This starts very similar to Earthbound. We begin with our apparent protagonist, Lucas, in bed at Grandpa's (Alec) house. You get woken up by your twin brother, Claus, knocking and calling for you. You go downstairs in your pajamas and your Mom, Hinawa, makes you go upstairs to change. Once dressed, we go outside to find Claus. He's ramming himself into a Drago, a big dinosaur that is apparently very peaceful. You're taught how to dash and encouraged to ram the dinosaur. Fun. Then you get a tutorial battle with a Mole Cricket, whatever that is. It's just a bug, and Lucas and Claus make pretty quick work of it.

After the battle, Hinawa comes to get you for dinner, Alec tells you how to save (which is by talking to frogs, of course) and then a bit of exposition and making fun of Lucas. Hinawa writes a letter to Dad, Flint, continuing the so far "Lucas sucks" theme. Flint apparently couldn't tag along to visit Alec because he has to tend the sheep. A bird takes the letter to Flint and then... OMG! Weird music and a circular shadow! Hinawa is confused. Title screen shows!

Then, explosions in the forest! Oh noes! A guy with a big head and huge piece of lumber comes out of a house in the woods followed by a kid that looks suspiciously like Ness without a hat on. The guy with the lumber makes the kid go back inside. In another part of the forest, animals are running for their lives, and strange people with pig masks dressed in pink and black bondage gear are shown to be the ones responsible for the explosions. I will from here on refer to these people as Pigslaves. A man runs through a town frantically, and we are introduced to this as Chapter 1: Night of the Funeral. That doesn't sound good. The man runs to Flint's home and knocks like crazy, attempting to get his help for the fire in the woods that was caused by the explosions. You take control of Flint, who has an awesome hat and looks something like Clint Eastwood. You rush to the woods, along with the utterly useless Thomas (the man who came to get you), and begin searching the woods for the big headed guy and the kid from before. It takes a while, but you find them both, stealing the big headed guy's lumber for a weapon. You fight a strange flying mouse thing to save the boy.

Once back home, you get the letter from Hinawa. It's evening, and has begun to rain, which doused the fires, but Hinawa is still not home, like she said she would be. This is trouble. Rush back to the forest, everyone comes out to help. The fire has caused some trees to collapse, blocking one path forward, and a man comes forward and tells you of his son, Duster, who should be of some help. Flint's dog, Boney, runs off to fetch Duster, but he doesn't wake up. Boney drags him back to the woods, where he finally wakes up, and runs to meet Flint and his father. Duster turns out to be an apprentice thief with a pretty useful set of skills, like the ability to staple walls, creating a ladder. Woot. Any way, continuing on, we find the Pigslaves again, making something evil out of a caribou. It attacks, I kill it, Pigslaves run away to a space ship. So it was them! F*ckers.

We don't find Flint's family, but on returning to the rest of the group, we learn they have found the boys. Yay! We run to them, they're alright, just scared and cold, as they were pulled out of the river. Another man comes up and tells you he has good news and bad news. The good news, he found a Drago fang, which should make me a pretty sweet weapon. Rock on! The bad news: Hinawa is dead. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA?!? How the f*ck do you do that with a good news bad news thing? That's not how you tell someone their wife is dead. WTF is wrong with this guy? Flint goes on a rampage and starts beating up anyone that comes near him. I honestly don't blame him, I would have shoved that fang up that guy's ass. Bastard.

Flint gets put in jail for being violent and misses his own wife's funeral. These townspeople suck. Claus comes to visit Flint in prison and leaves him an apple with a nail file in it. Way to bust out your old man. You leave the prison to go visit your wife's grave, and learn that Claus has run off and Lucas has been there crying constantly. Man, Lucas does kind of suck. Lucas, after a bit of pressure, reveals that Claus has tried to run off to get revenge against the Drago that killed his mother. At least Lucas isn't stupid. Flint heads to the forest to find his son. The juice bag that told you about your wife gives you the Drago fang before you head out. At least you got that out of him.

You head forward back to the cliffs, find the Pigslaves again, and they again, run away to their space ship. These guys are chicken sh!t. Good thing is, we find a revitalization chamber. At this point in time, I'm going to note, the tech these Pigslaves are using looks very familiar. It's similar to stuff that was used in Mother 2 by Ness and his friends. This is just a bit of foreshadowing, I'm sure. Anyway, we find another platform like the one that the Pigslaves made the caribou chimera, but it's busted. Progressing forward, well sh!t. They made a Drago chimera. No wonder it killed Hinawa. Well, I use the fang as a weapon against it, it pierces it's hide, and I can do damage to it now. It still takes a while to kill this thing, but I manage. Still no sign of Claus though... Oh wait. There he is, knocked out on a cliff down below. Flint doesn't see him though. Wow. This game sucks so far. This game gives you characters to love, then kicks you in the balls by killing them all off.

Well, that's the end of Chapter 1. I'm going to stop this blog and start another one for Chapter 2. Cry for Hinawa and Claus, I'll see you in Chapter 2.

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1 Re: True Games: Mother 3 (Chapter 1) by Gimic300 on May 08, 2009, 11:55:04 PM