss, haha.

One really huge localization change is that Ness is in his pajamas in the English release.

We’re nearly there, good job to everyone hanging in

[ChristopherFritz]

@Daisoujou

At first I didn’t notice the tiny Ness & Friends in your picture

I waffled back and forth a bit on whether to include them. Would it be a spoiler? Would it ruin the moment?

@Daisoujou

One really huge localization change

I already have a header image in mind for next week. Don’t know how it’ll turn out, though.

Edit: I also noticed, when saving the game there (at this week’s stopping point), then reloading the game and opening the save, Ness is dressed until you make him move.

[steckums]

@ChristopherFritz

then reloading the game and opening the save, Ness is dressed until you make him move.

Really? In normal clothes or pyjamas That’s fascinating.

I tried to get the Sword of Kings, eventually giving up, so I am pretty overleveled and steamrolled through everything. I didn’t even stock up on rockets!

One thing you should do before learning the final melody, give Ness the strongest pendant and all the ドラゴンパウダー you have. It’ll help you in the next part.

[ChristopherFritz]

@steckums

Really? In normal clothes or pyjamas That’s fascinating.

[Daisoujou]

Oh I forgot to add

Had to fix that; they messed up my name pretty badly in their guess at the kana despite how directly Japanese it is, heh.

[steckums]

I put in DAN and it also came out デン and not ダン. Odd.

[ChristopherFritz]

Maybe like the dan-/デン- in danger/デンジャー?

[awesometownrocks]

This game is like Wario Land 3, you slowly form a short, important, touching melody bit by bit and you’re always anticipating what the end result is going to sound like and after so much buildup you know it’s gonna be big

Say cheese sandwich!

NICE TRY I GOT YOU NOW, I know how this game operates

I also had to abandon grinding for the Sword of Kings, and Ness was the only overpowered one, so I had fun making up Paula’s Adventure and pretending she was the protagonist. But then the game forced me to revive Ness to progress, I kinda wanted to do the fight with a party of 3 just from being overleveled and maybe it could be a fun challenge. But you know what, that boss was tough enough

I said it before but these battle backgrounds are awesome, I liked one I saw in the volcano but didn’t get a screenshot of it

I also liked when there was that telephone bird again and somebody was like “What the heck is up with this bird, it keeps on making sounds like (telephone noises)”

There was also a 最悪 beam and it made me lol, I didn’t imagine it as a beam that causes disaster, but rather something like “this is the worst beam, don’t use this one”

[steckums]

@awesometownrocks

this is the worst beam, don’t use this one

Haha. I didn’t even think of that since the English name is “Baddest Beam”. It’s more 相手に撃つ時、相手にとってこれが最悪のビーム。and not このビームは効果が悪い。

[VikingSchism]

Week 12

Fun week. Enjoyed the little dinosaur diversion. The moment with the computer(?) screen showing スネス’s thoughts was very nice.

In the fire cave I had trouble with the PK男 where they’d do no damage to スネス or ジェフ but massive damage to ポーラ and プー with their fire attacks. Had similar trouble with the diamond dog fight. ポーラ died fully and I wasn’t able to revive her at all. So I had to finish the fight with the other 3. Real endurance test but we made it through

Also have to point out that we can add a David Bowie reference to the music references list. Are we sure Hirohiko Araki didn’t write this game?

Edit: come to think of it arguably we already had a Bowie reference with Starman

[Sasabonsam]

@Daisoujou

Had to fix that; they messed up my name pretty badly in their guess at the kana despite how directly Japanese it is, heh.

@steckums

I put in DAN and it also came out デン and not ダン. Odd.

They seemed to default ‘ah’ sounds into ‘eh’ sounds because Sam (sasabon-SAM) became せめ, too. I’ve never been called せめ before, my goodness…

[Daisoujou]

@VikingSchism

where they’d do no damage to スネス or ジェフ

I forget the names off the top of my head right now but there are certain equipment pieces that block some elemental damage; that’s probably what was going on.