Mother 3/Awesome

• Mother 3: Kumatora, Wess and Salsa have been cornered by Yokuba/Fassad, the Pig Masks and a heavy artillery tank when Lucas suddenly pops in out of nowhere and whistles, summoning a baby Drago -- who in turn roars and summons the mama Drago, who tosses the baddies about like ragdolls before utterly flattening the tank. And to think, this was the same boy who'd run away crying earlier in the story! This moment marks the beginning of Lucas's growth into a hero.
  • That scene made Mother 3 the first game this troper cried tears of joy at.
  • Salsa gets one within the same scene, when he issues the command to make the Drago knock a stuttering Fassad/Yokuba into next week. And later, the little monkey gets another when he deactivates the Ultimate Chimera.
• And then there's the battle where the band DCMC storms in and helps the party by smashing the last three Porky mechs and finishing the battle. There's just something about the Mother series and awesome bands.
• Meta-example: the group behind the Fan Translation. Two years of work, overcoming innumerable flaws, limitations, and bugs, all while knowing Nintendo or HAL could send them a 'cease and desist' and they'd have to comply. And yet, they managed to create what's considered one of the best translation hacks there is. Somebody give these guys a medal.
  • Here's the online readme. It lists all the technical hurdles they had to overcome.
    • Bonus points for them actually keeping famous references from Mother 2's English translation in-tact, such as Hacking the wooden limbless doll and octopus statue to look like the the two Pencil statues and Eraser statue as well as the magazine from the run-down old house in Onett, and hacking the Pencil Eraser item so that it can stay the same as it was in the English translation of Mother 2 . Really proves how dedicated those fans were.

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