Mother 1 Analysis-Part 6

2020 brings us a new year, and my analysis continues. (Not sure what to do after April, though.)

As before, I'll be responding to some of Ferret's notes while analyzing the game. (That'll last us for a while, Ferret's already working on Earthbound)

But I realized I forgot something. I forgot to make my conclusions for every part after 4!

So, here they are, one by one.

|Conclusions from Part 4.5|

So, we learned that there exists someone in Magicant that is able to make a perfect impression of Ninten's dad.. Including the telephone ring.

There's also the "Flying Men", who, when reduced to 0HP, actually die. There's five of them, and when one dies, a gravestone is seen. We can find out how many canonically died by looking at Earthbound.

Apparently, "your mother is calling you" is enough to lower their FIGHT. Are all the enemies kids or something?

There's also the Forgotten Man, a mysterious man who knows if Ninten is lying, and can vanish.

|Conclusions from Part 4.8|

The events of Pippi going missing and the zoo animals going loose happened in rapid succession, implying that they probably share a root cause.

The zoo was built three years prior to the events of the game. (So it was 1985) And we're actually supposed to know right off the bat that Magicant is a dream. Speaking of Magicant, the narrator of the Encyclopedia Mother thinks the God's Tail might be the pink rock within Magicant. (How that makes sense and links to the ship is beyond me.)

We also know that Queen Mary's story was supposed to tell us a secret of our journey. The melodies? The naughty child?

|Conclusions from Part 5|

Thanksgiving is a town with two factories. Duncan might be the reason why Mother didn't get an English translation for a long time, and delinquency has ruined Tinkle Elementary. The jantior's wife is the first Miss Middle of Nowhere, which may be connected to the Nowhere Islands. And LLoyd, a kid, somehow thinks it's a good idea to mess with explosives.

And now, to the main part.

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We begin right where we left off, on a quest to find Bottle Rockets for.. Lloyd. We also happen to be cheerful (Is this a part of Ninten's character, or are we cheerful because we're getting Bottle ROCKETS? I hope it's not the latter.)

Apparently the club was important enough to not only be a part of the Encyclopedia Mother, but ALSO in the actual game! (And there's no reference to what it became in Earthbound Zero. Did they actually KEEP that?)

"If it were up to me… I’d probably use a Duncan Factory rocket to blow up the rocks on the tracks."

Yes, Ferret, that is a hint.

"I swiped a battery from Duncan's Factory up north."

There are batteries there.

Ferret:"Big Bag can’t be sold, though (isn’t he supposed to be using it?)"

The Big Bag was a gift to us. We can do what we want, though I don't think you can sell bags like that to stores. Dropping the bag was definitely a bad idea, though.

Ferret:"Hotel is the same as in Mother’s Day, but still costs more."

Yes. Mother's Day Hotel was considered to be cheap, after all. $65 converts to $141.51 in current money, which is slightly above average. (I wonder if hotels were relatively more expensive back then.) Perhaps not that many people want to travel across towns just for a better deal, so Thanksgiving can take advantage and get more money?

"Are restaurant owners so musical everywhere?"

Is this restaurant owner eventually going to become one of the Runaway Five? (Or Tonzura Brothers?)

Apparently, the Earthbound Zero translation is "strip MALL".

Ferret:"“You can make 50 calls on public phones with this.” (that costs too?) always costs $1 anyways."

It doesn't. Stephen threw it away because it's only worth $50 ($1 per call), and it took up the last inventory space.

"Hey, why aren't you in school, kid? I'm pretty sure today's a school day."

Do we know what the scheduling of school is in Japanese countries in the 1980s? If it's like American schools, then that means this isn't summer, AND isn't a weekend. If we also have a day, we could conceivably find out the exact date Mother takes place in.

Then again, maybe the officer is just wrong. We don't know.

We also find out that Bag Lady is another enemy. So I guess people are getting controlled here as well. By saying something scary, our Fight drops. (Fight seems to be based on bravery and our willingness to fight, based on how it looks so far. That's similar to Undertale's will to fight, but the consequences are different in Undertale. This is evidence that Undertale and Earthbound don't follow the same rules.)

Yes, there's a rumor of a giant rocket in the Duncan factory. And the explosives Lloyd is looking for is in Sweet's Little Factory.

Thanksgiving's government also seems to be slow, since if things were let into their hands, the rocks would be there "well into next year!"

Stephen heads south, finding a bear and skunk along the way. Then he reaches the factory, where rats and Barbots lay.

Ferret:"Everything recovers some HP?"

No, Magic Herbs do. And Medicine. Okay, a lot do. Not everything.

There's also capsules, which increase its respective stat by 5. There's even one for Fight (so Fight seems to be reducible to a physical substance..)

Ferret:"In a trash can, you find a Bottle Rocket! What Lloyd requested. You can take several?"

Yes. Likely to prevent the game from being unwinnable if you drop or use the rockets. (Actually CAN you drop the rockets?) You can also use them as weapons. Though maybe for some reason, ALL the rockets ended up in the trash. (Perhaps because they're outdated compared to what is in the Duncan Factory?

So Lloyd tries to experiment with the rockets.. But they exploded and made a mess. Afterwards, LLyod joined the party!

We'll end Part 6 here.