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After using the explosives in Duncan's Factory to clear the train tracks, you can continue to the next town.

Go to Snowman

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Use an ATM to withdraw at least $72. Then go northeast from Merrysville to reach the train tracks.Follow the tracks until you find Union Station. Go inside and go to theright. Talk to the guy there and buy tickets to Reindeer ($32).

When the train ride is over, talk to the old woman and say Yes to her question.She will give you a hat that belongs to a girl in Snowman. She asks you to give it back to the girl.

Stay in the train station and talk to the man to buy tickets to Snowman ($40).

When you arrive, leave the train station. Go south from there and follow the winding path, being careful of the stronger enemies you can encounterhere. Keep going east until you see trees. Look for a gap in the trees where you can gonorth. Avoid talking to people here, because many of them have a cold, and ifthey cough on you, you will catch a cold. If you catch a cold, go into theSnowman store (the leftmost building near the 'JACK' sign in the south part oftown) and buy Mouthwash. Use it to cure a cold.Explore the town if you wish.

If you use the phone in the Healer's house in Snowman, your father will askyou for the player's name. You can enter your full name, or your first name, or some fake name, or a nickname, or some famous person's name, or whatever you prefer.

When you are ready, go to thesoutheastern house and go east from there, and follow the path to reach theSnowman Chateau.

In the Chateau, talk to the girl, then use the Hat on her. Say Yes when sheasks your name. After the cut scene, talk to Ana's dad to heal up.

Ana starts at level 1, so you should take some time to battle enemies so shecan earn EXP and level up. Magicant is a good place to do this, so considerusing the Onyx Hook to go there. Leave the fenced-in residential area, then go west, then southwest when youcan. Look for a break in the trees (near the monkey), and go northwest there. When you find acat swimming in the clouds, have Ana use Telepathy on it to get a Magic Ribbon.Give Ana the Ribbon and have her Use it to raise her Force by 5 or 6 points.While in Magicant, buy a Magic Coin, Gold Ring, and H2O Pendant for her.

. WW: June 14, 2015Mode(s)Mother, officially known outside of Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a developed by and published by for the. The first entry in the series, it was first released in Japan on July 27, 1989. It is modeled on the gameplay of the, but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system.Writer and director pitched Mother 's concept to while visiting Nintendo's headquarters for other business. Though Miyamoto rejected the proposal at first, he eventually gave Itoi a development team.

A North American version of the game was into English, but was abandoned as commercially nonviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet under the informal title EarthBound Zero.

The game was eventually released worldwide under the name EarthBound Beginnings for the in June 2015.Mother was noted for its similarities to the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous parody of the genre's tropes. Many considered its sequel to be similar and a better overall implementation of Mother 's gameplay ideas. Critics disliked the game's high and issues. Despite this, Mother sold over 150,000 copies and received a 'Silver Hall of Fame' score from Japanese reviewer. Jeremy Parish of wrote that Mother importantly generated interest in and the historical preservation of unreleased games. The game was later re-released in Japan on the single-cartridge for the in 2003.

Screenshots from battle sequences in Mother (left) and (right). The battle system of Mother, including its interface and first-person perspective, drew inspiration from the series.Mother is a, set in a 'slightly offbeat', late 20th-century United States as interpreted by Japanese author.

The game eschews traits of its Japanese role-playing game contemporaries: it is not set within the and only enters for its final sequence. The player fights in warehouses and laboratories instead of in standard dungeons.

Instead of swords, and magic, the player uses baseball bats,. The game's protagonist, Ninten, is about 12 years old.Like the, Mother uses a combat system. The player explores the from a top-down perspective and occasionally enters a first-person perspective battle sequence where the player chooses attack options from a series of menus. On their turn, the player selects between options to fight, guard, check enemy, run away, use items, or use offensive, defensive, or healing psychic powers. The player can also set the battle on autopilot with the 'auto' option. Register with the series' signature 'SMAAAASH' text and sound.The player can press a button to have Ninten 'check' or 'talk' with nearby people, animals, and objects. The game shares similarities with its sequel,: there is a option through using a phone to call Ninten's father, an option to store items with Ninten's sister at home, and an for banking money.

The members of Ninten's party are all visible on the overworld screen at once, and are analogous to EarthBound 's party members in style and function. Mother 's does not keep locations separate, and instead connects all areas (akin to the ). The game's story begins as Ninten discovers a and receives the journal of his great-grandfather, who studied psychic powers nearly a century earlier. Ninten is attacked by household items, and ventures outside to find a crazy world with hostile everyday objects and other odd events. Plot Mother begins with the story of a young, married, American couple who mysteriously vanish from their small, rural town. Two years later, the husband, George, returned as mysteriously as he vanished, and began a strange study in complete seclusion. His wife, Maria, was never heard from again.

Years later, in 1988 (changed to an ambiguous point in the 1980s in later releases), a young American boy named Ninten is attacked at home in a event. His father explains that Ninten's great-grandfather studied psychic powers, and asks Ninten to investigate a crisis occurring across the world, later revealed to be the work of an invading alien race. After finishing a few tasks, Ninten is warped to the world of Magicant, where the land's ruler, Queen Mary, asks Ninten to find her song, the Eight Melodies, and play them for her. Ninten returns to Earth and befriends a young boy, Lloyd, who is being teased at an.

The two travel to the town of Snowman to deliver a lost hat to Ana, a young girl with psychic powers. Ana tells Ninten she saw him in a dream, and joins the party in hopes of finding her missing mother. Ninten and party exploring the overworldAfter finding most of the Melodies, Ninten is harassed at a by Teddy, the boss of a local gang.

Teddy surrenders after losing to Ninten in a duel, and joins Ninten's party with the intent to avenge the deaths of his parents, who were killed at Holy Loly Mountain. Lloyd stays behind. In a cottage at the base of Holy Loly Mountain, Ana pulls Ninten aside and asks him to be with her always. The two dance and profess their mutual love.

When about to leave, the party is attacked by a powerful robot that knocks out the entire party. Lloyd arrives with a tank and destroys the robot, but accidentally attacks the party and critically wounds Teddy, so Lloyd rejoins the party. They take a boat out on Holy Loly Lake and a whirlpool pulls them into an underwater laboratory where they find a robot who claims to have been built by George to protect Ninten. When the laboratory floods, they leave for the mountain and the robot helps them ascend. Another robot (implied to be an upgraded version of the one fought at the cabin) attacks at the summit, and George's robot self-destructs to destroy it, leaving behind the seventh melody. When the party make it to the top of the mountain, they discover George's grave that contains the eighth melody.

After learning this melody, the party is warped to Magicant, where Ninten sings the melodies he had learned to Queen Mary. She recalls the rest of the song and reminisces about an alien named that she loved as her own child. Queen Mary reveals that she is George's wife, Maria, and vanishes. Magicant, a mirage created by her conscience, vanishes with her.The party is warped back to the top of Holy Loly Mountain.

Large rocks block the entrance to a cave inside Holy Loly Mountain, but are cleared by the power of Maria's conscience. In that cave, they find an area with human prisoners including Ana's mother. They need to defeat the Mother Ship to free the prisoners. The party encounters the and a fluid-filled tank that contains Giygas. The alien expresses its gratefulness to Ninten's family for raising it, but explains that George stole vital information from its people that could have been used to betray them, and proceeds to accuse Ninten of interfering with their plans. Giygas offers to save Ninten alone if he boards the Mother Ship.

When Ninten declines, Giygas attempts to put Ninten to sleep. The party begins to sing the Eight Melodies while Giygas tries to quiet the party through an attack. When the party finishes the lullaby, Giygas is overcome with emotion at the thought of Maria's motherly love. Giygas says they will meet again and flies off in the Mother Ship. The game ends with Ninten, Ana, and Lloyd facing the player as the behind them.

Giygas returns in the sequel,.Development. Producer approved the Mother project based on his confidence in ItoiMother was developed by and published.

While visiting Nintendo for other work, copywriter pitched his idea for a role-playing game set in contemporary times to the company's. He thought the setting would be unique for its incongruence with role-playing genre norms, as daily life lacked the pretense for and they could not simply give the child characters firearms as weapons.

Itoi's project proposal suggested how the natural limitations could be circumvented. Miyamoto met with him and praised the idea, though he was not sure whether Itoi 'could pull it off'. As an advertiser, Itoi was used to concept proposals preceding the staffing process, but Miyamoto explained that video game concepts needed people who signed on to 'make' the product.

Itoi was overcome with 'powerlessness'.Miyamoto was also hesitant to work with Itoi at a time when companies were pushing major celebrity product endorsements, as Itoi's involvement would be for such a game. When the two met next, Miyamoto brought the documentation from a text adventure game and told Itoi that he would have to write similar documentation himself. Miyamoto said that he knew from his own experience that the game would only be as good as the effort Itoi invested, and that he knew Itoi could not invest the appropriate time with his full-time job. Itoi restated his interest and reduced his workload, so Miyamoto assembled a development team. Upon assessing for compatibility, they began production in. Itoi had said earlier that he wanted his work environment to feel like an extracurricular club consisting of volunteers and working out of an apartment, which Miyamoto tried to accommodate.

Itoi wrote the game's script and commuted from, a process he found 'exhausting'. Even with asking Itoi to prioritize the development process, Miyamoto received criticism of acquiescing to celebrity and of hiring a copywriter not up for the task. Miyamoto said that his decision to pursue the project was based on his confidence in Itoi. According to Itoi in a 1989 interview, the word 'mothership' was the influence for the game's title, although he states the title had other meanings too. Mother was released in Japan on July 27, 1989 for the (known as the outside Japan). Localization and release The game was originally scheduled for into the English language for a North American release as Earth Bound, but despite the localization work being fully completed and scheduled for release, the project was abruptly cancelled in 1991 due to the game's size and scope making a cartridge release too impractical, as well as due to the impending release of the in North America.

The game's localization was a significant undertaking for Nintendo of America, not only for the sheer amount of text that needed to be translated but also necessitating the censorship and adjustment of a large amount of imagery and dialogue to conform with Nintendo of America's policies against gore, drug use, and religious or sexual content. In addition, Nintendo of America's team took the liberties of revising the layout of certain areas to reduce their difficulty, adding a run button (which in actuality simply doubles the game's speed on the overworld), several new features to the in-game menus (i.e. Commands that allow the player to examine items and enemies), changing the game's map feature from an item to a Start button command, renaming certain characters and areas to appeal more to American audiences, and altering the ending to explain the fates of the main characters. In this new ending, it is explained that the captured adults are freed from the cave and reunited with their children, and the group parts ways. Lloyd is given a hero's welcome back at his school, Teddy fully recovers, reforms himself, and becomes a performer at the karaoke bar where he was first met, and Ana receives a letter from Ninten, who returns home to his family and takes a much-needed rest.

This ending also features a roll call of most of the cast (which would become standard for the Mother series), a new credits sequence, and a post-credits scene where Ninten's father attempts to call him and alert him of something important, acting as a sequel hook. Main article:The game's soundtrack was composed. Tanaka was a video game composer working for Nintendo who had previously composed for games such as and, while Suzuki was a composer and musician for bands of many different genres. The NES was only able to play three notes at a time, which Suzuki has noted greatly limited what he was able to produce, as he could not create some of the sounds he wanted.An eleven-track album of songs inspired by the game's soundtrack was recorded in Tokyo, London, and and released by on August 21, 1989. The album contained mostly vocal arrangements in English and was likened by RPGFan reviewer Patrick Gann to compositions by and for. He found the lyrics 'cheesy and trite' but appreciated the 'simple statements' in 'Eight Melodies' and the 'quirky and wonderful' 'Magicant'.

Only the last song on the album is in. Gann ultimately recommended the 2004 remastered release over this version. The game's soundtrack contains several tracks later used in subsequent series games. Reception and legacy Mother received a 'Silver Hall of Fame' score of 31/40 from Japanese reviewer. Reviewers noted the game's similarities with the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous 'parody' of the genre's tropes. They thought the game's sequel, EarthBound, to be very similar and a better implementation of Mother 's gameplay ideas. Critics also disliked the game's high and issues.

Mother sold 150,000 copies.Jeremy Parish of USgamer described the game as a mild-mannered parody ('between satire and pastiche') of the role-playing game genre, specifically the Dragon Quest series. He noted that Mother, like many Japanese role-playing games, emulated the Dragon Quest style: the windowed interface, first-person perspective in combat, and graphics, but differed in its contemporary setting and non-fantasy story. Parish commented that 's 1987 was similarly set in the modern day, though it devolved into science fiction and fantasy in ways Mother did not. He added that the game has 'a sense of wonder and magic realism. In the context of childhood imagination', as Ninten can feel more like someone 'pretending' to be a Dragon Quest-style hero than a hero in his own right.

Parish said this makes the player wonder which game events are real and which are Ninten's imagination. Parish cited Itoi's interest in entering the games industry to make a 'satirical' role-playing game as proof of the genre's swift five-year rise to widespread popularity in Japan.Cassandra Ramos of RPGamer praised the game's graphics and music, and considered it among the console's best, with 'rich. Nicely detailed' visuals, -style characters, and 'simple but effective' audio. In contrast, she found the battle sequences aesthetically 'pretty bland' and, otherwise, the game's 'least interesting' aspect. Overall, she found Mother 'surprisingly complex.

For its time', and considered its story superior to (but less 'wacky' than) its sequel. She especially recommended the game for EarthBound fans.Parish credited Itoi for the game's vision and compared his ability and literary interests with American author. Parish felt that Itoi's pedigree as a writer and copywriter was well suited for the space-limited, role-playing game medium, which privileged Mother ahead of other games written by non-writers. USgamer 's Parish noted how the game's would 'contemplate the profound and trivial' instead of reciting the active plot. He added that the game's lack of an official North American release has bolstered the reputation and revere of its immediate sequel.While Parish said Mother 's script was 'as sharp as EarthBound 's', he felt that the original's game mechanics did not meet the same level of quality. Mother lacked the 'rolling counter' and non-random encounters for which later entries in the series were known. Parish also found the game's balance to be uneven, as the and level of difficulty scaled incorrectly with the game's progression.

Rose Colored Gaming, a company that made custom reproductions of the NES cartridge, noted that the Japanese release's was more challenging than the unreleased English localization. RPGamer 's Ramos similarly found balance issues, with a high number of battles, difficult enemies, reliance on, and some oversized levels. Parish wrote earlier for that in comparison to EarthBound, Mother is 'worse in just about every way', a where its sequel was 'a satirical deconstruction of RPGs'. He wrote that the game's historical significance is not for its actual game but for the interest it generated in and the preservation of unreleased games.Mother was rereleased in Japan as the single-cartridge for the in 2003. This version uses the extended ending of the unreleased English prototype, but is only presented in Japanese.

Hosted a Mother 25th Anniversary Fanfest in 2014 with a of the game and plans for a remixed soundtrack. Later that year, fans released a 25th Anniversary Edition that updated the game's graphics, script, and gameplay balance.In April 2016, a film group known as 54&O Productions announced a campaign to secure funds for a fan-made documentary entitled. The documentary will focus on the road to Mother's localization in North America, and will include interviews with key people behind the process. After the success of the Kickstarter campaign, the documentary was initially set to be released around December 2018, but was later delayed to Q2 2019. Notes and references Notes.

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