How Mother 3 Breaks You

A cute thing in the beginning of the game is that if you sprint into the mother from behind she gets startled and says something like "AAAAH I SURRENDER" and gives you a cookie. Edit from 2 years later: I have been informed that she gives you bread actually

Mother 1: Sequels are rarely as good as the original. Mother 2: Oh really? Mother 3: Yeah.

“Lucas doesn’t know what to do anymore” is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever read in a video game

"You must be so exhausted" is the most heartbreaking line in any game, in my opinion.

That time where the drug trip made Lucas imagine his dad telling him he was the reason his mom died. Absolutely fucked up.

Flint lashing out in grief and rage is the REALEST shit, and I've never seen any other game capture this.

One of the saddest things about Mother 3 for me is the panning shot of the cliffs right after Flint gives up looking for Claus after one last excursion--and he's right there. If Flint had looked for just one minute longer, he would have found his son and prevented literally all of this from happening. Claus' fate was wholly preventable and while you're fighting for everything in the last moments of the game, in another sense you're fighting for no reason at all. It's truly depressing.

I lost a brother a long time ago. I feel like breaking every single day, but the memory of my brother being buried pulls me back everytime. When Claus said "I'm going to where mother is. I'm sorry." I cried so damn hard, i know that almost no one is going to read this, but if you do i hope you're doing ok. And to my brother: I'll never ever forget about you. I'll live, i'll smile and i'll cherish your memory every single moment of my life. Have a good life everyone.

You know this game is important when someone like Terry Crews tweets Nintendo for them to release an English version of Mother 3.

"43 minutes is too long" Jokes on you, i'm into this shit.

I don't know why but the message "hey world! Be nice to John!" Is what made me cry

One little thing I think you should’ve mentioned After the end plays, you see the title screen again, the screen is natural, made of wood and earth, rather than machine as it was before.

how mother 3 break mother fans: it doesn't have a official english version

I never took "no crying until the end" seriously but by God, it's serious.

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I think the part that fucks me up the most is when Hinawa says to Claus “you must be so exhausted.” Even after all he did, his mom loved him so much that she was just worried about how he was feeling.

I always knew the Undertale was heavily inspired by Mother, but I don't think I ever fully got what that meant until now. The descriptions of Mother 3's little quirky characters and facets, and little pointless moments that only exist for you to have experienced a goofy thing. The evolutionary tree is SUPER visible to me now.

i remember playing this game, completely blind, and naming the characters after my real family. that shit fucked me up 10/10 beautiful game

Flints' animation when he is told his wife is dead is so.... you can almost feel the absolute heartbreak through the screen and how he keeps up that tough, closed off mask by pushing the woman away who wants to comfort him so he can grieve alone, like a man.

Putting Porky's motivation as the nihilistic desire to escape all feeling very much draws a parallel to Giygas, who was defeated in EarthBound Beginnings because the feelings he had towards his adoptive mother Maria overwhelmed him and in turn and forced him to cease his invasion. Following that, Giygas sought to completely eradicate these feelings, which he finally achieved by the time EarthBound takes place, having obliterated his mind as well. Porky takes a different turn. He has always experienced bad feelings towards him. His parents are abusive and he is not well-liked by anyone. All feelings he's ever received are negative, so that is why he wants them (or "everyone who doesn't like him", as he puts it) gone. And this, to me, is the core philosophy about this series of video games. They're about feelings, emotional experiences, be they happy or sad or unsettling, and accepting them all as part of what makes the world the way it is and what makes us human. And that is why the villains, Giygas and Porky, are fundamentally opposed to this concept.