Mother 3 (2006)

Developer

HAL Laboratory, Brownie Brown

Publisher

Nintendo

Platforms

Wii U, Game Boy Advance

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Rating

4.5 of 5, 177 player ratings

Where to get it

Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A charming, whimsical village setting masks a slowly unfolding family tragedy that turns the adventure bittersweet.

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About

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.

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