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Shigesato Itoi didn’t pen the ending to Mother 3 until the game was almost finished. Then he placed himself in isolation and wrote it. Supposedly the Nintendo 64 version of the game was much darker, but Itoi felt that was a was a better person when working on the GBA version and so he made it lighter.

If you choose to experience Mother 3, I’ll have you know that nothing will prepare you for the ending you’ll receive upon completion of the game. It’s so out of left field that it will leave you smiling and it may even conjure a tear from you. I won’t spoil anything for you in this recommendation and in fact will keep specific details to a minimum.

In fact you could say Mother 3 is slightly indescribable. You could talk about the incredible sound battles that utilize attacks and drum beats or the perfection of the rolling HP meter. You could say that the art direction in Mother 3 is absolutely mind blowing and that perhaps no other sixteen bit game will ever look as good. You could also discuss just how absolutely surreal and incredible the game’s sound is. The music is more than exceptional. It’s almost perfect and it all fits together nicely.

Despite what others may think Nintendo of America has not been insane to not port this game, because I feel a great deal of charm would be taken away if they did localize it. Nintendo may know this too, for I think it’s why they didn’t shut down the fan translation project. For example the game has profanity and severe drug usage at one part in the game. Nintendo would probably dissect the game and pull a lot of the life away from it through censorship. Besides, NOA is riding on the tailcoat of the most successful family friendly video game console of all time. They can’t really afford to localize such a kiddy looking game with such mature themes.

The themes in the game shine brightly from the threat of industrialization to materialism, and how the lines between good and evil are always blurred. In fact the game goes beyond good and evil to show you a world where love is always stronger than any evil or good intentions. The game grows on you and with you, over the course of the thirty so hours you’ll be playing it. Years pass, people change, towns change, people die, hopes die, but love always prevails and stays present the entire time.

I’ve held off on writing this recommendation, because I wanted to marinate on exactly how the game made me feel. For one, I already plan to beat the game again. It’s just that good, as it’s like a novel, a perfect little novel that you’ll read so much, the pages will start falling out. It’s funny, whimsical, absolutely strange, and heart wrenching at times. It’s a collection of every feeling you may have had about the world. You’ll begin to feel hate for characters and then later realize that you were wrong to hate them. You’ll be trapped in places that you’re uncomfortable in and you’ll want to run, and worst of all you can’t. However, If you play the game right, you’ll gain an incredible amount of hope from Itoi’s message, and perhaps you’ll hold the media genre of video games to a much higher standard.

When I started playing video games, I never realized how important a few of them would be to me, even at twenty years old. Mother 3 is by the far the best game I have ever played, and It is without a doubt, the closest to perfect a game can be. If I ever taught a course on video games, this would be The Fountainhead of the course material, as it transcends ever video game to come before it and may possibly be one of the most important video games ever made.

Mother 3 is magical.