it's old but worth adding to Cult nonetheless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNsUpQ-Yn0

apparently this is meant to be Giygas (despite him dying at the end of Mother 2)
video description lists how to get this boss/enemy in the game.

So what am I looking at here? Other than a removed boss. What's all this giant-face bullshit? Is that actually used in the game at some point? Is the Rope Snake an actual enemy?

IIRC the rope snake belongs to the character Lucas (yes, him from SSBB)

none of this you see is in-game normally. it's alleged to be the final boss of Mother 2, the alien life form Giygas, however he was pretty much destroyed at the end of that game. the face belongs to Klaus/Lucas from Mother 3.

this link will probably explain a bit more than I can.

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That'd have been the most awesome final boss ever.

I haven't seen anyone confirm its gigyas yet.... O.o there were some other unused sprites/enemies/music on starmen.net

http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Mother/3_GameHelp/41877


thread listing all the stuff they've dug up.

(the creepy head thing reminds me more of gyiyge from the first mother... same weird eye buldgyness.)

I was always under the impression those went with the claus transformation sprites they found... the enemy it's self is just a small blank dot the faces are a background.


EDIT: http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Mother/3_GameHelp/47543/first

god damn laptop... wanted this link . :P lists all the threads of stuff.

Lots of plausible theories going on in that topic. But I think they may be missing that this boss could simply have been an 'extra' in itself. Not so important to the story, but just to dick about with after you've completed the game, beaten the final boss. Lots of RPGs have bonus bosses near the end of the game, a Gigyas boss would seem reasonable if it were non-canon.

We need someone who really knows Mother 3 to write up an article or two about some of this unused/hidden stuff. It's practically a gold mine of stuff.

I had never really thought about it like that.. that would seem to make more sense with the enemy guide also. since it was pretty useless except to get the beat of some enemies. :P a "new game+" style sort of thing would have made it waaaay more useful. add in some extra battles and another ending "hence the happy end graphic thing". and that would have been an even more awsome game