In a similar vein, Stephen “thecatamites” Murphy had played the Mother games before making his psychedelic masterpiece Space Funeral, but didn’t use them as a direct inspiration. Also, by doing things that way, the game possibly has more depth when ‘an adult who can do things children can’t do’ appears in the midgame.” There are not many things that you can do. However, I do not think that they have much in common.” On the game’s child protagonist, he says “I thought it was natural to use a young girl to represent a powerless player.
This likely led to its classification as a “Motherlike”. With its story of a young child facing an unspeakable evil, some drew connections between it and the Mother series. The game blew up among fanart communities and inspired similar games such as The Witch’s House and Mad Father. After finding two other people in the same predicament, the three of them search for a way out. Released in 2012, Ib was created entirely using RPG Maker 2000 and focused on the titular character Ib, a young girl who gets trapped in a world of paintings. It’s not even a commercial game with an ‘Itoi-like’ voice, so actually I’m the one who wants to know how our games resemble each other.” ” Ib isn’t an RPG, and it’s hard to say that even the graphics look like Mother’s. “The similarities between Ib and Mother…honestly, I have no idea.” says kouri, creator of the J-horror game Ib. Inspired by the smash success of Undertale, I set out to speak to the people behind this wonderful new creation on their Mother influences. Recently, a genre affectionately termed “Motherlikes” has been popping up in the fan lexicon on sites such as Tumblr and TV Tropes, referring to offbeat indie games that mixed surreal humor with creepiness. Known as Earthbound in North America, it’s only natural that, as the generations affected by the original SNES titles grew older and began making their own games, the Mother series would be a huge part of the video game developer subconscious. The only thing that can possibly rival the mystique of the quirky Japanese RPG series Mother is the mystique of its fans.
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