Earthbound but in RML style!

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im not being woke i just love them and hold them

“Looks like things here are going to be alright. Take care of your world, OK?”

A remake of this songthat I made in 2017!

Many a time on this blog, I’ve shown of my fascination in two particular things: logosandrecreations. I’ve always had a thing for logos specifically, and many of my favorite video games have very cool looking logos, such as Rivals of AetherandBosconian!

Though, stylistically, a triad of games from a franchise very close to me hold logos that are very high up on my favorites list, those being the three games that make up the Earthbound/Mother trilogy! In Japan, the logos for all three Mother games stay relatively the same, though Earthbound’s logo in particular is vastly different by comparison. It’s really neat stuff!

And if several of my previous posts are any indication, you can bet that I’ve attempted to not only find the fonts that the logos use, but also see if I can recreate them from the ground up to the best of my ability… and I’m very pleased with what I was able to come up with!

Below, you’ll find recreations of all three Mother games’ logos with a small deep dive on the process of each one and a bonus at the end! Let’s get right into it, shall we?

Typically, when I’m recreating a logo of any kind, I will sometimes default to recreating it to read something else in place of the original text. And what better word to swap out Earthbound/Mother than with my very own Override?

The logo for the first Mother game is perhaps the simplest one of them all— ‘Mother’, written in a dull gold color on a red background, with a drawing of planet Earth in place of the 'o’. For the longest time, I was under the assumption that the font used in the Mother logos was 'Bank Gothic BT Medium’, and all you had to do to make it look more accurate was by stretching the text vertically.

But that never sat right with me, seeing as every time I wanted to make a Mother-related logo for something, stretching the text would result in a distorted quality which just threw the whole thing off entirely, and I was so certain that there had to be a font out there that’s more accurate to the original without use of text manipulation.

As it turns out, there was! Thanks to some research, I found a font named 'Poster Gothic ATF’ that was exactly what I was looking for. It didn’t require vertical stretching like the previous font, and it was essentially a perfect match! And with how easy Mother 1’s logo was to recreate now that I had it…

I whipped this up in just a few minutes! I think the toughest aspect about recreating Mother 1’s logo in particular was finding a high-definition image of the Earth artwork used in the logo, but other than that, this proved that I now had the font that I needed for when I’d recreate Mother 3’s logo.

Mother 2’s logo is very similar to its predecessor, only much more grandiose. Considering how close it is to the game before it, and given that Override doesn’t have a number in its title, I decided to opt for seeing what Override would look like in the style of Earthbound’s logo!

Earthbound’s logo has always been my favorite of the three, and I think the reason behind that is because of the font choice and the astounding gradients it uses. This meant that making an EB-styled logo for Override would be a bit more challenging given its use of gradients…

… but it was quite a fun challenge! Another aspect I had to take into consideration was how the 'B’ in Earthbound is much larger than the rest of the text, and how there are an equal number of five letters on each side of the 'B’ so it centers quite nicely.

Override, however, has an even number of letters, and making one of the middle 'R’s bigger than the rest of the text just didn’t look natural, so I instead made the starting 'O’ and the ending 'E’ the letters to make big, which I find looks pretty great!

Up until this point, recreating the logos for Mother 1 and Earthbound have been ridiculously easy, especially given the fact that all I had to do to find Earthbound’s font was to look up 'earthbound font’. With the easier two out of the way, it’s time to focus on the final boss of this challenge…

Recreating Mother 3’s logo style.

… oh, boy. There were just so many factors in Mother 3’s logo style to account for when I got around to making a version of it that read 'Override'— the thickness of the text itself, the metallic gradient, the partial wood coverings… this was going to be a tough one.

I’d been trying my hand at mastering the art of recreating Mother 3’s logo style since mid-2019, back when I was still using the Bank Gothic BT Medium font, and while I did get extremely close in making one that read 'Override’ a few months ago, I decided to give it another shot now that I had the precise font that I needed.

But was it possible?

See for yourself!

It took about eighteen layers and a great deal of fine-tuning, but this is what I was able to come up with! I think this is the one that I’m the most proud of, in part of how close I was able to make it look and how pretty much all of the gradients were meticulously drawn in by hand.

The wood coverings and the metal 'o’ sphere I just grabbed straight from Mother 3’s actual logo, though a few of the wood coverings were resized and skewed a bit to fit the letters used in Override (Most notably, the one on the ’D’, which was grabbed from the '3’ in the original), and I still am in complete awe that I was able to get it to look this good!

And that’s a wrap on my recreations of the logos from the Mother trilogy! This was perhaps one of my more daunting challenges in terms of recreations, but I had a lot of fun with it and am hoping that the effort I put into each one is more than visible!

But before I wrap up this post entirely, here’s a question… what would Earthbound look like in Override’s logo style?

The answer is a little something like this! Making Override-styled logos is quite easy given I have everything I need to make them in one file, all I have to do is type out custom text, add the blue grid, gradient the text, and it’s done!

I hope that you’ve enjoyed this deep dive in logo recreations— this is definitely something I’d love to do more in the future!

I’m proud to present my first ita bag!

There’s a lot more earthbound stuff where this came from… I’ll probably need a second one.

(sorry for so much inactivity)

My favorite part of momther 3 was the part where you accidentally get high on shrooms.

Lumine Hall, Earthbound.