Mother / EarthBound Series Retrospective

You are loved. This is a video about a series of games that explore the loss of innocence, acceptance of grief, and love.

Mother 1+2 segments edited by ‪@clickingaming‬. Mother 3 segment edited by me.
Thumbnail by ‪@hotcyder‬
Also a shoutout to my brother ‪@daylight_anim‬ for helping me film the Mother 3 interstitial.

Special thanks to tcrf.net, starmen.net, and the EarthBound Wiki for being fantastic resources in my research. A lot of Mother 3’s pre-release material is documented on The Cutting Room Floor.

Also special thanks to https://www.earthboundtext.com/ for the interstitial text!

Works of Shigesato Itoi translated by Lindsay Moore of Yomuka!, Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku, and me.

All of my sources can be found here: https://pastebin.com/BPCUMnGn

Video Sources:    • Mother Retrospective  

Chapters
0:00 Intro
5:03 The Shigesato Itoi That Japan Knows, and How Mother Came to Be
23:09 Mother (EarthBound Beginnings / Zero)
54:26 Mother Crosses the Pacific
1:03:59 Mother 2 (EarthBound)
2:15:03 Love is a Long Road
2:35:37 Mother 3
4:10:43 Conclusion

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