MOTHER 3 English Translation Patch is coming out this Friday!

[Jigglymaster]

The Ultimate Chimera is really scary O_o

Escpeically the second time you see him hes like right infront of you. I literally jumped out my seat.

And chapter 6 is just lol, can that even be a chapter.

 

[A_man13]

It really isn't a chapter, but it really has some emotional meaning for Lucas...

And just you wait till the second encounter

 

[Shake~]

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Fassad's

the sub-boss, right? It was both the trip through to getting there, and back. The multi-hitting attack did about 130 to everyone or 3, I forget, but I was around 30 I think at the battle and I didn't have shield omega. I ran out of food and was in a critical stage (I never run from battles, dunno why, applies to most if not all RPGs.) and rushed to the butterfly. I didn't have PSI Shield or Counter Omega for the trio, I ended just eating the damage away. Lucas did the damage while Kumatora did defense down and the other two healed most of the time. Didn't struggle with Mecha-Gorrila though, I never did buy any element resistant stuff for being poor from avoiding encounters and buying many foods. The MM wasn't hard though for me, I might of had shield omega at the battle.

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For some reason though, Porky wasn't difficult at all. Lucas's final life up PSI is just too good.

 

[A_man13]

I'm not at Pokey just yet. I'm at the lab before the Pokey games and NK Cyborg.

I really didn't like Tomato changing Fassad's name. I really liked Youkuba myself (and New Youk City...).

Anyways, back on topic, the volcano was really easy, though I was really a bit wastefull with PP. Almost every battle I used a beta PSI or Lifeup. Having some red charms (like wool sweaters and rubber coats, but better defencive capabilities) really helped there. I never buy food items, but save it up for better equipment. By Miracle Youkuba (I will never call him Fassad by my choice), I had a good amount of HP left and enough PP to make it by.

Don't know why I strugled with the other two. Barrier trio was due to low HP and PP and Steel Gorila was due to bad equipment. MM was also due to a lack of HP (didn't know Ionia would restore my stuff).

 

[Shake~]

I had no fire resistant stuff at all, so that's probably why I got mauled there.

 

[A_man13]

The same thing happened to me in thunder tower without the rubber coats...

 

[Shake~]

I didn't buy rubber coats myself heh. I just ate the damage and barely won.

 

[A_man13]

I would've, but I didn't want to risk it.

 

[CbGreiga]

Strange thing: I beat the original game only dying about five times and in the patch I've already died twice against the Drago. It's been a few moths since I played but ****

 

[A_man13]

Strange thing: I beat the original game only dying about five times and in the patch I've already died twice against the Drago. It's been a few moths since I played but ****

Tough break. Any better luck?

I beat it. I finally beat it. Man, what a great ending to a spectacular game. The last four bosses were really easy.

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NK Cyborg was probably the most entertaining boss for me IMO. I gave him over 200 damage using his own attack (the new century attack), as well as kumatora killing him with a smash, which is a pretty big victory for my non-physical attacker.

For some reason, the Pokey bots were the toughest. Possibly due to the fact that lucas was put to sleep by the scrap robot and everyone was dying due to explosions. I did make it with everyone alive at least.

Pokey was fun (and considering he has my favorite battle theme). Not as fun as NK, though

Masked Man was really heartfelt for me. I had to hold back the tears. And THAT is why M3 will never come to the U.S.

 

[Jigglymaster]

What do you expect. Crossdressing Guys, Curse Words, Deaths and sadness. Japan thought it would only be suitable for themselves because little kids would buy this game and not like it.

 

[A_man13]

That is true. The game isn't something you Can EBify. In Earthbound (Mother 2), they negated passed a variety of the things that might draw people away. Things like avoiding the use of "Drug stores", removing all religious symbols from the game (such as cross), the Robotic pig slam dunk punishment noise, and the "Don't go to heaven line." You'd baisicly have a ton of the material you got in here, but a huge chunk of it would have to change beyond wording in many places.

 

[hippochinfat!!]

What the hell, I'm stuck at the red screen that says "THE MOTHER 3 FAN TRANSLATION"

 

[A_man13]

Hit A or start. It does that the first time to everyone...

 

[hippochinfat!!]

Hit A or start. It does that the first time to everyone...

I pressed A, I pressed start and then I pressed both at the same time. Still nothing, this is weird.

 

[A_man13]

Give it a second then...

 

[hippochinfat!!]

Give it a second then...

I actually left for half an hour to watch the last half of 20/20 and the screen still hasn't changed. Something is definitely up.

 

[Jigglymaster]

What do you expect. Crossdressing Guys, Curse Words, Deaths and sadness. Japan thought it would only be suitable for themselves because little kids would buy this game and not like it.

Ok, I was wrong. THERES MORE...

Lucas's butt showing, a guy mermaid with lipstick kissing and a gay Pork Trooper? >___>

 

[A_man13]

Oh yeah. There is also Pokey's "Fan Room" with a bunch of girls and yet another kisser...

 

[Meadow]

I actually left for half an hour to watch the last half of 20/20 and the screen still hasn't changed. Something is definitely up.

I got stuck too, it took me a while to find the right keys to push. Push either 'X' or 'Z', I can't remember.

Earthbound 3 is very entertaining right now; I'm not much of a fan of sprite-based games, but I have to say, Earthbound 3 has impressed me quite a bit. If only I came across Earthbound/Mother series before...

 

[Jigglymaster]

Fassad wasn't that hard but during the begging of the match I found something that would make him very easy to beat.

Spoiler

If you buy the honey bee stuff from the Mr Saturn it deals a total of 800 damage to Fassad, its really crazy and at the time I only had 1 of them

Also when your on the in the water

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The sea creature that you have to fight that pulls you in with a wirlpool does one final attack and you lose all your items, don't worry because you'll get them back from a friend not too shortly after

 

[A_man13]

yeah. And make sure you learn PSI Shield omega before the real boss of the island. And use sniff...a ton...

 

[Levitas]

Sniffing is for noobs. Real men use experimentation to find the pattern.

Or just lose a lot.

 

[A_man13]

You don't understand. This boss switches weaknesses every few turns...

 

[Jigglymaster]

Yea I noticed. When I first fought him all i could do was heal because i was getting ***** by the attacks so much. Then i used sniff and saw his weakness but i didn't know it changed every time. And I also played it w/o PSI sheild omega but now I have it. So I'll try again.

 

[A_man13]

Yeah, you really need it. Especially when it starts to use starstorm.

 

[Jigglymaster]

Yeah, you really need it. Especially when it starts to use starstorm.

Yeah I just beat the guy now. Now that i knew the secret to beating it it made it a lot easier. Nobody in my party died.

 

[Levitas]

You don't understand. This boss switches weaknesses every few turns...

I'm aware. If you were paying a little more attention, you wouldn't have to sniff.

And it's dead when it uses starstorm, just not immediately.

 

[OK'Ssuka?]

I personally went for this strategy for the real boss on the island:

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Have Boney hold Shield Snatcher, so that at the beginning of the match, the first thing you do is take away the shield. Next, have Kumatora use Defense Down Alpha on the boss so that the boss would waste turns rebuffing their defenses (they don't always waste turns buffing their defenses but it certainly gives you extra breathing room.) By this point, hopefully Lucas already knows: Defense Up Omega, PSI Shield Omega, or (if you are the grinder sort of person or just one who had an especially hard time getting Kumatora's Mystical Gloves from the Monkalrus) PSI Counter Omega so I guess use one of those to boost the defensive capabilities of your party. From here on out, I then have Duster and Boney "Bash"/Heal with items with Lucas "Bash"/"Lifeup"/"PK Special" and Kumatora "Defense Down"/"Lifeup"/"Bash". If we are talking Game+ mode, where you still have all your PK/PSI abilities, however...Shield Snatcher > PK Starstorm > PK Special Omega > Repeat until K.O...lol

 

[Jigglymaster]

I beat the game under 19 hours on my first try. =D

 

[A_man13]

@Levitas: I really didn't notice anything (and didn't want to waste turn on alpha psi). That and the only time I use PSI special is when I'm 100% desperate. With Lucas using shields, offence or defence up, or healing, there is hardly any room in between to PSI, let alone bash. Without Kuma sending out PSI every turn, the battle would be drawn out.

@JigglyMaster: I beat in in about the same time. But the real question is did you get:

-shield snatcher
-Friends yo-yo
-Mystical boots or whatever they are called
-Beat the Pokey statue

 

[Jigglymaster]

-I don't know if I got that or not.
-Yes
-I don't know if I got that or not
-Yes

I was around level 57 when I finished.

Also I forgot to equip the Real Bat when fighting Porkey. XD

 

[A_man13]

Dang, beat me by...6 levels. I was at 64 by masked man (boney was 65).

 

[Jigglymaster]

Dang, beat me by...6 levels. I was at 64 by masked man (boney was 65).

I spent a while in the Chimera Lab going in and out the door attacking the Blue Pigmask over and over and kept getting 800 exp. My Party rose about 10 levels in a few minutes because all you had to do was fight the pigmask, walk out of the room, walk back in and fight them again. All you needed to do to kill him was use PK freeze B and have Lucas and Boney attack. If you HP ever got low you could go to the hot spring across the hallway.

 

[A_man13]

Nice strategy.

I just beat the living daylights out of sticky slugs and heavyheads near the sixth needle.

 

[OK'Ssuka?]

So, about the Special/Amazing-to-equip items, are there anything else besides:

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Lucas:
Mystical Stick
Amazing Cape
Amazing Crown
Amazing Ring

Kumatora:
Mystical Gloves

Duster:
Mystical Boots

Boney:
???

In terms of equipment?

 

[A_man13]

pretty much. Though boney has canine weapons (not that rare)...

 

[Levitas]

@Levitas: I really didn't notice anything (and didn't want to waste turn on alpha psi). That and the only time I use PSI special is when I'm 100% desperate. With Lucas using shields, offence or defence up, or healing, there is hardly any room in between to PSI, let alone bash. Without Kuma sending out PSI every turn, the battle would be drawn out.

You might want to note that who calls the formation is the determining factor in their weakness. And pk Love is usually a bad call.

I was really underlevelled at this point coming into the battle, I didn't even have Psi shield omega, which is really bad...

 

[A_man13]

I figured that it would be something like that. I just forgot to look for Barrier guy, gal, and dude (or whatever their names were).

I never used love unless I was level building or pulling a needle. I said this before, but I never bought any HP recovering items (but I did sell a ton of them), so if I ran out of PP using love, I was in a tough spot.

 

[thesage]

You might want to note that who calls the formation is the determining factor in their weakness. And pk Love is usually a bad call.

I was really underlevelled at this point coming into the battle, I didn't even have Psi shield omega, which is really bad...

Neither did I.

So I learned refresh right before I beat porky if that gives you any idea how underleveled I was. My Kumatora never learned pk ground.

Edit: I beat the barrier trio WITHOUT using any sort of psi. I didn't know they were immune to only certain psi so I just attacked with Kumatora. They practically cleaned out my inventory of awesome stuff. I only used one of the magypsy memento's though.