

One of the Bosses belches crud at you and does some hellacious damage. There are all kinds of disgusting sound effects and such. This game is full of sick little human expulsions like that. For that matter, who would have thought you'd see blood from Nintendo. Who would ever have thought you'd read something like that while playing your Super NES.

The effort is very evident in the game play. The people at Nintendo of Japan and Nintendo of America got together on the translation of this game to make it based more toward our culture. This game was originally called Mother 2 in Japan and was a hit over there. This is yet another RPG that is going to keep you up late on weeknights and all weekend long. While I don't know about that, I'll tell you this: The story line is going to make you want to play the game until you beat it. Some of our editors are saying that the story line is better than FF3's. For more detailed instructions, please check the readme.The story line in this game is very intense. It should be called “Earth Bound (USA) (Proto)”. When patching, apply to an unmodified copy of the prototype ROM. Pick this if you want to keep continuity with the official release of EarthBound. MOTHER Restored (1+2 Edition): This version has the same character, item, and location names as the MOTHER1+2 fan translation. MOTHER Restored: This version makes the names of characters, items, and locations closely match the Japanese game. Graphics that were altered in localization have also been restored, including: The main version also makes names of characters, locations, and items more accurate to what they were originally. This allowed the fan translation to be included in its entirety. Unlike previous attempts to replace EarthBound Beginnings’ dialogue, this patch repoints virtually all of the text in the game. The game’s script has been completely replaced with the more accurate translation done by Tomato for MOTHER1+2, including dialogue, battle text, item and enemy descriptions, and other miscellaneous text. MOTHER Restored is a patch for EarthBound Beginnings that aims to make it as faithful as possible to the Japanese version of MOTHER while keeping its gameplay improvements.
