#eb64

[nickpeppermint]

Here's Lucas and Claus from all development evolution stages!

Earliest N64DD prototypes (1996) and N64 (1997-2000)

Shinichi Kameoka GBA concept (2002) and final game version (2006)

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

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[daegg123]

Art I commissioned from chaoplushie on twitter / bluesky of post-timeskip EB64 Claus, Lucas and Kumatora

[nortsauce]

I LOVE THE OLD EARLY GBA LUCAS AND CLAUS LOOK HOW COOL THEY LOOK C’MON!!!!!

[bbongwater]

This isn't a Pokémon post... but Creatures Inc. worked on this game too, so I'm counting it!

The Tatsumari Twins! Special thanks again to Picto, who I am currently bumming a face texture off of until I get off my butt and make my own.

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Made in Blender 4.0

[zekkopunks]

i wonder what happened to the other 64 earthbounds

[animalcollectiveporn]

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[lasloser-mc-useless]

I messed up drawing him and just rolled with it.

[strawberrysundi]

this post is just incoherent rambling about eb64 porky, driving myself crazy over it

godddd i wish so bad we had any idea what porky would've looked like in earlier versions of m3

there's those unused sprites which i'm obsessed with but that's it

especially with benimaru itoh being the original art director for m3, and knowing how differently he drew eb porky in his manga, i'm dying to know the direction he went in with him originally

i've seen speculation that the character in the center of the front row (3e, in the light suit) in this pic of the eb64 cast was porky

prominent cheeks and chin, large seemingly-upturned nose and the odd importance placed on him with his suit and position at the very front not totally unfitting

even so, i'm doubtful it's supposed to be him, although the points against it being porky i've seen raised on reddit don't really convince me

looks too sweet and happy - yeah porky's childish and faux-innocent qualities are one of his defining creepy features (and the unused sprite design is far less obviously-evil than the final version) actually a totally different character that clearly has a different model - why are they given so much focus in this pic doesn't look like porky - see the manga design, it's not really out of the question for them to depart so heavily from his eb sprite

on the one hand i'm a little skeptical they'd just put the big twist villain in a promotional picture like this, but on the other hand they were already talking about an older porky playing a major role in the story so who knows i'm no expert on eb64's development (i couldn't tell you who most of these characters are supposed to be), but i'm not sure we've ever seen that particular character anywhere else? very weird

the thing that makes me go absolutely feral is this infuriating quote from an interview with the enemy designer from the n64 era

gahhhhh why couldn't they have shown him a picture or somethinggg please i need details iuhfjowqjidumqiobuyrfhunwjuwu

especially annoying is that i can't even read the article to see if there's anything else because earthboundcentral died a couple months ago and wayback machine is getting freaking DDOSed ughhhhh

i'm dying over this, i neeeed to know more about him gahhh

in other news here's a concept for new pork city i'd never seen before, so at least i'm not completely empty-handed

[argos-thepatientone]

... The what discord

the TRUTH about FLINT

In an interview with Nintendo Dream from July 2006, Itoi states he figured that, even while MOTHER 3 was in development on the Nintendo 64, people would speculate if Flint is Ness. So, Itoi purposefully "made it so that if people really thought that, they could go on thinking it if they liked".

Translation by @ ClydeMandelin on Twitter

[nickpeppermint]

Here's some more Lucas and Claus based on Shinichi Kameoka designs!

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

[daegg123]

how I feel being in and interacting in like every (normal) corner of the Mother fandom I can find

[nevermatchandscpsradadventures]

You know, I often find myself very curious about what EB64 could've been, what would've happened differently, because there are plenty of different things (Kumatora's hair was purple, there was a 7-10 year timeskip instead of the simple 3 year timeskip, Flint had a bigger role and also had magic/PSI I think, at least two people might've been eaten by the Kraken and it was Nana's dad and Lighter's wife Tobacco, there was a place called Toilette Falls, etc), but at the same time, I'm perfectly content and happy with what we got. IMO, EB64 would've felt really out of place in the MOTHER series, since EBB was on the NES and EB was on the SNES, and EB64 was going to be on the N64 (unsurprisingly). Also Boney got a huge glow-up, he looked so uncanny in EB64 tbh Like, Flint looked really cool, and Lucas and Claus looked fine I guess, but Boney was hideous

[f4ncyheartdelusion]

I was replaying the game normally getting stuff before going to the next needle and checking the NPCs dialogue to see if anything changed, and then when I entered here, it dawned on me, most of the kids in Tazmily had someone in their family disappear or die, I'm not sure what took me so long to realize it other than me being stupid, down below is me analyzing the facts and trying to make sense of the situation

-Fuel doesn't have a mother in the final game but from what we know via EB64, Lighter did indeed have a wife, she was named Tobacco and supposedly disappeared in the sea (a.k.a died)

-Angie doesn't have a father and such individual is never mentioned or implied to exist, but due to her being clearly younger than Kumatora she had to be born on Tazmily, so whoever Caroline's husband was, something likely happened to him.

-Alle has her grandpa die during the timeskip and it clearly affects her as she stopped listening to Fassad right after the Pigmasks harmed Wess, she even makes a comment about how they don't respect the elderly.

And then there's Nana... which the details from Earthbound 64 make her situation worse, in EB64 Nana only had a father (named Papa), so something happened to her mom by default and then her father disappears the same way Fuel's mother did, resulting in the loss of both her parents, in the final game her parents are never mentioned and most people consider this a plothole but EB64 paints a clear image of what the devs intended.

It's a neat juxtaposition of how Tazmily is supposed to be a happy beautiful utopia but the kids in there already went through some of the worst things that can happen in that age.

Worth noting is that the village does not pay much attention to these events, no one cared about Scamp dying in the GBA version outside of his family and in EB64 it's implied that the deaths of Fuel's mom and Nana's father were handwaved and didn't get much attention, it shines a light on how the death of Hinawa was a edge case, her death was too brutal and Hinawa herself was the literal most beloved person in Tazmily for the impact of what happened to her be diminished or pushed aside.

(I had a paragraph analyzing that maybe the reason the kids are all so nice to Lucas is cause of their similar experiences but then I remembered that Richie and Nichol have normal families and they both still are friendly and nice to Lucas and actively like the guy, whoops).

[zekkopunks]

claus mother 3 the most doomed character ever it has never been so over than when you play as him for 5 seconds and his hp number means death in japan