

Over two decades since EarthBound came out in North America, the first of these games is finally going to be available in English. fame) has been hanging around on the Wii U eShop for a couple years now, but a number of casual fans aren’t aware that it’s actually the second of three releases fathered by Japanese icon Shigesato Itoi. For a devout few, though, it’s a miraculous day tear-jerking celebrations over twenty years in the making.ĮarthBound, Nintendo’s cult-classic JRPG for the Super Nintendo (the game that introduced Ness of Super Smash Bros. This hack will also feature much quicker battle text courtesy of vince94.For some, today is but a lazy Sunday before E3 madness kicks into full force with its slew of conferences.

Over 1400 lines of text have been altered to create connections with the rest of the series, improve clarity and shorten reading time. DragonDePlatino’s goal in creating this hack was to make Mother less challenging, but still quite difficult.Īnd last but not least, this hack uses Tomato’s official Mother 1 + 2 translation, adapted for the NES. The “Dangerous Foe” battle theme is used less often and party members will be met at a higher level.

Enemies will yield slightly more exp and the encounter rate has been readjusted. There are also a lot of changes under the hood.

On the other hand, tiny areas like the Cemetery or Snowman have been expanded. There is more scenery, areas are more colorful and confusing areas like Duncan’s factory have been simplified. The overworld has been tweaked to be much less bleak and repetitive, so it’s harder to get lost. A shiny new font and title screen was added, too! The goofy enemies are goofier and the creepy enemies are creepier. Mother: 25th Anniversary Edition aims to make Mother much more enjoyable for both Earthbound fans and those playing it for the first time.Īll enemy graphics, NPC sprites and tiles are be redrawn from scratch to be more faithful to the clay models.
