-Story

the story is not straight forward, it has some up and downs, like when teddy joins you for a long time before he gets injured, or the fact that ninten finds lloyd in trashcan... :l ok but honestly, it has some CRAZY lore for a game made in 1989

7/10

-Gameplay

it has some INSANE enemies compared to what are they in other games from mother series and you just KEEP ENCOUNTERING THEM... yeah, the encounter system was horrible... but one good point is that good and cool abilities isn't just limited to someone like NESS in earthbound that has support, attack and healing abilities all at once, ninten doesn't have attack psi and is a supporter, because we have anne that is also the healer, and teddy is the fighter! that's how balanced the characters were... except lloyd, he sucks, another negative thing is that you had no clear clue for how to find the 8 melodies

4/10

-Resources

for a 1980s game, it has one of the best soundtracks in my oponion, instead of looping a 10 seconds loop song, mother one was looping some normal 1 minute track, the enemy sprites were also interesting! they had the cool shadow and pallete (probably because of 13 colors limit for nes lmfao), but some stuff felt unfinished, like the map! it was some red squares and black lines, it was a little confusing to use it in just a blank map lol

9/10

-Overall ==> 6.¯6/10