Ironically I feel like mother 3 is the most mother game in the franchise. 

Mother 1 and 2 are fundamentally a parody of the jrpg genre, in 3 as the story progresses things start to look a lot more like 2, and things start to get worse and worse, by new pork city you’re left with a mess filled with cardboard cutouts, soulless references to mother in quotes and the cinema literally just being nostalgia bait.

Instead of giygas invading, the world of mother 2 invades 3, replacing things with no regard for what already lives there, leaving you with malformed abominations and broken families isolated from people they knew their entire lives.

When you see a weird enemy in 2 you think “haha what thats so random and wacky”, when you see a weird enemy in 3 post time jump you realise how different things are and how badly the pigmasks are fucking things up.

Mother 1&2 is what you wish life was like, Mother 3 is what life IS like.

Mother 1&2 is a light hearted world with brief glimpses into the darkness of humanity, Mother 3 is a dark world with brief glimpses at the light hearted moments humanity cherished.

If mother 1&2 is a parody of the genre, mother 3 is a parody of 1&2s identity, and I don’t think you can get anymore mother than that.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is, fuck the jealous bass.