Game

Mother 3

2006 · Wii U · Game Boy Advance · Role-playing (RPG) · Turn-based strategy (TBS)

90IGDB player score
178 ratings

Previously Take

A 90 score from 178 devoted raters — the math of a game with a real following. A role-playing game built for the long haul — the kind you lose weekends to. Best experienced alone, preferably with nowhere to be.

About this game

A turn-based JRPG and sequel to EarthBound (1994) in which a tragedy surrounding a family in the primitive yet joyful village of Tazmily incites the coming-of-age story of Lucas, the family's younger son, who goes on perilous adventures along with his friends in order to find his missing brother and stop a group of masked men from bringing about the end of the world.

Mother 3 is set in the Nowhere Islands, some unknown amount of years after EarthBound. Chaos ensues after an invasion by the Pigmask Army, named after the uniforms, which resemble pigs, and its leader, Porky Minch, the "Pig King". They slowly construct a police state, while experimenting on the land's flora and fauna, and introducing new technology and infrastructure to the islands. The various chapters record the life of a boy named Lucas and his family and friends, banding together to rid the Nowhere Islands of the Pigmask Army.