Console Wars

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, I geuss the slimemold FG is a good fallback plan…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And if it fails too, what shalt be done?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Hmmm… I have a MOTHER series inspired FG cooking in my brain. If you have not played a game in the MOTHER series, go check the series out! Download a rom for one of the games, put it in an emulator, and you are now good to play. I recommend starting with Earthbound or Mother 3. Mother 1 will give you a random encounter every, like, 5 steps.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Shouldn’t one start where it all began to have no “surprises” in the later games?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

For some reason… the later games forget the existence of Mother 1. Mother 3 does not ignore Earthbound, though…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So M1 has no impact on the later games, right?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, not really. America is just called… America in M1, but in EB it’s called… Eagleland? Also, America does not exist in any form in M3.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So I guess the links between the three aren’t that strong…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, very weak links. So you can start out with whatever game in the series you want.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Though you did say there exists a line of progression between M2 and M3…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, so I geuss a good order to play is M2 → M3 → M1.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Is M1 the hardest of the triplet?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, it’s the hardest of the trilogy because of all that old-school jank.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And the further in the series per naming, the easier they get?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

M3 is around the same difficulty as M2 from my experience.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I see. Are the later games longer or shorter to complete than the 1st?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

I don’t know how long M1 or M3 takes to beat… Also M3 has no official english version, so you are gonna have to download the fan-translated rom if you don’t speak Japanese.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I can presume M3 being only in one language is tied to the decline of the series…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, M2 flopped in the US because of the fart and stink advertising… Literally, one of the ads says “Because This Game Stinks.”

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And M3 was the nail in the coffin?