When I played MGS2 for the first time last year, I walked away from it feeling like I had played a game that was truly special and worth analyzing every little piece of. I also found myself feeling very confused as to why so much of that game was centered around chasing down a fat demolition man on roller skates.

There isn't anything as strange or blatantly time wasting as that in Mother 3, but I did still walk away from it with the same core feelings. This truly is a special game, there's nothing else like it, but I can't help but wonder if the game could've been even better with some adjustments in how the game paced out and presented its narrative.

Also unrelated to all that but this game has the top 1 door opening animation in any video game, it's so good