MOTHER 3 Hot Spring Surprises

What’s bathing culture like in Japan, Matosan?

Wait, there is a spring in the mole cricket hole!? Wow, I learn something new everyday…

Lol When Ionia is in the tub, it literally IS mixed gender bathing.

Wow, I never even knew about the lady.

It must be mixed gender if Kumatora gets in with Lucas and Duster.

am I the only one thinking about Ero-Sennin, when it comes to mixed gender bathing? heck even when I played Mother 3 and I saw that lady saying that. I just couldn’t stop laughing because I was thinking about that pervert.

I found the old man in the hot spring in chapter 5 neer the mole holes.

I remember when I first saw the guy bathing in the hot spring in the basement of Osohe Castle – he kinda freaked me out. I didn’t know if he was supposed to give me a bonus item or something.

Knowing Itoi’s humor, I probably should have known he was basically a human “insignificant item”.

I was aware of Ionia, Fassad, and the old man apearing in the hot spring but I never knew of the woman who appeared.

[...] Direct link here Permalink [...]

I remember the first time i saw the old man in the hot spring I lmao for some time and little things like those events make mother 3 a very unique/awsome rpg game.

funny i saw the old man in that very spot just a few minutes ago.

Lol mixed gender bathing

lol i love mother 3! mother3 is the best mother game and i love browniebrown’s graphics… truly the best! ( but since phoenix wright was on gameboy in japan i change my mind)

That last part struck me as funny since I haven’t played M3 yet. “when you’re high on mushrooms, the sprites are different. ” That’s an in game reference, right? Right??

@Rhyselinn
Haha yes, there is a part in the game where you do trip on mushrooms and you start hallucinating. However if you really DID take shrooms before playing the game, I SUPPOSE the sprites might change? Maybe? O.o

Maybe they are in there to learn PSI Water Alpha

Whoa, I’ve never even seen the woman…

I finished my second playthrough recently, saw the old man all the time, and never encountered the woman once, ever.
On my next game, I’m spending more time on TaneTane.

Haha, in my first playthrough I had the old man at every spring I visited, except one time before the volcano, so I thought that he was SUPPOSED to be there. Never saw the lady, though.

When I played, it always seemed to me that nobody would ever be in the hot springs when I visited them the first time, but later on in the game if I revisited that spring there would be an old man there.

I might have seen the woman in the hot spring once… I can’t remember though. For some reason I recall seeing a Magypsy in a hot spring, but I can’t recall if that was on mushroom island or if that was part of the plot… (I need to play this game again )

I’ve always thought that the hot spring guy’s “What?” in the Japanese version has always been more effective than the fan translation’s “Yes?”.

Can anyone explain that whole extra syllable thing? I never understood what that meant.

Big A2: There’s a nuance difference between なに and なにか, so it’s not saying, “What?” in Japanese.

Violet: The message boards at the hot springs are supposed to be haikus, but some have extra or too few syllables.

Wow, I was always confused by the syllable thing too, but I never caught that they were Haikus. Once agian I learn something new about this game.
That makes two things for today, as I only ran into the old man once and realized it was a random occurrence, but didn’t know about the woman.

In all the times I’ve played and finished Mother 3 (somewhere close to ten times, I think) I’ve only ever once met the Lady. It was in the Empire Porky Building’s “Hot Spring Powder Hot Spring” on the room to the right of the main lobby on floor one.

@Mato: Than that mean my year 8 Japanese teacher lied to me! *Flies into sarcastic rage*.

So the signs were haikus? I thought they were meant to rhyme or something, but they didn’t because of the unofficial translation.

And ohlol my video

Knowing what that spring on Tanetane Island really was, I really want to believe that anyone the players meet in there are a total fabrication. D:

What’s a hot chick doing on Tanetane Island…bathing in sludge!?

the video is gone