MASSIVE MOTHER 3 SPOILERS
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Gonna just do this in a bullet point fashion that isn't necessarily organized.

My interpretation of Mother 3 is that its central theme is death and acceptance of death.

At the start of the game you name a family with cute music and by the end of the first chapter two of the characters you named are dead. Its very possible that you named those characters after your friends or family without realizing the tragedy that was waiting, making it hit even harder, and maybe make you realize that the same could happen in real life.

The entire struggle of Mother 3 is to defeat Porky, a guy who has denied his death for so long because of his immaturity. He cannot accept that the time has long passed for him to die, and eventually is cast away into the Absolutely Safe Capsule for eternity as punishment (by his own doing, nonetheless).

It is through the power of Magyspies, who accept their death with you pulling the needles, that you are able to reverse what Porky has done to the world. In fact, from how I decipher the end, you quite literally bring death to the world, and let a new one be reborn.

The Magyspies entire existence is to party and wait until "the time" has come, where they abruptly and fabulously disappear. It's very grandiose, but its basically just what our life is in simple terms: enjoying life until you die, and accepting it makes life that much easier.

I could make an argument that Fassad isn't brainwashed or whatever by Porky, and in fact just does not want "the time" to come, which is why they side with Porky (why else hadn't their needle been pulled the entire time?). Over the course of the game, like Porky, they become less and less "human" and more chimera similar to Porky, and eventually fails, like Porky. I'd need to go over the script again to make a more concrete case and that would take a long time.

The lore of the game talks about how humans recognized they have brought the end on themselves, and instead of trying to save everyone, they only send a cadre of people to live in Nowhere to preserve humanity. They accepted their deaths so others could live on.

Flint takes the death of Hinawa and Claus harshly, and while he's able to accept Hinawa's death after a violent oubreak, he is unable to accept Claus death (at least until the end when he sees him die again.) He wanders the mountains and distances himself from Lucas because of his inability to accept, shown by the fact you never really interact with him after Chapter 1 until the very end of the game.

Claus kills himself at the end because he recognizes that he has already died, and he has to accept his death for his family. As awful as it is, Lucas seems to recognize this truth as well, considering how he preserves the village and its people in the end, but does not bring back those who were lost.

I could go on and on, but you get the point.