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Whew finally finished rewriting the story, but there's still some other stuff that I'll add a bit later.
(My phone consistently autocorrects Cerulean Beach to Cerulean City, ya know from pokemon) |
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==Story== | ==Story== | ||
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Unlike the first two games, the focus is no longer on a group of children. Some chapters put completely different characters in the protagonist role. In one chapter the player controls a limping thief named Duster, in another chapter the main character is Salsa, a monkey who is constantly suffering abuse by a rich traveling merchant named Fassad. The only child character the player gets to control is Lucas, who is about nine to ten years old in the first three chapters and twelve to thirteen years for the remainder of the game. Further controllable characters include Kumatora, a tomboyish princess, Flint, a strange middle-aged cowboy and Lucas's father, and Lucas's dog, Boney. | |||
Unlike the first two games, the focus is no longer on a group of children. Some chapters put completely different characters in the protagonist role. In one chapter the player controls a limping thief named Duster, in another chapter the main character is Salsa, a monkey who is constantly suffering abuse by a rich traveling merchant named Fassad. The only child character the player gets to control is Lucas, who is about nine to ten years old in the first three chapters and twelve to thirteen years for the remainder of the game. Further controllable characters include Kumatora, a tomboyish princess, Flint, a strange middle-aged cowboy and Lucas's father, and Lucas's dog, Boney. | |||
''Mother 3'' is set in the [[Nowhere Islands]] in an unknown time period. Chaos ensues after an invasion by the [[Pigmask Army]], named after the uniforms, which resemble pigs, and its leader, [[Porky Minch]], the "Pig King". They slowly construct a police state, while experimenting on the land's flora and fauna, and introducing new technology and infrastructure to the islands. The various chapters record the life of a boy named [[Lucas]] and his family and friends, banding together to rid the Nowhere Islands of the Pigmask Army. | ''Mother 3'' is set in the [[Nowhere Islands]] in an unknown time period. Chaos ensues after an invasion by the [[Pigmask Army]], named after the uniforms, which resemble pigs, and its leader, [[Porky Minch]], the "Pig King". They slowly construct a police state, while experimenting on the land's flora and fauna, and introducing new technology and infrastructure to the islands. The various chapters record the life of a boy named [[Lucas]] and his family and friends, banding together to rid the Nowhere Islands of the Pigmask Army. | ||
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By the time they return to Tazmily Village, they find that almost all of the residents have moved on to live in the big city, leaving the village deserted. Traveling through [[Argilla Pass]] they reach Ionia's house. Giving the Jar of Yummy Pickles Mixolydia left them, Ionia gives Lucas the [[Waters of Time]] so they can sprinkle it on the time-locked vines and allow them enter the [[Chupichupyoi Temple]] nearby. Along the way to the temple, they meet a hooded Mr. Saturn who gives the polished Courage Badge, now revealed to have been a [[Franklin Badge]]. At the temple, they meet the Masked Man, who tries to destroy the vines blocking the entrance to the temple, but is umable to due to them being frozen in time. He then notices Lucas and his friends, then Lucas has yet another telepathic link with him, and finally the Masked Man shoots them with lightning once again, but this time Lucas's Franklin Badge reflects the lightning back to him, and a battle starts. The Masked Man is defeated and then retreats, leaving Lucas to pull the next Needle. After sprinkling the Waters of Time on the vines, they enter a cycle of flowering and wilting, then the entrance to the temple is open. Just before Lucas pulls the Needle, Ionia comes and teaches Kumatora [[PK Starstorm]]. Lucas pulls the Needle and learns PK Love Ω, the strongest tier of the attack. Ionia disappears, orphaning Kumatora, who was taken and raised by Ionia many years ago. | By the time they return to Tazmily Village, they find that almost all of the residents have moved on to live in the big city, leaving the village deserted. Traveling through [[Argilla Pass]] they reach Ionia's house. Giving the Jar of Yummy Pickles Mixolydia left them, Ionia gives Lucas the [[Waters of Time]] so they can sprinkle it on the time-locked vines and allow them enter the [[Chupichupyoi Temple]] nearby. Along the way to the temple, they meet a hooded Mr. Saturn who gives the polished Courage Badge, now revealed to have been a [[Franklin Badge]]. At the temple, they meet the Masked Man, who tries to destroy the vines blocking the entrance to the temple, but is umable to due to them being frozen in time. He then notices Lucas and his friends, then Lucas has yet another telepathic link with him, and finally the Masked Man shoots them with lightning once again, but this time Lucas's Franklin Badge reflects the lightning back to him, and a battle starts. The Masked Man is defeated and then retreats, leaving Lucas to pull the next Needle. After sprinkling the Waters of Time on the vines, they enter a cycle of flowering and wilting, then the entrance to the temple is open. Just before Lucas pulls the Needle, Ionia comes and teaches Kumatora [[PK Starstorm]]. Lucas pulls the Needle and learns PK Love Ω, the strongest tier of the attack. Ionia disappears, orphaning Kumatora, who was taken and raised by Ionia many years ago. | ||
As they exit the temple, a limousine pulls up driven by a well-dressed man. The man introduces himself as representing the king who he calls "Porky". He then claims that | As they exit the temple, a limousine pulls up driven by a well-dressed man. The man introduces himself as representing the king who he calls "Porky". He then claims that the Pig King has invited them to [[New Pork City]], which is where Tazmily's inhabitants have migrated to. Ultimately they accept the invitation expecting to find the final Needle there. | ||
===Chapter 8: All Things=== | ===Chapter 8: All Things=== | ||
Riding in the flying limousine the team arrive in New Pork City. Outwardly the city appears as a massive utopia for everyone to live in, however it also invokes the image of a capitalist life. Notably throughout the city are images of the fabled Pig King, as well as a [[Porky Statue|gigantic statue]] of him. It is revealed here that the Pig King is none other than [[Porky Minch]] from [[EarthBound]]. He set up the Pigmask Army to brainwash the residents of the Nowhere Islands, and made himself as the ruler of them all. | |||
In New Pork City, Lucas and friends go to the movie theater, which shows some of the Porky's past adversaries (including [[Ness]], [[Paula]], [[Jeff]], and [[Poo]] from ''EarthBound''). A stinkbug gets the attention of Boney, which he chases into a broken speaker. Behind the speaker is a hole in the wall which leads to the sewers, and the party chases him into the sewers via the entrance at the New Pork Arcade. Once there, they follow Boney's barks to find him in an abandoned apartment complex. Inside one of these apartments [[Leder]], the bell ringer from Tazmily Village, who disappeared after Tazmily was modernized. He tells them the long history of their world which was kept a secret until the time is truly needed for it to be told, and that time was now. | |||
Long ago there once existed another world. It's never specified what the world was, how it was like, or what it was called, but the world was immensivly larger than the Nowhere Islands. The world wound up destroyed in a cataclysm, it was never revealed what caused it, but it was the result of the people. A select few foresaw the destruction happening and built and climbed aboard the White Ship to escape the cataclysm, which the ship made its way to the Nowhere Islands where they were protected by and co existed with the [[Dark Dragon]]. The people eventually realized that they could not live together with the Dragon anymore, and so it was put to sleep under the Islands and sealed by the Seven Needles guarded by the Magypsys, and was not to be awakened until it's power was truly needed. | |||
The White Ship people believed the cataclysm was caused by the lifestyle the people lived in the previous world, so fearing another cataclysm they erased all their memories of the previous world and stored them inside the Egg of Light. They founded Tazmily Village where everyone could live in peace and harmony and, while still keeping their original names, they replaced the spaces in their memories with a made up "story" of the village where everyone was given "role" in their life, with no memories of the past world (according to Leder, they wanted to create a plethora of myths and legends, but were unable to due to the memory alteration process being done in haste). Before clearing their memories, they believed it was necessary for one person to keep the memories of the previous world as a way to prevent the people's memories from reverting. Leder was chosen because he was unnaturally tall and stood out among the people. He served as Tazmily Village's bell ringer, where the sound of the bell was to keep the people's new memories intact, and he was tasked to keep the memories of the original world a secret until the time to reveal it was truly needed, as it is now. | |||
Leder also tells that once a kingdom existed on the Nowhere Islands long ago, the kingdom being Osohe. By the time the White Ship arrived on the Islands the kingdom ceased to exist. However the former kingdom was used as a vital part of Tazmily Village's "story": Kumatora was an orphaned infant when the Ship arrived on the Islands, and she was given to the Magypsys to raise. Her role in the story was to be the princess of Osohe Castle, with Wess and Duster being her retainers. | |||
Porky | Despite not knowing the outcome of their plans, the people were able to have a peaceful life in Tazmily Village for a while, until Porky arrived and set things amok. Using the [[Phase Distorter]] he stole from Dr. Andonuts, Porky traveled through time and space until he arrived in the era of the Nowhere Islands. Porky viewed the Nowhere Islands as his personal toy box to reshape into his own liking, by bring people from various time periods to live there, transforming the once harmless creatures into dangerous chimeras via the Fascinating Chimera Project, modernizing Tazmily Village, and finally setting himself up as the king of the world. | ||
Before | Porky then learned about the Needles and the Dark Dragon from a Magypsy who betrayed the others and joined Porky's side, the Magypsy being Locria. Porky sought to pull the Needles and use the Dragon's power for himself, however only those who have the power of PK Love can pull the Needles, which neither Porky or even the Magypsys are able to. The only ones who can pull the Needles are Lucas and the Masked Man, as such it is revealed Porky is using the Masked Man as his proxy to pull them and Lucas must stop them. Should Porky succeed there is a possibility that another cataclysm destroying the world could take place. With this knowledge Leder, honoring the meaning of his name as "leader", lives up to his name tasking Lucas to infiltrate the Empire Porky Building, where Porky resides, to put an end to his dastardly plan and pull the final Needle before the Masked Man does. | ||
On the way out of the sewers, Fassad returns to once again, now known as [[Miracle Fassad]]. He expresses his hatred towards the group and again attempts to get his revenge on them. He is now revealed to be able to use PSI as he attacks them with PK Starstorm. In the end he is once again defeated by the party, this time for good. | |||
They now exit and find themselves back on New Pork City's streets where more and more people began to gather, indicating something big is about to occur. As the group climbs the Empire Porky Building, which is the tallest building in New Pork City, they meet the DCMC who is now about to hold their final concert. Duster temporily rejoins them for one last concert. However, the concert is cut short by z power outage committed by Porky himself. Porky, knowing the plans of Lucas and his friends, tells them to come up the 100th floor of the building. | |||
As they climb up they travel on different floors that are not the 100th, There's one room containing a pool filled with [[Hippo Launcher]]s, followed by a fan room with women who are Porky's fans. One is a maze of bathrooms with most occupied. The Ultimate Chimera also managed to make its way here, and is hiding in one of the stalls, coming out if Lucas opens the door. However now it is a smaller threat as it's confined in one hallway. | |||
On one level the party discover a [[Magypsy]] house. Upon entering, they find items which include a turban like Fassad's, a pair of trumpets like the ones Fassad has after being rebuilt, many crates filled with luxury bananas, which Fassad ate throughout the game, and banana peels lazily tossed on the floor like Fassad did. Outside nearby is a mouse who says it was cared for by Locria. It remarks that despite Locria being more unsettling than the other Magypsys, along with having a creepy "Nwehehehehe" laugh (like Fassad's), he was actually kind and a good friend of the mouse. The mouse continues to await the return of Locria. This all reveals that Fassad was actually the Magypsy traiter Locria. | |||
Continuing they find themselves on other floors that aren't the 100th, such as a level that is somehow under construction despite the floors above it being completed. Farther up is a lab of sorts where at the end is the Nice Guy Hot Springs, here there are liquid filled tanks with people inside, similar to the ones found in [[Mt. Itoi]] and [[Stonehenge Base]]. It appears to be used to brainwash people into obeying Porky. When the party makes its way to the next room, they discover a robot that resembles Porky. They are greeted by the chauffeur who took the group to the city, where he explains that Lucas must complete a few mini-games in order to meet Porky. The chauffeur acts as the host, and Lucas is competing with the Porky robot named Mini-Porky, however the aim of the game is to actually allow Mini-Porky to win by a very small margin. After completing the games they are granted access to the next room, where Porky call out they finally reached the 100th floor. Before they can meet Porky they are attacked by the [[Natural Killer Cyborg]]. | |||
Once beating it, they go into a long hallway, where the background music is a familiar ambiant theme: the title music of [[EarthBound Beginnings]], Mother Earth. In the next room, they find the [[Hall of Memories]], showcasing many items from ''EarthBound'', which include the [[Runaway Five]]'s tour bus, {{eb|Tessie}}, the helicopter that Porky flew away from the Monotoli building in, the submarine which [[Ness]] and co. used to enter Deep Darkness swamp, the black and white sesames from the [[Dusty Dunes Desert]] between [[Threed]] and [[Fourside]], and Porky's original spider-mech from the battle with [[Giygas]], before ending up in a long hallway leading to Porky. | |||
Porky greets them and attempts to have a friendly negotiation with him, but reguardless of the answer he explodes. It is revealed that the Porky was actually one of many more complete Porky robots, which attack the group. During the fight, more mechanical Porkys appear back to back along with other enemies. Eventually, Duster's former bandages, the DCMC, rush into to the room and defeat the remaining Porky robots. After several of the townspeople of Tazmily Village enter the room with Dr. Andonuts and Flint, the real Porky descends from the vines on the roof where his outward appearence has aged drastically. After having a long speech, they are all alerted that the last Needle has been found and can be reached from a cave system deep below the city, Porky then challenges Lucas and friend to beat him to it via the express elevator. Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, Duster, and Flint rapidly descend the elevator shaft to a [[New Pork Caves|mine-like]] environment. | |||
Flint goes ahead through the cavern first while Lucas and his friends follow behind. Eventually they exit the cave into an ominous [[The Final Needle|mountainous area]], where Flint's hat can be seen blowing away in the wind. When the party reach him, Flint tells Lucas that the Masked Man is actually his brother Claus, who has been changed by the Pigmask Army. They have been using him because he is the only other one besides Lucas who is capable of pulling the Needles and awakening the dragon. | |||
Continuing onwards, Porky soon confronts them in his spider-mech. Porky has another speech boasting how his servant the Masked Man will pull the final Needle. When Porky hears that the Masked Man is Claus, he doesn't care about what he has made Claus into. Finally he battles the team. During the fight Porks reveals more about himself, such as his constant back and forth time traveling caused his outward appearence to accelerate in aging to the point where he is dependant on his Spider Mech bed to move. He also reveals that he is immortal and no matter what happens, he will never die. He even knows that pulling the final Needle could possibly result in the destruction of everything except Porky (as he is immortal) and the Dark Dragon, despite this he admits he is will to see everyone who hates him be destroyed leaving him and the Dragon as the only beings in existance. When Porky seems to be defeated, he calls upon the [[Absolutely Safe Capsule]] and climbs inside. It seals Porky inside and being true to its name, it protects Porky from all harm. However, Porky finds that he cannot harm the heroes, either. When the battle ends, Dr. Andonuts reveals that he built the Absolutely Safe Capsule with the specifications that once someone is inside, the machine cannot be opened by anyone, including the person inside of it, he even warned Porky not to use it for this very reason. The capsule was built not to protect the one inside it from the world, rather to protect the world from what is inside of it. While Porky is indeed "absolutely safe", he is trapped in the machine forever, and as Porky's wish was to be isolated from anyone who dislikes him, Dr. Andonuts admits this may have granted exactly what Porky has asked for, and proceeds in a childish payback by rolling the capsule around. | |||
Lucas, Kumatora, Duster and Boney finally reach the final Needle, where the Masked Man attacks again in a one-on-one battle with Lucas, who stays safe from his lightning attack thanks to the [[Franklin Badge]], however the other three were knocked out by the attack. During the fight Lucas, heartbroken at the fact that this is his long lost brother, cannot do anything to the Claus, who continues to attack him with PK Love. During the fight, the voice of Hinawa is heard. She pleads with Claus from beyond the grave, trying to get him to stop attacking Lucas, while Flint blocks the effects of the [[PK Love]] attack. As the fight progresses, Claus slowly but steadily begins to regain his senses due to Hinawa's pleas. After a flashback of the birth of the twins and receiving their names, the Masked Man removes his helmet revealing himself as Claus, and regaining his own will, he sends a final bolt of lightning at Lucas so that it would reflect back at him and end the fight. | |||
After Claus collapses, he regains his sense of self. He then apologizes for what he has done, then acknowledges that he is going where mother is, and finally gives his final breath and passes on. Lucas rises up as Flint asks Lucas to forgive Claus, then he gains his courage and pulls the final Needle, and the player is shown a grim outlook of what appears to be the end of the Nowhere Islands. | |||
A secret on the final screen of the game, in which the word "END?" appears, where moving the d-pad will actually reveal that everyone is alive and the world has been restored, they then thank the player for all their help. As the residents of the Nowhere Islands give their thanks, the player finds a [[Doorknob]], likely the doorknob that was pulled off Flint's door in [[Chapter 1]]. Lucas is the last one to say thanks and his the player farewell to the player as they leave. | |||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
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*Near the end of the game, there is a room that shows off various objects from [[EarthBound]]. It also plays the song [[Pollyanna]], from [[EarthBound Beginnings]]. | *Near the end of the game, there is a room that shows off various objects from [[EarthBound]]. It also plays the song [[Pollyanna]], from [[EarthBound Beginnings]]. | ||
*In the games files there is an unused boss that seems to resemble [[Claus]] and [[Lucas]]. | *In the games files there is an unused boss that seems to resemble [[Claus]] and [[Lucas]]. | ||
*The end screen showing the Mother 3 logo restored to its natural look instead of being half metallic possibly references how in the end the world is now restored, especially given the "O" previously being fully metalic, but is now changed back into the Earth (with the design being the actual picture of [[The Blue Marble]]). | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
