Mother 3

[kane_magus]

Mother 3 fan translation is complete.

Man, I only made it up to Threed in EarthBound. Oh well. I guess I could hold out and finish EarthBound first, but.... nah.

Comments

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

Oh, Earthbound is a great game! You should play it through!

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I just meant on this latest particular attempt through it. ^^; Yeah, I've played through EarthBound at least seven or eight times (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/210032.html) over the years since I got it back in... 1995. (Wow, has it really been that long?)

Even so, I was still tempted to keep playing it instead of immediately starting on Mother 3. But the lure of the finally playing the game for which I'd been waiting for over two years now overpowered the desire to continue playing its predecessor though. It still aggravates me that Nintendo didn't officially release this game here.

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

Well, okay then. ;) so long as you've actually PLAYED the game. I've only gone through twice times. the first time I tried for almost a WEEK and never got teh Sword of Kings. The second time, I got it on, like, my fifth Starman-whatever. hurrah fan translations!

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Sword of Kings thing is pretty crazy. My first play through I didn't get it at all because I wasn't even aware of it, and so was wondering why Poo never got a weapon for the entire game, even though he got equipment for the other slots. The second time, reading the strategy guide that came with the game, it took me forever to finally get the sword the first time. And then, on one of my later play throughs, I somehow managed to get it on the very first attempt, which was amazing to me at the time.

Similar to the Sword of Kings is Jeff's Gaia Beam, which requires fighting those floating exploding head things (Uncontrollable Sphere) under the Tenda village over and over, with the same chance for getting the item (Broken Antenna). That one's tougher for me because the enemies are harder and, well, these guys explode when you kill them, causing guaranteed damage. And then after that you still have to hope Jeff has high enough IQ to be able to fix it during the night.

And the Gutsy Bat for Ness... I've never managed to get this one. Mostly because you can only get it from the Bionic Kraken, with the same chance as the previous two weapons, and they're only in the caves right before you get to Giygas himself. Since it's right before the end of the game, and you can't even leave that area once you're there, I've never bothered to make more than a token attempt at this one.

As for Mother 3, so far it's been very much awesome. But people weren't kidding when they said this game was darker than the previous one. Yeah, the quirkiness of the humor from the previous games is still there, but the underlying tone of the game is a lot more heavy. I mean... the first chapter alone... >_>;