Mother 3! The sequel to Earthbound!

Beat it. So good. I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about it, but instead I'll link to this excellent 8-part series of insightful articles at Cruise Elroy.

Spoilers of course - also for these funny comics.

Here's an epic Itoi interview about the making of the game, very interesting.

I need to finish it...I think I'm at least 85% done with it. I always do this with a game I really love...put off finishing it bcz it is so sad to say goodbye.

ending is must see

A couple of blog posts on how they used the town as a central location and how the characters were there mostly so you could observe them and get invested in them, as opposed to the typical RPG NPC item/quest dispensers.

http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2009/04/playground-hero.html
http://gangles.ca/2009/04/23/progression-in-mother-3/

finally playing this now and it's just omg. also everyone told me the music was good but god DAMN this music is REALLY good. I've been playing it w/ my lol hueg monitors plugged into my micro; it feels almost insurmountably nerdy but then the music is just ARGH SO GOOD.

Ha, as usual, I had about 2 hours left after months of letting it hibernate.

"We can meet again.
We can meet as many times as we want."

Perfect thing to hear.

You ARE "the end"!

thx for all those links, too, Nhex...that Itoi interview was fucking incredible.

Happy to help, this is the kind of game bound to inspire passionate internet writing. And Itoi is a wonderful nut.

Guys, this.

Just in general?

I love this game, I need to pick it up again.

I'm on holiday in New Zealand and put mother3 on my M3 so I could play it on (at least some part of) the ridiculous 33 hour journey. All the DS says is that the sd card isn't reconised. :( so sad, now I'll have to play it again when I get home.

Could somebody point me to a webpage that shows exactly what I need to play this game?

Translation and instructions here...
http://mother3.fobby.net/

You need a Nintendo DS
Some wily internet knowledge
GBA Flashcard: http://www.gameboy-advance.net/nintendo_ds/nds_flash_card.htm

well, you don't need a DS or flashcard if you're fine with playing it on your computer.

Tru

I played it through on the computer and loved it, but if you do have the option or wherewithal to get it done on an actual portable I would do it, because the whole musical timing element is completely screwed in emulation. You can get through the game regardless but I imagine it's less fun, the battles are more frustrating when you can't do the attack tapping.

I did not know that (only played the first little bit). Maybe it depends on the emulator you use too, maybe some are better than others?

That's definitely possible, but I'm sure the emulation will never 100% match the original hardware cycle-for-cycle. 99% of games you don't need to be accurate down to milliseconds but for this (and I imagine the original Rhythm Heaven), even when your emulator fluctuates from 99% to 100% clock speed, it's enough to completely blow this. Like I said you can still get through battles but it's definitely more grindy than the game intends. For Mother 3, you won't even notice this problem until 3 or 4 chapters in when the battles get significantly harder.

holy shit that gba flashcard side is amazing!!!

*site

I guess Itoi was inspired in making this by a trilogy of novels called The Notebook/The Proof/The Third Lie. I'm reading them right now, and so far: very good, but intensely disturbing. Way more so than anything in Mother 3.

A teenage girl has sex with a dog in the first 30 pages.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/0370.jpg

I started playing this through again. I forgot this game's crazy coincidence!

There is a wife & husband couple called Abbey & Abbot in this game

which are both misspelled versions of things I have been called, my name and my "name"

IRL (Abb13) and on the onlnie (Abbott)

argh why do i need a 3in1 to play this on my ds??

Girl. Am Girl.

O_O unused battle background O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVnmeTRqhg

It looks kind of made-up though...

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11167317

jump to minute 21

awwwww

wow

ok, playing this again

I guess Itoi was inspired in making this by a trilogy of novels called The Notebook/The Proof/The Third Lie.

This trilogy is very, very good, by the way – I read half of it last summer, and I reread the whole thing last week. I wish I knew anyone else (online or IRL) who has read this so I could compare mind meltedness notes. It feels kind of lonely having something so good to myself!

i am curious (itoi)

The entire trilogy is printed in one book, too, plus it goes fast. I finished it in a day and a half.

http://www.zacgorman.com/IDNIN/Strip001_PKWAFFLES3.gif

We may be tiny, but we're still living beings. We eke out our lives as mole crickets.

that comic is great!

this game makes me bawl.

4 real dude it was a str8 connect w/my lachrymal glands

Lol this thread is crabbit's beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice

I love the way it builds up & how effectively it maneuvers in the emotional spaces between funny, weird, bleak, cute, cynical, repulsive, terrifying, heartwarming & heartbreaking.

probably a must play for any earthbound fan:

http://undertale.com/

I bought that last week but haven't played it yet. I have seen it mentioned along side earthbound so much

It's really good! I feel like there's a lot of depth, but that's just a guess, I was advised to go into this game with as little info as possible + that was good advice.

Definitely Earthbound-influenced enough so that it could be a game in the series in some ways, but still has a lot of interesting touches + fun gameplay elements in addition to the familiar ~feelllzzz&vibbezzz~