It's Over - MOTHER3

[@sweetwheatsy]

Who knew the sound of the Franklin Badge reflecting could be so emotionally devastating

[@cinnamonrollsinpasas4890]

bro...

[@davesteven7589-f8g]

I was like.. "No, wait Claus , NOOO !!!"

[@cloosicas]

fr

[@oi_bruv]

Lucas's Franklin Badge reflected the lightning back!

[@uberhuber7903]

I love this so much

[@SerpciMansion]

“you must be so exhausted” is probably the hardest lines i’ve read

[@doopliss6052]

I just noticed the very start of this song uses the same instruments as "I am Porky" before slowly turning to the Love theme, likely aimed to symbolize Claus breaking from Porky's control. Pretty cool

[@lawxz23]

I'm so happy I'm not the only one who realized that. It's amazing how the Mother 3 soundtrack is so hopeful and devastating both at once.

[@ledderfayes]

That unused red face also looks like opened eyes shining through Porky's long hair

[@KevinLHenderson]

This song makes me think of my 23 year old nephew i lost last year, September 23, 12 days after my birthday. I remember hearing him say, "Let's play Mario Party," every family gathering we'd have. He loved that game so much and we'd have so much fun playing with him. He was great at Mario Kart and was the only other family member that would play Smash with me aside from my brother and niece. I almost couldn't finish finish comment with my eyes so watered.

[@Jac-Man]

i’m so sorry..

[@AnAverageGoblin]

something I really appreciate about this track specifically is how cold it sounds at first, but gradually it gets warmer. like a warm hug to comfort you, then it swells up like you have so many things you want to say only for it to slow down and change because what you want to say is unspoken.. but understood.

[@doglikedude]

Claus... Claus... Claus... Come to your mother. You must be so exhausted. Come here, Claus.

[@Molten_Pig]

Still stings after all this time...

[@aerth6946]

You.

[@doglikedude]

@@aerth6946 >:)

[@theeternalslayer]

You are not porkys minion! You are my son!

[@JamesTheTurnbull]

It still hurts...

[@Piquezzo]

I will never emotionally recover from playing this game.

[@DinoisHere_]

real.

[@Cramboing]

Had the entire game spoiled for me before playing and this song still makes me tear up.

[@probium2832]

You know it's that good when you ignore spoilers, cry, then play the game and still cry

[@Sunkhrist]

​@probium its a greater feeling when you can come back to this moment and you still burst into tears on multiple watches 😢

[@sentboumaster3436]

I come back to listen to this if i want to cry though or if I want to cry more I go rewatch the final boss gameplay

[@BogChog]

Me too bro

[@RALSEIDAGAMERRRRR]

same. I watched a video game analysis of it and still cried

[@TWMFanclub]

5 years later, and this'll never fail to make me cry. God bless Mother 3.

[@Zare2care]

It’s been 14 years since I’ve discovered the MOTHER series thanks to Brawl and my god this series made my cried so much as a kid. 😭

[@trinfamous5639]

Even 2 years later, this can still bring tears to my eyes. I only wish I could experience this game for the first time again :(

[@InfinityDz]

One of the few things that's so brilliant I don't even feel like this about it. It brings tears to my eyes every damn time.

[@NintendoGirl49]

"I'm sorry it turned out like this. I'm really happy you could be with me until the end... Thanks. Father, I'm really sorry I didn't listen to you. I'm going to where Mother is now. Lucas, I hope we meet again someday. Bye. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sure we'll meet again..."

[@matthewriley3118]

"nah, I gonna to blow up the tires Galaxy."

[@OBigFloppaOFC]

@@matthewriley3118 "cough sneeze arf arf, how disgusting!"

[@Ms.Toriel]

:( ...

[@probium2832]

Claus gave his final breath.

[@cloosicas]

claus forgot to say goodbye to boney, the silly goober

[@LightningCayo]

As an older brother, this music and final boss just hits really hard. Makes me feel like crying.

[@roqm0z666]

Same. The final moments and the apology absolutely shattered me because I thought of me and my brother

[@Tophats_are_cool]

As an Older Brother I can relate And the game in general is one of my favourites of all time

[@davesteven7589-f8g]

I live alone because of my brother.. i wish one day i could forgive him.

[@ajf6849]

Tazmily has fallen

[@ik0la]

billions must buy happy boxes

[@afreak8451]

...I still remember when I discovered this game...I was a little kid...so much nostalgia

[@aerth6946]

My eyes still get teary, thank you.

[@lapisfengari2428]

The way in which this goes back to the harsh, confused sounding instruments to more natural sounding ones to the mostly the more music box-sounding one towards the end as the Love Theme fully kicks in just absolutely ruins me emotionally

[@thegamerator10]

I love that this song is probably from Claus's perspective. It starts out as Claus starts to remember who he is, and the midway point is him coming back to his senses, but the ending is him deciding to do the unthinkable out of remorse for what he's done as the Masked Man, but like he's also happy he got to see Lucas one more time and telling him "It's alright. Everything will be alright."

[@sirianndugvudys6850]

I never cried fighting a final boss before ....😭

[@powerscoutie]

If I had to name the most emotional video game music, it'd be this

[@probium2832]

That moment when you get spoiled an entire game, cry, then play the entire game spoiled and still cry.

[@123blueaddison]

WE BAWLING OUR EYES OUT WITH THIS ONE 😭‼

[@maddosshmillore]

I don't think any moment in any piece of fiction I've experienced has ever captured the feeling of sadness where your chest has a hole in it, your fingertips are cold, your body aches and you have no voice left to cry out with. Till I played Mother 3 I personally believed the world ended when Lucas pulled the final needle. The world was too far gone and no matter how hard Lucas and his friends tried to stop it, the world wasn't pure anymore, there was no more innocents. And that's why I find Mother 3 the saddest/best story I've ever experienced. I believe this with our own world, slowly but surely innocence and purity will be forgotten, and one day our most powerful weapon, LOVE, will be gone. I pray that doesn't happen for a while. But one day it will all be over.

[@goatsoup]

I feel like the message of the game is to encourage you to be strong like Lucas. To prevail in the hardest of times and to keep our world safe or it just may be gone one day like the nowhere islands. That's why despite being given the option to imagine what happens to the lives of the tazmily people, they will never show you the tazmily people happy and well. it challenges you, the player who passed their heart and desires onto the dragon, to let your heart imagine a better world and to fulfill what's in your heart. which is a metaphor for you to player to be more wary of your world, and appreciate your family, appreciate love while it's in your grasp.

[@TeamGalactic-Cyrus]

Today my friend decided to quit discord. While he said his final goodbyes to everyone and finally logged off for the last time, I decided that the best soundtrack to fit the occasion was this. The first time I heard this song after the game. I'd still see him again one day probably, but it's so bittersweet listening to this as my best friend says goodbye. I think I'm going to play mother 3 again. Of course I'm overreacting, but... it's been a lot of friends leaving recently, and life ending it off with my best friend feels intentional. Now I have to pull the last needle of my life and finally turn over a new leaf. Because as much as I try to hold on to my past, and my old friends, the era is over. I need to remember them and move on. Thank you, Mother 3. Thank you, friends. My life is changed now, hopefully for the better. Thank you, everyone. Take the time to make the world a better place, even if that just means being a good friend. Someone will remember you for it, and be kind to others too.

[@fravonzonbonn]

dude i saw someone on twitter say the EXACT same thing (are you them actually)

[@TeamGalactic-Cyrus]

@@fravonzonbonn YES I AM BAHAH

[@fravonzonbonn]

@@TeamGalactic-Cyrus LMAOAOAOAOOAOA

[@TryingToGetTheUnusua]

hope everything's okay with you man.

[@TeamGalactic-Cyrus]

@@TryingToGetTheUnusua Thank you .

[@metalmr.i9543]

I'd like to share my personal experience that i've been holding inside my chest for the last 2 years since i recently finally worked up the courage and shared it with a friend. I don't want to make it too long but I can say that my mother was a great person and the best mother I could have wished for as much as my father, but it makes me very sad to know that I was never able to... know her well. I was a child, I was barely finishing primary school, and I could only think about mundane things, I was so curious and eager to see the world that I never concentrated on learning and remembering what was in front of me, a day like any other my Mom got sick, I thought everything was going to be fine, people get sick and recover in a short time, that's what I thought, I remember seeing her sitting in bed while I thought about when she would recover to go out to the park again. One of those days my dad took her to the doctor if I remember correctly, she said to us in a hurried manner, "goodbye." I said goodbye too and quickly returned to whatever i was doing... that was the last I heard from her and the last time I saw her before my dad came home with the news... I don't want to explain much more what happened after but I guess all i can say is that... I was devastated.. so many questions, so many memories, so much life that I was going to spend with her, just like that, it left to never return... shortly after my mother died I had a dream where for some reason she was there, I could hear her voice and see her... I felt very bad when I woke up... today I treasure my dad and my sister very much, every day, every time we eat, cook or We do something together I ask and keep asking about what their lives are like, especially Dad, I ask him everything, what was his childhood, adolescence and youth, those memories, those lifes... I don't want to lose them again... Lucas's story is very similar to mine and... it touched my heart like never did before... I understand him and he is the character with whom I have identified the most in my life and nothing and i mean nothing is going to change that. that's why Mother 3 was a game that marked me, I finally felt understood by a story, and I simply could never get it out of my head these last 2 years since i played for the first time haha... Every time I listen to the music of certain parts I just can't hold back the tears remembering, seeing what happened in the game and thinking about how I even managed to get through those moments just like Lucas did.. But hey, it's taken me over two years to finally work up the courage and share this, i feel reliefed!

[@whatdadogdoin6082]

🙏

[@PunYT]

This song has a STRONG sense of a mother's forgiveness. Think about it. The beginning has a sense of despair. You're sitting in the principal's office, your mother speaking with the principal, while you wait outside. You're in there because you snapped, and knocked out someone who has bullied you, all year. You just want to go home and crawl under your covers, and never emerge, again. As the music starts to swell, this is basically your mother coming out of the office, looking at you with absolutely zero anger towards you. She knows you did everything you could. She knows what that person put you through. She knew you merely were defending yourself. After all, she knows you better than anyone in that school. As the music swells to its highest point, she's got her arms around you, hugging you tight, saying that it's okay, and that you're not grounded. At that point you want to burst into tears into her shoulder as she comforts you. As it calms to the classic Love Theme, this is you and her going home. You were suspended for a week, but your mother is going to get you ice cream on the way home, and is going to make sure you keep your chin up until you get to go back.

[@interceptionbug4166]

Damm bro, are you ok? That's oddly specific and wholesome of your mother.

[@PunYT]

@@interceptionbug4166 I mean, it happened to me when I was in 4th grade, but given the context of the scene where this plays, it DOES give an air of a mother's forgiveness.

[@Eltshan]

I write this in spanish because im so sad. Alicia, eres mi verdadera madre, tu perdida física me devasta. Te voy a extrañar cada día de mi vida

[@EnverKaiser]

Espero que estés muy bien actualmente amigo. Te acompaño en tu dolor...

[@technicolormischief-maker5683]

The sound of watery eyes, as transcribed by instruments.

[@FlutterTheWingedPikmin]

What do you mean?

[@LetsPlayNintendoITA2025]

@@FlutterTheWingedPikmin cries...

[@LetsPlayNintendoITA2025]

@TheMaskedman2006 yep lucas in phendrana

[@iamnotthatguy7166]

it really does sound like what crying feels like

[@poke_kage5662]

this song always makes my eyes tear up

[@PancakeCelebrity0119]

It's just so sad!

[@DanaTheNintendoLoverGirl2011]

Then The Masked Man Remove His Mask & It Was Claus!

[@sentboumaster3436]

​@@thepurplebirdwunderwaffenstop lying, you were trying to hold your tears

[@thepurplebirdwunderwaffen]

@@sentboumaster3436 nvm I didn't cry but still sad

[@LoopyPlayer]

No Tears Until the Ending

[@neoxthegamer4930]

When i first saw it thru chuggaaconroys lp i cried, when i played it for the first time i cried, when i played it again 5 years later i cried. This scene really makes you cry no matter what

[@TVobe2010]

Really is a tragedy losing someone you loved for centuries.. now.. is gone.. not untill... our soul is free from pain and sorrow

[@pestoanchovi1272]

i cant not cry listening to this. mother 3 has impacted me so much.

[@calibvr]

millions must be localised

[@saraaskeloph283]

Today is the 21st of the second, 2024. Mother 3 has been re-released at long, long last. In Japan. Millions musnt be localised :(

[@WDinATX]

To think that music can have such an effect on people's emotions when connected to events... it's strange, isn't it? I've even heard that it's one of the few known ways to dredge up memories from people in the late stages of Alzheimer's. But here I am listening to this, playing through the scene associated with it in my head, however fragmented my memories may be. Sometimes I even come up with something new thanks to the song. Did you know that "Lucas" and "Claus" are acronyms? Just rearrange the letters and suddenly they've entirely swapped positions. The scene of Lucas saving Claus from Porky could have been one of Claus saving Lucas if the prologue had gone differently. Just thinking about what that might have changed filling me with indescribable emotions as my heart palpitates erratically and the thought of how they could very well be the same person in contrasting situations is a striking one. An indescribable one. Maybe that's the real reason for the fill-in names? Not to put people we know as the characters... but to blank out parts of the characters. To make things even a little ambiguous.

[@TheRedCap]

This is one of the reasons I always have to mute VVVVVV when I replay it. I got the news that my cat died while I was playing that game :(

[@marsybarz]

@@TheRedCap damn, rip

[@WDinATX]

@XtremeAnimations Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks for the info!😃👍

[@Isaac_646]

0:44 While I never cried when listening or watching a playthrough of this, this part almost got me.

[@CenturyGuard]

Me 2

[@raido01]

I got this on my recommended and I was going to type a shitty "Its joever" or "we are so back" joke, but then I remember this song and got sad

[@wow6011]

Post comment clarity

[@ihaventthoughtofausernamey1071]

It's the end now, cry all you want

[@Mitzi-chan224]

I cried when I heard this soundtrack as a kid, tears still well up in my eyes.... 😢

[@Absolutely_Nobody]

Jesus Christ, I still can't handle listening to this song.

[@murinonogueira]

Same

[@ease_songs]

0:00 - grief 0:43 - uncertainty 1:43 - appreciation

[@awildsnivy]

This is what I listen to when my eyes are feeling a bit dry

[@5erenity_]

this is so nostalgic, thank you for uploading this. i've been searching and trying to remember this song for a very long time. thank you.

[@murinonogueira]

I cry to this. Every time I feel like crying, I put this on.

[@PASTELXENON]

for such a long time any rendition of the love theme (aside from mom's hometown) would make me at the least tear up, especially 16 melodies, but eventually they didn't (around mid-high school.) But It's Over/It's Finished still made me cry every time I heard it while the others didn't. There's something about it

[@CenturyGuard]

"Lucas remembered Claus' smell"

[@SkyrushFanboy]

He smells REAL nasty! We're talking major stinkage here!

[@CheekyGuy-q4i]

The Franklin Badge reflected the lightning! Claus took mortal damage!

[@CFlandre]

Lucas' Franklin Badge reflected the Lightning back!

[@cleffa173]

;_;

[@cloosicas]

and people wonder why i love this game so much. tsk tsk tsk. they have no idea how many tears have been shed thanks to this track. *no idea.*

[@BellhopDrew]

It's actually so over

[@warriorseamonkey1693]

This has been on my mind all morning

[@Himmelschenk]

It's been 15 years since I first beat this game and just as devastated I feel.

[@derektorres9275]

If I ever die, I want this song played at my funeral

[@KarcyDuemper]

“I’ll never die, I’ll never die nor will I ever be beaten”

[@novamarpo3]

_If_ Bro is Porky

[@DimonKILL]

"No crying until the end." - Mother 1 Commercial

[@Prototoast594]

Mother 3:

[@alvarodim1991]

goodbye, DestroyerOfMid.

[@puedenllamarmeDarkStar]

as the Skateboarding Lion would say: at least you saved his soul

[@Waddleclaws]

This franchise was doomed to be shelved and buried by nintendo from the start. But we still carry on.. Celebrating a franchise doomed to already be finished as if it was before it even started. I wrote this like a haiku

[@brandonnguyen6718]

I think there's many reasons why it got shelved. But it's mainly because Itoi wasn't a game designer. He states, "If it(gamemaking) was my job, I would have already made 4 and 5." The main guy behind it left the project, so it ended after 3.

[@AidenBigNerd]

its never been more joever than this

[@AidenBigNerd]

Why did i say this what was going through my head

[@sentboumaster3436]

I am trying to challenge myself if i will cry to this song but goddamnit i still cry , it automatically gave me the flashback for the boss fight

[@Ms.Toriel]

This track hits way too hard

[@riantwoninety]

happy birthday... still the only song to make me sob involuntarily

[@brimple]

it's so over

[@odd_inhd9250]

Real

[@doodlehobbo8697]

I almost ruin my own momment when I realized Flint was bald and I laugh a little bit even tho it was already been shown before battling the Mask Man.

[@carl-wheezer]

MY EYES!

[@nathantheman5572]

It's over for clauscels

[@Rin_husband]

"Don't cry until the end"

[@Memefan]

Spoilers for the game I like to imagine the noise at 0:34 being Claus screaming, like he was trying to break free from the control of the Pigmasks

[@Tophats_are_cool]

Why must you hurt everyone like that

[@GenericSeal]

ITS NEVER BEEN MORE OVER

[@amennnz]

神曲

[@doodlesyoru2108]

Whose divine comedy, mate? Dante's?

[@creativelybankrupt23]

Never touching this game again. I don’t want to go through the feeling of my heart breaking into tiny atom sized pieces another time.

[@chileanmilk5486]

Best JRPG of all time? Yes, yes it is.

[@grasseater7374]

Honestly, nothing even comes close.

[@ashtonwilaby]

Mother 1: no crying until the end Mother 3: cry at the end

[@Daveisreallycool]

I haven't played the game fully yet, but listening to this song gives me stage 6 depression

[@shadow_.0600]

1:45 At that part of the song I started to cry

[@DinoisHere_]

fr

[@jucasinc.5791]

@@DinoisHere_ Get out Porky you caused all of this

[@markofabecic6824]

Started with an alien, ended with a dying brother

[@thorjelly]

Lucas... remembered Claus's smell.

[@koth_harvest_final]

it never even began

[@LolaTheGardevoir]

We’re so back

[@Khione3]

its so clausover.

[@ledderfayes]

Giygas's evil influence comes with insane hatred of all life, but also comes with "i miss Maria..."

[@ezestical]

Me: Oh good! Claus is going to be safe now that he is out of Porky’s control! I was expecting something very depressing here…but whatever. Also me, moments after hearing the sound of the Franklin Badge reflecting lightning: OH FUCK NO I FORGOT THE BADGE PLEASE NO DONT DIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@retromagnetar3240]

Shogo Sakai used PSI Emotion Shigesato Itoi used PSI Emotion Player couldn't stop crying

[@SkyrushFanboy]

Still probably the saddest video game song I've ever heard. This game is an absolute masterpiece

[@i_farted321]

Mother 3 fans 👇

[@i_farted321]

@@thepurplebirdwunderwaffen you no like mother 3????????????????????? ding

[@probium2832]

@@thepurplebirdwunderwaffen wtf

[@thepurplebirdwunderwaffen]

​@@probium2832 nvm I changed my mind this game Is greaf

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

@@thepurplebirdwunderwaffen congratulations

[@teaoftraffic]

no crying until the end. though it’s acceptable to cry here.

[@SpamDustt411]

*"No Crying Until The End"* Yeah, like i'm not swiming in a sea of tears rn itoi.

[@Kresh-nah.]

it's over.

[@Teone77]

So I normally name characters after my family, on my first playthrough i did name them my family. big mistake. after that i used fictional characters. I named Claus after my bigger bro, Hinawa after my mum, Boney after my dog, Flint after my dad, Lucas as me, Duster as my Friend (At the time), Kumatora as my Other Friend. so uh it was depressing.

[@morganjary]

Oh my god that must have hit like a truck. But at the same time it must have felt so much closer to your heart

[@Teone77]

@@morganjary Mum died, not great right after having a relative dying. Bigger Bro went missing which was my mum's worst fear, us getting hurt or missing, and my dad being neglectful, which he was a great dad.

[@arkbien9303]

That is exactly what Itoi wanted players to do, name the characters after people you care about. it makes for a bigger player punch.

[@ArcadeLink]

Lucas isn’t sure what to do anymore. Lucas wanted to cry.

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

It's Mothover

[@AverageRPGFan]

If this doesn't play at my funeral I'm not dying

[@youtubedlaccount9331]

Its so Dr. Andover.

[@solaceon4443]

It hurts listening to this song, but in a good way, somehow.

[@BriaGaspari]

Lucas isn’t sure what to do anymore..

[@OmoriOmori1337]

its over... its over godammit

[@boredgoddesstori6635]

„You must be so exhausted“

[@Juno__Music]

Lucas’ Franklin Badge reflected the attack! Claus took mortal damage!

[@simondezombie9001]

I am going to where Mother is now...

[@basusnny6483]

The first note and I'm already 😭😭

[@superdajoka]

It's pyorover

[@sievert2008]

Over for mothercels

[@Benjawin6671]

0:31 it sounds like someone is screaming... it sounds like a plea... or a cry for help...

[@smtandearthboundsuck8400]

It never began

[@Connor_Kirkpatrick]

Lmao I’m so cooked