How Mother 3 Breaks You

Here is a video where I talk about baths. Oh, and also about Mother 3 (sequel to Earthbound), one of the most beautiful and heart breaking games of all time.

Lets Fight a Boss Podcast:

Other Super Eyepatch Wolf stuff

CW for part I couldn’t talk about in the video:

Sources:

Mother 3s Development:

Translation project:

Mother 3 cancelation/ not getting localized:

Itoi as a copy writer:

General:

Nana Fanart:
Lucas and nana in water (first image)
Others:
(The original twitter account for the flower crown drawing has been deleted)

Footage from:

Playingwithmahwii

Song List:

[shadez]

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

[Loffeleif]

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

[queencancerous]

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

[vincentjonesvr]

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

[Ayyem]

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

[FrNSICs]

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

[brandonmorris]

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

[teorima]

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.

[reidood]

The last "I'm sorry" Claus gives to Lucas is the most devastating and soul crushing "I'm sorry" I have ever seen or experienced on any medium.

[yedffgd]

SEW: "Yes, I love all the main characters in Mother 3 equally, like Lucas, Kumatora, and *checks smudged writing on hand* Duste.

[xXCrimsonLightXx]

The “you must be exhausted” is one of those quotes that I think about and just cry. So many emotions went into playing this game when I was young and that one just gets me every time.

[ironcladshade]

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

[LittleNamMan]

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

[FlubbedPig]

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.

[treadmillgaming]

Me and my younger brother are pretty close, my younger brother has blond hair and is very shy and timid

I have brown hair and I've always been an energetic troublemaker

So of course I named the twins after us

Little did I know that this choice would emotionally destroy me over and over

[agostinhoneto]

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.

[Yasuo_Uehara]

Something I like about Porky's character design is that he looks like he's on the brink of death and laying on a deathbed

[karuflan]

"43 minutes is too long"

Jokes on you, i'm into this shit.

[Vailskibum]

It's a crime that this game wasn't released in America

[Heavymetalthunda]

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.