Happy 18th birthday Mother 3 editionPrevious thread: >>3731744
I want to hug Claus and Lucas
Are all of the old threads archived somewhere?
>>3884364yeah, I've been curious on that myself for a while.
>>3884364>>3884667Fireden but sometimes the images don't load.There's also archived moe.
considering all the japanese fanart I am seeing of Ness here and the previous thread, were all the weight comments in EarthBound just from the English localization? is he not a cute squishy boy, and just a cute boy?
>>3885296He's supposed to be slightly chubby at the beginning and skinny by the end since some NPCs comment on him losing weight. Idk if it's just a localization thing, would be cool to know.
>>3885299Ness was never fat. He was always athlet, but obviously got more muscular by the end of his adventure due to all the fighting and walking.
>>3885340All from the OG Japanese?
>>3885296iirc he's still called fat and chubby in the japanese version. But there is one NPC at the end of the game who says he was just being mean and apologizes for calling you fat earlier in the game.There are some japanese artists who draw Ness more chubby, I think most artists just prefer drawing skinny characters over chubbier ones. That and his official designs/art don't make him look that chubby, expect for his Japanese Magicant sprite which honestly does make him look pretty chubby.
>>3885442thank you for saying what you know
Is ninten like ness but more bratty?
>>3885654eh, he doesn't have the most to him, so it's more so up to interpretation. The MOTHER novelization by Saori Kumi (who deemed to call him Ken) made him a little shit. Encyclopedia MOTHER (official guidebook out of many and also lore book, and if I recall correctly was published by APE Inc. themselves) made him an average nice kinda american boy, but made him a fan of George Lucas movies (considering they mention Indiana Jones and also Star Wars in his bio of sorts) and whatnot.so basically, with Ninten, he's almost a full blank slate for you, the player. You decide what he's like to you.
>>3885654The most personality he ever gets in-game is that if a hippie enemy does the attack where they mock his mom, he instantly retaliates with a SMAAAAAAAAAAASH. So I headcanon he's more hot-headed than Ness.
>>3885702well, it's more so a chance of either believing the hippie and getting his FIGHT stat lowered or not falling for it, flying into a rage and getting an Offense increase. But yeah, I too headcanon the cute asthma boy as having a bit of a hot head on himThough, now that I think of it, a lot of my thoughts on Ninten feel sort of vaguely "shonen protagonist" in terms of feel, lol. minus the big appetite (to an extent). That attribute, I tend to mainly pin to Ness.
