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[Niku]

Eh, I had no problem blowing through Mother with the easy patch and frameskip.  It's a rough little game but I still think it's worth going through if just so you can slap it in people's faces when they decry Earthbound as being nothing but a Dragon Quest rip off.

[Doom]

The main issue is that Mother's story contributions to Earthbound can be summarized in about two brief sentences.

[TA]

Well, the same can be said about Mother 3, but that's more of a problem that Mother 3 is a terrible sequel than that Earthbound isn't fantastic.

[Doom]

I'd say it's more that Earthbound and Mother 3 are worth playing compared to Mother, but thankfully Mother doesn't really have much to offer beyond those two plot-important sentences!

[TA]

Well yeah, compared to Mother, just about anything is worth playing.

[Brentai]

I liked Mother.

Didn't play the whole thing though.

[Classic]

I haven't played through MOTHER even though I'm a few dollars short of being a card-carrying http://starmen.net member.

[Niku]

Well, the same can be said about Mother 3, but that's more of a problem that Mother 3 is a terrible sequel than that Earthbound isn't fantastic.

I'll bite, why is it a terrible sequel?

[R^2]

If you feel like nicking the Mother 1 and 2 GBA patch that version of Mother is a little more robust (you can't, say, permanently miss out on plot-crucial key items by accident) and the Easy mode is already there. That said, you can still skip it entirely.

[sei]

I'm just going to go ahead and leave this Earthbound music homage here.