one of my fav games of all time, it goes through such a powerful journey with Mae who in the end just wants her old life back. The art style is super unique and loveable, the music is like 10/10 and fits every scene perfectly, the story of the game too is maybe the best part of it all, there is a main part to the story but you have so many options that you could literally do everything or just do as little as possible.
Each character is very unique and you can pick and choose whether or not to hang out with them or not or make new friends, her main group of friends tho is the highlight of the game and getting to know each individual one personally feels really rewarding.
A lot of people may not get into it because it is extremely dialogue heavy with only some minigames inbetween but if you are looking for an emotional, cartoony, well-written video game this is the perfect thing.

One of the saddest games I've ever played, it somehow perfectly balances light-hearted, childish and goofy with dark, depressing and serious. Its one of my favourite games all the characters that are meant to be loveable are extremely loveable and all the characters your supposed to hate are extremely horrible.
The gameplay is extremely fun and uses an interesting gimmick where you can attack enemies on beat with music making you do extra damage, all party members are very unique gameplay-wise as well as story-wise.
Its the most story orientated game out of the mother series but it blends perfectly well into the gameplay and eventually becomes more gameplay orientated half-way through the game.
I do feel like this is game is maybe for a specific taste but if you are ever in the mood to play through all of it you 100% should do so