Mother 3
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Hey N you should know to make a better thread than this 
You need to include links and shit. Maybe some people don't know what Mother 3 is, yeah?
I don't really see chapters 1-3 as a prologue at all. They're legitimate chapters with plenty of content. Just because they don't star the main character doesn't make them less important.
You need to include links and shit. Maybe some people don't know what Mother 3 is, yeah?
I don't really see chapters 1-3 as a prologue at all. They're legitimate chapters with plenty of content. Just because they don't star the main character doesn't make them less important.
mostly what Luminier said. Lucas is the central character, true, but the earlier chapters are hardly a prologue -- at least not in the way they're usually managed. you really shouldn't view it as something to get through so that you can make it to the action, since the first three chapters cover maybe a quarter or a fifth of the game itself.
I actually kind of like the way the prologue was managed here. usually the plot wouldn't be set up in such a hands-on manner, and you'd cut to the main character almost right away. instead, you get to play through the development of conflict yourself, and that makes the ties to the "real game" from chapter four on that much clearer (plus there are lots of little nuances everywhere that are kind of fun to find.) it also kind of sets Lucas up in the player's eyes as that pampered kid who's just kind of there to begin with and has to fill in a new pair of shoes, since up until the fourth chapter the plot had been building up around him mostly without his involvement.
yeah I'm gushing but hey I like this game a lot and you should know that already. the balance definitely needs work in some places (mostly there are a couple spots where you need to grind for cash) but it's still a solid little game.
but yeah make your first post not suck
p.s. keep an eye out for a doorknob it keeps showing up in the weirdest places
I actually kind of like the way the prologue was managed here. usually the plot wouldn't be set up in such a hands-on manner, and you'd cut to the main character almost right away. instead, you get to play through the development of conflict yourself, and that makes the ties to the "real game" from chapter four on that much clearer (plus there are lots of little nuances everywhere that are kind of fun to find.) it also kind of sets Lucas up in the player's eyes as that pampered kid who's just kind of there to begin with and has to fill in a new pair of shoes, since up until the fourth chapter the plot had been building up around him mostly without his involvement.
yeah I'm gushing but hey I like this game a lot and you should know that already. the balance definitely needs work in some places (mostly there are a couple spots where you need to grind for cash) but it's still a solid little game.
but yeah make your first post not suck
p.s. keep an eye out for a doorknob it keeps showing up in the weirdest places
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because I was severaly underleveled by that time. But it didn't seem like grinding at all considering battles are so damn fun.
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There's already a thread in here on what Mother 3 is and where to get it and bla bla bla, and I don't want to splat out too many spoilers. What am I, Nphyxpedia?
Anyway, to elaborate on my comment about the first three chapters, and this may be a short perspective since I haven't got very far in the main game, but I feel it's bad story structure to spend so much time on background and flavor. A short prologue, 1-2 hours, to introduce some backstory and peripheral characters is cool but I didn't feel like for the time I spent I learned a lot about the world, what's happening, or who these people are.
Anyway, to elaborate on my comment about the first three chapters, and this may be a short perspective since I haven't got very far in the main game, but I feel it's bad story structure to spend so much time on background and flavor. A short prologue, 1-2 hours, to introduce some backstory and peripheral characters is cool but I didn't feel like for the time I spent I learned a lot about the world, what's happening, or who these people are.
it's not background and flavour. the story starts at the beginning -- there's nothing to separate the "prologue" from the "real game" in terms of gameplay, characterization, or anything like that. it just so happens that it skips three years in the process.
and for your last point that is why you talk to npcs. if you want to learn the little details, you have to talk with the people you meet along the way! itoi's games have always been text-heavy, and he's never handed people the flavour details on a silver platter. the important things should have been self-evident (and the hazy patches are filled in later on, albeit in an incredibly haphazard manner. I think that at some point the studio came under time pressure and they had to wrap things up quickly.)
and make your thread not suck. I would have already locked this if I weren't biased. as far as the other threads in this forum go this is incredibly lacking, and I don't want people taking this sort of thing as an acceptable standard. the Other Hand sucks enough as is.
p.s. o/
and for your last point that is why you talk to npcs. if you want to learn the little details, you have to talk with the people you meet along the way! itoi's games have always been text-heavy, and he's never handed people the flavour details on a silver platter. the important things should have been self-evident (and the hazy patches are filled in later on, albeit in an incredibly haphazard manner. I think that at some point the studio came under time pressure and they had to wrap things up quickly.)
and make your thread not suck. I would have already locked this if I weren't biased. as far as the other threads in this forum go this is incredibly lacking, and I don't want people taking this sort of thing as an acceptable standard. the Other Hand sucks enough as is.
p.s. o/
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THIS THREAD SUCKS WHO THE HELL IS MOTHER 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i can't play this until i get a slot 2 device this shit's gay
i can't play this until i get a slot 2 device this shit's gay
Oh, I don't care, I'll lock it myself :P Also, I obsessively talk to NPCs. All I learned of consequence (besides backstory details on the main characters) in chapter 1-3 is that I lived in a communist village and that there were guys with pig masks intent on playing Dr. Robotnik in our lush forest.
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HEY GUYS, I'M A MOD. I DON'T HAVE TO POST GOOD THREADS -- I'LL JUST LOCK THEM WHEN ANOTHER MOD TELLS ME TO FIX IT. I'M ABOVE THE LAW.
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i mean yeah dude lots of people know what mother is but this isn't 4chan you can't just post threads with NO INFORMATION WHATSOEVER.
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