Can’t you hear those indescribably deep yet shrill voices coming from Aeolia’s house?”
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“The Magicantians are having their monthly tea party today. A nearby advice-giving sparrow instead becomes a gossip-giving sparrow. It seems even the creatures of the forest are familiar with whoever dwells in this house. We’re here to talk about Alec’s friend, and this amazing shell house they live in. Though we’re not here to talk about caves and cows. Alec will tell you, “Go where your heart takes you! … But not that way!!” and if that’s not the Mother 3 motto, I don’t know what it is! Honestly, though, I think it’s a really funny piece of dialogue, and if linearity begets creative dialogue, so be it! It reminds me of something my own dad would say to me. One of my favorite things you can do at this point is try to skip Aeolia’s house by entering a nearby cave. I’m just going to assume the cow is enjoying that a little too much because Flint’s a farmer. If you turn the cow down, it supposes you’re just not a milk person, but if you say yes to the cow… What am I going to eat these nut cookies with if not a little milk? Actually, the cow asks whether or not you’re “In the mooooood for a milking?” which is not the way I’d like to put it, but hey. They are watching over something in this place, and have lived here for a long time.īefore meeting this friend, though, we meet another of Mother 3’s talkative farm animals: a cow who will give you milk. He has prefaced his friend by describing them as neither male nor female, neither young nor old.
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So, we left off Flint and Alec as they made their way to Alec’s friend’s house. Well, let’s try to answer all of these questions and more. Though that’s what this is all for, isn’t it? Where’s Claus? And who are Alec’s friends, who he claims may know where the boy has gone? And those frogs, the ones that Flint and Alec used as a bridge to cross the river, do they wait there all day? Or, being seemingly large frogs, do they await some sort of call or signal from those little blue frogs, messages of “Froggy Intelligence,” then just swim all the way to wherever they’re being called? How exactly do the frogs coordinate this whole “frog bridge” operation in the first place? I bet with those long limbs, they can swim pretty far and pretty fast. I wish we could have stayed at Aeolia’s party for a while, and that Claus could have been there, and that we all could have had some rosehip tea and put aside our worries for a little while. Maybe it’s the crisp mountain air! Whatever it is, I feel like this is where Mother 3 first starts to hit its stride. Maybe it’s the feeling of getting out into the world a little bit, beyond the Sunshine Forest. Here, the game maintains its strangeness but also becomes light, briefly hopeful, and even relaxing. What I remember most, actually, are Alec’s puns during the trip through the cave, but I remember almost all of it: Aeolia’s Party Theme, the inside of Aeolia’s house and the scene of the party, the pitch blackness (hey, would you look at that) of the cave, Alec’s insistence on boosting Flint’s morale… This part of Chapter 1 is different than the rest, which is often somber, bleak, and ominous. Like earlier moments in Chapter 1, I can remember playing this section of the game for the first time.
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The introduction of Aeolia and their cohorts, the continued search for Claus, the dynamic between Flint and Alec–I’m on the edge of my seat, yet also immersed in the world-building, and also just having a good time. I love seeing the world of Mother 3 slowly unfold and become more complex. Or who knows, maybe I’ve drunk some funny tea…Īnd hey, what can I say: revisiting Chapter 1 like this never ceases to surprise and delight me.
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But look: I have a game to finish, here! I can’t stop every time I feel a little bit tired.Īll I’m getting at is, it’s nice when writing about Mother 3 feels like playing Mother 3: creative, laid back, warm-hearted, care-free. And, again, I know that if I didn’t disallow myself from repeating save frogs, I’d be able to experience the save frog’s proximity for their actual purpose: flexibility in the duration of time-played. Did I underestimate the distance between frogs? Am I going to burn myself out on this thing?īut, like I found relief in last week’s post, the Frog by Frog Blog is finally returning to a more relaxed pace. In short, I feel alive again! I’ll be honest: after the nearly back-to-back Frog #8 and Frog #11 ( Part 1 and Part 2), I was starting to get a little worried. Isn’t that the heart of any good RPG experience? I loosened up a bit and enjoyed a few puns. I continued the search for Claus, hiking through a winding cave trail with only Alec’s faint memories to guide me. For Frog #13, I met an amazing set of new characters, who were in the middle of a party.