Another great video as always and on such a consistency it's crazy :) I haven't played a lot of Squaresoft games in the Snes era but they were by far ahead of the competition visually speaking. In a way the graphics sort of remind me of the Phantasy Star games as much as they do old DQ. So even though it was a unique setting, visually it may have just passed along as just another JRPG.
Phantasy Star is a franchise I've always really wanted to check out. Played PSO on Dreamcast back in the day, but long after the servers were shut down, so it was also single-player lol. Heard amazing things about Phantasy Star IV too!
Small thing, because I haven't played these games and don't have much to say: As weird as a title like Uncle could be, the word Mother fits the first game on the NES and I'd argue fits the third game if you think of it as Mother Nature and regardless, "Mother" is an inherently interesting word that could get the mind racing in ways that "Uncle," "Aunt," etc can't...That said, Mother doesn't really mean anything to the SNES game, the only game released outside Japan in a timely fashion, so this is a rare instance where I'd say a dub change helped, even "Earthbound" might not be the best title either, since space travel isn't a huge part of this game (arguably, time travel is more relevant and even that wouldn't make for a good title). Anywhoozle, cool video! Glad to see that the game started speaking to you more towards the end (which is probably a fair way to describe the first Mother) and I'd say you got to the same understanding that more dedicated Mother fans got to despite only playing one game in the series (which, again, is more than I've played). Video was also well-worded but also concise, so good listening-to content.
Thanks for such an insightful comment! I always got the feeling that "Mother" probably had more meaning to the first game, and from what little knowledge I have of Mother 3, I was able to pull a sort of "mother nature" theming from that game, but it really did not feel pertinent to this game at all. It's also great to hear that the video was good for listening; that's one of my goals when writing these scripts.
@GamingintheAM0801 As a video creator, do you get a lot of people who only listen to things, or do you have another reason for wanting them to work well without visuals?
Another great video as always and on such a consistency it's crazy :)
I haven't played a lot of Squaresoft games in the Snes era but they were by far ahead of the competition visually speaking. In a way the graphics sort of remind me of the Phantasy Star games as much as they do old DQ. So even though it was a unique setting, visually it may have just passed along as just another JRPG.
Phantasy Star is a franchise I've always really wanted to check out. Played PSO on Dreamcast back in the day, but long after the servers were shut down, so it was also single-player lol. Heard amazing things about Phantasy Star IV too!
audio was great and amazing story
Small thing, because I haven't played these games and don't have much to say: As weird as a title like Uncle could be, the word Mother fits the first game on the NES and I'd argue fits the third game if you think of it as Mother Nature and regardless, "Mother" is an inherently interesting word that could get the mind racing in ways that "Uncle," "Aunt," etc can't...That said, Mother doesn't really mean anything to the SNES game, the only game released outside Japan in a timely fashion, so this is a rare instance where I'd say a dub change helped, even "Earthbound" might not be the best title either, since space travel isn't a huge part of this game (arguably, time travel is more relevant and even that wouldn't make for a good title).
Anywhoozle, cool video! Glad to see that the game started speaking to you more towards the end (which is probably a fair way to describe the first Mother) and I'd say you got to the same understanding that more dedicated Mother fans got to despite only playing one game in the series (which, again, is more than I've played). Video was also well-worded but also concise, so good listening-to content.
Thanks for such an insightful comment! I always got the feeling that "Mother" probably had more meaning to the first game, and from what little knowledge I have of Mother 3, I was able to pull a sort of "mother nature" theming from that game, but it really did not feel pertinent to this game at all.
It's also great to hear that the video was good for listening; that's one of my goals when writing these scripts.
@GamingintheAM0801 As a video creator, do you get a lot of people who only listen to things, or do you have another reason for wanting them to work well without visuals?
It's mainly that those "listenable" videos are the kind of content I enjoy, so I also enjoy making them.
the games ment to be a head trip. all the sounds and annoyances are on purpose.