@@Pokaroquaiitoi said he won't make one, but if anyone did make one he'd like it to be romantic love, as mother is love in family, mother 2 is love in friendship, mother 3 is love in general, and ofc mother 4
The reason they didn't show you the "new world" the Dragon made is because YOU passed YOUR heart on to the dragon. The world became what your heart wanted it to be. It's not just "up to interpretation." Whatever you wished for, that's what came true. Edit: Six years later and I realize there's a miscommunication. It's "up to interpretation" in a more literal sense than that phrasing generally entails. Added the word 'just' to reflect this.
2:02:04 - "...don't do this..." :`( I'm with you, Lauren. I was gonna wait a while before I talked about this, but since you mentioned it in your video description, I guess I'll talk about it now. Don't take this the wrong way, but...I love watching you cry. Not in a mean way of course...I mean, because you have such a tremendously tender, caring, emotional heart. The way you initially refused to let Dad (Flint) go ahead of your party proves that... All those moments that I've seen you cry...the end of Mother 2 ("I miss you."); Mettaton's fans letting him know that he had made a difference in their lives; sparing Asgore; hearing the first secret videotape (of Tori and Gory expecting Asriel); hugging Asriel; Flint's very realistic grief breakdown at the news of Hinawa's sacrifice, and finally, this moment. You love video games with the same passion that I do; getting invested in a great storyline, and even shedding some tears over heartbreaking/heartwarming plot points/scenes.
I realize I never replied to this, but thank you. It really means a lot to me that there are other people like me out there who care so much about games like this. I feel like it's the least we can do for developers who pour so much of themselves into telling such wonderful stories.
Lauren the Flute Precisely. Mr. Itoi created the MOTHER series because he wanted to prove that video games *could* be used as an emotional storytelling medium. And you know what? He succeeded. :') And so did Toby Fox. They must feel so _blessed_ to know that so many people...people like you and me, have been moved to tears and smiles over their beautiful stories. ^_^
I've seen this ending so many times, I'm a glutton for punishment, but when she said that? It broke my heart all over again because that's exactly how I felt. Poor Claus was turned into a machine, every living moment had to be agony for him. There was no going back after that.
I know this is a bit late, but I love this game and I'm glad I got to to experience it with you. Confession time: I've never cried because of a game. The end of this game made me cry. A lot...
Watching you cry during this ending was so impactful, that I started getting emotional. The “Come to your mother. You must be so exhausted” strikes me particularly hard. All the pain in my life, in part by the loss of my father, had caught up to me as of late, and have used sleep as a method of coping throughout my life. I can relate to both Claus and Lucas, Claus for his decision for his pain and actions to end and Lucas for his decision to fight it off, recognize it, lose assurance of what to do, and, ultimately, bear witness as the pain is laid it to rest. Watching the ending with Vinesauce had me sad, but seeing your reaction broke me in the best way possible. It’s helped me address my suffering by finally shedding some tears after a lot of repression. Sorry for the dump of personal information, but it felt important that I comment on how much this video means to me. Now, I can turn to this when I need an honest cry. Thank you.
I'm glad if I could help you walk through your feelings and give you a starting place to let out your own tears. That is a lot of pain to carry around for a long time, and I think we need to be able to cry in order to process our pain. Maybe the pain won't ever leave you, but it can fade enough to become part of where you come from but not the defining part of who you are, if that makes sense. Please continue loving yourself, and please give yourself permission to cry when you need to. It's OK to be hurting, it's OK to be scared, it's OK to cry, and it's OK to not know what to do ... sometimes you just live through the pain and let yourself feel it, really feel it, until one day you're on the other side of the worst of it and you can breathe again. If you come back here, let me know how you're doing sometimes, OK? I'll be thinking of you ♥
@@thefoodathome5333 holy shit just noticed now haha! there's rumours about an earthbound remake for the switch - so.. maybe somethings cooking hopefully.
It fills me up with the basic feeling of "this is the end" Not just because the series is over, but my theory on what happened to the world is that all of humanity was wiped out, cause all of this happened due to human development in the first place. And so, that's why it would be called memory of life, no sophisticated life exists anymore, it's all a memory
1:49:42 this game had amazing game design, at this point I’m sure most people know but this is when you’re able to start attacking, when I played this even though I was conditioned into only healing at this point when I saw that I instinctively thought “I don’t have a choice” and then attacks started working, Itoi and his team didn’t even need to say anything to let us know, that’s just amazing game design
Its most powerful moments are definitely among the most emotionally moving game moments I've ever seen. But for me I was overall more engaged by Undertale -- which isn't a slight against MOTHER 3 in any capacity! It's a great game. I just personally connected more to Undertale. I'm very glad I played both, though :)
Oh, I didn't realize this fight was going on! I hope you won't be offended if I cut it off here. I'm not mad at either of you. But I do want to encourage you both to keep in mind the lessons in kindness from these games! It's ok to disagree. It's even ok to think the other person is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong! But calling each other names isn't really going to help anything. If you feel that upset, it's usually best to step away and take a deep breath and then ask yourself if it's really worth going further with the conversation. Being that angry is kind of like swallowing a hot poker; it really hurts, and you don't need to do it! I hope you both have a better day today. Maybe find someone who's having a bad day and smile at them and see if you can help them feel better. It'll help you, too. (Full disclosure, sometimes I find myself yelling at people on the internet too! It sucks. I hate it. Sometimes you can have a good conversation with someone you disagree with. But if you're getting mad and they're getting mad, it's not worth both of you hurting. Helping another person is a much better alternative.)
Toby made it no secret that the Mother series was a giant influence on Undertale as Toby had even made an Earthbound Rom hack (which is pretty good) that would serve as a learning tool for figuring out how to make something of his own.
The credits ending song has the 8 melodies from Mother 1, and the eight melodies from Mother 2....thats freaking cool...and a great way to end the series
Having just beat this today, I am absolutely astounded how beautiful this game is; For a GBA game, at that. This game emotionally kicked my ass and as much as i loved Earthbound, this game i can honestly say drove me to tears on a deeper level. I highly recommend Mother 3 to anyone scoping this out who hasnt yet tried it.
Ok, confession time. I was mortified with the prospect of playing Mother 3 ever, because I had only started EarthBound and had gotten past Onett, before Happy Happy village. I had watched chapters 1-4 on ChuggaaConroy's channel, and since I played SSBB, I could put 2 and 2 together, and the idea of Pokey brainwashing people and being the main villain didn't sit right with me, and gave me nightmares and insomnia for weeks. I had only seen neighborhood kid Pokey, and it really disturbed me. Then I finished EarthBound and read the Japanese Manuel for Mother 1, (which has a TON of unsaid story) and I always thought that even though Mother 3 was technically a better game, it would be my least favorite in the trilogy, due to thinking I would be depressed the entire way through. Then Camp Fangamer 2016 came around, and after the stream, I downloaded Mother 3 and started playing it, and I laughed, sobbed, smiled, frowned, and screamed "YES" when I got a 3% item drop. It is now my 2nd favorite game of all time, under only Xenoblade Chronicles.
Pokey is a very disturbing and tragic character in it, so I think your initial concerns were right in that regard! It's very sad in a lot of places, but I think Itoi wants to leave the player with hope for the future. I'm glad you were inspired to play the game after Camp Fangamer (which I think did a good job capturing the soul of the game) and that you love it. I don't love it as much as I love Undertale, but I'd have a hard time ranking Earthbound and MOTHER 3 because they are both strong in different ways. I guess I'll just need to play the first game and see what happens :)
"Other people's reactions to the end" = 10 minutes of nonstop ugly crying, in this case :) The logo is something I've been thinking about and wondering about since I first booted up the game, so I think that's why I noticed the change in it. It's a really nice touch! They put a lot of thought into the details of this game.
Your reaction to the finale was heart-rending. I enjoyed watching you react to Mother 3's crucial cutscenes. It's a sad game, dark with heavy themes of loss. Had it been released for the N64, it would have been darker. Regardless, it outclasses anything Final Fantasy 7 ever achieved, an unsung hero of the greatest games ever made. In the end, you restored the Earth to what it once was before Porky corrupted it.
2:42:33 do you still want to know what the youtubers in the future have to say? :P I last played Mother 3 in 2009 and wanted to revisit it via a Let's Play, and I wanted to watch someone who would be *emotionally* invested. and you delivered! not to be like "crying is fun" but there's something unique to sharing that feeling over a story. the setup wasn't ideal, from emulation issues, to dropouts, and I usually prefer when streamers read the on-screen dialogue. but then, during the finale here, despite your concerns that it was a boring watch... experiencing the story with no words except what Itoi wrote (and Tomato translated)? that carried an intensity unlike any other. I was planning to just watch this and tap out, but... I think I'll be watching a few more of your archived Lets Plays, starting with Undertale. thanks for sharing them :)
Did Mother 3 just tell our entire world to be nice to Lauren the Flute?!? ..... Well, if a game tells me to do something, then I guess I must do it! Great playthrough Lauren, very touching at the end when you were so wonderfully moved (don't call it ugly btw!). I was very touched and I enjoyed taking this journey with you, Lucas and the gang. You are awesome and you saved the world. Great job! :)
Thank you! That's a really, really sweet thing to say and I appreciate it~~~ "Ugly crying" is a phrase that describes a particular sort of crying, and I was definitely doing that, but I am glad and not at all embarrassed about it. This was a really moving game and the ending in particular ;_; with the twins together ;_; ahh, my heart.
I only object to the term because, for me, there was nothing ugly about seeing a person like you so emotionally invested and moved by this wonderful piece of art. I thought it was beautiful, and I'm so happy games like this, and music, and books, and whatnot can impact us so :)
People like to hate on Pokey for what he does in this game, but I'm usually more unsettled, bordering on terrified... and not really of him, but of his situation. It's especially potent during the final fight with him, what with the music and the image of this "old, wizened child" ( (c) "bloodborne" ) laying there. It evokes this very strong hollow, twisted, and tragic feeling. Also "great" to then look back at the pokeybots fight with the upbeat-ish music and the robots made into the image of how Pokey sees (wants to see?) himself. "Bad boy" - so he fully embraces his selfishness and lack of empathy and whatnot, and it's scary when such a person is given the power that Pokey has, but at the same time you can fully see the regular human being behind him and wonder if he could've been helped. He's probably one of my favorite antagonists of all time. The whole of Earthbound can be just to set up for his role in M3 for all I care :D
I caught a comment on the stream saying that the masked man’s mask is more of a helmet than a mask. This was around the same time Claus fired the intense bolt of lightning and killed himself.
I think we all cried lol What really brought me to tears was seeing Boney slumped over Claus. God... I lost it and had to set down my phone before finishing it. Undertale made me cry too, when the monsters tell you the story of Asriel dying... I fucking love Mother and Undertale. Good stuff.
Oh man, that was a ride. Thanks for streaming this game Lauren! This was everything I wanted out of a Blind Mother 3 playthrough. I loved everything about it, including your reactions and your analysis of everything that happened in it, and just how positive everyone was along the way.
Thank you so so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed watching, since I certainly enjoyed playing. It's such a good, emotional game. I was really glad to play it and really glad to have friends along for the ride, too. :)
Lauren, your reaction to the final battle was almost 1 to 1 in terms of similarity to my reaction. The only thing I did differently was read the dialogue and nothing else, particularly Hinawa, that made me smile and sob twice as hard.
I usually watch with headphones, but Battle Against the Masked Man scares me so much I always take them off and turn my volume low whenever I watch a lets play of Mother 3, at least until the next phase of the battle begins ;-; Regardless though, I love this game to bits. It's probably one of if not MY favorite game. Amazing playthrough Lauren!
Yeah, there are some really upsetting and unsettling parts of this game! It's very well made and seriously shines in its most emotional moments. I'm really glad you enjoyed my playthrough :) I certainly enjoyed the game!
(continued from last post) I'm a pretty tough guy myself, and you managed to make me go a big blubbery one when you said those words, "don't do this". Don't ever feel ashamed to cry over something as 'stupid' as video games, I do it too. Shigesato Itoi is a wonderful story-teller, who, just like Toby, knows how to balance humor and sorrow. So keep those play-throughs, and your tears, safely coming. ^_^
Even all these years later, I absolutely adore peoples reactions to this game, and yours especially hits different because of that partial refusal of the ending (or at least the belief that things could be better). The ending of Mother 3 is what a lot of people might consider a "bad ending" in modern game culture, for a BUNCH of reasons: -The villain is alive (albeit in an invulnerable form of stasis) and has no way to mature or understand what he has done wrong. -Your brother commit suicide the moment that his mind is the most clear it's been in years, out of sheer exhaustion and grief for the loss of his life and his familiy's lives. -The final needle is pulled, but it isn't a mystical solution or a cure-all. The Dragon beneath Tazmily is larger than the island itself and its mere emergence shatters the world we've come to know. Finally, though the end of the credits makes you believe that everything is alright, you don't *know* what that means, what "saving the world meant", as you said. Maybe the Island was shredded and reformed, and everyone was brought back to life, the last island of humanity kept alive in a perfect Tazmily where nothing went wrong. Maybe Lucas's grief at his brothers loss and the overwhelming pressure placed on his shoulders made him wish for it all to end, and while the Dragon did kill everyone, they sit in the afterlife as perfectly content versions of themselves. The fact is though, i've seen plenty of fascinating theories on what the ending of Mother 3 means but... none of it matters. What matters is that the ending happened, and everyone (in some way or other) is ok. It's thanks to you that the family is reuinited, one way or another. For that, the game doesn't congratulate you, and there is no accolades at the end, but the characters just... Thank you. It's a bittersweet ending, but one that i'll never get tired of.
This series reminds me what's most important in life. One reason why it's one of my all-time favorites. I found your videos because I wanted to watch the ending of this game again since it's been a while since I have what store played a mother game. I'm glad I did and you seem like an awesome person, hopefully I'll be able to drop by a stream sometime.
Thank you for playing one of my favorite games! Now I can blab about a couple things in case you ever replay it: There's an ultimate weapon for Duster you could get as soon as chapter 5, but it requires going back to Osohe and refighting a buffed up Mr.Passion. In the Sunshine Forest (future) you can rarely see a Black Beanling which yields over 16,000 exp! You can fight it as soon as the start of chapter 4, which can make Lucas go from level 10 to 24 in one battle! It's nuts, and the best way to grind in the game. Especially when you get Bufferizers which doubles exp. Negative Man... has nothing more to him. Sorry! He's just there, but people have speculated of what he might've been used for at one point. The Porky Stature in NPC can be fought, but only after Leder and you must talk with it 3 times. It has 100,000,000 HP! Only way to kill is with PK Flash or New Years Eve Bomb. There are a lot of cool things to this game. It's unfortunate you never managed to grasp the Combo System. Check this video about them though: th-cam.com/video/xC6f5S1ssX4/w-d-xo.html It's also unfortunate you don't get the humor, since you don't seem to have a taste for that. I think this game is as funny as the likes of Undertale. Of course, you might disagree since this game is a lot more personal/real than Undertale, where as Undertale tried to be real in only a few places. I still think Mother 3/EarthBound blow Undertale out of the water, and it's sad. I've yet to find a single person on the internet agree with my opinions on it. I don't think it's bad, just has lots of problems.
The Death of Aeris can't even begin to compare to the heartbreaking ending of Mother 3. And what makes it even worse? I named Claus after my own brother -- vice versa when he played it, and it destroyed us BOTH.
Wow, that's a beautiful but painful way of personalizing the experience. I love that you and your brother both did the same thing! I think the game wants you to do that for precisely that reason...
"Lucas remembered Claus' smell." That was the line that destroyed me during the ending. Absolutely sobbing. It's such a small, intimate detail but it says everything about where Lucas' mind is at during that tiny moment of finally embracing his brother again, before everything ends. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us, Lauren. I'm so glad I watched it all. I've played Mother 3 a bunch of times, but your perspective on things made me appreciate it a little differently, and maybe with a little more forgiveness towards certain characters. But also maybe it's just that I'm getting old lol. Have you revisited Mother 3 since this playthrough? Do you feel differently about the ending now? Personally, I hated it when I first saw it in 2006. But I think now I kinda really like it. It seems to me now that they want you to believe in Lucas' heart and take it on faith that the world turned out better. I guess I'm just at a place where I don't mind that as much anymore or something. Anyway, sorry to ramble. Thanks for sharing, it was really wonderful to watch.
Thank you for watching through my MOTHER 3 playthrough! No, I haven't revisited the game, although lately I've been thinking about it (since some other games I've played have seemed to pull inspiration from it, and I am working on a story myself that might have a few overlapping themes). I wonder what I'd think about it now, if I'd get something else from the ending and if I would have different feelings about the characters. I've definitely changed as a person since this playthrough and that might color my perspective. It might be a fun experience. Please don't worry about rambling here! I am the ultimate rambler so it would be awfully hypocritical of me not to support other people in rambling back! I hope you are well. ♥
Awesome let's play! Endings like these from games of this caliber are why I play games in the first place. Shame that I missed half of the streams during the times, but awesome to see them uploaded on here. I'm really looking forward to the fan projet Mother 4, which surprisingly captures the essence of the series as far as Graphics, music and dialogue go.
Lauren’s tears took mortal damage. The tears got hurt and slipped down Lauren’s cheek. You obtained PK Sadness! Edit: Also, “I’m not crying, you’re crying! You were the one who cried after a certain somebody used a heart disintegrating spell on you!”
Got to say, it was really interesting watching a musician play through this series. A truly fun and unique experience. So thank you. I hope for a Mother 1 playthrough some day.
It might happen! I've heard a lot of warnings about MOTHER 1 not being very _playable_, so I'd probably want to tackle one of the versions that has been edited to be less grindy. Either Tomato's mod or the "Earthbound Beginnings" version, I think...?
I absolutely agree with you regarding Pokey in Earthbound. At this point, in MOTHER 3, I hold him more responsible for his actions because he is no longer a child. People have the opportunity and ability to move beyond their childhood trauma as they grow up, and I'm so sorry he didn't. :(
Lauren the Flute I don't know. I don't think he had the chance to grow up. His actions in Mother 3 are more like a child with almost omnipotent and omniscient power. It doesn't help with his immortality also.
It's extremely rare that a game can make me cry as much as this one does, that ending just hits me in a very meaningful way, I'm really glad I found your channel through this series Lauren, I'll definitely take some time every now and then to stop by and see your twitch streams, I look forward to seeing your streams. 😉
Thank you so so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this, and I hope you'll have fun with other games I'm streaming. Please say hello any time you can join us, if you want ♥ I'm about to try diving into Crisis Core, which I've been told will make me cry a lot too...
I've played this game, and i cried a lot. This is the only game made me cry. Um... 3times with blind run. I still cry when I play Lucas Vs Masked man. (I quick saved the start of that fight..) Well, i'm now enjoy watching others play blind run with this game. And recommend this to my friends too. Mother3 is my favorite game and I'm hoping to find nice game like this. Thank you for nice blind run. Hope i can watch your stream.. but I don't have much time. Plz keep doing nice gaming!
{sees Claus standing at the needle} Oh no. {Their mother tells them to stop fighting} *Oh no.* {There’s a flashback and then Claus strikes the lighting back at himself and dies} *OH NO!!!!!* {The world begins to crumble} *AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!*
Aside from Persona Q, this is the only other video game that ever made me cry. I still shed tears when I hear the Mother 3 theme. Such a powerful song with so much emotion. I'm going to have it played at my funeral. :D
It's such a good, emotional game. When it's at its best, it is really one of the best. And the music contributes a lot to the emotion. I think it's an appropriate choice for a funeral ♥ and I think the composer and Itoi would be honored to know it means that much to you.
How the f*ck did this game make me cry and I never got around to watching the entire thing? This final battle and ending will truly give you the feels! I probably would have been crying a river if I watched the whole thing and got to near the end of the game. I do hope that Nintendo releases Mother 3 to America because this is a game all countries need to experience. Lucas was one of my mains in Brawl and even though I knew little to nothing about him at first, now I can completely understand why he has the personality he has. I feel so sorry for him....
This was wonderful. I hope you had fun, Lauren, I sure did watching you play through this game. Hopefully you'll always remember this game and what you experienced. I'm looking forward to watching you play Majora's Mask, I'll try to come to a stream sometime, too!
Thank you so much! Yes, I think I'll be carrying parts of MOTHER 3 around with me for a long time. I'm really glad I was able to share the experience with friends along the way, too. It's funny, I've actually watched some of Majora's Mask before, but on another level (and emotionally speaking) I really have no idea what to expect.
There's something I'd been wanting to say but didn't. All those bosses you beat on the first go? It's even doubly impressive that did you did so without using Shields. They make a lot of those bosses a lot easier. So go you, Lauren. XD It's been great following along on this journey of yours, in all its beautiful and heartbreaking glory. Looking forward to seeing your next stream. :)
Buffs and debuffs aren't usually worth the effort in most games, so I tend not to pay attention to them at all. It's only because Duster's thief tools are so great that I even thought about trying out the equivalent spells once I remembered that they were there :) It'll be hard going back to a regular RPG after the exciting combat system of this one. I guess at least I have a Zelda game instead, though I get the impression it's more exploration and wandering than anything else...
I forget, have you played any Paper Mario games? If so, one of those might be worth considering for a future stream. (Thousand-Year Door if you can manage it, it's the best one.) Now there's some interesting combat mechanics.
Yeah, honestly it is haunting, and I think it's supposed to be. Itoi is a very intentional writer like that! The idea of being trapped in something for eternity, never changing and never growing, even if you can never be hurt ... it is the stuff of nightmares, even if someone's _first_ thought about it might be "oh, that seems like a good idea"
Hey, first of all I wanna say I really enjoyed watching this playthrough. Mother 3 is one of my favourite games and I really enjoyed hearing your perspective and constant introspection on various parts of the game, characters, plot and music! It felt very honest and heartfelt and even made me rethink about some aspects of the story that I used to have a different perspective on. For no particular reason I wanted to share some thoughts on Porky, who I feel is the most fascinating/tragic character in the series. Personally, I think Porky is disillusioned about himself and humanity's capacity to be good as a whole. He has so little faith in that concept that he'd rather cynically play the role of the "bad guy" than to try and be a better person. That's why he goes out of his way to corrupt Tazmily and the last surviving humans. How dare they be "better than him" and try to put their mistakes and regrets behind? Don't they know anyone can be corrupted for the "right price" and then they'll reveal their true, egotistical selves? In his eyes, humanity should just embrace its own hedonistic-nihilistic self destruction, like he did. He doesn't want to be proven wrong because then he'd have to take a honest look at himself and admit that he wasn't justified in doing all those horrible acts that he's likely been carrying out for what might've been centuries, by the time Mother 3 takes place. Is there any hope for redemption for him at this point? Hard to say. Earthbound's Porky, for sure. But Mother 3's Porky is a broken, old, cynical shell of a person. I feel like even if he were to admit his mistakes at this point the guilt would drive him crazy. It's frustrating to give up on someone, and saying "they're too far gone" feels like a cop out, but I can't find another way to describe Porky, from the way he's presented in Mother 3. Really a tragic character.
I'm really happy that you enjoyed my playthrough, and I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks he's such a complicated and tragic character. I think he has the potential for redemption during and after Earthbound - but a person has to want to change, and he doesn't. And I do agree with you that he's trying to force other people to prove that they're no different than he is. That his decision (to be, as you say, hedonistic-nihilistic) is really the only way to be, that it is *right* and that there are no alternatives and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. People do that a lot to make themselves feel better about their own lives, as though there has never actually been a choice. So, by and large, I think I agree with you. And it is deeply frustrating and so very sad. I want to believe that nobody is beyond redemption, but they have to want change, and I think you're right that he would probably never take that step. I think he would feel like it was impossible.
Wait a second...You're doing Majora's Mask next?! ZOMG, that game is a major part of my childhood! I can't wait! Also, if you do the Magypsy theme, will you be dressing like a drag queen? And Nox got a bit vocal during the credits! Dawww...
If I do the Magypsy thing, I'll just have to use my razor and lipstick to make sure I'm as pretty as I can be ;) Nox is a talkative kitty. She has lots of things to say about my streaming. (She would rather I sit with her and read books. Or just give her wet food all the time.) And yes! Majora's Mask is up next, if I can figure out how to get it to work...
Girl. I love his video of yours :)) And yeah, i cried too when reaching the final part of the game. It was like from a movie. 😢😢 *Hugs* loves to you ! 😊
1:35:30 uh NO ONE can go as far as pokey. mainly cuz we dont have a time machine that lets us go backwards. Or forwards (um... faster, forwards than normal anyway. ur allready going at the speed of a second per second. which is normal really.) (or things that can distroy the universe in an instant. i mean, we have the penny...)
now on to majora's mask there will be feels too although less than mother 3 but still some things still makes me cry even though I finished it like 15 times
1:26:02 - ....yeah, this is "I have no mouth and I must scream"- level disturbing. Immortality isn't fun when you're completely safe and alone. Risk nothing, lose nothing. That's no way to live... :`( Pokey may have been a horrible kid, but even he didn't deserve this.. Dr. Andonuts is a horrible person.
I think he deserved it. He brought so much harm to the Nowhere Islands just because he was bored, ripped apart a loving family with a bright future ahead of them, and did horrible things to the wildlife. In the end, he got what was coming to him.
Porky conducted probably thousands of cruel experiments on animals, killed Hinawa, resurrected a dying child simply to make him do his bidding, and drastically shifted the lives of a peaceful village against their will literally just because he wanted to. He 100% deserves it.
Hey lauren, as you said at the end of this game, mother 3 is just like going out into the world and doing small thing for other people. I like this because I do it almost all the time. maybe
1:26:00 well... imean, only way to make sure ur 100% safe is for there to be no way in. easiest way for that to happen is for there to be no way out, also.
Mother 1 is about Love.
Mother 2 is about Friendship.
Mother 3 is about Loss of both of them.
Rebirth.
Thank u Next?
does that mean Mother 4 will be about Hope?
Mother 2 is about Love❤
@@Pokaroquaiitoi said he won't make one, but if anyone did make one he'd like it to be romantic love, as mother is love in family, mother 2 is love in friendship, mother 3 is love in general, and ofc mother 4
The reason they didn't show you the "new world" the Dragon made is because YOU passed YOUR heart on to the dragon. The world became what your heart wanted it to be. It's not just "up to interpretation." Whatever you wished for, that's what came true.
Edit: Six years later and I realize there's a miscommunication. It's "up to interpretation" in a more literal sense than that phrasing generally entails. Added the word 'just' to reflect this.
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Wouldn’t that mean it IS up to your interpretation, though?
Wow. If that's the case, I'd wish for a green world and your BOI Claus and Hinawa and everyone except Porky to be alive
Nice so Hinawa and Claus came back to life.
Fuck Porky
So the ending is what I want it to be
Feelings took mortal damage.
It's so true ;_;
Feelings fell down and perished!
SMMMMMMAAAAAAAASSSSHHH! end of game got a critical hit!
The title change in the ending was the best possible way to end the series. I absolutely cried when I saw that.
I was like “I wanna relive that ending through someone else” and here I am crying all over again lol
Just thinking about the ending of this game makes me tear up. It's so good.
lol exactly the same here but weirdest part is that I finished game just yesterday
I can't lie, I first played through Mother 3 when I was eight, and I literally almost dehydrated myself crying in this segment...
I guess some things never lose their power :)
Crying starts at 2:00:00
HAHAHAHA
This ending never fails to make me burst into tears.
So very much yes. ;_; It was just waterworks the whole time for me.
I didn't cry ho ho
OH YES!!!!!!
2:02:04 - "...don't do this..." :`( I'm with you, Lauren.
I was gonna wait a while before I talked about this, but since you mentioned it in your video description, I guess I'll talk about it now.
Don't take this the wrong way, but...I love watching you cry. Not in a mean way of course...I mean, because you have such a tremendously tender, caring, emotional heart. The way you initially refused to let Dad (Flint) go ahead of your party proves that...
All those moments that I've seen you cry...the end of Mother 2 ("I miss you."); Mettaton's fans letting him know that he had made a difference in their lives; sparing Asgore; hearing the first secret videotape (of Tori and Gory expecting Asriel); hugging Asriel; Flint's very realistic grief breakdown at the news of Hinawa's sacrifice, and finally, this moment. You love video games with the same passion that I do; getting invested in a great storyline, and even shedding some tears over heartbreaking/heartwarming plot points/scenes.
I realize I never replied to this, but thank you. It really means a lot to me that there are other people like me out there who care so much about games like this. I feel like it's the least we can do for developers who pour so much of themselves into telling such wonderful stories.
Lauren the Flute Precisely. Mr. Itoi created the MOTHER series because he wanted to prove that video games *could* be used as an emotional storytelling medium. And you know what?
He succeeded. :') And so did Toby Fox. They must feel so _blessed_ to know that so many people...people like you and me, have been moved to tears and smiles over their beautiful stories. ^_^
I've seen this ending so many times, I'm a glutton for punishment, but when she said that? It broke my heart all over again because that's exactly how I felt.
Poor Claus was turned into a machine, every living moment had to be agony for him. There was no going back after that.
I know this is a bit late, but I love this game and I'm glad I got to to experience it with you.
Confession time:
I've never cried because of a game. The end of this game made me cry. A lot...
I cried so hard. The ending is just absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking...
I'm not a very *visibility* emotional person so it didn't make me cry but it was the closest.
Watching you cry during this ending was so impactful, that I started getting emotional. The “Come to your mother. You must be so exhausted” strikes me particularly hard. All the pain in my life, in part by the loss of my father, had caught up to me as of late, and have used sleep as a method of coping throughout my life. I can relate to both Claus and Lucas, Claus for his decision for his pain and actions to end and Lucas for his decision to fight it off, recognize it, lose assurance of what to do, and, ultimately, bear witness as the pain is laid it to rest. Watching the ending with Vinesauce had me sad, but seeing your reaction broke me in the best way possible. It’s helped me address my suffering by finally shedding some tears after a lot of repression.
Sorry for the dump of personal information, but it felt important that I comment on how much this video means to me. Now, I can turn to this when I need an honest cry. Thank you.
I'm glad if I could help you walk through your feelings and give you a starting place to let out your own tears. That is a lot of pain to carry around for a long time, and I think we need to be able to cry in order to process our pain. Maybe the pain won't ever leave you, but it can fade enough to become part of where you come from but not the defining part of who you are, if that makes sense. Please continue loving yourself, and please give yourself permission to cry when you need to. It's OK to be hurting, it's OK to be scared, it's OK to cry, and it's OK to not know what to do ... sometimes you just live through the pain and let yourself feel it, really feel it, until one day you're on the other side of the worst of it and you can breathe again.
If you come back here, let me know how you're doing sometimes, OK? I'll be thinking of you ♥
*gives you a hug and pats you on the back*
He'd be so proud of you. You hang in there, I've never met you in my life, but I'm sending you my love.
i dont have much to say but i wish you the best luck in your life sometimes a simple comment like this can help you so here it is(:
The music is a lot better in this game. The music that plays on the end screen with the new logo the piano is awesome and gives the chills.
The Enhanced Matrix Yeeeah I always thought so
lol the comment has been on 69 likes for three years haha
@@thefoodathome5333 holy shit just noticed now haha!
there's rumours about an earthbound remake for the switch - so.. maybe somethings cooking hopefully.
It fills me up with the basic feeling of "this is the end"
Not just because the series is over, but my theory on what happened to the world is that all of humanity was wiped out, cause all of this happened due to human development in the first place. And so, that's why it would be called memory of life, no sophisticated life exists anymore, it's all a memory
@@secretblue0290 unfortunately it was also part of the reason the game was never localised, as the ost is apparently mostly based on other music
Damn, i remember breaking down into tears whenever I see "Claus gave his final breath."
1:49:42 this game had amazing game design, at this point I’m sure most people know but this is when you’re able to start attacking, when I played this even though I was conditioned into only healing at this point when I saw that I instinctively thought “I don’t have a choice” and then attacks started working, Itoi and his team didn’t even need to say anything to let us know, that’s just amazing game design
I love undertale, but by god this game is WAY more feelsy.
Its most powerful moments are definitely among the most emotionally moving game moments I've ever seen. But for me I was overall more engaged by Undertale -- which isn't a slight against MOTHER 3 in any capacity! It's a great game. I just personally connected more to Undertale. I'm very glad I played both, though :)
Oh, I didn't realize this fight was going on! I hope you won't be offended if I cut it off here. I'm not mad at either of you. But I do want to encourage you both to keep in mind the lessons in kindness from these games! It's ok to disagree. It's even ok to think the other person is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong! But calling each other names isn't really going to help anything. If you feel that upset, it's usually best to step away and take a deep breath and then ask yourself if it's really worth going further with the conversation. Being that angry is kind of like swallowing a hot poker; it really hurts, and you don't need to do it!
I hope you both have a better day today. Maybe find someone who's having a bad day and smile at them and see if you can help them feel better. It'll help you, too.
(Full disclosure, sometimes I find myself yelling at people on the internet too! It sucks. I hate it. Sometimes you can have a good conversation with someone you disagree with. But if you're getting mad and they're getting mad, it's not worth both of you hurting. Helping another person is a much better alternative.)
i forgot to subscribe to this channel oops
Toby made it no secret that the Mother series was a giant influence on Undertale as Toby had even made an Earthbound Rom hack (which is pretty good) that would serve as a learning tool for figuring out how to make something of his own.
Good job, you guys. You just put Lauren in a bad mood. >:(((
the sudden realization and panic in the shake of her head at 2:01:52 genuinely hurts :(
The credits ending song has the 8 melodies from Mother 1, and the eight melodies from Mother 2....thats freaking cool...and a great way to end the series
I love the fact that The Masked Man battle background is the same one as the one for the Mani Mani statue in Earthbound, stressing the evil within!
That is a super cool and also really sad detail.
Having just beat this today,
I am absolutely astounded how beautiful this game is; For a GBA game, at that. This game emotionally kicked my ass and as much as i loved Earthbound, this game i can honestly say drove me to tears on a deeper level.
I highly recommend Mother 3 to anyone scoping this out who hasnt yet tried it.
Ok, confession time. I was mortified with the prospect of playing Mother 3 ever, because I had only started EarthBound and had gotten past Onett, before Happy Happy village. I had watched chapters 1-4 on ChuggaaConroy's channel, and since I played SSBB, I could put 2 and 2 together, and the idea of Pokey brainwashing people and being the main villain didn't sit right with me, and gave me nightmares and insomnia for weeks. I had only seen neighborhood kid Pokey, and it really disturbed me. Then I finished EarthBound and read the Japanese Manuel for Mother 1, (which has a TON of unsaid story) and I always thought that even though Mother 3 was technically a better game, it would be my least favorite in the trilogy, due to thinking I would be depressed the entire way through. Then Camp Fangamer 2016 came around, and after the stream, I downloaded Mother 3 and started playing it, and I laughed, sobbed, smiled, frowned, and screamed "YES" when I got a 3% item drop. It is now my 2nd favorite game of all time, under only Xenoblade Chronicles.
Pokey is a very disturbing and tragic character in it, so I think your initial concerns were right in that regard! It's very sad in a lot of places, but I think Itoi wants to leave the player with hope for the future. I'm glad you were inspired to play the game after Camp Fangamer (which I think did a good job capturing the soul of the game) and that you love it. I don't love it as much as I love Undertale, but I'd have a hard time ranking Earthbound and MOTHER 3 because they are both strong in different ways. I guess I'll just need to play the first game and see what happens :)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2-
It's really cool to watch other people's reactions to the end. And I never noticed what they did with the logo! Nice eye.
"Other people's reactions to the end" = 10 minutes of nonstop ugly crying, in this case :)
The logo is something I've been thinking about and wondering about since I first booted up the game, so I think that's why I noticed the change in it. It's a really nice touch! They put a lot of thought into the details of this game.
Your reaction to the finale was heart-rending. I enjoyed watching you react to Mother 3's crucial cutscenes. It's a sad game, dark with heavy themes of loss.
Had it been released for the N64, it would have been darker.
Regardless, it outclasses anything Final Fantasy 7 ever achieved, an unsung hero of the greatest games ever made.
In the end, you restored the Earth to what it once was before Porky corrupted it.
R.I.P. Claus
I love this playthrough so much cause you managed to sync up the "Come to your mother" line with the saddest part of the music so perfectly
"I like all these people!"
*Dr. Andonuts shows up*
"Well not so much you"
I just come here to cry in the night
It's amazing how much more emotional moments are when other people are around.
They can be cooler. They can be funnier...
...they can be sadder...
Mother 3 and then Majora’s Mask...
You must like good dark games with melancholy endings.
*You have good taste*
I DO love good dark games with melancholy endings! Melodrama and tragedy! That's for me! (It helps if there's a lot of beauty and a lot of love, too.)
Lauren the Flute yeah I agree. I hope you’re doing alright.
2:42:33 do you still want to know what the youtubers in the future have to say? :P
I last played Mother 3 in 2009 and wanted to revisit it via a Let's Play, and I wanted to watch someone who would be *emotionally* invested. and you delivered! not to be like "crying is fun" but there's something unique to sharing that feeling over a story.
the setup wasn't ideal, from emulation issues, to dropouts, and I usually prefer when streamers read the on-screen dialogue. but then, during the finale here, despite your concerns that it was a boring watch... experiencing the story with no words except what Itoi wrote (and Tomato translated)? that carried an intensity unlike any other.
I was planning to just watch this and tap out, but... I think I'll be watching a few more of your archived Lets Plays, starting with Undertale. thanks for sharing them :)
Did Mother 3 just tell our entire world to be nice to Lauren the Flute?!?
.....
Well, if a game tells me to do something, then I guess I must do it!
Great playthrough Lauren, very touching at the end when you were so wonderfully moved (don't call it ugly btw!). I was very touched and I enjoyed taking this journey with you, Lucas and the gang. You are awesome and you saved the world. Great job! :)
Thank you! That's a really, really sweet thing to say and I appreciate it~~~ "Ugly crying" is a phrase that describes a particular sort of crying, and I was definitely doing that, but I am glad and not at all embarrassed about it. This was a really moving game and the ending in particular ;_; with the twins together ;_; ahh, my heart.
I only object to the term because, for me, there was nothing ugly about seeing a person like you so emotionally invested and moved by this wonderful piece of art. I thought it was beautiful, and I'm so happy games like this, and music, and books, and whatnot can impact us so :)
I cried when Optimist died in 86.
All that sniffing and snot u got there, the feels man. I feel u.
People like to hate on Pokey for what he does in this game, but I'm usually more unsettled, bordering on terrified... and not really of him, but of his situation. It's especially potent during the final fight with him, what with the music and the image of this "old, wizened child" ( (c) "bloodborne" ) laying there. It evokes this very strong hollow, twisted, and tragic feeling. Also "great" to then look back at the pokeybots fight with the upbeat-ish music and the robots made into the image of how Pokey sees (wants to see?) himself. "Bad boy" - so he fully embraces his selfishness and lack of empathy and whatnot, and it's scary when such a person is given the power that Pokey has, but at the same time you can fully see the regular human being behind him and wonder if he could've been helped. He's probably one of my favorite antagonists of all time. The whole of Earthbound can be just to set up for his role in M3 for all I care :D
okay but how do you feel about Fassad
I don't want it to end
I caught a comment on the stream saying that the masked man’s mask is more of a helmet than a mask. This was around the same time Claus fired the intense bolt of lightning and killed himself.
I think we all cried lol
What really brought me to tears was seeing Boney slumped over Claus. God... I lost it and had to set down my phone before finishing it. Undertale made me cry too, when the monsters tell you the story of Asriel dying...
I fucking love Mother and Undertale. Good stuff.
Oh man, that was a ride. Thanks for streaming this game Lauren! This was everything I wanted out of a Blind Mother 3 playthrough. I loved everything about it, including your reactions and your analysis of everything that happened in it, and just how positive everyone was along the way.
Thank you so so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed watching, since I certainly enjoyed playing. It's such a good, emotional game. I was really glad to play it and really glad to have friends along for the ride, too. :)
Lauren, your reaction to the final battle was almost 1 to 1 in terms of similarity to my reaction. The only thing I did differently was read the dialogue and nothing else, particularly Hinawa, that made me smile and sob twice as hard.
I usually watch with headphones, but Battle Against the Masked Man scares me so much I always take them off and turn my volume low whenever I watch a lets play of Mother 3, at least until the next phase of the battle begins ;-;
Regardless though, I love this game to bits. It's probably one of if not MY favorite game. Amazing playthrough Lauren!
Yeah, there are some really upsetting and unsettling parts of this game! It's very well made and seriously shines in its most emotional moments. I'm really glad you enjoyed my playthrough :) I certainly enjoyed the game!
You must be so exhausted...
(and dead)
:(
Feeling took mortal damage
Feelings got hurt and collapsed.
(continued from last post)
I'm a pretty tough guy myself, and you managed to make me go a big blubbery one when you said those words, "don't do this". Don't ever feel ashamed to cry over something as 'stupid' as video games, I do it too. Shigesato Itoi is a wonderful story-teller, who, just like Toby, knows how to balance humor and sorrow.
So keep those play-throughs, and your tears, safely coming. ^_^
Usagi1992 same with Eiichihiro Oda
And you're wearing your Lucas shirt. I'm so glad you upload these here too! I'm getting to feel this again.
*NO CRYING UNTIL THE END*
I TOOK MORTAL DAMAGE MENTAL BREAKDOWN ACTIVATED
Even all these years later, I absolutely adore peoples reactions to this game, and yours especially hits different because of that partial refusal of the ending (or at least the belief that things could be better). The ending of Mother 3 is what a lot of people might consider a "bad ending" in modern game culture, for a BUNCH of reasons:
-The villain is alive (albeit in an invulnerable form of stasis) and has no way to mature or understand what he has done wrong.
-Your brother commit suicide the moment that his mind is the most clear it's been in years, out of sheer exhaustion and grief for the loss of his life and his familiy's lives.
-The final needle is pulled, but it isn't a mystical solution or a cure-all. The Dragon beneath Tazmily is larger than the island itself and its mere emergence shatters the world we've come to know.
Finally, though the end of the credits makes you believe that everything is alright, you don't *know* what that means, what "saving the world meant", as you said. Maybe the Island was shredded and reformed, and everyone was brought back to life, the last island of humanity kept alive in a perfect Tazmily where nothing went wrong. Maybe Lucas's grief at his brothers loss and the overwhelming pressure placed on his shoulders made him wish for it all to end, and while the Dragon did kill everyone, they sit in the afterlife as perfectly content versions of themselves. The fact is though, i've seen plenty of fascinating theories on what the ending of Mother 3 means but... none of it matters.
What matters is that the ending happened, and everyone (in some way or other) is ok. It's thanks to you that the family is reuinited, one way or another. For that, the game doesn't congratulate you, and there is no accolades at the end, but the characters just... Thank you.
It's a bittersweet ending, but one that i'll never get tired of.
Just found your gameplay, I know it's some years after you played it, but once you play mother 3 you never forget about it. Thanks for sharing!
2:01:33 “Good he’s distracted. Now strike!”
😆😆
This series reminds me what's most important in life. One reason why it's one of my all-time favorites. I found your videos because I wanted to watch the ending of this game again since it's been a while since I have what store played a mother game. I'm glad I did and you seem like an awesome person, hopefully I'll be able to drop by a stream sometime.
Thank you for playing one of my favorite games! Now I can blab about a couple things in case you ever replay it: There's an ultimate weapon for Duster you could get as soon as chapter 5, but it requires going back to Osohe and refighting a buffed up Mr.Passion. In the Sunshine Forest (future) you can rarely see a Black Beanling which yields over 16,000 exp! You can fight it as soon as the start of chapter 4, which can make Lucas go from level 10 to 24 in one battle! It's nuts, and the best way to grind in the game. Especially when you get Bufferizers which doubles exp.
Negative Man... has nothing more to him. Sorry! He's just there, but people have speculated of what he might've been used for at one point. The Porky Stature in NPC can be fought, but only after Leder and you must talk with it 3 times. It has 100,000,000 HP! Only way to kill is with PK Flash or New Years Eve Bomb. There are a lot of cool things to this game. It's unfortunate you never managed to grasp the Combo System. Check this video about them though: th-cam.com/video/xC6f5S1ssX4/w-d-xo.html
It's also unfortunate you don't get the humor, since you don't seem to have a taste for that. I think this game is as funny as the likes of Undertale. Of course, you might disagree since this game is a lot more personal/real than Undertale, where as Undertale tried to be real in only a few places. I still think Mother 3/EarthBound blow Undertale out of the water, and it's sad. I've yet to find a single person on the internet agree with my opinions on it. I don't think it's bad, just has lots of problems.
I don't think Undertale is bad, I just think EB and M3 are infinitely better games. So you have met 1 person on the internet who agrees with you.
LucasMaxBrosXL Me too, kinda.
1. Mother 3
2. Undertale
3. Earthbound
EarthBound and Mother 3 are both my favorite games of all time, and god yes they are WAYYY better than Undertale.
Absolutely, and the spiritual successor to Mother series is the Lisa series, not Undertale.
1:26:50 That "TheRealAntroid" guy in chat paraphrasing Andonuts question had me actually laughing out loud.
The Death of Aeris can't even begin to compare to the heartbreaking ending of Mother 3. And what makes it even worse? I named Claus after my own brother -- vice versa when he played it, and it destroyed us BOTH.
Wow, that's a beautiful but painful way of personalizing the experience. I love that you and your brother both did the same thing! I think the game wants you to do that for precisely that reason...
"Lucas remembered Claus' smell." That was the line that destroyed me during the ending. Absolutely sobbing. It's such a small, intimate detail but it says everything about where Lucas' mind is at during that tiny moment of finally embracing his brother again, before everything ends.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us, Lauren. I'm so glad I watched it all. I've played Mother 3 a bunch of times, but your perspective on things made me appreciate it a little differently, and maybe with a little more forgiveness towards certain characters. But also maybe it's just that I'm getting old lol.
Have you revisited Mother 3 since this playthrough? Do you feel differently about the ending now? Personally, I hated it when I first saw it in 2006. But I think now I kinda really like it. It seems to me now that they want you to believe in Lucas' heart and take it on faith that the world turned out better. I guess I'm just at a place where I don't mind that as much anymore or something.
Anyway, sorry to ramble. Thanks for sharing, it was really wonderful to watch.
Thank you for watching through my MOTHER 3 playthrough! No, I haven't revisited the game, although lately I've been thinking about it (since some other games I've played have seemed to pull inspiration from it, and I am working on a story myself that might have a few overlapping themes). I wonder what I'd think about it now, if I'd get something else from the ending and if I would have different feelings about the characters. I've definitely changed as a person since this playthrough and that might color my perspective. It might be a fun experience.
Please don't worry about rambling here! I am the ultimate rambler so it would be awfully hypocritical of me not to support other people in rambling back! I hope you are well. ♥
I love how it all went into caos
Just for us to finally get that damn doorknob
It was all about the doorknob
I was looking for Mother 3 covers, when this video appeared. I'm already subbed because of your Mother covers, so I guess I'll just ring that bell.
Ngl I was crying and then started laughing when your cat walked past the screen
I kind of resisted when she cried at the Masked Man battle. But boy did I feel a shiver in my soul when she cried at Claus appearing in the credits.
The only game to actually make me tear up and STILL choke up when I see that scene. Mother 3 is a beautiful game.
I think this is the only game i have ever cried at while playing, nothing ever comes close to it.
The background music is so... Nostalgic...
Oww,don't cry, it hurts me too. Claus was my favorite character. :(♡
I know this Vid Is 4 years old but that ending really struck me personally
I hope you are doing well wherever you are in life keep that amazing smile!
Thank you! It's been a hard four years, but I'm finding my way to a better place. I appreciate your kind words and I hope you're doing well yourself ♥
@@LaurentheFlute you are welcome and thank you
Awesome let's play! Endings like these from games of this caliber are why I play games in the first place.
Shame that I missed half of the streams during the times, but awesome to see them uploaded on here.
I'm really looking forward to the fan projet Mother 4, which surprisingly captures the essence of the series as far as Graphics, music and dialogue go.
Lauren’s tears took mortal damage.
The tears got hurt and slipped down Lauren’s cheek.
You obtained PK Sadness!
Edit: Also,
“I’m not crying, you’re crying! You were the one who cried after a certain somebody used a heart disintegrating spell on you!”
...just putting this out there, but, you are one of the most underrated youtubers, you deserve so much more subscribers than you have.
You looked absolutely terrified when you realized Pokey's fate. Me too man..
Got to say, it was really interesting watching a musician play through this series. A truly fun and unique experience. So thank you. I hope for a Mother 1 playthrough some day.
It might happen! I've heard a lot of warnings about MOTHER 1 not being very _playable_, so I'd probably want to tackle one of the versions that has been edited to be less grindy. Either Tomato's mod or the "Earthbound Beginnings" version, I think...?
Her realization to the position Porky put himself in got me. 😂
It would be kinda terrifying though ngl
I watched this because no amount of gushing has got my friends to play it and I needed to have someone to cry with. I love this game, but those feels.
I guess it's kind of an obscure game that not everybody would want to play, but it definitely has a lot of feelings. A LOT of feelings. ♥
One cannot blame Pokey for his actions. After all, he's simply a lonely child. It's rather sad really. Loneliness does that to people.
I absolutely agree with you regarding Pokey in Earthbound. At this point, in MOTHER 3, I hold him more responsible for his actions because he is no longer a child. People have the opportunity and ability to move beyond their childhood trauma as they grow up, and I'm so sorry he didn't. :(
Lauren the Flute I don't know. I don't think he had the chance to grow up. His actions in Mother 3 are more like a child with almost omnipotent and omniscient power. It doesn't help with his immortality also.
We can see how a Dark meoody Becomes a Melody of Love.
Thanks for this playthrough, Lauren. What a wonderful experience.
It's extremely rare that a game can make me cry as much as this one does, that ending just hits me in a very meaningful way, I'm really glad I found your channel through this series Lauren, I'll definitely take some time every now and then to stop by and see your twitch streams, I look forward to seeing your streams. 😉
Thank you so so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this, and I hope you'll have fun with other games I'm streaming. Please say hello any time you can join us, if you want ♥ I'm about to try diving into Crisis Core, which I've been told will make me cry a lot too...
sometimes i come back to this video, i love it so much
So, last time, we fought-
*immediately sidetracked by Pollyanna*
Story of my life.
I cried like a baby
I've played this game, and i cried a lot. This is the only game made me cry. Um... 3times with blind run. I still cry when I play Lucas Vs Masked man. (I quick saved the start of that fight..)
Well, i'm now enjoy watching others play blind run with this game. And recommend this to my friends too.
Mother3 is my favorite game and I'm hoping to find nice game like this.
Thank you for nice blind run. Hope i can watch your stream.. but I don't have much time. Plz keep doing nice gaming!
33:32 (refrering to Lucian) to me it did sound like she was leaning towards 'shoot'
... actually nvm. she didnt even get a vowel out
{sees Claus standing at the needle}
Oh no.
{Their mother tells them to stop fighting}
*Oh no.*
{There’s a flashback and then Claus strikes the lighting back at himself and dies}
*OH NO!!!!!*
{The world begins to crumble}
*AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!*
No other 16-bit game will make you feel this way. Take notes, you lazy game devs. It's not all about the graphics! It's the HEART of the game.
Aside from Persona Q, this is the only other video game that ever made me cry. I still shed tears when I hear the Mother 3 theme. Such a powerful song with so much emotion. I'm going to have it played at my funeral. :D
It's such a good, emotional game. When it's at its best, it is really one of the best. And the music contributes a lot to the emotion. I think it's an appropriate choice for a funeral ♥ and I think the composer and Itoi would be honored to know it means that much to you.
How the f*ck did this game make me cry and I never got around to watching the entire thing? This final battle and ending will truly give you the feels! I probably would have been crying a river if I watched the whole thing and got to near the end of the game. I do hope that Nintendo releases Mother 3 to America because this is a game all countries need to experience. Lucas was one of my mains in Brawl and even though I knew little to nothing about him at first, now I can completely understand why he has the personality he has. I feel so sorry for him....
This was wonderful. I hope you had fun, Lauren, I sure did watching you play through this game. Hopefully you'll always remember this game and what you experienced. I'm looking forward to watching you play Majora's Mask, I'll try to come to a stream sometime, too!
Thank you so much! Yes, I think I'll be carrying parts of MOTHER 3 around with me for a long time. I'm really glad I was able to share the experience with friends along the way, too.
It's funny, I've actually watched some of Majora's Mask before, but on another level (and emotionally speaking) I really have no idea what to expect.
Claus is really my favorite character in Mother 3
He’s so sad and in reality, very gentle
That’s just break my heart
He is - that's part of why it's such an utter tragedy, that poor little boy ♥
There's something I'd been wanting to say but didn't. All those bosses you beat on the first go? It's even doubly impressive that did you did so without using Shields. They make a lot of those bosses a lot easier. So go you, Lauren. XD
It's been great following along on this journey of yours, in all its beautiful and heartbreaking glory. Looking forward to seeing your next stream. :)
Buffs and debuffs aren't usually worth the effort in most games, so I tend not to pay attention to them at all. It's only because Duster's thief tools are so great that I even thought about trying out the equivalent spells once I remembered that they were there :)
It'll be hard going back to a regular RPG after the exciting combat system of this one. I guess at least I have a Zelda game instead, though I get the impression it's more exploration and wandering than anything else...
I forget, have you played any Paper Mario games? If so, one of those might be worth considering for a future stream. (Thousand-Year Door if you can manage it, it's the best one.) Now there's some interesting combat mechanics.
I still get so much dread from the Absolutely Safe Capsule. It feels like an over all loss but I
can not for the life of me explain why
Yeah, honestly it is haunting, and I think it's supposed to be. Itoi is a very intentional writer like that! The idea of being trapped in something for eternity, never changing and never growing, even if you can never be hurt ... it is the stuff of nightmares, even if someone's _first_ thought about it might be "oh, that seems like a good idea"
Hey, first of all I wanna say I really enjoyed watching this playthrough. Mother 3 is one of my favourite games and I really enjoyed hearing your perspective and constant introspection on various parts of the game, characters, plot and music! It felt very honest and heartfelt and even made me rethink about some aspects of the story that I used to have a different perspective on.
For no particular reason I wanted to share some thoughts on Porky, who I feel is the most fascinating/tragic character in the series. Personally, I think Porky is disillusioned about himself and humanity's capacity to be good as a whole. He has so little faith in that concept that he'd rather cynically play the role of the "bad guy" than to try and be a better person. That's why he goes out of his way to corrupt Tazmily and the last surviving humans. How dare they be "better than him" and try to put their mistakes and regrets behind? Don't they know anyone can be corrupted for the "right price" and then they'll reveal their true, egotistical selves? In his eyes, humanity should just embrace its own hedonistic-nihilistic self destruction, like he did.
He doesn't want to be proven wrong because then he'd have to take a honest look at himself and admit that he wasn't justified in doing all those horrible acts that he's likely been carrying out for what might've been centuries, by the time Mother 3 takes place.
Is there any hope for redemption for him at this point? Hard to say. Earthbound's Porky, for sure. But Mother 3's Porky is a broken, old, cynical shell of a person. I feel like even if he were to admit his mistakes at this point the guilt would drive him crazy. It's frustrating to give up on someone, and saying "they're too far gone" feels like a cop out, but I can't find another way to describe Porky, from the way he's presented in Mother 3. Really a tragic character.
I'm really happy that you enjoyed my playthrough, and I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks he's such a complicated and tragic character. I think he has the potential for redemption during and after Earthbound - but a person has to want to change, and he doesn't. And I do agree with you that he's trying to force other people to prove that they're no different than he is. That his decision (to be, as you say, hedonistic-nihilistic) is really the only way to be, that it is *right* and that there are no alternatives and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. People do that a lot to make themselves feel better about their own lives, as though there has never actually been a choice.
So, by and large, I think I agree with you. And it is deeply frustrating and so very sad. I want to believe that nobody is beyond redemption, but they have to want change, and I think you're right that he would probably never take that step. I think he would feel like it was impossible.
No crying until the end...
Well, it's ok now.
I will never see an emotional game like this ever again
2:24:30... Even the cât was about to cry, haha 😂. Loved this video
Wait a second...You're doing Majora's Mask next?! ZOMG, that game is a major part of my childhood! I can't wait!
Also, if you do the Magypsy theme, will you be dressing like a drag queen?
And Nox got a bit vocal during the credits! Dawww...
If I do the Magypsy thing, I'll just have to use my razor and lipstick to make sure I'm as pretty as I can be ;)
Nox is a talkative kitty. She has lots of things to say about my streaming. (She would rather I sit with her and read books. Or just give her wet food all the time.) And yes! Majora's Mask is up next, if I can figure out how to get it to work...
Girl. I love his video of yours :)) And yeah, i cried too when reaching the final part of the game. It was like from a movie. 😢😢 *Hugs* loves to you ! 😊
Ohh I can't stop crying. I've never cried during a videogame but this ending is really touching :(
3:02:01 Yes, Cariyaga, that was my favorite line of HPMoR.
1:35:30 uh NO ONE can go as far as pokey. mainly cuz we dont have a time machine that lets us go backwards. Or forwards (um... faster, forwards than normal anyway. ur allready going at the speed of a second per second. which is normal really.) (or things that can distroy the universe in an instant. i mean, we have the penny...)
now on to majora's mask there will be feels too although less than mother 3 but still some things still makes me cry even though I finished it like 15 times
First time I saw this ending someone cried on my face. hit me right in the eyes
I don't feel human. No matter how many times I see this, I don't cry. I don't feel anything. Am I not okay in the head?
It's OK! Some people don't cry about fiction stories, and some people just cry about different kinds of stories. Did you enjoy the story, at least?
1:26:02 - ....yeah, this is "I have no mouth and I must scream"- level disturbing. Immortality isn't fun when you're completely safe and alone. Risk nothing, lose nothing. That's no way to live... :`( Pokey may have been a horrible kid, but even he didn't deserve this.. Dr. Andonuts is a horrible person.
I think he deserved it. He brought so much harm to the Nowhere Islands just because he was bored, ripped apart a loving family with a bright future ahead of them, and did horrible things to the wildlife. In the end, he got what was coming to him.
Dr andonuts and the Mr Saturn's did this to stop porky's antics I mean what other why was there to stop him he's immortal
He deserved it
Porky conducted probably thousands of cruel experiments on animals, killed Hinawa, resurrected a dying child simply to make him do his bidding, and drastically shifted the lives of a peaceful village against their will literally just because he wanted to. He 100% deserves it.
Hey lauren,
as you said at the end of this game, mother 3 is just like going out into the world and doing small thing for other people. I like this because I do it almost all the time. maybe
I just realized that Claus is an anagram for Lucas.
The Mecha Porky theme is a mix of Porky's theme and Mr. Batty Twist
1:26:00 well... imean, only way to make sure ur 100% safe is for there to be no way in. easiest way for that to happen is for there to be no way out, also.