The part at the end of earthbound. I was playing it without a guide back when, losing to the final boss, and in a panic I selected the girl’s “pray” move. Throughout the game that move has a small chance to heal you or debuff the enemies. But in the final fight instead it pops up
"{Girl} prayed from the bottom of her heart!
“Please give us strength… If it is possible… Please. …Somebody help us.”
And then it cuts to the first character’s mother in her kitchen, and has some dialogue of her worrying about him. Each subsequent prayer cuts to other characters that you met throughout the game.
Mind completely blown as a child when this happened.
I don’t know the name of this trope but it gets me teared up every time.
I’ve always appreciated that every Mother game turns the last boss into an unwinnable fight like that, and into a story. I’ll cry at the end of Mother 3 every time, too.
Yeah. Hours earlier, in the middle of unrelated stuff, the game asks you something like “Hey, you holding the controller, what’s your name?” Easy to forget and then be completely mindblown when the game is like “Will {your name} pray for the party??”
The part at the end of earthbound. I was playing it without a guide back when, losing to the final boss, and in a panic I selected the girl’s “pray” move. Throughout the game that move has a small chance to heal you or debuff the enemies. But in the final fight instead it pops up
"{Girl} prayed from the bottom of her heart! “Please give us strength… If it is possible… Please. …Somebody help us.”
And then it cuts to the first character’s mother in her kitchen, and has some dialogue of her worrying about him. Each subsequent prayer cuts to other characters that you met throughout the game.
Mind completely blown as a child when this happened.
I don’t know the name of this trope but it gets me teared up every time.
I’ve always appreciated that every Mother game turns the last boss into an unwinnable fight like that, and into a story. I’ll cry at the end of Mother 3 every time, too.
I think the game also calls out the player as the final action during that scene as well.
Yeah. Hours earlier, in the middle of unrelated stuff, the game asks you something like “Hey, you holding the controller, what’s your name?” Easy to forget and then be completely mindblown when the game is like “Will {your name} pray for the party??”