Earthbound/Mother Thread

Mother was is a unique Rpg series, I have never played by I did enjoy the play though I watched of it. It was Chuggacon roy's playthrough of it that I watched.

I have only seen the earthbound playthrough since I am getting through the mother 3 playthrough.

Also, Holy Crap mother 4 , holy crap that is cool.

I have never played Earthbound/Mother. But always wanted.

They said that completing it in June is not a reasonable time frame with the amount they have done. On the bright side of things, they have recently allowed people to apply to help work on development and there are plenty of people doing that.

So...Earthbound Beginnings. Huh

Mother 4 looks so goddamn good.

Is there any way I can play Earthbound and Mother 3 on my phone?

Because when my laptop died so did the save files to both those games, and never beaten either of them.

Oh yeah and Earthbound beginnings looks cool.

But what's this Mother 4 attract mode? Is it EBB but plays more in the fashion of Mother 3?

:O I played Mother 3 and Earthbound and loved them though I can't really recall what they were about. Coming of age or something? I'm looking forward to play Mother 4.

majorgalaxy said:

But what's this Mother 4 attract mode? Is it EBB but plays more in the fashion of Mother 3?

It's a little demonstration of the game when people aren't playing.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AttractMode

I have played and finished all 3 mother games a while now (finished 3 somewhere in spring). Here's my opinion on them.

1: Very old game. But also enjoyable. I have played a lot of NES games but no RPG ones. Soo this was a fun experiance. The game felt very stiffy, but hey, it's old soo I can take that. My biggest problem with this game is the grinding. Good god. Took me almost 20 times just to rescue that girl near at the cementary at the beggining at the game. And then, we had that zoo right after it. Only luck made me finish that one realtively fast. I don't really like to use it but walkthroughs (reading of course) have helped me save lots of hours. Also, there were many PSI powers that was really useless and never touched again. It's a memorial experiance, especially when closing to the ending. Though it will probably take a long time to revisit this game again, or never. I dunno. I did feel satisfied ones I finished the game. And Polyhanna (NES version) will always play in my head when I think about the mother serie.

2, Earthbound: A very speciall RPG. It's not your typicall middle ages "Sword n Sorcery" RPG game. You play a around 10 year old boy in modern society. You can really feel the atmosfear of the game burning your eyes already at the beggining of the game. It has really no connection with the first game except the phone with your dad, also Giygas that you see before you even start with the game (his name that is). I really like the game but can not put my finger on it and say why. It's very memorial however. You start in Onett, then you visit Twoson, Threed and Fourside. This is about the first half of the game and it's REALLY slow, and not much stick to my head except some of the surrealism. Soo I had mixed feeling first. However, it gets much better. The story however feel kinda weak. "Giygas must be stopped and you, only you and 3 companions that will come on your journey can stop him". Still, very enjoyable. Will probably visit it again. And how much music did this game have? I don't think any other SNES game has half of this games music tracks.

3: I kinda feel for saying Mother 2/Earthbound is the "New hope" version in this serie and Mother 3 is the "Empire strikes back" version. If that makes any sense, dunno what Mother 1 should be. Anyway, why isn't this game realesed here in west yet? This game screams gold. It's perfect, I think. The only complain I have with it is the boring chapter 3, and I don't know if I feel satisfied with THAT ENDING. Mother 3 basically took what earthbound was lacking and made them better.

http://blog.mother4game.com/
New update about art.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/123598820159/update-2-focus-on-the-background
Battle background explanation.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/124797232539/update-3-enemies-from-the-ground-up
About enemy designing

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/125991376824/update-4-tonights-all-write
About dialog.

Triblue said:

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/123598820159/update-2-focus-on-the-background
Battle background explanation.

Been wondering about that effect for a while, I'll need to try and implement this in my game.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/127150590919/update-5-family-pictures
Meet the family

Those Video Drugs look just as good as the real games.

Full update will be given on Saturday so only a small one today
It's going to be about UI. Also, there is something missing from the picture that is found in the other MOTHER games.
http://blog.mother4game.com/post/128240036074/somethings-missing

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/128463617734/update-6-whats-on-the-menu
Update about the UI

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/129271682889/update-7-on-the-mind
Explaining the PK moves.

I like mother, mother are good entertainment video.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/130254339989/update-8-joy-of-construction
They are adding motels/hotels.
Next update will be about running.

Getting Mother 3 cravings, starting to want to play it due to all the Undertale Hype.
I COULD emulate it, but I have an exceptionally strong moral compass.
I could also watch a playthrough but...

I dunno, maybe I could wait for that pie in the sky dream of a Wii U release?
What you guys think I should do?

Play it immediately, Nintendo is never making a localization.
You could purchase a flash cart and make it look like an "official" game cart, but you'd need to own a GBA if you don't have one.
You aren't supporting anyone either way, but it would be pretty neat playing on actual hardware as opposed to an emulator.

I actually do own a GBA still, a classic one at that.
Got no idea how to do any of that high end illegal rom shit though.

Mother 3 VC isn't impossible, Reggie has never said "never", it's just constantly been avoided and not said, and I think since Earthbound Origins is a reality, Mother 3 is a tad more likely than before

In the middle of my Earthbound play through. Making my way through the mines fighting Guardian Moles!

Am I near the end? this game seems so long due to the exploration. After this I will move on to Mother 3.

Mother 3 announced for Wii U eShop in JAPAN. Damn. Hopefully we eventually, FINALLY get it over here.

Nintendo, please. I don't wanna pirate this shit.
Just translate it and let me play it legitimately my moral compass demands it

Mother 3 seemed hard for me. q_q
Seriously, it took me like 10+ tries to defeat those three purple guys (I can't remember their names) in Tanetane Island. And some bosses (like that bass in Club Titiboo) made me leave the game several times. D:

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/139340665329/update-11-update-for-the-birds
The assets are basically done, so expect smoother progress.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/141023541114/update-13-world-of-rumor
A look at the setting of the Mother 4 world.
Progress is going along fine, with only 2 bosses not having a finalized design and there being 14 out of 25ish having finished sprites.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/141824958914/update-14-a-look-at-details
A show of the over-world and some of the parts, like how enemies initiate battle.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/142618074769/update-15-making-room
Some stuff about rooms and some battle backgrounds.

http://blog.mother4game.com/post/143360812049/update-16-springing-into-battle
Minor update on enemies. Check back on Sunday for the rest. So small of an update that I will post the picture.