History of the Mother/Earthbound series Part 4. Community and Heritage.

Greetings. This is the last part of a series of Blogs about Mother/Earthbound Games. On this blog, I will not discuss one specific game. Instead, I concentrate on the legacy of the whole series. On which trace she was left in the game industries.

Community and his work

The community of the series lives to this day. On Reddit every day there are posts with the work of fans. Starmen sites.Net and MotherForever continue active work. The community even has its own podcast (!), what can we say about the infinite number of YouTube video dedicated to games of the series. I will leave you a small playlist collected by me for this stories of the series. I will also leave the chosen videos that I really can recommend.

From creativity, I note the following quality materials:

AVGN released a review for this game and, as for me, it came out to the reference. There is everything that you expect from AVGN, and the ending of the adjusted to the game is a cherry on the cake.

Video from the Monkeyness channel, where he analyzes the original history of the Tolstoy Notebook trilogies, which was inspired by Mother 3.

If you are interested in how exactly the games were developed, then I can recommend this documentary and two videos from beta64 (1 and 2).

Of the funny, I can recommend a full -length Boundearth, which is essentially a humor of the second game of the series.

Well, in the end, I want to recommend a documentary from Nintendo Life, in which ordinary players tell their stories related to the series. “The Mother We Share”.

Even so, everything that I recommended does not cover the tenth share, from all the video creation of the EarthBound/Mother community. So if desired, you will find a lot of interesting things in this series.

But by truly influential, the nongamstopsites.uk series is for industrial video games. She inspired many authors who later released their games inspired by the series. The main of them are of course the story of the underground world. So I will not ignore the elephant in the room and immediately briefly go through.

Undertale – game created by Toby Fox. In the context of this blog, it is interesting to us as a game inspired by Earthbound . Perhaps this will surprise you, but I still have not slaughtered into it, so I can’t say a lot about her. I will only say that the naked look can be seen that she took a lot from the original.

Gameplay game to be JRPG with a number of features, according to the type of mini-game during the battle. And its plot spin around the confrontation of the two worlds, the world of people (surfaces) and the world of monsters (underground world). The game found great glory and popularity among ordinary players. And the fact that Toby Fox was inspired by the original Earthbound gave her a second wind among new gamers. Now Toby Fox is working on another game, Deltarune .

Before talking about other games inspired by the series, I would like to talk about fan games, the most famous of which.

Mother: Cognitive Dissonance – a game made by a group of fans of the Mother series. The only fan project that is completed (t. e. We pass from beginning to end). My personal experience in this game is small, because I only went through its beginning.

For a long time, nothing was heard about the game, but in 2020 the team finally got in touch. It turned out that the original project was split into two projects, due to the non -possession of views within the team. ODDITY (2020) – a project that continues the original ideas of Mother 4. And the second project was called. Mother 4 (2021). Because of this, a certain confusion is created, because the original fan project is now called Oddity, and the new one is Mother 4. There is little heard about the okay projects and the developers rarely get in touch. So I do not advise you to lay big on them, it is better to just add them to the backlog and it’s nice to be surprised if they ever come out.

Another thing is Mother Encore, the developers of the game to keep an active connection with their fanbase, and releasing the trailer back to 2020, then when the ODDITY, they reached much more imposing progress. But about this game, I already talked in the first blog, so I do not see the point of repeating what was said there.

Of course, in addition to these three, there are many more fan games and ROM hacks: Earthbound Omega, two games Touhou Mother, Capsule Quest and of course Halloween Hack. However, they are no longer so important for stories, and the retreat was delayed.

OneShot – game made on RPG Maker -E. Like many games on the engine, it was partially inspired by Earthbound. Albeit in a lesser degree. The main feature of the game is disposability. You have only one attempt to go through the game. This seemingly minus, works great on the plot and ending of the game.

Gameplay, the game is very different from other games in the article, because there is no fighting. It was more likely to deepen the intercession with the world. And the rest of the typical game on RPG Maker.

So far, I have not been able to try this game, but there is a good review on the site, the authorship of Fleurdelys047.

Lisa is another game on RPG-MAKER-E. Gloomy game, albeit not as gloomy as the Fear & Hunger or Black Souls dilogy. The plot talks about how the main character of Brad is trying to save the little girl Lisa, who was kidnapped under his nose. And in parallel with this, he is trying to fight his past, in which he failed to help his sister Lisa. All this is in a post -apocalyptic setting, where all women disappeared.

Gameplay of the game have several unique features but nothing more. The main value of the game is not in gameplay.

Much more about the game is described in another blog, the authorship of 2Bornot2b.

Omori – once again, the game made on RPG Maker. This game is dedicated to psychological injuries about how we can drive ourselves into the illusory world, just to escape from reality where we cannot ignore our deeds. The plot of this game, really amazing, because I will not tell you anymore, this is really the game that I recommend for everyone to pass.

Gameplay, the game is a regular JRPG with a number of features, according to the type of system stone scissors but nothing unique, which would not be in any other game.

The site has a full -fledged overview from the editorial offices, authorship of Cyril Voloshin.

Of course, in addition to these three, there are dozens of rpg maker games that inherit certain elements from Earthbound. These games are a vivid representation of the influence of Earthbound on Indie segment of industries.

Conclusion

EarthBound/Mother is a series that has not become a big financial success. However, she remained great creative success. After all, after herself, she left the talented community of fans, which to this day to remember her. As well as a huge layer of games on RPG-Maker, which inherit certain elements from it.