Mother Forever Survey 2022

During the summer of 2022, Mother Forever conducted a survey in the MOTHER community that totaled 784 participants to gather data on what kinds of trends exist in the community (or at least as much of the community as we could reach). We asked questions about each person’s background and about their experiences with each MOTHER game! Results follow under each respective section’s heading and all results are ordered from the most common to least common answers.

Backgrounds

How much did you play EarthBound Beginnings / MOTHER?

  • Played it, but didn’t beat it
    284
  • Beaten it once
    207
  • Beaten it more than once
    163
  • Never played it
    130

How much did you play EarthBound / MOTHER 2?

  • Beaten it more than once
    389
  • Beaten it once
    259
  • Played it, but didn’t beat it
    117
  • Never played it
    19

How much did you play MOTHER 3?

  • Beaten it more than once
    329
  • Beaten it once
    268
  • Played it, but didn’t beat it
    121
  • Never played it
    66

Age

  • 15-19 Years
    336
  • 20-24 Years
    206
  • 25-29 Years
    91
  • 10-14 Years
    64
  • 30-34 Years
    34
  • No response
    34
  • 35-39 Years
    17
  • 40-44 Years
    2

Continent

  • North America
    527
  • Europe
    129
  • South America
    73
  • Asia
    28
  • No response
    26
  • Australia
    16
  • Africa
    3
  • Antarctica
    2
    (I’m not sure what I was expecting by putting Antarctica as an option…)

EarthBound Beginnings / MOTHER

Favorite Melody

  • EVE
    205
  • Dragon
    88
  • Cactus
    88
  • Gravestone
    72
  • Haunted Piano
    52
  • Doll
    47
  • Laura the Canary
    47
  • Singing Monkey
    46

Favorite Area

  • Magicant
    493
  • Reindeer, Snowman
    248
  • Ellay, Mt. Itoi
    198
  • Podunk, Cemetery
    180
  • Yucca Desert, Youngtown, Swamp
    159
  • Canary Village, Zoo
    106
  • Spookane, Rosemary Manor
    84
  • Merrysville, Factories
    53

How Do You Personally Pronounce “Giegue” ?

  • Geeg
    313
  • Gee-gu
    164
  • Guy-gu
    139
  • Guyg
    66
  • Gee-gu-ey
    37
  • Guy-gu-ey
    27

EarthBound / MOTHER 2

Favorite Sanctuary

  • Lumine Hall
    257
  • Pink Cloud
    125
  • Giant Step
    110
  • Fire Spring
    59
  • Magnet Hill
    52
  • Rainy Circle
    50
  • Milky Well
    44
  • Lilliput Steps
    31

Favorite Area

  • Fourside, Moonside
    481
  • Onett
    447
  • Saturn Valley
    429
  • Magicant
    403
  • Winters
    310
  • Summers
    292
  • Twoson
    291
  • Cave of the Past
    229
  • Threed, Dusty Dunes Desert
    166
  • Deep Darkness, Lost Underground
    165
  • Happy Happy Village
    164
  • Scaraba, Dungeon Man
    139
  • Dalaam
    112

How Do You Personally Pronounce “Onett” ?

  • Oh-nett
    356
  • On-net
    348
  • One-ett
    74

MOTHER 3

Favorite Magypsy

  • Ionia
    185
  • Mixolydia
    115
  • Aeolia
    101
  • Lydia
    79
  • Doria
    71
  • Locria
    67
  • Phyrgia
    35

Favorite Area

  • Tazmily (Chapters 1-3), Sunshine Forest, Mt. Oriander, Death Desert
    448
  • New Pork City
    426
  • Tazmily (Chapters 4-8), Clayman Factory, Club Titiboo
    363
  • Saturn Valley, Volcano
    301
  • Murasaki Forest, Highway, Thunder Tower
    274
  • Osohe Castle, Cemetery
    255
  • Ocean, Tanetane Island
    209
  • Mole Cricket Hole, Snowcap Mountain
    146

Have You Ever Landed a 16-Hit Combo?

  • Yes
    433
  • No
    310

Favorite Difference from the Nintendo 64 Version

The Art Style

Series Favorites

Favorite Menu Flavor

  • Mint
    268
  • Plain
    215
  • Strawberry
    106
  • Peanut
    65
  • Grape
    51
  • Banana
    49
  • Melon
    18

Favorite Theme Song

  • Eight Melodies
    275
  • Smiles and Tears
    256
  • Love Theme
    227

Favorite Protagonist

  • Lucas
    341
  • Ness
    319
  • Ninten
    108

Favorite Offensive PSI – Top 5

  • Freeze
    460
  • Rockin’
    445
  • Starstorm
    439
  • Love
    405
  • Fire
    213

Favorite Non-Offensive PSI – Top 5

  • Lifeup
    500
  • Teleport
    403
  • Shield/Counter
    396
  • Offense Up
    228
  • Defense Up
    226

Favorite Non-PSI Ability

  • Duster’s Thief Tools
    382
  • Paula’s Pray
    144
  • Jeff’s Spy and Boney’s Sniff
    72
  • Ninten, Lloyd, Ana, and Teddy’s Sing
    68
  • Poo’s Mirror
    39
  • Flint’s Brute Force
    34
  • Salsa’s Monkey Tricks
    30

BOING!

  • ZOOM
    349
  • KAY-O
    176
  • DAKOTA
    150
  • DING
    90

Favorite MOTHER Series Character – Top 5

Kumatora
100

Lucas
97

Ness
82

Duster
81

Claus and the Masked Man
46