The original Mother have been on my backlog for many years. I know that a lot of people say you don't need to play it. They say it's an old date 8-bit Dragon Quest clone and everything it does well, it's sequels do better. And yet, this is the game that spawned it so there got to be something interesting there?

After playing through I can say that people are wrong and the original Mother is absolutely worth playing through if you are a fan of the series. Now I'm playing on this ROM had so the graphics are a bit different and the encounter rates are down, but it still did stuff that suprised me for an old RPG. It honestly makes me want to replay the game in its original form.