/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5687527
IIRC faithful keeps the original graphics, might be wrong though.

>>5687527
Search "Earthbound Beginnings Uncut"

Honestly the original translation is not bad, or at least I don't remember any flaw, other than the change in town names for no reason.

>>5687562
Some people say it's too dry
Do you remember any of Itoi's humor in the game?

>>5687569
Yeah, I remember weird stuff going on with NPCs, like the guy in the underground cave who says he's nobody, or the lying monkeys on the monkey cave, all that was very Itoi.
Probably Tomato did a better job, I don't know, but the original was fine to me.

>>5687575
He forgotten man wasn't humor at all, my dude.
That fucker is unnerving

>>5687670
Itoi isn't just about humor.
Anyway, I think Mother 1 has less humor than Mother 2. Form the get go, the prologue of the game is way more serious than Mother 2's "woops I'm dead! lol no wait I'm not dead yet" gag from Buzz Buzz.

>>5687575
>>5687569
Mother 1 is a lot more dry in general than earthbound, whether it's the original version or the NOA translation.

>>5687670
IIRC Itoi cites naming the series Mother as roughly such,
"(basing it off of John Lennon's song Mother) I wanted the player to feel that shame that you feel when you hear John say "MOTHER!!"..."
The dude is characterized by his, um, tangential relation to the rest of humanity and reality. He lives in a world all his own.

Definitely hats off to the guy for just fucking ending his series. Didn't have to keep fucking things up and turn Mother into a road trip game, FINAL FUCKING FANTASY.

shit though I might actually play a Mother game with that pretense...
>>5687527
EB0 as it is originally translated is fine. Stiff-ish as those tend to be, but I'm pretty fucking sour over romhackers after the disaster that was Brave New World's writing. Gonna go in and refit the Woolsey script over his bullshit because holy shit that guy's writing makes me want to strangle someone.

Anyway EB0 is fine, not a wildly amazing script but it's an NES game, and for its time it's pretty ahead.

Mother 1 feels like Peanuts, Mother 2 feels like a Nickelodeon 90s cartoon, Mother 3 feels like a Ghibli movie.

>>5687685
Earthbound does feel a lot sassier, quirkier
though I really appreciated Mother 1's brand of childhood fear: the atmosphere in the factories, the zoo, the town of lonely children etc. was really something

>>5687670
>I am a forgotten man. I'm not really here.
>You didn't have to notice me...
>Please ignore me. I am a man who does not exist.
>You talk so kindly, I don't know what to do.
>If I miss people, I cannot live alone anymore.
>My conversation is always a monologue. I've been alone from the moment I was born...
>Lucky, unlucky... It makes no difference to me. Sometimes, even breathing becomes too much.

>>5687701
I think of Mother as being a combination of the Peanuts with X-Files and Stand By Me.
I really do just love the game to pieces.

>>5687721
>>5687701
And kind of unrelated but Earthbound always reminds me of the 90's "Jazz" design that was used for solo cups and paper plates and such. Not sure why exactly. Maybe the battle backgrounds or somewhat more surreal and neon nature of the game.

>>5687694
>Didn't have to keep fucking things up and turn Mother into a road trip game, FINAL FUCKING FANTASY.
to be fair, it's not as if the last mother game wasn't so disconnected from the first that it that they should have just called it a different game.

>>5687714
Deep...

>>5687745
Mother 3 was connected to EarthBound though, through Porky and Dr. Andonuts

>>5687745
Each Mother entry is only vaguely connected to the other. In Mother 2, the antagonist from Mother 1 returns. Same thing happens in Mother 3. But the world and main characters and story is different and not really connected to the story from the last game.
Mother 3 also has some hints at Mother 1, mainly the Magypsies seashell houses looking like Mother 1's Magicant houses, and some returning enemies that were absent in Mother 2, like the Titani.

>>5687745
That's true, but 3 felt like a deliberated farewell to the series, such that it even ends the continuity in that sort of 'happily ever after' fashion.

>>5687527
The gba version is a lot better I feel. Sandhop's translation is fine for its age but very dry in comparison. Make sure to use the color restoration patch as well.

>>5687527
Just play the original, the NoA translation is fantastic. The game is NES RPG perfection as is.

>>5687768
The GBA version is a blight on the series in every way.

>>5687802
Oof, that bad?

>>5687768
>>5687802
The GBA versions of 1 and 2 are serviceable for what they are (remember, phones couldn't run emulators in 2003), the only bad thing in them is the screen ratio/cropped resolution from the original and inferior sound, but that's to be expected from GBA. Other than that, nothing was ruined.
Mother 1 on GBA added a few nice things, like a fixed run button that doesn't make the NPCs fastforward, and dedicated check/talk button so you don't have to open the menu, and the full version of the ending from EB0 proto (it's kind of weird to think most Japanese fans only got to see the full ending in 2003 on this version).
Also, EVE leaves a chip item that you can use to teleport directly to Mt. Itoi (so you can go back and forth to Magicant for free heals suing the onyx hook, then go back to Mt. Itoi using the chip)

>>5687527
>the 25th anniversary hack which changes the graphics
honestly the new graphics are shit

just play the original

>>5689408
There is a patch that revert the original graphics and keep the mato's translation

>>5687751
>from the first