Bumping this thread with some very exciting news:
https://twitter.com/taibhsin/status/1376959124072767488
Is this the good translation???
@donrumata#24131 oh heck yeah
@yeso#24155 Ostensibly this is a substantially less buggy version than the one that leaked, so I'm going with yeah.
https://twitter.com/CirosanCB/status/1377104374808281093
apparently two independent teams, who had no knowledge that the other was working on it, both released new Mizzurna Falls translations on the same day lol
@sabertoothalex#24252
Oh my god I thought these were the same project. That's nuts.
now doing the mario 3 commerical except saying “linda cube.” It‘s also one mid thirties guy sitting at his computer alone rather than the world’s children all together. But still this renews my optimism
Great topic!
While the only work I've read of Itoi was his collaboration with Haruki Murakami in a roughly English translated document "Let's Meet in a Dream" I did finish Earthbound, the fan translation of Mother 3, and about 20 hours of Earthbound ZERO before my save file got corrupted...
I've been recently playing the 2005 RPG, PoPoLoCrois PSP, and I'm getting a bunch of MOTHER vibes..
From the deceptively simplistic art direction and quirky dialogue, it just exudes MOTHER vibes to me. The beginning premise is actually bringing your MOTHER back to consciousness.
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While walking around the world, your team also follows you around
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A bunch of NPCs also just look like Mother 3's DUSTER.
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There's a bunch of wacky towns too, just like Earthbound. This town is just a bunch of robots, who do and say wacky things (sorry, didn't take pictures for the wacky things these robots do).
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And in Mother 3 you meet this really tall guy.
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But this guy just takes the really tall guy to the next level!
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There's also a transportation creature... in the form of a SPACE WHALE.
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Which reminded me of Nessie.
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I don't know, I'm only like five hours into this journey, I will update as I play more.
Another game that felt like MOTHER is YAKUZA LIKE A DRAGON/ YAKUZA 7.
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But it's more like FATHER than it is MOTHER..
Yeah, the first time I watched the Popolocrois OVA, I realized that they directly copied scenes from it to make some scenes in Loz: Wind Waker, thus perpetuating Nintendo's unoriginal originality.
@Syzygy#24433 YES! forgot this. Very interesting, very Onett.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I had to, IMHO the specific Kitsch that Itoi was gifted with had everything to do with growing up in japan in the 50‘s/60’s.
Reading what yeso said about the busytown feeling connecting TP and Mama made me excited (again) for this game. He‘s been working on it for a while now, but it’s supposed to come out this year. He's also heavily inspired by the mamas, chulip, etc.
@vegetables#25259 Remind me when it's out!
@treefroggy#23722 Speaking of occasional Hobonichi Techo quotes, I saw that today's was courtesy of Itoi-san and figured I would share:
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I am reminded of senior member @Syzygy watching and waiting...though rather than moving things forward they relish the idea of [grinding them to a halt](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/156-whats-that-obscure-game/1202)
@kory#25442 they can't all be zingers
re the busytown reference just to be clear I mean the richard scarry busytown, not just a “busy town”
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@yeso#25515 Ah yes. I have a sweatshirt that's the classic playmat with the roads and houses all over it made for toy cars and I like it for the Onett vibes just like this.
https://youtu.be/O5tM_tRRfeE
Must investigate
@treefroggy#26631 Early Suda!!