Mother 3: Difference between revisions

|system=[[Game Boy Advance]]<br>[[Nintendo DS]] <small>(via backwards compatibility)</small>

|rerelease=yes

|genre=RPG

|rating=CERO: A

|developer=[[Brownie Brown]]<br />[[HAL Laboratory]]

|jprelease=yes

|ftrelease=yes

|ftreleasedate=October 17, 2008

==Story==

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===Prologue===

They borrow a [[Pork Bean]] to navigate the [[Highway]] faster, however it slips on a bunch of banana peels (presumably dropped by Fassad), catching the attention of a higher-ranked Pigmask named the [[Fierce Pork Trooper]], who is also a DCMC fan and attended the concert the previous night. Using his highly developed sense of smell, he sees through the team's disguise and attempts to fight them off. Ultimately he is incapacitated by jealousy due to the team's DCMC merchandise, allowing them to defeat him and take his own Pork Bean. They find it in a dump where it was reconstructed into the [[Forlorn Junk Heap]]. They defeat it and retrieve the Egg of Light, which restores Duster's memory. They then head to the Thunder Tower, learning that it is used to stroke houses that refuse to buy a Happy Box with lightning, to shut it down.

===Chapter 6: Sunflower Fields===

Porky greets them and attempts to have a friendly negotiation with him, but regardless 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 appearance 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.

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 Porky reveals more about himself, such as his constant back and forth time traveling caused his outward appearance to accelerate in aging to the point where he is dependent 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 existence. 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.

On December 17th 2015, the game was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console exclusively in Japan.

===Fan Translation===

==Trivia==

*Mother 3 was originally going to be released on the Nintendo 64DD add-on under the name ''[[EarthBound 64]]''. However, when the add-on's future became uncertain, ''Mother 3'' was moved to the standard N64 cartridge format in the summer of 1998, where a fully playable demo was shown off on Space World 1999 before being cancelled in August of 2000. Later on, the game was revived on the Game Boy Advance.

*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 metallic, but is now changed back into the Earth (with the design being the actual picture of [[The Blue Marble]]).