/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8237815
>What happened when the dragon woke up?
I like to take the dialog at face value and say that the world was reshaped into the ideal version of society from its ashes, but we just can't see it because we simply can't grasp that concept at this time. There's also the theory that everyone died and what they're experiencing is the afterlife, but I'm not sure I place much stock in it (Porky'd still be alive for one thing). Supposedly, the 64DD/N64 endgame scenario was darker, so I think the ending text was added to the final GBA version. And there's an unused "HAPPY END" graphic that was probably supposed to be used after the ending text to let you know everyone's really all right, but it was probably deleted because it removed the uncertainty.
>How did Porky get his god powers?
There was that one Smash Bros. trophy that said Porky needed a whole game or several to explain what happened to him between games, but honestly, so does Giygas. Mother/EarthBound's never getting official interquels, much less anything beyond Itoi's trilogy, so really, it's up to you to figure out for yourself how a lot of the unsaid pieces fit together. There is a popular fangame (I think it was one of the pre-Undertale projects to have Toby Fox's MEGOLOVANIA) set between the first two games that attempts to explain Giygas, but to my knowledge there's no such thing for 2 & 3, go figure. I did see a pretty good fan-comic on Starman.Net once upon a time, but I'm not sure how easy it is to find, and I'm sure there's a couple by now.

>>7743162
We also never thought Ana would ever wear a backwards cap but then someone figured out it's the only way to make sense of her Hat's ingame sprites (>>7722713) with its official artwork (>>7726292).