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MUDjoe2
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Tycho
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DO WANT. Loved EarthBound. Even liked the original Mother/EarthBound Zero.
DarkTalbain64
Buff and Evil.
I still have yet to beat the first one so i'm working on that before i start on mother 3.
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Tycho
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Which first one?
Stratelier
Well-Known Member
A Japanese RPG series called "Mother", second game of which was released in the U.S. market as "EarthBound" for the SNES. Fans of the game are absolutely rabid over wanting to play the sequel (Mother 3).
Kukilunestar
K. Lunestar
Can't play it, I have a Mac *Cries*
Kukilunestar
K. Lunestar
No, I cant find any emulators for the Mac =(
Kukilunestar
K. Lunestar
DarkTalbain64
Buff and Evil.
Earthbound.
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Tycho
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Ah.
If you get a chance and have the inclination to go back in time a little further, download a decent NES emulator and track down a ROM of the original Mother (aka Earthbound Zero) game.
Yoshistar
Watch and learn, kid.
Heh, that's the first time I've seen "Earthbound" and "overrated" used in the same sentence. I understand where you're coming from, though...
I believe the fans overhype the series since it receives little to no recognition outside of Japan. Earthbound, when released in fhe U.S., suffered through bad advertising and gimmicks, which hurt its sales. Nintendo didn't want its over-a-decade-long-overdue sequel to suffer the same fate... so it wasn't localized.
The completion and release of the fan translation of MOTHER 3 is a sort of godsent blessing for the fans (I'm part of the guilty party here...), hence the feeling of it being overrated.
Where I live, though, hardly anyone I know knows about the series... and when I show it off to people, they bash it for its simple graphics and bland battle system. They don't bother to read the dialogue, which is where the game truly shines... which makes me wonder if reading's becoming an obsolete passtime or something these days... =/
...too many times I've heard people choose Halo over Earthbound, which, while I have nothing against Halo, is pretty sad. *sigh*
...anyway... ^^;
I'm up to Chapter 3 in the translation right now (13th playthrough of the game in whole, lawl). Tomato, Jeffman and their crew really outdid themselves with the dialogue! ...I knew Kumatora was tomboyish, but... man... XD
DarkTalbain64
Buff and Evil.
played it, not that great.
Didn't they also name her Kumi instead of her whole name cause it didn't fit in the name box?
Yoshistar
Watch and learn, kid.
During development, that was a suggestion, yes... I think it was "Kimmy"...
But since they hacked in the font that was used in Earthbound, they also hacked how many letters you can input, which is now up to eight. So they kept the name "Kumatora" as part of the main names under the "Don't care" option in the naming screen. (Whoa... what a midnight rush... lol)
AuraTwilight
Secksie'su
Mother 3 = Happiness. I played it with the original release, but the English Patch is a godsend, since I want to get my non-Japanese-speaking friends to play it too.
Grand Hatter
Mmm... Platonic. Sounds sexy!
Loving mother 3. I hate to advertise but http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1643716/ fanart ^^
Really a shining example of a GBA game done right.
Really a shining example of a GBA game done right.
Tæfarós
That's a BINGO!
Boy am I glad you caught yourself on that.
Anyways, I'm at the beginning of Chapter 2. Would've been much further ahead if my save state wasn't at home, and I ain't at home. Sadness. The combo system is too friggin' fun.
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Inices
Official FAF Lurker
Oh hell yes, this game is awesome. I've been looking forward to the patch for a while now. The dialogue is very well done, just like it was in Earthbound. I'm only on the second chapter, but the game is really fun. Looking forward to actually getting to play as Lucas and Claus again.
Oh, and I fail at the combo system. You need to be really precise, and I've noticed that some enemies have beat patterns that are like actual music! Oh man, I'm never gonna master it at this rate. ;_;
Oh, and I fail at the combo system. You need to be really precise, and I've noticed that some enemies have beat patterns that are like actual music! Oh man, I'm never gonna master it at this rate. ;_;
Dayken
*current user title*
Currently up to chapter 5 here. I too suck at the timing system, but otherwise I'm loving this game. The characters and plot are less vague and more fleshed out this time around, the sprites are REALLY well animated at times (such as a certain scene 2/3 through chapter 1. Anyone who's gotten that far knows what I'm talking about), and while the "weird for the sake of weird" audio in Earthbound had it's charms, the music in Mother 3 sounds more like...well, actual music, which is a huge improvement.
RainsongGryphon
Member
This has got to be one of the awesomest, most bizarre things I've played in a long time. ^_^ Currently at chapter 7, I got this to say.
The game just yanks your heart around A LOT more than Mother 2 ever did. To anyone who was shocked by a certain scene in Chapter 1, there are other parts just as bad, if not worse. Giygas was a freaky bad guy, made everything crazy and interesting, but didn't exactly DO much. In this one I'd say there are points where ALL the major bad guys might piss you off so much (and not just because of difficulty) you'll finish the game just to beat them into a PSI pulp.
And all this while STILL retaining the awkward, mushroomized Itoi humor.
As for anyone having trouble with the sound battles, if you're playing on an emulator, shut off any program you aren't gonna use and set the emulator's priority as high as it'll go without crashing your PC. Lag screws up the timing something fierce, even if its only minor.
The game just yanks your heart around A LOT more than Mother 2 ever did. To anyone who was shocked by a certain scene in Chapter 1, there are other parts just as bad, if not worse. Giygas was a freaky bad guy, made everything crazy and interesting, but didn't exactly DO much. In this one I'd say there are points where ALL the major bad guys might piss you off so much (and not just because of difficulty) you'll finish the game just to beat them into a PSI pulp.
And all this while STILL retaining the awkward, mushroomized Itoi humor.
As for anyone having trouble with the sound battles, if you're playing on an emulator, shut off any program you aren't gonna use and set the emulator's priority as high as it'll go without crashing your PC. Lag screws up the timing something fierce, even if its only minor.
Yoshistar
Watch and learn, kid.
To be fair, they wanted to get the patch and site ready for access before mass-sending the e-mails... ^^; I still didn't get mine either when I checked out the site at first.