What the hell do you think it is?

Admist all the grave puns, the ostrelephants, rhinocerockets, rock lobsters, and horsantulas that make this game so insane, Mother 3 manages to be not only trippy, but to be a great addition to the Mother series. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but the story goes in so many directions in the beginning that it would be difficult to explain. So I’ll just review some genitaralities. (That’s right, I said that.)

Mother 3 is much like Earthbound, but some improvements have been made. Unlike the previous games, you now get to control many different characters. You start out the game as Lucas’s father, move on to a theif, then a monkey, and finally Lucas. Later on, you will recieve a twist 4/5 of the way through the game that will make you say WTF. Twice. You’ll have to actually play this game to get the total gist of what I’m saying.

One of the most interesting improvements is the PSI learning system. You only have two members with PSI in your party, although the others make up for it in abilities. When learning a PSI ability, your party member will get a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell. With the lack of a cowbell in the game, your only choice is to walk (you cant run with a fever, asshole) around until the fever goes away. When the fever leaves, you will be granted a new PSI power. Some PSI moves are learned instead at pivitol points in the game, but I’ll let you figure that out.

Oh, and by the way, no fucking level cap bitches.

Another improvement is difficulty. Earthbound was a game that if I leveled up a lot in the beginning, I would never have trouble on one boss. I never even had to use Psychic Shields or anything like that. In Mother 3, things were different. Every boss battle would start with 2 rounds of preparation. It forced me to be strategic in every aspect. The difficulty was greater, but I feel that it was not too great. I died maybe 6 or 7 times throughout the course of the game, but I was close to dying hundreds of times. That is what makes a great game.

I have to say that Mother 3 is essentially the funniest game I may have ever played. (Which is saying a lot considering my love for the Monkey Island series.) Mother 3 has it all – subtle and not so subtle social commentary, running gags, psychopathic characters that brianwash everyone, completely sane characters that brainwash everyone, talking animals, people dying, awkward women that act like gay men and have “vuluptuous” beards, people in giant test tubes, angry contruction workers, references to Earthbound, jokes about hallucinating while swimming, and a FULL-ON MUSHROOM TRIP. I’ll give you a taste of it with this amazing fan art.

BTW, If you happen to own the rights to this picture, let me know, because if it is a real picture, I may want to purchase it.

Honestly, this game made me want to do hallucinogins badly. Badly. But seriously, don’t do drugs. But to be honest, this game was released on 4/20 of 2006. So uhh…

The only complaints I have about this game is the length being too short, the game feeling extremely linear in the sense that ants are in your way and you don’t want to kill them, and pretty much nothing else. This is according to my tastes though, and if you hate reading, thinking, and creativity then you’re retarded, and you won’t like this game.

All in all, I say that Mother 3 is an amazing game. Go google Mother 3 Translation and pick this up immediately. The translators made this the easiest game to patch that I’ve ever patched. Man, I wish I could think of a better way to type that senten…. oh godIT’S A KANGASHARK! RUN!

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