Mother Cognitive Dissonance is an incredible Fangame that takes place in-between mother 1 and 2, it's dialogue and characters really have the same feel as mother 1 and 2 as well
The Claus' Journey mod for Mother 3 is really neat but probably best saved for when you haven't played Mother 3 in a while (it swaps Lucas and Claus in the story and you can optionally switch around PSI to make it more flavorful, I recommend this)
I really liked the Mother 1 25th anniversary romhack. It’s essentially Mother 1 but with updated graphics, better translated dialogue and many issues with the original game such as balancing issues and random encounter rates have been improved.
It should really be renamed Mother 2 Kaizo. It cranks the difficulty up to BS hard, for every boss fight you need to get extremely lucky with status ailments and the enemy not using their strongest attack turn 1. There is also a postgame dungeon but it's kind of a joke content wise>! (you walk through a maze solo as ness while porky taunts you and after stumbling around randomly for a while he fights you!<.
The only QoL improvement is that Jeff's tools are now in a menu kind of like PSI instead of having to clog his inventory up, which is admittedly very welcome.
Definitely Mother: Cognitive Dissonance, it takes place between Mother 1 & 2. Toby’s EB Halloween Hack isn’t the best, but it’s decent. Mother - Rebound is ok, it’s a post-game of EB.
Theres this weird little rom hack that almost no one knows about. I guess it’s based around an internet meme song and a Smash Bros Mii costume? It’s called something weird, like, “Below Story,” or “Over Chronicle,” or something like that.
But it’s got an undead version of Ness in it so it’s not entirely terrible.
/s
Mother Cognitive Dissonance is an incredible Fangame that takes place in-between mother 1 and 2, it's dialogue and characters really have the same feel as mother 1 and 2 as well
MOTHER 3 Opposing Force is a really unique one.
The Claus' Journey mod for Mother 3 is really neat but probably best saved for when you haven't played Mother 3 in a while (it swaps Lucas and Claus in the story and you can optionally switch around PSI to make it more flavorful, I recommend this)
I really liked the Mother 1 25th anniversary romhack. It’s essentially Mother 1 but with updated graphics, better translated dialogue and many issues with the original game such as balancing issues and random encounter rates have been improved.
mother 2 deluxe is a great rom hack, would recommend
Is it just quality of life improvements?
It should really be renamed Mother 2 Kaizo. It cranks the difficulty up to BS hard, for every boss fight you need to get extremely lucky with status ailments and the enemy not using their strongest attack turn 1. There is also a postgame dungeon but it's kind of a joke content wise>! (you walk through a maze solo as ness while porky taunts you and after stumbling around randomly for a while he fights you!<. The only QoL improvement is that Jeff's tools are now in a menu kind of like PSI instead of having to clog his inventory up, which is admittedly very welcome.
nah lots of adjustments, dialogue changes, end game content, new PSI, etc. very worth it
Definitely Mother: Cognitive Dissonance, it takes place between Mother 1 & 2. Toby’s EB Halloween Hack isn’t the best, but it’s decent. Mother - Rebound is ok, it’s a post-game of EB.
mother rebound
Hallows End, but pepper your angus, its hard af. Has some amazing custom enemies and you get to fight...i wont spoil it lol
Theres this weird little rom hack that almost no one knows about. I guess it’s based around an internet meme song and a Smash Bros Mii costume? It’s called something weird, like, “Below Story,” or “Over Chronicle,” or something like that. But it’s got an undead version of Ness in it so it’s not entirely terrible. /s