This third game in the series was designed for the N64 Disk Drive at first, then was later changed to be a standard N64 game. Mother 3 / EarthBound 64 (Nintendo 64 DD / Nintendo 64, canceled) Sales were poor and NOA has never released any other games in the series since. Nintendo of America gave this one a top-notch localization and released it in North America as 'EarthBound'. Mother 2 (Super Famicom, 1994) / EarthBound (Super NES, 1995 & Wii U, 2015) This same English version eventually got an official release on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2015 as 'EarthBound Beginnings'. To avoid title confusion, fans called it 'EarthBound Zero'. Years later, a prototype copy surfaced and a ROM was dumped. Nintendo localized it into English in the early 1990s as 'Earth Bound', but never released it. Mother (Nintendo Famicom, 1989) / 'EarthBound Beginnings' (Wii U, 2015) Outside of Japan, the naming gets a little weird, kind of like how Final Fantasy titles had weird changes back in the early days. There are basically three games in the Mother series: Mother, Mother 2, and Mother 3. What do you recommend?' I've made this page to answer that question and give some suggestions to eager newcomers to the series. Areas such as Duncan’s Factory were also adjusted to be less confusing, while areas such as the Cemetery and Snowman have been expanded a bit.A question I often see is, 'I've never played anything in the EarthBound/Mother series but want to get into it. There is more scenery and other specific areas to give the game a much more colorful look that is charming and respectful in its own definitive way. The overworld from MOTHER has been tweaked and rearranged to be less repetitive and bleak, while also to prevent the player from getting lost along the way. Some of them were purposely made to be far more goofy or creepy looking, and things such as the title screen were adjusted to be more pretty and pleasing to the eye. MOTHER 25th Anniversary Edition aimed to make the original MOTHER more enjoyable for fans who enjoyed MOTHER 2 and a redux of MOTHER.Įvery single enemy sprite, NPC sprite, and titles were all completely redrawn from scratch to be more faithful to the original clay models used to market the game, which can be found on our official art page.

The new intro logo at the start of the game.

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