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

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.


Walkthrough: English | Japanese

Script (with kanji!): Script

Participation :admission_tickets:

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
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:water_pistol: 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.

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 :partying_face:

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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