Underplayed Gems

Mother Restored (2022)

Mother Restored cover
Developer
pancakes
Platforms
Nintendo Entertainment System
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Where to get it
Website
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How it feels

A faithful restoration of the original MOTHER with accurate Japanese script, bringing EarthBound's roots alive.

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About

MOTHER Restored is a patch for EarthBound Beginnings that aims to make it as faithful as possible to the Japanese version of MOTHER while keeping its gameplay improvements. In this patch: The game’s script has been completely replaced with the more accurate translation done by Tomato for MOTHER1+2, including dialogue, battle text, item and enemy descriptions, and other miscellaneous text. Unlike previous attempts to replace EarthBound Beginnings’ dialogue, this patch repoints virtually all of the text in the game. This allowed the fan translation to be included in its entirety. The main version also makes names of characters, locations, and items more accurate to what they were originally.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.