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ladytanuki Friendly Neighborhood Lich from SF, CA, US Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Friendly Neighborhood Lich
#1126: Dec 15th 2017 at 11:35:47 PM

Re: character development... That's one major reason why Mother 3 is my favorite game of the series. All its main characters (except Boney because he's just Lucas's dog) really get into their backstory and show a lot more personality than the protagonists of Earthbound do. I think it shows in the character naming section at the beginning of the game; Earthbound says something like "Name her", "Name him", "Name him too" and all you're given is a sprite, whereas the Mother 3 one gives a short description of the character (very short but it's better than nothing). That "OK desu ka?" still really gets me though... and I just now realized how odd it is that the question comes after you press the OK button. In Earthbound, the NPCs seem overall to have some more personality to them than the PCs... especially Porky, Dr. Andonuts, and the Mr. Saturns.

Anyway, I just recently started my umpteenth playthrough of Mother 3; just finished Chapter 5. My fiance watched me play through part of the chapter, and I still remember saying to him, "Yes, this boss is weak against band merchandise. Show him some swag and he does nothing for a few turns. ...Okay Duster, time to show off your boxers." Gosh, reminiscing about this game just never gets old...

edited 15th Dec '17 11:37:06 PM by ladytanuki

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YasminPerry Since: May, 2015
#1129: Jan 7th 2018 at 7:06:54 PM

Did you know that in MOTHER 2, the cameraman says "Cheese Sandwich" instead? tongue

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#1130: Jan 8th 2018 at 11:16:09 AM

Fuzzy pickles is much better. Somewhat related, I've gone through Tomato's breakdown of the Earthbound script compared with Mother 2, and it's interesting stuff. The confrontation with Giygas in particular he's praised as probably the best bit of SNES translation ever done. It's extremely close to the original lines.

MachThreeSlug (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
#1131: Jan 8th 2018 at 2:55:44 PM

I seem to remember from one of the interviews that Marcus Lindblom did that he fought tooth and nail to keep the name of Paula's pray command unchanged solely because of it's use in the final battle. I say that he did the right in that case.

YasminPerry Since: May, 2015
#1132: Jan 8th 2018 at 3:35:58 PM

Ah, well, I've been playing the game in Japanese & it's a lot of fun. The text is solely in hiragana so it's easy to read. I like the light, breezy feel of the dialogue, it's like light novels but more witty. grin

Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#1133: May 9th 2018 at 7:36:26 AM

I brought Beginnings and Earthbound not soon after they came out on VC and I'm still not even 1/3rd through Beginnings (because I stopped playing months ago, not because I'm really slow at the game). The grinding is vicious and Lloyd keeps on fainting on me. He's so weak. Is this a common issue? Am I doing something wrong? Everyone else makes this game look easy, grinding aside.

PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#1134: May 10th 2018 at 3:10:40 PM

Mother is not an easy game and is known for surprise Difficulty Spikes.

Oissu!
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#1135: May 10th 2018 at 3:27:18 PM

I can attest to that. I used to play when I was growing up.

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EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#1136: May 10th 2018 at 8:31:33 PM

MOTHER is considerably harder than its sequel, in my experience.

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#1137: May 10th 2018 at 8:33:17 PM

You could try to give Lloyd bottle rockets and if you have teleport, you could go to Magicant and heal up there. That is what I did at least.

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Hashil Since: Aug, 2010
#1138: May 10th 2018 at 8:43:44 PM

There's some kind of candy or something you can get in Magicant to boost his stats some, but Lloyd's by and large dead weight the entire game. Bottle Rockets help a little, so fill his inventory with those and healing items.

Or exploit a trick to ditch him forever and keep Teddie, who's much stronger and more useful.

PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#1139: May 11th 2018 at 9:13:33 AM

[up]I wish that trick could have been used to keep Pippi too.

An endgame team of Ninten, Pippi and Teddy would be sick.

Oissu!
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#1140: May 11th 2018 at 2:00:59 PM

Wasn't there a trick that would allow you to do just that?

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PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#1141: May 11th 2018 at 2:29:48 PM

[up]It lets you get Teddy back but by the time you can do it Pippi is long gone.

Unless this is a different trick I've never heard of.

Oissu!
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#1142: Jul 15th 2018 at 2:11:52 PM

So if anyone cares Chuggaaconroy's doing Earthbound, again, as a remake of his very first LP.

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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#1143: Aug 4th 2018 at 3:04:55 PM

If the Mother 3d rumor ends up becoming a reality, I bet Itoi will end up re implementing a lot of scrapped earthbound 64 ideas.

Maybe even bring back this theme from the unused soundtrack:

Holy hell, this gives the original Drakengard's OST a run for its money for being Hell Is That Noise in musical form.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Aug 4th 2018 at 6:07:11 AM

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Comun Since: Jun, 2012
#1144: Aug 4th 2018 at 4:41:58 PM

NVM

Edited by Comun on Aug 4th 2018 at 7:44:10 AM

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#1145: Oct 18th 2018 at 1:09:52 PM

A video on the solitary Mole Playing Rough that always appears in the desert, and how it relates to the Game Over Glitch.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Oct 18th 2018 at 4:10:04 AM

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#1146: Jan 22nd 2019 at 3:46:17 PM

So I'm now in the process of playing Mother 3 (maybe it could be called Earthbound: Finale?). Reached Chapter 4 and am now controlling Lucas proper. Any tips I should know from here? I know that I should invest in eggs, tap the attack button in time with the musical beat (trying to get this down to a science, or it could be the [censored] that I'm using to play), and heed everybody's special abilities.

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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#1147: Jan 22nd 2019 at 8:59:25 PM

A tip I've seen is if you use Thunder Bombs, there's always a readily available supply behind Wes's house, even after the time skip.

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MachThreeSlug (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
#1148: Jan 22nd 2019 at 10:02:56 PM

The Thunder Bombs restock every time you visit the crossroads. If you want get a whole bunch of them then that's the secret to making them get resupplied.

Hashil Since: Aug, 2010
#1149: Jan 22nd 2019 at 10:17:13 PM

If you can't stand grinding at all and just want to finish chapter 4 asap to get the band together you can hunt a rare spawn in the woods near Lighter and Fuel's house that looks like an animate bean. You need to chase it around and eventually it'll bury under the ground before you catch it, but if you wait around on the same screen it'll emerge again and you can sneak attack it and kill it pretty painlessly with PK Favorite Thing for enough experience to breeze through chapter 4 in one go.

RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#1150: Jan 23rd 2019 at 12:02:06 PM

Too late. I went into Chapter 4 bull-headed and went into a lot of trouble in the club attic and the Jealous Bass (I couldn't afford to buy much gear aside from a better stick, and I couldn't go back to the village because Mr. T always prevented me from going through the tunnel at night). I did make my way back to town at the start of Chapter 5 where I am now, so I'll be going after a few of those things and the optional boss in Chapter 2's castle.

Edited by RainingMetal on Jan 23rd 2019 at 3:08:12 PM

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