Stamps, the bus, your three tools, and everything there is to collect along the way.
TOEM 2 is a gentle photography adventure. You ride the bus from region to region, help the locals with small problems, and they reward you with stamps. This walkthrough covers every quest and challenge in the order the regions open up, with checklists that remember what you’ve done.
The end of the trip: no quests, just the Whirling Birch Bloom.
Stamps and the bus
Each region has a bus stop looked after by Kiosky, who tells you how many stamps the next ride costs. In Homelanda it’s three; in Cropten, ten.
The journal: quests on the left; on the right, stamps toward the next bus (1/3), compendium progress (2/4) and your sight photo.Screenshot: Guide Lovers
Stamps come from three kinds of task:
Quests — someone has a problem; you solve it, often by bringing back the right photo.
Photo challenges — the photo-challenge guide gives you a riddle, and one well-chosen picture answers it.
Climbing challenges — a mascot in a deer mask hides a flag somewhere high up; reach it and report back.
You don’t need every stamp to move on. Whatever you skip can be finished later — even after the credits, by choosing Continue on your save.
Camera and tools
Button (controller)
What it does
Y
Raise or put away the camera.
RT
Take the picture.
X held, camera up
Focus. Focusing also reveals hidden things — shapes in the clouds, a cat in a barrel, an invisible stranger.
X, camera down
Jump.
A
Talk, pick things up, use things.
All three tools work through the camera: zoom in on whatever you want to cut, hit or turn, then press A.
Scissors (Cropten): snip blossoms off weeds, cut ropes, harvest apples, trim hair and fabric.
Hammer (Taletorp): follow the rhythm shown on screen — tap, tap, hold — to mend things. It also smashes pots, boulders and weak walls.
Screwdriver (Deltburg): press A on a screw slot, then turn it with the left stick. On pipe puzzles, the arrow shows where the water will flow.
Photos are your proof. Many quests end with “show me a picture”: talk to the person and pick the shot from your journal.
Critters and sights go into your compendium as you photograph them. Two achievements ask for all of them, so it pays to point the camera at every animal you meet.
How to use this guide
Each region page opens with checklists — the quests, the challenges and the smaller errands inside some quests — and then explains every quest. Places are given by their square on the region map, as in “the top-right square” or “one square left of the tavern”.