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.
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.
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.
So if anyone cares Chuggaaconroy's doing Earthbound, again, as a remake of his very first LP.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.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
Watch SymphogearSo 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.
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.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.
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
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.

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
Come, my child of the devil. Your mother is calling you. Hear my call in Hell's grand hall, where all our dreams come true.