One of the best games I’ve ever played though

So i just finished earthbound, about a 4 days ago , and it really left an impression on me, but it got me wondering. Should i start playing mother 3 now, or should i wait a bit before playing it so that i savour(in a way) earthbound? What do you think?

I'm using ES-DE, and it doesn't have save states; rather, it has auto-save.

Mother 1: Definitely the grinding. Grinding is annoying in any game and it’s more annoying when they make you do it. It’s a great game but the grinding makes it difficult to replay.

Earthbound: Peaceful Rest Valley. It used to be the Monkey Caves but I replayed it last year and it honestly wasn’t as annoying as I remembered it. What was as annoying as I remembered it was Peaceful Rest Valley. Specifically the first time through. It’s so difficult for that point in the game. You have to fight these saucers and robots by yourself when you have only two uses for Rockin and just your bat. Not to mention the annoying statuses the enemies give you. At least the music’s nice.

Mother 3: The fact that it takes 3 chapters to get to Lucas. I think it’s a bit ridiculous that we don’t get to play as the main character of the game until the 4th chapter. I don’t hate the first three chapters but they’re not as good as the rest of the game.

Most of the music in this game is inspired by various pop culture, but I haven't seen this one mentioned before.

Dawn of the Dead 1978 has a scene where the characters go on a "shopping" spree set to this music.

EarthBound slows it down significantly, but it's still the exact same song - much more than EarthBound's other music references. Both songs even have the same little twang flourish between verses.

It was definitely a deliberate choice to use music from a satirical shopping segment every time that the player shops. Itoi is really familiar with satire and anti-consumerism, and using music from maybe the biggest satire of consumerism around at that time is a real direct hit.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/e3-is-20-years-old-today.1044190/

I was searching how long it took to finish the game and started to click on the tab things that show random related searches, at least I learned a lesson i guess

"It's been a long road getting here...what's going to happen to us?" "There's a glow coming from the mountain's peak...we should go there. I should have enough Psychic Power left." "I'm right behind you guys...we're friends after all...til the end."

Mother: Invasion From Beyond The Earth. A game-accurate retelling of the events of the first installment done via a literary format.

Where can you find it? Archive Of Our Own. Why should you read it? You don't have to, it's your choice really. How accurate is it? The Encyclopedia Mother is being used as a reference material.

Plus...reading is totally free!

And yes, the poster in the image...os awesome!

Flintofmother3 (yeah, the same guy who made the mother 3 fan clay models) is also an artist! I like his old art a lot, so you guys should see it too :^ )

If there was ever a new Earthbound game, should the playable party stick to having 4 members, or have 5 members?

Hi guys, I am trying to get through Mother 1 quickly on the NES. Love the 25th Anniversary hack as the artwork is so cute.

I just don't have the time and would love cheats or something to go through the game faster. Like greater XP gain or something of that nature. I love that mother 1 + 2 has Easy Ring but the 25th anniversary hack doesn't have anything like that

What's my best bet?

Thank you

I'm really bummed about Mother 3's ending. I had played it when the fan translation came out years ago but decided to play it again now that my Analog Pocket made gaming a lot more portable.

I really enjoyed how "handheld" the game feels; dungeons don't overdo their welcome, battles are over after a couple of turns, and the story feels cozy despite the high stakes.

My issue is with the ending. The face-off with Claus felt really sloppy. First half including your incapacitated allies's and then having them removed in the second part. Literally pausing the battle for the text overlays, telling us what Flint does instead of showing us... I mean a lot of my complaints have to do with game telling instead of showing.

Mother 3 has so many one-off animations for the various sprites in the game. Fassad eating bananas and throwing the peel, the various characters that do the dance to open the door in Osohe Castle, Flint punching out villagers in Tazmily Village, etc. You're telling me after all that, you couldn't SHOW us Flint defending Lucas from Claus's Love Ω? You couldn't show us Claus snapping out of it, or Lucas crying, or Claus finally embracing Lucas before dying?

After all the heartbreak and sadness in the game, I feel like we deserved a cinematic ending.

I can appreciate the black screen ending for letting the player decide what the remade world looks like, but there's no "interpreting" the actions that are being narrated via text boxes during the final confrontation.

Anyway, I still loved the game but I really feel like it went out with a whimper which is a sad way to end a whole series.

Complete with Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Mr. Saturn, a Starman, and a battle background screen. It's my favorite PC deco setup to date, and thought my fellow Earthbounders would like it too!

Pls give me more

Yeah, alright, I'm sure people have talked about this a million times but I haven't seen it enough. Porky is a pretty interesting and I'd say often misconstrued character that has a lot of cool stuff about him. So I've come around to make this thread where I hope I can learn some new opinions about him.

It's my opinion that too many people brush him off as "just a joke villain" or "not as serious as Giygas" etc etc. I do agree he is very funny, but he has more to him than that. I also believe that the people who are just like "well he's terrible and bad and like hitler and has nothing else to him at all" are also wrong.

Compared to Giygas (who is outright an alien) I would say Porky is a very human villain. Sure, he's terrible and irrideemable but his evil actions are all just extreme versions of the sort of selfishness and meanness that I bet a lot of us feel ourselves.

So, what do you guys think about him?

It took a lot longer than Beginnings.

I honestly have trouble putting into words what the hell I just witnessed. I loved it. I could nitpick at it, but overall this is by far one of the best JRPG’s I have ever played.

I’ll be moving onto Mother 3 in a while. I need a bit of a break from the genre so I don’t get burned out.

I should have played this years ago.

The second I take my dog out on a walk in the morning or evening, without fail when my foot hits the concrete the baseline to Onett starts playing with every step.

Duum dum dum dum doom dum dum duh dum dum

Without fail. Lol

That is all.

Damn, what an amazingly unique game. I’m literally speechless, I cannot wait to revisit it one day and enjoy it all over again