>>55273637>Throwing away the hints and keeping the entertainment was Itoi’s clear decision—it makes the game stand out, but without them we’re left with a game that is, in reality, simply not very kind>flavor side content should not be prioritized over the main story content, when there is only room for one of them and the other has to go.I don't think that criticism is valid when the reason the mother trilogy is beloved so much is because of that charm and flavor. Every other jrpg nobody fucking bothers to read npc text because it's always crpytic boring bullshit.
Meanwhile a very notable feature of Mother and eventually its subgenre of indie motherlikes is the flavor text that people go out of their way to read. People LOVE the ghosts in Mother 3, people LOVE that stupid beatles joke in Onett and people LOVE the cactus description in Undertale
The fucking joey shorts meme is one of the only few lines of dialogue people actually remember because it's the only fucking interesting dialogue in classic pokemon
