Earthbound

[Shinryu]

Not going to lie, a graphic update to Mother 1 actually has me rather excited. I recall there being a project to actually remake the game in SNES styled graphics, or at least update it to look more like Mother 2 and 3 (I believe the scrolling health bar would have also been implemented, among other attributes from the later games). From what I remember however, the project never really saw the light of day. On that note, I'll probably take the time to play this version when I get the chance. I never completed the first game (I think I stopped after the area with Duncan's Factory), but this definitely gives me an incentive to go back and play it through.

And if I feel like it/if I ever get the opportunity to, I might do a recorded playthrough of it. Hopefully it won't last as long as Live-A-Live, but then again, Mother 1 does have some sections where you practically need to grind in order to survive (and even then, it's still best to avoid some of the more ridiculously strong end-game enemies from what I recall).

[Zard1084]

i had just beat mother 1 a few days ago it wasn't that hard to beat i got my party to lvl 50 before even getting to the end game part.. i wrecked everything in my path... mostly... i game over'd like 5-7 times due to some enemys (damn you Death truck!)

[LlamaHombre]

Mother 1 does have some sections where you practically need to grind in order to survive (and even then, it's still best to avoid some of the more ridiculously strong end-game enemies from what I recall).

It kinda does, yeah. The patch itself fixes this problem in a couple of ways from what I've figured out so far, though. For one, you can adjust text speed in battles to make grinding easier, and enemies in general drop more EXP and more of whatever unlocks PSI powers.