Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-32182236-20190905182758

Perhaps to bring me back to the spirit of analyzing Mother, here, have a few of the similarities differences I found between Undertale's mechanics and Mother/Earthbound's mechanics. Each difference makes it less likely that Frisk is Ninten.

However, similarities might make the idea more likely.

(I'll do this again later on in my analysis. As Mother 2 and Mother 1 happen in the same world, this would also make it less or more likely for Frisk to be Ness.)

In Mother 1, when you level up, you don't heal the extra HP. So if you have 18/20 HP, and you level up and gain +2 max HP, you'd have 18/22 HP, not 20/22 HP.

The same is in fact the case for Undertale. (I actually thought it wasn't! But it is!)

In Mother, when you attack, you simply attack. There's no timing aspect like the one in Undertale.

In Earthbound, when you take damage, your HP counter rolls down. Only when it visibly reaches 0 do you faint, so if you get a 1-hit KO, you do still have time to run, or kill your opponent first.

The same is not the case in Undertale.

In Undertale, you can only save by using determination stars. Doing this will heal you to max HP.

This is not how it works in Mother.