Earthbound/Mother is so underrated

[GrooveMan.exe]

but the music is only ok

There are some tracks from it that I love (Your Name, Please; Hospital; and Boris' Cocktail most notably), but there arent' *that* many awesome tracks. Mother 3's is more consistently awesome.

The beat combos in M3 as a rule of thumb follow the drumline to the song and go at a fixed tempo with the exception of fights against Big Bros (Dry Guys), Carpet Monsters (Fate), and Stone Rexes (Accellerondo). If you have Duster in your party, you can use the Hypno Medal to send a foe to sleep, and it will layer their 'heartbeat' on top of the music, making is easier to time (The game will off-handedly hint at this before you enter Osohe Castle for the first time. This also works with fake battles in the Battle Encyclopedia, and the Hypno Medal has a higher success rate there - go nuts).

If you happen to be playing on VBA, there's a chance of input lag, which may prevent you from inputting the beat correctly.

Oh, and note that all bosses in the EB series are weak to at least one type of status effect. For Mr. Passion it's Crying. Throw a smoke bomb at the motherfucker, and all those candlesticks and kitchen sinks will miss. Once Boney joins you he can automatically detect weaknesses for you.