Mother 3
Mother 3 is an Action, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by HAL Laboratory. It serves as the third main installment in the Mother series with offering some advanced features and similar gameplay to the last entries. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist Lucas whose main mission is to stop a raiding army from ruining the world along with a crew of members.
The player can converse with the non-playable characters, grab all the items, and needs to encounter the enemies. To level up and increase the morale of party members, the player must get experience points by achieving victories. The character’s abilities level-ups permanently, such as defense, offense, hit power, weapons, and armor.
By collecting the hot springs, the player can recover the Health Points and PowerPoints of the characters. During the battles, the player views the enemies from a first-person perspective. The player loses battles if all the characters become unconscious but can continue to battle if one of the characters becomes unconscious. The significant features of the game are NPC Intercommunication, Experience Points, Abilities, Hot Springs, and First-person Perspective.
#1 EarthBound
EarthBound or also known as Mother 2 is a JRPG (Japanese Role Playing Game) developed as a joint venture by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratories. The game allows the player to be the main character of the game named as Ness and accompany a party of four individuals. Their task is to explore the world and collect various types of melodies to defeat the Evil Alien Force of Giygas. EarthBound is the second game in the series and only game in the series that was released in English. According to the storyline of the game, EarthBound tells the story about the events that took place five years after the events of Mother. The player is directed to act as a young boy Ness who goes on to investigate a meteorite crash in a nearby area. Pokey, a neighborhood friend, accompanies Ness. During the investigation, ness finds out that an alien force of unknown origins has turned the world into a dark place and all the living beings are converted into gory manipulated creatures. As a bee from the future tells Ness that the only way to eliminate the Alien threat is to collect melodies in a Sound of Stone, Ness starts off his journey with Pokey. On the way, more characters join Ness and he continues his journey to collect the Melodies and encounters the Aliens and other obstacles. EarthBound offers a bizarre but interesting story filled with all kinds of wonderful things, great characters, beautiful visuals, and interesting story-based gameplay. Try it out and enjoy the ultimate RPG fun.