Ah yes, that weird and creepy boss sequence which is believed to be either part of some nightmare scene or a alternate final battle (very similar to the Mother2 one in terms of creepiness).

I already played Mother3 once, but I plan to play it again as soon I'm done with Mother2. I been replaying all of the games, and amusingly... Mother1 isn't as hard as I remember it to be. There's some slight levelling treadmill towards the beginning in the game, but after that it's a smooth ride.

Then Mother1 is weird in the aspect that expect for the sea pendant, all the best armor is in Magicant. Which you visit fairly early in the game too, so you can grab the best stuff right away.

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I would recommend testing Mother2 first if anything, but you can feel free to play Mother1 if you don't mind really old-school NES RPG's.

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Posted by Stark

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Earthbound might as well be a retelling of Earthbound Zero, they're basically the same plot progression

Earthbound isn't really a very good game, but it's definitely way better than Earthbound Zero which is grindtastic trash

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Well the games do have a common plot, which can be put together into one long plot if you want to. I can try to write a summary of the connection up to the beginning of Mother 3, but it would be too TL;DR worthy.

All three games have a main PSI user with decent attack for main character, a secondary female PSI user, and a "tool" user as a third character (portrayed as a nerd in the two first games). All four games varies with the fourth character (buff guy in first game, male Asian dude in second, dog in third...).

Of course, Mother 3 varies alot more with the characters used within the game, and it's way more linear, at least in the regard of being able to go back. Mother 1 have no points of return, Mother 2 have one (cave of the past) and Mother 3... well when you gone into a new chapter you can't go back to a old one.

I personally enjoyed playing through Mother 1 and 2 again, but in the case of Mother 1... I'm very thankful for the turbo button on the NES emulator.

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Yeah, Boney is the item guy in the game.

I just noticed that Mother3 is the most generous with inventory space in the whole series. Which is a relief from my Earthbound run where I never seemed to have enough inventory.

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