~Fun with Mother 1 - Bottle rockets, bottle rockets for the rats!
LET'S DO ANOTHER MOTHER POST i actually feel like I made a lot of progress in the game in a short period of time? I just have been too lazy to actually write the posts. |D I'm still really enjoying it so far! BUT WILL THE UPCOMING FACTORY SPOIL IT FOR ME??
Previous Installments
Let's continue!
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Might as well test this sucker.
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Hey, it works! Is it just me or is the swimming cat always winking
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If my shots of Magicant before weren't clear. So pointy.
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Puri told me about this guy so I had to find him!
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>YES
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:O
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HOW DARE
Apparently in the EB0/EBB translation it's Noodle Noggin Ninten instead. WHICH I KIND OF PREFER BECAUSE THAT'S SOME GREAT ALLITERATION
noodle noggin ninten
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Oh right since i didn't get a shot of these before, here's what the holes look like. wells. whatever.
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LOOK HOW MANY OF THEM THERE ARE i can never remember which one leads down through the minidungeon
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thank god for that
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After some painful inventory juggling FINALLY
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I've been told repeatedly that this is going to come in very handy shortly.
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Then I thought hey, I still have these breadcrumbs from some other point I used a piece of bread that I can't recall, I wonder where they'll take me.
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Aaaand they took me here for some reason. What?! Darn it! Now I have to walk all the way back.
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Alright THIS TIME let's get serious.
Here's the Factory Theme, it's very ominous and presumably haunts the dreams of those who've struggled through this area. I don't THINK this reprised in EarthBound but I can't remember.
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The Sweet Lil Factory consists of tons and tons of empty space and also exit doors.
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And the only enemies here are rats. WELL, EASY ENOUGH ninten can oneshot them with ease at this point, so getting interrupted by them is just a minor nuisance
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stole this door design from metroid
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boy needs a knife
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Beth, Beth, who's Beth again
OH RIGHT TEDDY that's right, haha
man where IS he
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FACTORIES FOR GIANTS
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kind of a ladder-al move
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beautiful tetris mural
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MY LIMITED INVENTORY IS THE WORST THING ABOUT THIS FACTORY SO FAR
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Really I should've dropped the Flashdark but I kept intending to use it and keep forgetting, at SOME POINT
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Rats chewing on the walls
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look rat we both know how this is going to end
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ARRRRGHHHH
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a waste but darn it
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YOUR MOTHER WEARS ARMY BOOTS
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it can't be true D:
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check out our diddly bop, flashes for emergencies going WOOP WOOP WOOP
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LLOYD???
(loid?)
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hhhhhhhhhHHHHHHGH
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well i was gonna use this eventually anyway
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alright FINALLY
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aww yeah
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SHORTCUT
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Lloyd come with me I need more pockets
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aww yeah BOTTLE ROCKET FACTORY
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wait wasn't i just there
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As a note, apparently the weakling stinkling line is actually a running thing throughout the series. It's a really weird insult, let's see... I know Mato wrote something about it.
In EarthBound, after Pokey taunts you and tells Ness to use his “telepathy” to cry for help, he says to the party, “…you pathetically weak heroes of so-called justice!”
There’s nothing really wrong with this translation at all. It’s just that in MOTHER 2, the term he uses is a more unique insult (well, unique among the insults used in the MOTHER games), one that gets used only one time in MOTHER 1 and one time in MOTHER 3. In my translations of both games, I translated it as, “…you weakling, stinkling…” In all three games, the lines are used during important times; in MOTHER 1 it’s when you get Lloyd, and in MOTHER 3 it’s when you’re saving the Mr. Saturns.
So if I were to ever retranslate EarthBound (which I have no plans to) I’d probably change this to say something like, “…you weakling, stinkling so-called heroes of justice!” so that all three games would be consistent.
So there you go, haha.
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I mean OUR rocket, right buddy
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KABOOM
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woops
I kept waiting for dialogue or something but nope that is the end of the scene LOID BLEW UP THE ROOM ALRIGHT DONE
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FINALLY A SECOND PARTY MEMBER at level one, eesh
Well actually I'm not too worried, Ninten's so beefy at this point and the Easy Ring will get him up in levels in no time I'm sure.
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If you'd like to laugh at his stats. No PSI of course!
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yeah looks fine
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OF COURSE
(then the hoarding begins)
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i assume you didn't notice, person wearing them
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WHY IS EVERYONE SO MEAN :<
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whaaaat this conspicuous piano doesn't even do anything?? what a ripoff
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why this is here i have no idea
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Loid nodding quietly in the background.
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Oh here's the first part of what that lady said the last entry, haha.
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YEAH LET'S BUY A GUN
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probably
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BUT WHAT IS IT FOR
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Let's head back to Magicant and get you equipped, bro
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Dissed by a magic cat, when does it end
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LOID WILL SHOW YOU ALL SOMEDAY, YOU'LL SEE
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shouldn't take long
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Two levels already! No problem.
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After spending a good chunk of cash, hopefully Lloyd now will not die when someone breathes on him.
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NOW WITH INVENTORY SPACE I CAN FINALLY PICK UP ALL THESE THINGS
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But then I opened one box and took what was in it and it opened all the others :O I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A CHOICE
FRICK
oh well
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Ninten's a beast at this point who can one-shot practically everything, so Loid is just skimming along beside him for the most part. At one point he DID take a bit of damage, but Lifeup fixed that!
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I missed some stuff in the Sweet Lil Factory, SO BETTER GO BACK AND MAKE SURE I GET IT ALL
it's so great to have more pockets, you really have no idea
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YOU'RE ALL MINE
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Anyway
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HEY YOU HIT MY NERD HOW DARE YOU
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GET WRECKED
loid standing there like :o
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Might as well stay in a hotel to see what it's like.
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Aww, no newspaper like in EarthBound! Oh well.
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So maybe I can use this to make a shortcut from Magicant.
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Nope. Apparently you can't use breadcrumbs to get to or from Magicant. DARN. It's so tedious having to go through the minidungeon everytime I want to leave.
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Pickin up a lot of PSI here.
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I WON'T DIE TO THOSE TRUCKS AGAIN
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New enemies! Hey, that rope one came back in Earthbound!
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KEEP TRYING, LOID
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Hmm, this is a problem.
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Wandering around a bit to see if I could find another way around, hey! I'll take that.
"Ninten what was that"
"NOTHING"
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Not even a number, haha.
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Bipedal dogs will guard all our factories
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Uses it to make all his ice cream sundaes.
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UH, UH
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Then the dog ran back and forth for a bit
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Oh just a normal stray dog, phew
(that can talk??)
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So we meet at last, big brother factory.
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Ain't spending ages in here, that's for sure.
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Don't get too close to this thing.
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Doesn't look that old. :O
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There we go.
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OW SHOULDN'T THE FRANKLIN BADGE BE BLOCKING THIS
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Oh hey!
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WHAT
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
DON'T LEAVE ME IN SUSPENSE
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YOU LIED TO ME GAME
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turns out you have to use it in battle, haha
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WHAT, THIS SUCKS
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probably
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Someone direct me to the Olympics!
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Dr. Distorto has had better days.
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Alright that's a BIT better for the beam.
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deepdeep, deepdeep, deepdeep
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Fancy ductwork in here
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YEAH MORE BOTTLEROCKETS I CAN HOARD AND NEVER USE
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I dunno, does it?
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Harsh
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Another Franklin Badge?? :O
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This is definitely gonna come in handy.
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totally underestimating it as we speak
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REACHING MY LIMITS ALREADY
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what a cute little rocket
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thanks loid
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I wonder where the other rockets went
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Aaaand done! That wasn't so bad, actually.
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Actually no I forgot something in a room so I went to go get it, haha.
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WILL THIS BE USEFUL? (no)
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Alright, fired off a cute lil rocket, let's go!
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LOOKIN GOOD
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GAH
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get it
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thanks granny :>
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Said no to the guy, ARE YOU SURE, CAN I TRUST YOU
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Aw yeah.
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Snails aren't bugs I guess
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CHECK OUT MY INTIMIDATING PAINT JOB
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I found this tunnel but then figured I should probably ride a train through it instead of walk.
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rope rope rope
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this looks promising!
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panics about what though
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I JUST GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE MAN
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what festive names
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Let's just work down the list, why not
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WHEEEEEEEEEE
Haha the train music is The Paradise Line, it's really fun and goofy. |D There's a vocal version off the CD as well that's really great, haha. It even has a bit of Paula's theme in it!
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The game shows you the whole trip, but the train music is so much fun, who even notices |D
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Reindeer here we come!
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Well eventually but
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A favor :o
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ALRIGHT, A QUEST
AND A THIRD PARTY MEMBER
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I'll do it when I feel like it, buddy
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pretty impressive :O
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IF ONLY I COULD CARRY MORE
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Then I thought you know what, might as well go pick Ana up now just so I can have the inventory space, who's to stop me
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wheeeee
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Something's going on in Easter, but what?
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And here we are! And the theme here is Snowman, a song that's reprised in all the Mother games. :D You've probably also heard it on the Smash Bros. soundtrack, haha.
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COULD IT COME TRUE
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Way down in the right corner of the map now.
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any of you kids got a cigarette
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PSYCHIC BIGFOOTS NO
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pyew! I worried this guy might be too high up for me to take out, but it turns out it was fine.
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THIS BATTLE WAS MORE OF A PROBLEM
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in old SPOOKANE
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you look like ghost hunting types
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More of a bed n breakfast it looks like
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A FRYPAN, I WONDER WHO THAT'S FOR
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Advent Desert, eh
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NOOOOOOOO
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Protagonists don't NEED warm clothes
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deep thoughts
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PLAYING HOOKEY AGAIN
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Did I?
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ARGH WOLVES
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Yeah not dealing with this
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WOOP
haha so that's what it looks like
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FROM THE BRINK OF DEATH
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i gotcha loid don't worry
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tiny little cross on top!
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There she is!
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But first
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Didn't Paula have one too? HMM
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Man I should've said no to see what she'd say. Oh well.
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That's straightforward enough
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SOMETHING, OBVIOUSLY
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LOOK AT ALL THIS OVERT RELIGION
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Ana then shoves Lloyd out of the way to make sure she walks next to Ninten instead
also puts on her hat, aww haha
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Our vague God figure will do the rest!
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Level 1 again, eh
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She does start with Lifeup B though!
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EVERYTHING'S FREE IN MAGICANT
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I think I got jumped accidentally here but hey I'll take the level
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got a dance recital to go to
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Then I was really tired so I decided to take a break. :B
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(backup save file just in case)
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Pink Shell houses! Just like the Magypsies~
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Another chunk of change sunk into equipping Ana and we're on our way!
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Ana then proceeded to learn new PSI like once every battle, even if she didn't level. SHE'S ON A ROLL
I think at one point she learned two at once.
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Anyway, wheeee
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THIS IS TRUE
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BEHOLD!
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More and more PSI
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Finally made it to Reindeer! They have a lot of dogs here.
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Lot of dogs
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IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUUUU
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oh phew
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IT WAS DEFINITELY THE COLD THAT DID IT OKAY
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This kid mocked me in his hideout of trees, it was hard to get in there
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COULD IT BE THE TREES I'M HIDING IN??
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intertown rivalries abound
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game the system
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YEAH!!
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YEAH!!!!
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haha aww
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when i said no
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LET ME SING MY COOL SONG FOR YOU
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overalls perhaps
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more good old fashioned american food
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WHO ME
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ana no don't set him on fire
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i'm convinced
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WHAT, ICK
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ICK!
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i was going to rub my head all over your face, who wouldn't want that?
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No wonder that other lady was cautious :O
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The cops here aren't very determined
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Ana waving her hand like ME ME I DO
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Hey someone's looking for you buddy
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NOOOOOOOO
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what are you up to
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more and more expensive with more people
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this lady thankfully did not make me sick
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>:O
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pointedly ignoring the guy
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an unattainable dream
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I DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS
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and then i got 500 bucks
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NO NOW I AM A CRIMINAL
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don't you, don't you
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mm, sportsdrink
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YOU SAYIN I'M FAT
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This'll probably come in handy.
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Maybe??
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aw yeah NOW WE'RE TALKING
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even the narration has no respect for lloyd, haha
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Could be all the death beams we're selling to children, but eh
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HE GAVE ME THIS MONEY
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IT WOULD BE but that's yet to come in EarthBound
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poor hungry npcs
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take your kettledrums and your screaming and get outta here
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I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
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ghosts are mean!
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Clear this stupid annoyance up
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Not as good as I was picturing but still!
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Anyway I went and wandered up and around Reindeer a bit and found this path.
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And a house!
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Man lost dentures were a plot point in Pokemon too.
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Sign casually jostling you and rifling through your pockets
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YES SWEET i thought i was going to have to wander around and check the ground or something
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oh man oh man
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:/
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Man that guy in town wasn't kidding
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I THINK I HAVE ENOUGH
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well at least i don't have to worry about colds anymore. what a weird little subquest.
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a fence for this house
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Let's go see what's going on in Halloween.
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Hey, fire escapes!
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Lots of fire escapes.
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YOU'RE DEAD MEAT, SNAKE
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Big tall building here
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A hospital!
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But there's no doctor in it, wtf.
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Well there's this guy, but
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Alright finally, I started wondering where all the people were
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Aha!
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Our ghost piano must stay our town's secret.
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I'm going to be out a job if I can't find them, lalala
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them and their DEMON BABY
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hahahahaha
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That'd explain it.
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WHERE'S THE GHOSTS
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talking about satan and such
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OH I guess this is her
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haha brass key with a tiny little ghost hovering over it
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in our summer home
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The mailman seemed pretty happy
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i need a second to process this...
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then i said yes. CHEER UP, GUY
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Hey, a hint lady! Oh dang I totally would but I don't have enough money.
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WHAT NO
I JUST DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH CASH
COME BACK
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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that haunted house is mine
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oh what THE DEATH BEAMS CAN BREAK? what a ripoff
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looks promising!
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What a dark house.
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Haunted house, haunted mouse
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A SHEET!
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>:E
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that dust doesn't look as lively as it usually does
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OH NO YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE
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hey biobatta
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big long stairs in here, it reminds me of yume nikki, haha
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I WAS A MONK IN MY PAST LIFE, HELP
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WHO ARE YOU, WHO'S TALKING TO ME
the timing on this was pretty effective, it doesn't really come through the cap though.
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You can't keep me from that ghost piano pal
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On and on we go
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REMEMBER ME, GIVE ME A HUG
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This feels like a room where something should happen.
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GHOSTS!!
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THESE GUYS ARE A GIANT PAIN they hit HARD
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slowly filling out the list
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IT'S NOT RIGHT... NOT RIGHT...
did not understand the form of the ghost's attack
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Aha!
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Expecting something a bit fancier than that, but sure.
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yeaaaaahhh FOUR MELODIES DOWN
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The piano was practically the first path through the place I tried, that was simple enough. Though I was an idiot and didn't lay down any BREAD CRUMBS SO NOW I HAVE TO BACKTRACK
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time for school
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I KNEW IT
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This house is confusingly laid out.
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noooooo
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hahaha ONLY A WING AND HALO REMAIN
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woops, this is going badly
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WELP
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OW LOOK DON'T START WITH ME
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Some more little shots of the angel sprites
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oh WHAT
THE HEALER CAN'T FIX THIS AND THERE'S NO DOCTOR IN THE HOSPITAL
UGGHHH
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i swear to god
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Anyway eventually I finally took the train back to Reindeer and went to their hospital instead.
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FINE I'LL GO HIT THE ATM FIRST
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healthcare at work
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Alright, back on track.
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SUUUPER HEAL!!! Which can actually revive dead friends I think, though I suppose it doesn't matter since she was the one who died first.
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just one smoke, i swear
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:o
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SHE'S RIGHT HERE
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durr why didn't i think of this before
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Got her a frypan, not that she's going to be attacking anything any time soon
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Sure, why not
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shield OFF!
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BLAR HAR HAR
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oh rub it in why don't you
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Lots of status effects here.
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Just wanted to make sure this dead end room didn't have a secret or anything! I had to go through the whole haunted house to make sure I didn't miss anything. :B
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that WOULD be nice
Anyway my internet connection was out while I was playing this part, so I decided to try and make my own map of the haunted house.
IT TOOK ME A FEW TRIES
(the other page is just notes on layton puzzles, i wonder sometimes what it'd look like to someone who just picked my notebook up off the street)
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Aww yeah, Freeze Y! This is so handy. It lowers an enemy down to a critical state.
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I totally missed the first screen somehow, durrhey. I think she said the ghosts hadn't left yet. :B
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you seem impulsive, lady
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GOTTA SAY, IT'S AN IMPROVEMENT
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:o
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IT'S SNOWING
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:o what's this all of a sudden
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aww
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I wonder what the game will use this for. :O
Next up, the desert!
I also posted this at dreamwidth with reluctant ambivalence. Comment here or there, don't matter to me!
Previous Installments
Let's continue!
Might as well test this sucker.
Hey, it works! Is it just me or is the swimming cat always winking
If my shots of Magicant before weren't clear. So pointy.
Puri told me about this guy so I had to find him!
>YES
:O
HOW DARE
Apparently in the EB0/EBB translation it's Noodle Noggin Ninten instead. WHICH I KIND OF PREFER BECAUSE THAT'S SOME GREAT ALLITERATION
noodle noggin ninten
Oh right since i didn't get a shot of these before, here's what the holes look like. wells. whatever.
LOOK HOW MANY OF THEM THERE ARE i can never remember which one leads down through the minidungeon
thank god for that
After some painful inventory juggling FINALLY
I've been told repeatedly that this is going to come in very handy shortly.
Then I thought hey, I still have these breadcrumbs from some other point I used a piece of bread that I can't recall, I wonder where they'll take me.
Aaaand they took me here for some reason. What?! Darn it! Now I have to walk all the way back.
Alright THIS TIME let's get serious.
Here's the Factory Theme, it's very ominous and presumably haunts the dreams of those who've struggled through this area. I don't THINK this reprised in EarthBound but I can't remember.
The Sweet Lil Factory consists of tons and tons of empty space and also exit doors.
And the only enemies here are rats. WELL, EASY ENOUGH ninten can oneshot them with ease at this point, so getting interrupted by them is just a minor nuisance
stole this door design from metroid
boy needs a knife
Beth, Beth, who's Beth again
OH RIGHT TEDDY that's right, haha
man where IS he
FACTORIES FOR GIANTS
kind of a ladder-al move
beautiful tetris mural
MY LIMITED INVENTORY IS THE WORST THING ABOUT THIS FACTORY SO FAR
Really I should've dropped the Flashdark but I kept intending to use it and keep forgetting, at SOME POINT
Rats chewing on the walls
look rat we both know how this is going to end
ARRRRGHHHH
a waste but darn it
YOUR MOTHER WEARS ARMY BOOTS
it can't be true D:
check out our diddly bop, flashes for emergencies going WOOP WOOP WOOP
LLOYD???
(loid?)
hhhhhhhhhHHHHHHGH
well i was gonna use this eventually anyway
alright FINALLY
aww yeah
SHORTCUT
Lloyd come with me I need more pockets
aww yeah BOTTLE ROCKET FACTORY
wait wasn't i just there
As a note, apparently the weakling stinkling line is actually a running thing throughout the series. It's a really weird insult, let's see... I know Mato wrote something about it.
In EarthBound, after Pokey taunts you and tells Ness to use his “telepathy” to cry for help, he says to the party, “…you pathetically weak heroes of so-called justice!”
There’s nothing really wrong with this translation at all. It’s just that in MOTHER 2, the term he uses is a more unique insult (well, unique among the insults used in the MOTHER games), one that gets used only one time in MOTHER 1 and one time in MOTHER 3. In my translations of both games, I translated it as, “…you weakling, stinkling…” In all three games, the lines are used during important times; in MOTHER 1 it’s when you get Lloyd, and in MOTHER 3 it’s when you’re saving the Mr. Saturns.
So if I were to ever retranslate EarthBound (which I have no plans to) I’d probably change this to say something like, “…you weakling, stinkling so-called heroes of justice!” so that all three games would be consistent.
So there you go, haha.
I mean OUR rocket, right buddy
KABOOM
woops
I kept waiting for dialogue or something but nope that is the end of the scene LOID BLEW UP THE ROOM ALRIGHT DONE
FINALLY A SECOND PARTY MEMBER at level one, eesh
Well actually I'm not too worried, Ninten's so beefy at this point and the Easy Ring will get him up in levels in no time I'm sure.
If you'd like to laugh at his stats. No PSI of course!
yeah looks fine
OF COURSE
(then the hoarding begins)
i assume you didn't notice, person wearing them
WHY IS EVERYONE SO MEAN :<
whaaaat this conspicuous piano doesn't even do anything?? what a ripoff
why this is here i have no idea
Loid nodding quietly in the background.
Oh here's the first part of what that lady said the last entry, haha.
YEAH LET'S BUY A GUN
probably
BUT WHAT IS IT FOR
Let's head back to Magicant and get you equipped, bro
Dissed by a magic cat, when does it end
LOID WILL SHOW YOU ALL SOMEDAY, YOU'LL SEE
shouldn't take long
Two levels already! No problem.
After spending a good chunk of cash, hopefully Lloyd now will not die when someone breathes on him.
NOW WITH INVENTORY SPACE I CAN FINALLY PICK UP ALL THESE THINGS
But then I opened one box and took what was in it and it opened all the others :O I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A CHOICE
FRICK
oh well
Ninten's a beast at this point who can one-shot practically everything, so Loid is just skimming along beside him for the most part. At one point he DID take a bit of damage, but Lifeup fixed that!
I missed some stuff in the Sweet Lil Factory, SO BETTER GO BACK AND MAKE SURE I GET IT ALL
it's so great to have more pockets, you really have no idea
YOU'RE ALL MINE
Anyway
HEY YOU HIT MY NERD HOW DARE YOU
GET WRECKED
loid standing there like :o
Might as well stay in a hotel to see what it's like.
Aww, no newspaper like in EarthBound! Oh well.
So maybe I can use this to make a shortcut from Magicant.
Nope. Apparently you can't use breadcrumbs to get to or from Magicant. DARN. It's so tedious having to go through the minidungeon everytime I want to leave.
Pickin up a lot of PSI here.
I WON'T DIE TO THOSE TRUCKS AGAIN
New enemies! Hey, that rope one came back in Earthbound!
KEEP TRYING, LOID
Hmm, this is a problem.
Wandering around a bit to see if I could find another way around, hey! I'll take that.
"Ninten what was that"
"NOTHING"
Not even a number, haha.
Bipedal dogs will guard all our factories
Uses it to make all his ice cream sundaes.
UH, UH
Then the dog ran back and forth for a bit
Oh just a normal stray dog, phew
(that can talk??)
So we meet at last, big brother factory.
Ain't spending ages in here, that's for sure.
Don't get too close to this thing.
Doesn't look that old. :O
There we go.
OW SHOULDN'T THE FRANKLIN BADGE BE BLOCKING THIS
Oh hey!
WHAT
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
DON'T LEAVE ME IN SUSPENSE
YOU LIED TO ME GAME
turns out you have to use it in battle, haha
WHAT, THIS SUCKS
probably
Someone direct me to the Olympics!
Dr. Distorto has had better days.
Alright that's a BIT better for the beam.
deepdeep, deepdeep, deepdeep
Fancy ductwork in here
YEAH MORE BOTTLEROCKETS I CAN HOARD AND NEVER USE
I dunno, does it?
Harsh
Another Franklin Badge?? :O
This is definitely gonna come in handy.
totally underestimating it as we speak
REACHING MY LIMITS ALREADY
what a cute little rocket
thanks loid
I wonder where the other rockets went
Aaaand done! That wasn't so bad, actually.
Actually no I forgot something in a room so I went to go get it, haha.
WILL THIS BE USEFUL? (no)
Alright, fired off a cute lil rocket, let's go!
LOOKIN GOOD
GAH
get it
thanks granny :>
Said no to the guy, ARE YOU SURE, CAN I TRUST YOU
Aw yeah.
Snails aren't bugs I guess
CHECK OUT MY INTIMIDATING PAINT JOB
I found this tunnel but then figured I should probably ride a train through it instead of walk.
rope rope rope
this looks promising!
panics about what though
I JUST GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE MAN
what festive names
Let's just work down the list, why not
WHEEEEEEEEEE
Haha the train music is The Paradise Line, it's really fun and goofy. |D There's a vocal version off the CD as well that's really great, haha. It even has a bit of Paula's theme in it!
The game shows you the whole trip, but the train music is so much fun, who even notices |D
Reindeer here we come!
Well eventually but
A favor :o
ALRIGHT, A QUEST
AND A THIRD PARTY MEMBER
I'll do it when I feel like it, buddy
pretty impressive :O
IF ONLY I COULD CARRY MORE
Then I thought you know what, might as well go pick Ana up now just so I can have the inventory space, who's to stop me
wheeeee
Something's going on in Easter, but what?
And here we are! And the theme here is Snowman, a song that's reprised in all the Mother games. :D You've probably also heard it on the Smash Bros. soundtrack, haha.
COULD IT COME TRUE
Way down in the right corner of the map now.
any of you kids got a cigarette
PSYCHIC BIGFOOTS NO
pyew! I worried this guy might be too high up for me to take out, but it turns out it was fine.
THIS BATTLE WAS MORE OF A PROBLEM
in old SPOOKANE
you look like ghost hunting types
More of a bed n breakfast it looks like
A FRYPAN, I WONDER WHO THAT'S FOR
Advent Desert, eh
NOOOOOOOO
Protagonists don't NEED warm clothes
deep thoughts
PLAYING HOOKEY AGAIN
Did I?
ARGH WOLVES
Yeah not dealing with this
WOOP
haha so that's what it looks like
FROM THE BRINK OF DEATH
i gotcha loid don't worry
tiny little cross on top!
There she is!
But first
Didn't Paula have one too? HMM
Man I should've said no to see what she'd say. Oh well.
That's straightforward enough
SOMETHING, OBVIOUSLY
LOOK AT ALL THIS OVERT RELIGION
Ana then shoves Lloyd out of the way to make sure she walks next to Ninten instead
also puts on her hat, aww haha
Our vague God figure will do the rest!
Level 1 again, eh
She does start with Lifeup B though!
EVERYTHING'S FREE IN MAGICANT
I think I got jumped accidentally here but hey I'll take the level
got a dance recital to go to
Then I was really tired so I decided to take a break. :B
(backup save file just in case)
Pink Shell houses! Just like the Magypsies~
Another chunk of change sunk into equipping Ana and we're on our way!
Ana then proceeded to learn new PSI like once every battle, even if she didn't level. SHE'S ON A ROLL
I think at one point she learned two at once.
Anyway, wheeee
THIS IS TRUE
BEHOLD!
More and more PSI
Finally made it to Reindeer! They have a lot of dogs here.
Lot of dogs
IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUUUU
oh phew
IT WAS DEFINITELY THE COLD THAT DID IT OKAY
This kid mocked me in his hideout of trees, it was hard to get in there
COULD IT BE THE TREES I'M HIDING IN??
intertown rivalries abound
game the system
YEAH!!
YEAH!!!!
haha aww
when i said no
LET ME SING MY COOL SONG FOR YOU
overalls perhaps
more good old fashioned american food
WHO ME
ana no don't set him on fire
i'm convinced
WHAT, ICK
ICK!
i was going to rub my head all over your face, who wouldn't want that?
No wonder that other lady was cautious :O
The cops here aren't very determined
Ana waving her hand like ME ME I DO
Hey someone's looking for you buddy
NOOOOOOOO
what are you up to
more and more expensive with more people
this lady thankfully did not make me sick
>:O
pointedly ignoring the guy
an unattainable dream
I DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS
and then i got 500 bucks
NO NOW I AM A CRIMINAL
don't you, don't you
mm, sportsdrink
YOU SAYIN I'M FAT
This'll probably come in handy.
Maybe??
aw yeah NOW WE'RE TALKING
even the narration has no respect for lloyd, haha
Could be all the death beams we're selling to children, but eh
HE GAVE ME THIS MONEY
IT WOULD BE but that's yet to come in EarthBound
poor hungry npcs
take your kettledrums and your screaming and get outta here
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
ghosts are mean!
Clear this stupid annoyance up
Not as good as I was picturing but still!
Anyway I went and wandered up and around Reindeer a bit and found this path.
And a house!
Man lost dentures were a plot point in Pokemon too.
Sign casually jostling you and rifling through your pockets
YES SWEET i thought i was going to have to wander around and check the ground or something
oh man oh man
:/
Man that guy in town wasn't kidding
I THINK I HAVE ENOUGH
well at least i don't have to worry about colds anymore. what a weird little subquest.
a fence for this house
Let's go see what's going on in Halloween.
Hey, fire escapes!
Lots of fire escapes.
YOU'RE DEAD MEAT, SNAKE
Big tall building here
A hospital!
But there's no doctor in it, wtf.
Well there's this guy, but
Alright finally, I started wondering where all the people were
Aha!
Our ghost piano must stay our town's secret.
I'm going to be out a job if I can't find them, lalala
them and their DEMON BABY
hahahahaha
That'd explain it.
WHERE'S THE GHOSTS
talking about satan and such
OH I guess this is her
haha brass key with a tiny little ghost hovering over it
in our summer home
The mailman seemed pretty happy
i need a second to process this...
then i said yes. CHEER UP, GUY
Hey, a hint lady! Oh dang I totally would but I don't have enough money.
WHAT NO
I JUST DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH CASH
COME BACK
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
that haunted house is mine
oh what THE DEATH BEAMS CAN BREAK? what a ripoff
looks promising!
What a dark house.
Haunted house, haunted mouse
A SHEET!
>:E
that dust doesn't look as lively as it usually does
OH NO YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE
hey biobatta
big long stairs in here, it reminds me of yume nikki, haha
I WAS A MONK IN MY PAST LIFE, HELP
WHO ARE YOU, WHO'S TALKING TO ME
the timing on this was pretty effective, it doesn't really come through the cap though.
You can't keep me from that ghost piano pal
On and on we go
REMEMBER ME, GIVE ME A HUG
This feels like a room where something should happen.
GHOSTS!!
THESE GUYS ARE A GIANT PAIN they hit HARD
slowly filling out the list
IT'S NOT RIGHT... NOT RIGHT...
did not understand the form of the ghost's attack
Aha!
Expecting something a bit fancier than that, but sure.
yeaaaaahhh FOUR MELODIES DOWN
The piano was practically the first path through the place I tried, that was simple enough. Though I was an idiot and didn't lay down any BREAD CRUMBS SO NOW I HAVE TO BACKTRACK
time for school
I KNEW IT
This house is confusingly laid out.
noooooo
hahaha ONLY A WING AND HALO REMAIN
woops, this is going badly
WELP
OW LOOK DON'T START WITH ME
Some more little shots of the angel sprites
oh WHAT
THE HEALER CAN'T FIX THIS AND THERE'S NO DOCTOR IN THE HOSPITAL
UGGHHH
i swear to god
Anyway eventually I finally took the train back to Reindeer and went to their hospital instead.
FINE I'LL GO HIT THE ATM FIRST
healthcare at work
Alright, back on track.
SUUUPER HEAL!!! Which can actually revive dead friends I think, though I suppose it doesn't matter since she was the one who died first.
just one smoke, i swear
:o
SHE'S RIGHT HERE
durr why didn't i think of this before
Got her a frypan, not that she's going to be attacking anything any time soon
Sure, why not
shield OFF!
BLAR HAR HAR
oh rub it in why don't you
Lots of status effects here.
Just wanted to make sure this dead end room didn't have a secret or anything! I had to go through the whole haunted house to make sure I didn't miss anything. :B
that WOULD be nice
Anyway my internet connection was out while I was playing this part, so I decided to try and make my own map of the haunted house.
IT TOOK ME A FEW TRIES
(the other page is just notes on layton puzzles, i wonder sometimes what it'd look like to someone who just picked my notebook up off the street)
Aww yeah, Freeze Y! This is so handy. It lowers an enemy down to a critical state.
I totally missed the first screen somehow, durrhey. I think she said the ghosts hadn't left yet. :B
you seem impulsive, lady
GOTTA SAY, IT'S AN IMPROVEMENT
:o
IT'S SNOWING
:o what's this all of a sudden
aww
I wonder what the game will use this for. :O
Next up, the desert!
I also posted this at dreamwidth with reluctant ambivalence. Comment here or there, don't matter to me!