From 2015 to the present, UNDERTALE/UT has been on fire for 7 years;
Of course, we're not going to talk about its chaotic circle today, but about a topic that no one has talked about for a long time: UT and Nintendo's RPG game "MOTHER", which was released on FC in 1989.
▌ To do it, you have to do it differently
More than 30 years ago, SQUARE's Final Fantasy (FF) series and ENIX's Dragon Quest (DQ) series became synonymous with the RPG genre;
An all-rounder named Shigeari Itoi, whose aesthetic of literature and art is biased toward darkness, dropped out of school in his freshman year (is it popular for cow people to drop out of college?). ), is in the stage of "depressed", and he is also very envious and jealous of the popularity of FF and DQ series.
So after the establishment of the game company APE, Itoi Shigeri began to work with Nintendo to produce a "dark" non-mainstream RPG.
In 1989, Nintendo's first JRPG, MOTHER, was officially launched, which did not have the "medieval fantasy style" of FF and DQ, but adopted a very rare "real world view" setting.
In this game, you can see convenience stores, cars, modern buildings, swords and magic replaced with baseball bats and superpowers;
The protagonist's 10-year-old child, the red hat, and the setting of leaving his hometown to go on an adventure in the urban wilderness seem to inspire a teenager who aspires to become a "training master".
"Unique style", "funny", "black humor", with a dark side of reality and a warm adventure;
From this sentence alone, it is difficult to tell whether Uncle Monster is talking about UT or MOTHER.
The appearance of MOTHER has caused a sensation in the entire Japanese game world, and the three generations of "MOTHER2" (M2) is arguably the most successful game, and to this day you can still see the protagonists of the second and third generations of MOTHER in many Nintendo's Smash Bros.
▌ What kind of game is MOTHER2?
During the development of the MOTHER sequel, Shigeri Itoi approached Satoshi Iwata (former president of Nintendo and planner of well-known works such as Kirby Star, Nintendo Star Brawl, pokémon gold/silver) to collaborate.
(Left: Shigesato Itoi right: Akira Iwata)
Therefore, compared to the previous game M2 can be described as "reborn", the technical power is far more than all the other games in 1994.
From an objective point of view, M2 is definitely a god that should be recorded in the history of games;
M2 tells the story of 4 children who stop aliens from invading Earth, inheriting the world view of the previous game, and the protagonist NESS is also "the chosen son".
Before challenging the Alien King, the protagonist and his party will have a difficult, wonderful, and then only "weird" to describe the adventure; but at the end of the story, you are really warm and touched.
If you look at the historical documents, you will find that there are many contents in the game that are alluding to some of the real events that existed at that time.
And M2's final BOSS battle contains a mentally polluted BGM and a battle process that is enough to make people "childhood collapse"; it is this special BOSS battle that inspires Toby Fox (UT author), and the first form of the Little Flower BOSS battle is to pay tribute to M2, and even the lines appear "Mommy!" Daddy！ ”。
Moreover, The Little Flower itself is a character in M2.
▌ The front wave is still the front wave
Maybe you think this style doesn't seem like a big deal right now, but don't forget it's a 1994 game.
After experiencing this series of people and events, the protagonist returns to the world, the rain has passed, and finally after the boss battle, all the NPCs in the game have unlocked the dialogue, and most of the NPC lines will change, which makes the player feel that he has really saved the decaying world.
The world has changed and become hopeful because of you; and when you return home and return to your mother, you have completed your mission and become an ordinary teenager again.
This ending is touching because the dark atmosphere in front of it is reversed.
Look at games such as "UT" and "LiSA", which are deeply inspired by "MOTHER", and UT has grasped the essence of this reversal effect;
Although UT has proven that it is a game worth playing, high level, and great value for money, Uncle Monster recommends that you review MOTHER2 on Super Ren.
When you try M2, I'm sure you'll think the game is more worthy of the title of "God's Work".
"UT" fills you with determination, while "MOTHER2" makes you full of courage.
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