Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190814110411

Ok, I'm going to have to watch a full playthrough of Mother 3. And never pause the footage to take notes, so it actually finishes in a day or two.

I know many people here have memorized every line in all three games about 20 times over, when I'm still not even sure of the overall plot of Mother 3. So I hope you'll excuse my massive ignorance while I'm learning all this.

Simply watching a playthrough isn't nearly enough. So many clues are given by how characters react, and knowing who knows what, when, and you really have to go line by line to catch all of those. So I'm going to feel naked and uncomfortable until I finally sit down and transcribe the entire game like I did with Mother 1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a50WdENFWoVaViDYB52wvwCe3aIZu3GWL-Hsq4qB8m4/edit?usp=sharing

But going back to the earlier conversations about Mother, I think The Halloween Hack tells the story of how Doctor Andonuts was actually a Faust-like character who got his seemingly magical tech powers through a pact with Giygas. And when Giygas stole his son Jeff's PSI power as payment, Dr. Andonuts tried to undo Giygas with the very powers Giygas had given him. A story them seems like a legit Earthbound theory.

So the goal was to explore the Mother games, to test how viable this was.

The main item I want confirmed is that Pokey (Porky? same character) used a time machine made by Doctor Andonuts to travel to the past to fight The Four Heroes.

If so, this would be proof that Doctor Andonuts lied to Ness and his friends about The Phase Distorter only transporting non-organic matter. Pokey arrives in the past with his usual grinning fleshy face.