It's been soooo very long since last time I uploaded something...

It's all because of two things.
One, my thesis project is killing me.
Two, I had the oh so great idea of playing through all 3 Earthbound/Mother games...

In the past, I wasn't too fond of this franchise. I had played Earthbound (Mother 2) for the SNES 10 years ago, and I thought it was an "ok game" .... boy was I WRONG!


So, not too long ago I decided to get into this "Mother" business, and I decided to do it properly, by playing through the very first game.


Mother 1/Earthbound Zero:
What got in the way was... well... the terribly plain battle system with a black background.
But it turns out, after I dealt with it, I uncovered a beautiful, rare gem of a game!

Absolutely adored the music. Loved the character development (although things struck me as kinda rushed sometimes.. like the scene with Ninten and Paula.. you know which one I mean).

Decent challenge, no frustrating puzzles, but ackward random encounter.

In short, it was a beautiful game I'm glad I spent my time with.


Mother 2/Earthbound:
Everything that there's to say about this game has already been said, so I'll keep it simple...

One day, I woke up, turned on the game, and played it all day long, until I went to sleep.

THAT good! So many GOOD parts in this game, there'd be no end to the list! Zombies, aliens, anything that can make a good game is there! Great plot, great characters, GREAT music. Bla bla bla...

I take back what I said about this game being boring. I don't have the face to say that again after playing through it 12 hours straight!


Mother 3:
Everything was so good so far... Mother 3, though, kinda broke the pace. After an epic Mother 2, Mother 3 was the oddball of the bunch.

There's a long list of good things and bad things, but I'll keep it short.

The first minutes of Mother 3 were kinda like this:

"Hey you, watch out behind you!" *Ridiculously hard boss fight*
*finally wins*
"Let's go over there! ... Oh will you look at that!" *Boss fight*
*finally wins*
"We have to get back to town before..." *boss fight*
"Oops, wrong way, it was actually *BOSS FIGHT!*

And they were all TOO HARD! I found myself using up every last PP and every last item in order to win with one character left standing. A little TOO hardcore if you ask me. But ok. It also takes a LOT of time until you get to use Lucas, the MAIN character of the game.

The game itself was pretty cool. Some parts were boring (the Salsa chapter...) but overall, the story was entertaining and the characters are colorful. I enjoyed it pretty much... until I beat it.

Words can't describe how I felt when I saw the ending. It was a mix between disappointment and anger.
It was a shame that while this game constantly swayed from good parts and bad parts, the last "needle" this game pulled out, awakened the "EVIL dark dragon" inside me.


While I LOVE Mother/Earthbound now, Mother 3's ending left a bitter taste in my mouth.. It's a good game, has it's ups and downs, but the ending is absolutely the WORST. I swear I kinda wished for it to be all nothing but a dream, instead of what I saw, and that's saying a lot.


Oh well, at least I enjoyed the three games. Maybe I need to give Mother 3 another chance.. but... fat chance. The game is TOO hard. As a whole, the franchise is unique and a rich gaming experience. I'm glad I spent a whole month playing it. It was wrong of me to diss the franchise before. But it was all one big satisfying experience.

I thought this would never happen to me... but... I've become a Mother/Earthbound fan. @.@

... so I guess... Mother fan art can be included in my Gallery. ñ_ñ;
(The ME from the past is boiling in anger).