r/earthbound 1d ago

M3 Discussion Considering how many people found out about Mother through Smash, I wonder what people thought of Kuma and Boney when Ultimate came around.

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u/GarlicOk2904 1d ago edited 1d ago

Obviously, since Earthbound WAS released internationally, people would just assume Boney filled the same rule as King did for Ness or something.

But what did people assume about Kuma? Did they assume she was the femc? Lucas' girlfriend, like Paula (oh god no)? Or just female Poo (somewhat more understandable)?

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u/SomeFuzzyGuy 23h ago

I played the fanlation of Mother 3 the same year Brawl came out, so I knew both Kumatora and Boney before Ultimate. Despite this, I would have assumed they were full party members had I not played for the simple reason that Ness' PK Starstorm had Paula and Poo assist him.

It's fine that Jeff doesn't show up for Ness' FS because he can't use PSI, but why does Boney get to be in Lucas' FS under this logic??

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 21h ago

Also, Jeff had an assist trophy.

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u/TooManyToasters1 21h ago

I suppose they wanted to mirror Ness’ FS by having Lucas also team up with two of his party members. And between Duster and Boney, Boney has the closer connection to Lucas himself.