MOTHER Series on Hardcore Gaming 101

Woah wait, when did this happen? I follow HG101 and I’ve never seen this article before.

Interesting, but you can tell that the author really prefers M2 over (especially) M1 and M3 and wants their audience to agree with them.

Well, people tend to advertise what the like, intentionally or not. I feel that way about a lot of the HG101 articles about series (or just articles in general). That said, even if I disagree with them, I tend to still like the read. HG101 is easily one of my favorite sites on the net, and I’ve been happily following it for years.

I’ve read the Mother 1 and Mother 2 entries, and they are really good reads, and they have a lot of analysis and research…and bias. Special emphasis on Mother 1’s flaws being explained first, then being criticized for them, and then being applauded for several other things halfway through. (This site did the former *and only* the former with Final Fantasy II, and it’s pretty extreme!) But still, what I’ve read here is good stuff.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/mother/src/pics/m2_17.png

Insignificant Pressent??????? Where did they get this pic from?

That’s what it says when you try to use the Insignificant Item. You can see it in my text dump here: http://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/script/script.txt

I never get tired of reading texts and stuff about MOTHER. Many of them are good things to read and this is no exception. =w=

PS: Wait a moment. Itoi travelled to Mali? ‘Cause if they’re talking about the african country, that’s where my family comes from! ÒAÓ; You don’t know how shocked I am.

While I do feel they were a bit hard on the first game (honestly, the difficulty is not THAT crazy… has anyone ever played the first Final Fantasy? Mother is a walk in the park compared to it), I still feel they were fair and very comprehensive. I loved reading all of these. Still… could have used some proofreading. The fan translation was brought up in two separate paragraphs, the first of which had nothing to do with the preceding paragraph, and there were a lot of misspellings, many of which seemed to be AutoCorrect gone mad: “Benchmark Itoh”? But still, loved it. Can’t wait to do my (relatively )yearly trilogy playthrough!

According to their forums the article is not quite finished yet, that’s probably why it’s not mentioned in their news on the front page.

They also mistakenly refer to Starmen.net as “Starman.net”
(which is a completely different website…)

Wow, I wasn’t aware that people already knew about this article even though it hasn’t been “officially” published yet! As stated by Jungyin, it’s not really finished yet, which explains the typos and such. Anyway, I’m glad to see most of you seems to have enjoyed it.