First off, if someone has a better name for this, please let me know–especially with everything going on I’m not in support of actual censorship or anything, I just can’t think of a better way to convey what this hack is doing.

Anyway, have you ever wanted to rec your friend Mother 3, and then realized that you have to somehow awkwardly explain the existence of The PK Love Scene while maintaining both their interest in the game and their friendship with you? Well no more! This hack rewrites that scene to be essentially a baptism, albeit one still done by a naked alien. Furthermore, while I was in there I made some other text changes:

• The scene of you rescuing Ionia has been rewritten a little to be less creepy
• The “Magypsies” are renamed to the “Magystics”, because there’s really no need for that to contain a slur
• Reggie no longer speaks in third person or with broken English, because it’s really not a good look to have the sole dark-skinned character be depicted this patronizingly

Alas, due to my lack of skills as an artist, Reggie’s sprite remains the same. If someone else would like to take a crack at making his lips look normal (or any other edits you think would be appropriate), just use the included Sprite Editor and send me a patch, and then I’ll add it to the hack.

Oh, also, I made the debug menu available here, because tbh I needed it to get through the end when I played the game, and you can just ignore it if you want. It can be activated by holding Start and Select while you change rooms.

Finally, please remember that romhacks are entirely optional experiences, and the mere existence of this hack has no effect on you if you choose to play the game without it. Thank you.

P.S.: Don’t worry about the splash screen saying “v1.2”, this hack is, in fact, based on version 1.3 of the English fan translation.

CREDITS

See the included “Credits.txt” file.