My Unbearable Sadness for Mother 3′s Battle System.

As you’ll all hear in this week’s episode, I recently beat Earthbound and am now playing Mother 3 (or Earthbound 2 if it ever gets brought over here.) I’m loving the game, but the battle system is butchered on a computer’s emulator. You see the game uses a really cool turn based battle system where you can score extra hits by tapping the A button to the beat of the background music. However the emulator doesn’t run the game at 100% all the time (mine usually averages around 98-99%) so that means there’s a very small lag between what you’re seeing and what you’re hearing. This isn’t a problem for most games, but it makes these multiple hit combos almost impossible on an emulator. This by no means makes the game impossible, but it would be more fun to take advantage of the background music.

I really wish my computer would run the game properly. But you know what I’d rather do? BUY A COPY OF THE GAME FOR $30 AND PLAY IT ON MY GBA LIKE IT WAS INTENDED. Come on Nintendo! Smash Bros made Fire Emblem a success world wide and it would do the same for the Mother series! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve played Brawl with people and they say “I’d really like to check out Lucas’s game.” Sigh…

Tags: earthbound, mother, nintendo