 |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| I feel a little bad for Mother 3, Fable 2 is blowing it away in every category. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/25/2008, 11:15am PDT | ||||
 |
 |
|||
| I'm actually playing both almost at the same time (started the morning playing several hours of Mother 3, and then a few hours of Fable 2), and Fable 2 is more fun and has a better story and all that. Both games have humor, but Fable 2's is a little better. Both games have some tongue in cheek humor regarding their previous games also.
The problem with Mother 3 is that it's so old school that it moves too slowly. Ever since say 2005 I don't think any RPG ever made ever again in the history of the world should make you wait to initiate or leave combat. When an enemy dies you should go right back to walking, it should at least load instantly. I don't care if it tells me about the XP and money I just got as long as I can walk while doing it. Granted Fable 2 is easily spoiling on that because it streamlines RPG combat a billion percent and lets you have way more of an effect on the world than any JRPG ever has those FUCKS. Anyway at this point in the game [SPOILERS?] they want you to go around the island country (JAPAN??????) you live on pulling the 7 magic needles out of the ground protected by 7 sages that awaken the Dark Dragon. Apparently this is supposed to intentionally be a cliche and I can buy that since the game is really self uh fuckin whatever I mean self aware. Where Fable 2 is ultra free form and lets you do anything you want as a good WRPG should, Mother 3 is still excelling in its own JRPG way by presenting a long string of areas and characters that you hang out with. To be specific, the Mr. Saturns return in this game with their infamous Mr. Saturn font. There's a part where you walk along the bottom of a sea to get to an island and wash up on the shore with only 1 health and you have to eat a bunch of hallucinogenic mushrooms to get your health back but spend the whole next area of the game hallucinating every monster as your family members and they all turn into floating disembodied smiles when they attack, and there are mailboxes that have horror things in them (like eternal emptiness and shit). As far as the grinding goes it's pretty typical and not really that painful. The battles do move along quick enough, it's just that they could always be faster, like instead of just fading to black before loading the world again, you'd think these days they could have both loaded so it just fades back to the world and lets you walk again. There are several areas that require you to do things like fuckin sit around while watching some shit play out over and over, and it's just this close to being agonizing. This is still pretty minor compared to the combo system, which seemed really cool at first until you realize that every monster you fight has a different tapping pattern you have to tap out, and they're not all even beats, which just becomes annoying because you have to put all the enemies to sleep, and then at that point really I'd rather just not even bother with the combo system. Still I intend to finish the game, and I think I'm getting kind of close already. It's still superior to Earthbound and in a lot of ways is easier to navigate as a game, and less confusing. You don't need a walkthrough as much in Mother 3 as you did in Earthbound. |
||||
 |
 |
|||
|
