Comments on: Mother 3’s battle music

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:11:55 +0000

Wow, that absolutely opened my eyes to an aspect of the game that I had not been aware of…I feel very sheepish all of a sudden.

But it certainly makes me appreciate what had at first seemed like a beautiful game with a simplistic combat system for what it really is: a beautiful game with a fantastic combat system.

Thank you!

By: lazerElf

lazerElf — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:32:00 +0000

Mother 3 is such a great game:0 ) Thanks so much for this very well put together breakdown. Just what I was looking for.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:48:26 +0000

It really is a shame that the execution of the system isn’t a bit more… well accessible? Even if one accurately times the difference between the taps right, they have to line up the established beats of the song.

And even beyond this, the system wasn’t particularly well explained anyway in the game.

By: spork

spork — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:54:01 +0000

Besides the tricky battle combos, I’ve also noticed that a lot of the battle music in Mother 3 is just really GOOD. Back Beat Battle is a great example. That one is really funkin’ it up.

By: pollo

pollo — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:23:03 +0000

And what about Tough Zombeat? That is really the hardest song in the game.

By: Blah

Blah — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:42:37 +0000

Outstanding! Bravo!

A tip for those who use Visual Boy Advance as emulator:
Options: Frame Skip: 0
Put the frame skip in zero helps, and A LOT!

By: captain-murphy

captain-murphy — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:39:14 +0000

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! You are so awesome. This makes me so happy I can’t even tell you!

By: calebmon

calebmon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:04 +0000

the game never explained this very well… thanks!

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:08:12 +0000

Good job on posting this, but I am SO FRUSTRATED!!!! I can’t get the combos!! I can only get 2 at the max. I make them sleep and listen to the beat and do exactly what it’s telling me to do and it doesn’t work!!! I’m even a musician and I know everything about music and it frustrates me that I can’t it right. I want to know what time you actually start the count. When it says your character attacks, then start it? Does anyone have any tips? The heart beat it gave me didn’t work so I tried a beat I heard in the song and got a 2 hit combo. I’m confused.

By: Miksoph

Miksoph — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:44:22 +0000

Oh my, thank you so much for this. Ugh I confess… I used a gameshark cheat on my GBA to make sure I always get at least 10 combo’s in. I actually didn’t realize that the sleep status revealed the heartbeat of the music. I am starting clean now at least! I am actually one of those fools who bought the M3 Micro box set, and rom dumped it with my NDS flash… at least now I can start over again and actually do stuff like kill a soot dumpling with Flint alone. Emulating kills the sound synch or gives an odd music speed up when using the menu…

Highest combo so far, 13!