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Mother 3/EarthBound 3
i found this on at a wikia i do not own this
Mother 3 is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory and published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. The game has only been released in Japan, though it has a cult following among English-speakers. It was written by Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the series, and directed by Nobuyuki Inoue. The music was composed by Shogo Sakai. While Mother 3 is the sequel to EarthBound and is the third game in the series, the story focuses on a new, unrelated cast of characters.
Mother 3 is set on the "Nowhere Islands", a series of sparsely inhabited islands on Earth. The game switches perspectives between the main characters, who are all people (or animals) who live on the islands. The game focuses on a pair of twins named Lucas and Claus, their family, and the friends who join them to fight against the mysterious Pigmask Army. The game's story is a tragedy: its main themes involve coping with the loss of family members and the perils of consumerism. The game also has many comedic elements, such as parody of other video games. The game was advertised as "funny, strange, [and] heartrending".
Mother 3 had a very long development cycle: it began development in 1994 as a Super Famicom title, but development transitioned to the Nintendo 64DD, then to the Nintendo 64, and finally to the Game Boy Advance. Although Nintendo of America has not announced plans to localize Mother 3, a fan translation group has released a patch to translate the game into English. According to Itoi there are no plans to create a fourth Mother game, and has announced not to create another installment. However, he may continue making other games besides Mother.
The gameplay of Mother 3 is very similar to the previous games in the series. The player controls a main character from an overhead perspective and moves around to explore, talk to characters, and travel through dangerous environments. In dangerous areas, enemies such as Pigmasks, wild animals, and robots will move around and chase the player. If the player comes into contact with an enemy, they will enter battle. Up to three other characters will follow the player, and if any of them are touched from behind, the battle will begin with the player at a disadvantage. The player can also dash to stun enemies or dispose of enemies that are too weak to waste time fighting.
The game retains the battle system found in Mother and EarthBound, characterized by non-animated enemy sprites and a distorted, animated background. The player controls up to four characters in combat, with the exception of some non-playable characters who follow the player over the course of the story and contribute randomly to the fight. All characters can attack enemies with weapons and use items in combat, and each character has some unique abilities. Each character also has individual statistics typical for role-playing games, such as Offense, Defense, and IQ (which affects PSI powers).
Combat in Mother 3 includes a unique musical combo system not found in previous titles. To use this system, the player must tap buttons in time with the beat of the background music, with most enemies having their own beat and/or tempo. The player can hear this tempo by putting an enemy to sleep, allowing the player to hear a "heartbeat".[1][2] Like Earthbound, combat uses a "rolling health" system: instead of a character's health being immediately lost when injured, the health meter of the character will roll down over time. This allows a mortally wounded character to perform actions like attacking or healing himself, as long as the player acts quickly enough. If a battle ends while a characters' health is still counting down, it will stop decreasing.
The player can save the game by talking to creatures called "Save Frogs", which are abundant and appear at various areas in the game.[1] Currency is not available early in the game, as Nowhere Islands features a communal gift-giving system.[3] Currency is introduced later in the game as "Dragon Power" (DP), which is earned from defeating enemies. DP is stored away after battle, requiring the player access it from the Save Frogs
Plot
Setting
It is set in the Nowhere Islands in an unknown time period which is estimated to be at least a thousand years after the events of EarthBound. The only inhabited part of the island besides a few scattered homes is the main characters' hometown.
The first location observed is Tazmily Village ("Tatsumairi Village" in official translations). It is a rural Western-styled village with a communal gift-giving system. Nearby the village are a forest and Osohe Castle, a relic of older times. New Pork City is the final location in the game, and was featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.[4]
Once the Pigmask Army arrives, they begin building many other facilities around the island. As the game progresses, their hold on the island becomes stronger and more structures are built. They also introduce currency, or "Dragon Points" to the inhabitants of Tazmily. Their largest facility is New Pork City, which seems to be designed as some kind of amusement park. Most of the additions created after the Pigmasks arrive have themes from American culture, psychedelia, and rock music (which are normal for the series).
Characters
Main article: Characters in Mother 3
There are six main characters in Mother 3: Lucas, a young boy; Flint, a livestock farmer and father of Lucas and his brother Claus; Kumatora, a princess; Duster, a thief; Boney, Flint's dog; and Salsa, a performing monkey.[5] The game frequently switches perspective between the characters as the story progresses, but the later chapters of the game focus on Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, and Duster.
These characters have abilities unique to them. Flint has "full power attacks", including attack and defense buffs and an attack that strikes multiple enemies; Duster is capable of using several "thief tools", including staples to nail down enemies and a snake that doubles as a grappling hook; Salsa's technique is Dance, where he does a dance to affect the enemy's disposition; Lucas and Kumatora's use PSI, which is similar to magic in fantasy role-playing games; and Boney's is Sniff, which is used to reveal enemy stats like hit points and PSI weaknesses.[1] Mother 3 features few returning characters from Earthbound, including Dr. Andonuts and Porky Minch, as well as the Mr. Saturns, a race of small creatures who speak in a strange dialect.
[edit]Story
The game opens with Hinawa and her two children Lucas and Claus at Tazmily Village visiting her father Alec. After a few days they start their walk back home just as a mysterious group of uniformed men wearing pig masks invade the nearby forest. The trees of the forest suddenly catch fire, and a Drago (a dinosaur-like creature that is normally friendly) violently kills Hinawa. The Pigmasks reveal that they used cybernetics to turn the once-friendly creature into a mindless killing machine. When Hinawa's husband, Flint, finds out about this, he becomes consumed with rage and sadness. He vents his anger by attacking the other villagers, and is finally knocked unconscious and arrested. The next day Claus visits Flint in jail and gives him a tool to escape, also promising that he will avenge Hinawa's death. After escaping jail Flint finds out from Lucas that Claus left the village with a knife, and has indeed gone after the Mecha-Drago. Flint, determined to save his son, goes with Alec into the mountains where the Dragos live. They find Claus's shoes but their search is interrupted by the enraged Mecha-Drago, and they defeat it after a tiring battle. A baby Drago defends the dying mecha one, and Alec convinces Flint not to strike the killing blow by comparing this to Hinawa's death. Exhausted, they abandon their search for Claus and Flint accepts it.
Soon after, thief-in-training Duster goes with his father, Wess, to retrieve the Hummingbird's Egg from Osohe Castle. They meet Kumatora, the princess of Osohe Castle, and find that the egg is booby trapped, and the trio are sent into the castle's sewer system. Kumatora and Wess wash up on a sandbank, but Duster goes missing, losing his memory and eventually becoming the bass player for a popular band that performs at the nearby Club Titiboo. He hides the egg in the process, not knowing what it is. Meanwhile, a banana-loving man named Yokuba (Fassad in translated versions) starts to sell enigmatic "Happy Boxes" to the villagers.
Three years after Tazmily has been transformed into a fiercely consumerist society with a monetary system in place for the first time, a Happy Box appears in nearly every house. Pigmasks have installed a military base in the town, and hire villagers to work for them at facilities around the island. Lucas learns about his mother dead and his brother missing and Flint spends all of his time up in the mountains searching for Claus. Lucas goes around town and sees all of the changes the Pigmasks have made. He finds Wess in a dirty retirement home which has replaced his house. Wess asks Lucas to find Duster, so Lucas goes with his dog Boney to Club Titiboo in search of him. Right after he leaves, he meets Ionia, a member of a group of beings who are thousands of years old known as the Magypsies. Ionia teaches Lucas how to use PSI (a mental ability that is useful in combat) and reveals that Lucas can use a unique offensive ability called PSI Love to imply that he also taught it to Claus in his past. Lucas and Boney sneak into the club and meet Kumatora, who is also looking for Duster while disguised as a waitress. The three of them find Duster, restore his memories, and convince him to help them find the Hummingbird Egg. They do so, and demolish a lightning generator tower that has been destroying the homes of villagers not willing to conform to the monetary system or buy Happy Boxes. They are chased to the top of the tower by Fassad, who slips on one of his own banana peels and falls off. They try to escape by hanging from the ladder of a Pigmask ship, but are thrown off. Lucas and Boney awaken in a field of sunflowers, where they see Hinawa's ghost. Lucas runs after her, accidentally running off the side of a cliff and onto a haystack. They meet Ionia again, who tells Lucas about the Seven Needles which seal off the gigantic "Dark Dragon" hidden under the island. Whether the world would be destroyed or created anew upon the Dragon's release depends on whether the one who pulls them is good or evil. They set off to pull as many of the needles as they can before a mysterious Masked Man leading the Pigmasks transfers his own heart onto the dragon. On the way they reunite with Kumatora and Duster. After Lucas and the Masked Man manage to pull three needles each, Lucas, Kumatora, Duster and Boney are invited to the neon superhaven New Pork City by Master Porky, leader of the Pigmasks. The city turns out to be mostly made out of crude, childish theme park attractions and fake cardboard buildings. They find an imprisoned Leder, the village's bell-ringer, who speaks for the first time and tells Lucas that there once existed a world much different from Nowhere Islands. The world wound up being destroyed by the humans who inhabited it. Before apocalypse, a white ship carried people to the Nowhere Islands where they worked to create a utopia under the Dragon's protection. They replaced their memories of the old world with the new one of Nowhere Islands to prevent them from destroying the islands as well. The Hummingbird Egg was created to store the old memories. Leder watched over the village as the only one who retained his memories, ringing a bell to keep their memories from reverting. He reveals that Porky discovered the islands by time traveling, filling his city with people taken from other eras (most of whom work as Pigmasks). Porky learned of the white ship and the Dragon from Locria, who betrayed the Magypsies. Since Porky could not pull the Needles, he turned the Masked Man (who could pull the needles because he can use PSI Love) into a soulless cyborg under his control. Leder urges Lucas and his friends to pull the seventh needle before the Masked Man so that the world will be created anew instead of destroyed. Fassad later battles them in New Pork City and is defeated for the last time. They later discover that Fassad was the final Magypsy, Locria.
On the 100th floor of the "Empire Porky Building" they meet Master Porky, who turns out to be an old man with the mind of a child (and as a child he was the primary antagonist of EarthBound). Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, Boney, and Flint go down to the Needle and battle Porky, even though his extensive time traveling has rendered him unable to die. Porky's machine runs out of energy, though, and he decides to encases himself in a completely impenetrable capsule. However, the capsule cannot be reopened, trapping Porky inside for eternity. When Lucas reaches the needle he is attacked by the Masked Man, and discovers that the Masked Man is actually his twin Claus. Flint, Kumatora, Duster, and Boney are knocked unconscious by Claus's PSI. Lucas and Claus begin their final duel.
Lucas is unable to bring himself to attack his twin brother. Because Lucas is wearing a Franklin Badge, Claus's electric attacks are reflected back at him. Hinawa's ghost pleads with Lucas and Claus to stop fighting, and eventually Claus regains his memories and kills himself in order to free his soul. Claus draws his last breath, and Lucas pulls the final Needle. This leads to a cataclysmic event involving the islands ripping into pieces. After the credits and the game's "END?" screen, the player can move around on a blank screen and talk to all of the characters. Because the player can talk to Lucas, who is the playable character for most of the game, it seems that the player is interacting with the characters directly (instead of through another character.) All of the characters reassure the player that they are fine despite the islands being destroyed, and say goodbye to the player. Whether this is the afterlife or someplace that the people escaped to is left ambiguous. However, if what Ionia said is true, Lucas made the dragon and rebuild the world. Finally the credits roll, the real "END" screen, and the game's wooden title is shown.
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Mother 3 is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory and published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. The game has only been released in Japan, though it has a cult following among English-speakers. It was written by Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the series, and directed by Nobuyuki Inoue. The music was composed by Shogo Sakai. While Mother 3 is the sequel to EarthBound and is the third game in the series, the story focuses on a new, unrelated cast of characters.
Mother 3 is set on the "Nowhere Islands", a series of sparsely inhabited islands on Earth. The game switches perspectives between the main characters, who are all people (or animals) who live on the islands. The game focuses on a pair of twins named Lucas and Claus, their family, and the friends who join them to fight against the mysterious Pigmask Army. The game's story is a tragedy: its main themes involve coping with the loss of family members and the perils of consumerism. The game also has many comedic elements, such as parody of other video games. The game was advertised as "funny, strange, [and] heartrending".
Mother 3 had a very long development cycle: it began development in 1994 as a Super Famicom title, but development transitioned to the Nintendo 64DD, then to the Nintendo 64, and finally to the Game Boy Advance. Although Nintendo of America has not announced plans to localize Mother 3, a fan translation group has released a patch to translate the game into English. According to Itoi there are no plans to create a fourth Mother game, and has announced not to create another installment. However, he may continue making other games besides Mother.
The gameplay of Mother 3 is very similar to the previous games in the series. The player controls a main character from an overhead perspective and moves around to explore, talk to characters, and travel through dangerous environments. In dangerous areas, enemies such as Pigmasks, wild animals, and robots will move around and chase the player. If the player comes into contact with an enemy, they will enter battle. Up to three other characters will follow the player, and if any of them are touched from behind, the battle will begin with the player at a disadvantage. The player can also dash to stun enemies or dispose of enemies that are too weak to waste time fighting.
The game retains the battle system found in Mother and EarthBound, characterized by non-animated enemy sprites and a distorted, animated background. The player controls up to four characters in combat, with the exception of some non-playable characters who follow the player over the course of the story and contribute randomly to the fight. All characters can attack enemies with weapons and use items in combat, and each character has some unique abilities. Each character also has individual statistics typical for role-playing games, such as Offense, Defense, and IQ (which affects PSI powers).
Combat in Mother 3 includes a unique musical combo system not found in previous titles. To use this system, the player must tap buttons in time with the beat of the background music, with most enemies having their own beat and/or tempo. The player can hear this tempo by putting an enemy to sleep, allowing the player to hear a "heartbeat".[1][2] Like Earthbound, combat uses a "rolling health" system: instead of a character's health being immediately lost when injured, the health meter of the character will roll down over time. This allows a mortally wounded character to perform actions like attacking or healing himself, as long as the player acts quickly enough. If a battle ends while a characters' health is still counting down, it will stop decreasing.
The player can save the game by talking to creatures called "Save Frogs", which are abundant and appear at various areas in the game.[1] Currency is not available early in the game, as Nowhere Islands features a communal gift-giving system.[3] Currency is introduced later in the game as "Dragon Power" (DP), which is earned from defeating enemies. DP is stored away after battle, requiring the player access it from the Save Frogs
Plot
Setting
It is set in the Nowhere Islands in an unknown time period which is estimated to be at least a thousand years after the events of EarthBound. The only inhabited part of the island besides a few scattered homes is the main characters' hometown.
The first location observed is Tazmily Village ("Tatsumairi Village" in official translations). It is a rural Western-styled village with a communal gift-giving system. Nearby the village are a forest and Osohe Castle, a relic of older times. New Pork City is the final location in the game, and was featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.[4]
Once the Pigmask Army arrives, they begin building many other facilities around the island. As the game progresses, their hold on the island becomes stronger and more structures are built. They also introduce currency, or "Dragon Points" to the inhabitants of Tazmily. Their largest facility is New Pork City, which seems to be designed as some kind of amusement park. Most of the additions created after the Pigmasks arrive have themes from American culture, psychedelia, and rock music (which are normal for the series).
Characters
Main article: Characters in Mother 3
There are six main characters in Mother 3: Lucas, a young boy; Flint, a livestock farmer and father of Lucas and his brother Claus; Kumatora, a princess; Duster, a thief; Boney, Flint's dog; and Salsa, a performing monkey.[5] The game frequently switches perspective between the characters as the story progresses, but the later chapters of the game focus on Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, and Duster.
These characters have abilities unique to them. Flint has "full power attacks", including attack and defense buffs and an attack that strikes multiple enemies; Duster is capable of using several "thief tools", including staples to nail down enemies and a snake that doubles as a grappling hook; Salsa's technique is Dance, where he does a dance to affect the enemy's disposition; Lucas and Kumatora's use PSI, which is similar to magic in fantasy role-playing games; and Boney's is Sniff, which is used to reveal enemy stats like hit points and PSI weaknesses.[1] Mother 3 features few returning characters from Earthbound, including Dr. Andonuts and Porky Minch, as well as the Mr. Saturns, a race of small creatures who speak in a strange dialect.
[edit]Story
The game opens with Hinawa and her two children Lucas and Claus at Tazmily Village visiting her father Alec. After a few days they start their walk back home just as a mysterious group of uniformed men wearing pig masks invade the nearby forest. The trees of the forest suddenly catch fire, and a Drago (a dinosaur-like creature that is normally friendly) violently kills Hinawa. The Pigmasks reveal that they used cybernetics to turn the once-friendly creature into a mindless killing machine. When Hinawa's husband, Flint, finds out about this, he becomes consumed with rage and sadness. He vents his anger by attacking the other villagers, and is finally knocked unconscious and arrested. The next day Claus visits Flint in jail and gives him a tool to escape, also promising that he will avenge Hinawa's death. After escaping jail Flint finds out from Lucas that Claus left the village with a knife, and has indeed gone after the Mecha-Drago. Flint, determined to save his son, goes with Alec into the mountains where the Dragos live. They find Claus's shoes but their search is interrupted by the enraged Mecha-Drago, and they defeat it after a tiring battle. A baby Drago defends the dying mecha one, and Alec convinces Flint not to strike the killing blow by comparing this to Hinawa's death. Exhausted, they abandon their search for Claus and Flint accepts it.
Soon after, thief-in-training Duster goes with his father, Wess, to retrieve the Hummingbird's Egg from Osohe Castle. They meet Kumatora, the princess of Osohe Castle, and find that the egg is booby trapped, and the trio are sent into the castle's sewer system. Kumatora and Wess wash up on a sandbank, but Duster goes missing, losing his memory and eventually becoming the bass player for a popular band that performs at the nearby Club Titiboo. He hides the egg in the process, not knowing what it is. Meanwhile, a banana-loving man named Yokuba (Fassad in translated versions) starts to sell enigmatic "Happy Boxes" to the villagers.
Three years after Tazmily has been transformed into a fiercely consumerist society with a monetary system in place for the first time, a Happy Box appears in nearly every house. Pigmasks have installed a military base in the town, and hire villagers to work for them at facilities around the island. Lucas learns about his mother dead and his brother missing and Flint spends all of his time up in the mountains searching for Claus. Lucas goes around town and sees all of the changes the Pigmasks have made. He finds Wess in a dirty retirement home which has replaced his house. Wess asks Lucas to find Duster, so Lucas goes with his dog Boney to Club Titiboo in search of him. Right after he leaves, he meets Ionia, a member of a group of beings who are thousands of years old known as the Magypsies. Ionia teaches Lucas how to use PSI (a mental ability that is useful in combat) and reveals that Lucas can use a unique offensive ability called PSI Love to imply that he also taught it to Claus in his past. Lucas and Boney sneak into the club and meet Kumatora, who is also looking for Duster while disguised as a waitress. The three of them find Duster, restore his memories, and convince him to help them find the Hummingbird Egg. They do so, and demolish a lightning generator tower that has been destroying the homes of villagers not willing to conform to the monetary system or buy Happy Boxes. They are chased to the top of the tower by Fassad, who slips on one of his own banana peels and falls off. They try to escape by hanging from the ladder of a Pigmask ship, but are thrown off. Lucas and Boney awaken in a field of sunflowers, where they see Hinawa's ghost. Lucas runs after her, accidentally running off the side of a cliff and onto a haystack. They meet Ionia again, who tells Lucas about the Seven Needles which seal off the gigantic "Dark Dragon" hidden under the island. Whether the world would be destroyed or created anew upon the Dragon's release depends on whether the one who pulls them is good or evil. They set off to pull as many of the needles as they can before a mysterious Masked Man leading the Pigmasks transfers his own heart onto the dragon. On the way they reunite with Kumatora and Duster. After Lucas and the Masked Man manage to pull three needles each, Lucas, Kumatora, Duster and Boney are invited to the neon superhaven New Pork City by Master Porky, leader of the Pigmasks. The city turns out to be mostly made out of crude, childish theme park attractions and fake cardboard buildings. They find an imprisoned Leder, the village's bell-ringer, who speaks for the first time and tells Lucas that there once existed a world much different from Nowhere Islands. The world wound up being destroyed by the humans who inhabited it. Before apocalypse, a white ship carried people to the Nowhere Islands where they worked to create a utopia under the Dragon's protection. They replaced their memories of the old world with the new one of Nowhere Islands to prevent them from destroying the islands as well. The Hummingbird Egg was created to store the old memories. Leder watched over the village as the only one who retained his memories, ringing a bell to keep their memories from reverting. He reveals that Porky discovered the islands by time traveling, filling his city with people taken from other eras (most of whom work as Pigmasks). Porky learned of the white ship and the Dragon from Locria, who betrayed the Magypsies. Since Porky could not pull the Needles, he turned the Masked Man (who could pull the needles because he can use PSI Love) into a soulless cyborg under his control. Leder urges Lucas and his friends to pull the seventh needle before the Masked Man so that the world will be created anew instead of destroyed. Fassad later battles them in New Pork City and is defeated for the last time. They later discover that Fassad was the final Magypsy, Locria.
On the 100th floor of the "Empire Porky Building" they meet Master Porky, who turns out to be an old man with the mind of a child (and as a child he was the primary antagonist of EarthBound). Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, Boney, and Flint go down to the Needle and battle Porky, even though his extensive time traveling has rendered him unable to die. Porky's machine runs out of energy, though, and he decides to encases himself in a completely impenetrable capsule. However, the capsule cannot be reopened, trapping Porky inside for eternity. When Lucas reaches the needle he is attacked by the Masked Man, and discovers that the Masked Man is actually his twin Claus. Flint, Kumatora, Duster, and Boney are knocked unconscious by Claus's PSI. Lucas and Claus begin their final duel.
Lucas is unable to bring himself to attack his twin brother. Because Lucas is wearing a Franklin Badge, Claus's electric attacks are reflected back at him. Hinawa's ghost pleads with Lucas and Claus to stop fighting, and eventually Claus regains his memories and kills himself in order to free his soul. Claus draws his last breath, and Lucas pulls the final Needle. This leads to a cataclysmic event involving the islands ripping into pieces. After the credits and the game's "END?" screen, the player can move around on a blank screen and talk to all of the characters. Because the player can talk to Lucas, who is the playable character for most of the game, it seems that the player is interacting with the characters directly (instead of through another character.) All of the characters reassure the player that they are fine despite the islands being destroyed, and say goodbye to the player. Whether this is the afterlife or someplace that the people escaped to is left ambiguous. However, if what Ionia said is true, Lucas made the dragon and rebuild the world. Finally the credits roll, the real "END" screen, and the game's wooden title is shown.
screenshotz
Last edited by ttad; Oct 6, 2012 at 06:36 PM.
One of my most favorite RPGs ive ever played, i get sad when i beat the game and have nothing else to do, I really like the game! nice Ttad!
that reminds me.. i uploaded a video earlier about Claus click here
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Dosent seem like anyone cares about this game
that reminds me.. i uploaded a video earlier about Claus click here
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Dosent seem like anyone cares about this game
Last edited by Mojo; Oct 7, 2012 at 08:50 AM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump
It looks very nice but WOW, the first post is very messy!
My head hurts whenever I try to read it..
Maybe organize it a bit so people can actually read it?
And a pro tip, don't put spoilers in your story..
OR, use the "spoiler" option so people know they're reading a spoiler.
My head hurts whenever I try to read it..
Maybe organize it a bit so people can actually read it?
And a pro tip, don't put spoilers in your story..
OR, use the "spoiler" option so people know they're reading a spoiler.
Fr3styL . Improving by Improvising
I'm an artist.
I'm an artist.
I'm actually currently working on the game. Seeing a new post at such a time is very coincidental. So far, I think that this game is deeply emotional and heavily story-line based with some pretty entertaining gameplay. I highly recommend this if you are willing to focus on the story.
Here's my favorite scene from the game so far.
Last edited by shooter190; Oct 7, 2012 at 07:10 PM.
