>MOTHER game I always said I liked 1 the most and thought it was underappreciated, I also always thought 3 is amazing and technically the best one, but I replayed 2 the most, so that. All 3 are masterpieces though. >party member Teddy, Jeff, Boney >NPC Mom, obviously >song Pollyanna >random shit you know. Discuss whatever, really You can enter the Mr Saturn house in Threek after you beat Gyiyg
>>12610536 >>12610538 >>12610810 How the fuck does anyone genuinely enjoy Mother 1? That's how I know this board is full of complete fucking retards and their opinions should be completely discarded.
It's basically a walking sim with the most braindead and repetitive combat system imaginable. You have random encounters every three steps and have to constantly farm to stay up to level or you will just get rolled. There is zero skill expression whatsoever to the combat and it comes down to an incredibly simplistic flowchart where you just spam the same few actions every single fight. Somehow they even fucked the movement up and there is a huge delay to the movement and you have to hold a direction for a quarter second before your character even starts moving. Story, writing, artstyle, all trash. Literally zero redeeming qualities anywhere in this "game" and one of the most incredibly boring slogs I have ever endured, I think I would rather be filing my taxes or watching paint dry. Haven't bothered with any of the sequels, but don't see how they could possibly be any worse than this.
>>12610515 I may as well toss my own hat into the ring as well, now that I think of it. >MOTHER game MOTHER. The first game, to clarify. >party member call me a basic bitch, but Ninten. He's my guy. Teddy is another favorite, because that guy can do some insane shit at high levels >NPC Everdred. >song Roving Tank >random shit you know In the "MOTHER Complete Guidebook", Ninten is referred to as "Champ", Lloyd is named "Ted", Ana is named "Janice" (or maybe "Jennis"), and Teddy is called "Duke."
>>12610515 >MOTHER game Hard to pick between 1 and 2 >party member Ninten for a PSI user, Flint for non-PSI >NPC The guy who philosophizes about happiness >song Coffee break >random shit you know. Discuss whatever, really The GBA version of Mother changed the sprite of the cop that sells you back your weapons after you serve time in jail to pic related for some reason.
>>12612212 That's every famicom RPG though. Within that context it's a pretty solid RPG with a unique setting and funny writing, you couldn't really ask for anything more at the time. You just seem to be complaining about retro JRPGs in general.
>>12611229 People who have already enjoyed 2 and 3 usually have an easier time because they appreciate the other games enough to look past the dated parts in it
why was the art of the "MOTHER Pre-Launch Comprehensive Checklist" like that? like we have weird ass comic for the cover (left image) and Ninten with weird ass eyes (right image)
>>12610515 A MOTHER thread, how great >MOTHER game I like all of them but my fav is MOTHER 2 >party member Teddy, Jeff and Flint >NPC Queen Mary >song Snowman and Magicant >random shit you know. Discuss whatever, really I still don't know what the hell is Rockin and why that's Ness's favorite thing.
Not fully /vr/ related, but its Mother and a remake so need to mention it: Mother Encore Act Two has been released today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVubWY0Ubzs
>>12611229 Because Mother 1 is fun and will kick your teeth in if you're coming from EB/3. It's a unique experience even among the rest of the franchise because of its gameplay, setting and story.
>>12612728 Teddy is in so much art and fanart with the other 3 that I almost wonder if the devs haven't since sort of regretted M1 not having a 4 person party.
>>12612731 I don't like his egg-ish eyes in the art on the right, but that's just me >>12612983 not fully sure why they selected Rockin' as his favorite thing in the American release, but I assume they found it hard to figure out to how to best translate the concept of "Kiai" (what it is in the original Japanese release) and decided to make it into something different that would be more understood by American audiences at the time >>12613034 They gave Ninten PK Flash and I don't know on if I like that. It feels like they're starting to pull away the identity of Mother 1, just a bit. They do call it a reimagining, and it is meant not to replace MOTHER 1, yes, but I know those who play it will ignore that and treat it as the definitive MOTHER 1 experience and come into the fandom with assumptions about things... >>12613163 I wonder if they had issues with sprite flicker or slowdown regarding that, but I am aware MOTHER 1 was a bit rushed (that's why Mt. Itoi is what it is, difficulty wise), so maybe that's why Teddy doesn't seem to stay for long. I do find it strange you get his second-best weapon in the early game and can just not get his first two at all
>>12613325 >It feels like they're starting to pull away the identity of Mother 1, just a bit. just a bit? It's not MOTHER at all. It's like a zoomer's 2nd hand account of a hallucinated AI summary of what happens in MOTHER 1. All these remakes are complete and utter fanfiction
>>12613338 disregarding the memes some of the dev team made aside, from my little experience with Encore, I do recognize some of the stuff as being from the Encyclopedia MOTHER, like the guitar in Ninten's room and what not as an example, so it's pulling from a source that had Itoi involvement, which I can appreciate, at the very least, but it is an odd game to me nonetheless. >>12613350 That's probably what it is
>>12613365 Why is this so cool. And why does the game properly place the fourth party member in a perfect square formation if it was never meant to happen?
>>12613589 to my understanding, due to it being a fangame and all, it's not the main focus of the devs' lives, so it'll be a while until all 8 Acts are out.
>>12614213 that's what I'm wondering. They did it by sticking the second Franklin Badge in Duncan's Factory in some sorta power thing, and Ninten prying it out gets him shocked like Lucas gets in Thunder Tower
>>12613761 >And why does the game properly place the fourth party member in a perfect square formation if it was never meant to happen? Originally Teddy was going to be a permanent party member but it was changed because of hardware limitations on the nes. I don't remember where i found it but there is also cut dialogue from Queen Mary where she talks to all the 4 main characters mentioning them all by name. So basically having the 4 heroes at the same time was the original intention but couldn't be done because of the famicom. If there's ever an official remake i'm sure they'll make it so that you can get Teddy back.
>>12617590 >there is also cut dialogue from Queen Mary where she talks to all the 4 main characters mentioning them all by name. that's not cut, that's used in the Japanese version