I have to admit that, despite myself, I’m really looking forward to Mother 3. Earthbound 2. Whatever you want to call it. Each new bit of info that the villainous Shigesato Itoi doles out to his eager fans is somehow terribly enticing… and I don’t even particularly care for the previous games. Maybe it’s the willful simplicity of the visuals — you can hardly call this the cutting edge of graphics:
…but despite the flat appearance, there’s a lot going on in this screen. The satisfied smirk on the wine-drinking ghost’s face (despite the fact that the wine has clearly passed straight through its spectral guts) is the sort of tiny detail that seems likely to put Mother 3 in its own class.
Unless, of course, these are the bitmap equivalent of those composite “screenshots” that EA likes to assemble in Photoshop to promote its latest callow wares. Since the Mother series has been relegated to the “post-modern” corner of the medium by various chin-strokey journalist types, I wouldn’t put it past Itoi to succumb to the base deceptions of his vile PoMo bedfellow, Hideo Kojima, and promote his new game with a carefully-orchestrated blitz of lies to put Metal Gear Solid 2’s Raiden fake-out to shame.
The again, the six screens revealed so far indicate that there’s something like four different protagonists, so any switcheroo gimmickry could hardly be said to be unexpected.
Eh, whatever. It’s not like Nintendo’s ever going to translate this. (He said, poking a stick into the fanboy nest with deliberate malice.)
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Going to rock. That is all.
We poke back, man. We poke back.
“Mother 3. Earthbound 2. Whatever you want to call it.”
Wait. Do you mean that one Nintendo game that was released in Japan but not in the US and somehow has managed to gain a rabid following of Americans that would make any cult leader proud?
If I knew what SFE was, I’d probably miss it too.
“Wait. Do you mean that one Nintendo game that was released in Japan but not in the US and somehow has managed to gain a rabid following of Americans that would make any cult leader proud?”
No, he means the sequel to the one that was released here and sold approximately 12 copies. (Sorry, snarky mood)
“No, he means the sequel to the one that was released here and sold approximately 12 copies.”
Somewhat due to its gargantuan box and the ingenious marketing decision to make their ads smell like puke.
Are you kidding? The box was a major part of what made it so appealing. When you saw a gigantic box like that sitting on the shelf you knew you were getting something pretty sweet.
The stinky ads, though… no excuse for those. I blame Sega for driving Nintendo to ever more extreme gross-out ads in a sort of Cold War of tasteleness.
did you see the ltd ed GBM with mother 3 faceplate that nintendo is putting out with the game? it’s a deep deep red color. I dont get why ninty keeps putting out micros instead of just face plates…
Earthbound was one of the few rpgs my friend played.
the link to the mother gbm-
http://www.yamakiyo.org/press/index.php?/archives/64-Mother-3-deluxe-box-set.html
I don’t really like Earthbound. I just got to know the games thanks to emulation, beat both of them, and thought they were kinda cute and melancholic and stuff, kinda sad. I don’t care about Mother 3 or whatever. Unless somewhere someone in the game says something like “mother should I trust the government” or something. Really, for surreal RPG games I take Amberstar over Mother anyday. I’m more into Roger Dean kinda psychadelia than Barney kinda crazy shit.
“than Barney kinda crazy shit”
…oh dear.
Uh, yeah. What version of the game did you play?
The one where little pink afeminated aliens talk with crazy fonts. And the other one where you go to a pink and purple heaven to talk with a princess.
“(He said, poking a stick into the fanboy nest with deliberate malice.)”
Watch out for their poisonous stingers, Jeremy! They have enough toxins in them to kill an elephant!
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Nah, fanboys are all mouth, no fang.
“The one where little pink afeminated aliens talk with crazy fonts. And the other one where you go to a pink and purple heaven to talk with a princess.”
is somebody trying a bit too hard to be a Real Manâ„¢?
really, there’s easier (better, even!) ways to do it than criticizing the cute and/or colorful. using five-bladed razors, for example.
“(He said, poking a stick into the fanboy nest with deliberate malice.)”
I’ll poke right back at you. Yay for referal logs!
You’re such a PoMophobe!
Anyways, now that gamers can game such games as Riviera or alla that Nippon Ichi jazz, I’m sure that Nintendo’s already tossed some Mother code to the town of Treehut. (This coupled with your sole influence in getting Japanese games localized.)
Also, I think Kojima balances pretentiousness with solid pee gags.
Man, don’t go thinking I have some sort amazing power to get games localized. Giving Atlus a nudge that makes it easier to pursue a game they already wanted to translate is a whole different ball game than passing a game through the inscrutible corporate facade of Nintendo. I’d have better luck using my latent telekinesis to throw the Earth off its axis.
And Metal Gear may have pee jokes and crotch-grabbing, but Earthbound was doing fart jokes 10 years ago.
“The one where little pink afeminated aliens talk with crazy fonts. And the other one where you go to a pink and purple heaven to talk with a princess.”
But.. but… the aliens were forced to work in a sweatshop by the leader of the zombies, who kept them drugged with fly honey… And… well, no appropriate counter for the pink and purple heaven princess, as I think they may have actually wanted that area to feel that way.
At any rate, thus far, I strongly agree that the graphics look painfully simple(almost doujin-esque), but, the amount of little details makes up for it…