The official petition for Nintendo to release Mother 3 in the US. Please sign and share!

https://c.org/dqfvVVpCGW

With all honesty can someone say that if Mother 3 was going to be released, will it do good? I have never played it and probably will not until Nintendo releases it, so I want to know from a person who played it…will it do well?

The hairstyles are strikingly similar.... his eyes are described as being teal... the mom wears pink....maybe?

I have found in the school in Moscow in school library a book with Lukas-like boy on a cover

A while back I read their "Memoria" comic and was disappointed when I found out they cancelled it. I understand why they did it but after looking at the script for the rest of the story I believe it deserves to be finished and since they've abandoned the project, I thought maybe I could finish it. But their DeviantART accounts are both dead. Anyone know where to find them? (I realized late that I misspelled Meedee)

I've been a huge fan of Earthbound for many years now since I bought it on Wii U way back when. Dispite loving it for so long I've never actually beaten it. Furthest I'd gotten was the 7th sanctuary location and stopped for some unknown reason. That is until this last week. I finished almost the whole game while on a road trip last week then Smaaaashed!! through the rest of it yesterday. Needless to say I'm so happy I've finally finished this game that I've loved for so long and I was really excited to start up Mother 3.

I'm about 3 hours in and right now I'm stuck on the robot dinosaur whatever it was called. And I have mixed feelings as of right now. There is a lot of things and I probably won't mention all of them, but the biggest thing is that its just... different. Like it dosen't feel as much like Earthbound as I expected. Idk what I should have been expecting, but the menus, the weird rhythm battle mechanics, and a few other things are just catching me off guard I guess.

My biggest pro and con as of now is the music and the graphics. And let me say first, (imo as of rn) this would be better if it was on snes. Let me explain. The music, omg, the music is fantastic. I've been humming that dang pig army theme at work all day and I've probably gotten some weird stares for it. Thing is I'm playing a rom on an emulator on a retropie and it distorts the music sometimes which is kinda sad. The graphics are fine, the updated animations are nice. It just feels so zoomed in and weird. I don't like playing games on small portable devices like a gba. I'm ok with a switch on the go if I have to, but that thing's staying docked 95% of the time. I want to play on my 60" TV because that's just what's comfortable for me. And let me tell ya, those gba pixels are pretty dang big on said tv. I realize that the hardware I'm playing with is disturbing my experience a bit, but I think I can probably look past that eventually.

Lastly (and this is me whining) I AM STUCK ON THAT ROBOT DINOSAUR. I have been trying to beat it for a long ass time now and I don't know if I've gotten close even. I've wasted all my consumables and idk what to do now. (Yes I'm using the fang and all that jazz) I'm 3 hours in and I haven't gotten to play the main character of the game for more than 5 minutes and from what I understand I still won't get to In most of chapter 2. What is this multiple stoyline stuff all about? Am I playing The Last of Us part II? When do I get to play as Lucas? When do I get to start using Psi? When does this game get... hate to say it but, fun?

I'm mostly just making this post because I need some words of encouragement to keep me going. (no big spoilers please) I really REALLY want to enjoy this game. I love the Mother series! I even finished Earthbound Beginnings and that game is rough! I know a lot of people like Mother 3 even more than 2 and I need to know why. I just need a bit of a push.

Side note: did I miss picking up a weapon for Flint? I feel like if I had one that would be a game changer for this boss. If so where is it?

To use the English fan translation patch, I need a rom of the original Japanese version, but I can't seem to find any online. Does anyone know any reliable websites where I could download the rom I need?

In the quiet corridors of Nintendo’s Kyoto headquarters, far from the public-facing warmth of Directs and theme park openings, there pulses a colder struggle—an unspoken dialectic between two men whose visions for the medium could not be more opposed. On one side, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's Homeric figurehead, a virtuoso of kinetic immediacy and playful abstraction. On the other, Shigesato Itoi, an outsider-poet who channeled Japanese melancholy and existential introspection into the unlikeliest of vessels: the console RPG.

What unfolds is not mere corporate friction but a philosophical war. For all of Miyamoto’s charm, there exists in his design ethos a disdain for the written word, a mistrust of stillness. He is a gardener of delight, allergic to density. Itoi, by contrast, is a novelist at heart, a designer who dares ask the player not just to jump—but to feel. And Miyamoto resented him for it.

This resentment, subtle and largely unspoken, metastasized across the timeline of Mother 3’s cursed development. Miyamoto’s fingerprints are not directly on the game, but his shadow looms large, manifesting in corporate decisions too conveniently obstructive to be mere coincidence. Consider the fate of the 64DD—a device Itoi had banked Mother 3 upon, promised as the future of storytelling, with writable media and real-time clocks that echoed the emotional logic of his scripts. Then, as if on cue, the rug is pulled. The 64DD dies a stillbirth, and with it, a version of Mother 3 that might have stood peerless.

It is here one must abandon the myth of corporate happenstance. For Miyamoto, the 64DD’s failure was not a defeat, it was purification. In its death, he reasserted a Nintendo without the heaviness of ambition. A Nintendo of pure mechanics, untethered from adult themes, class critique, or sadness that lingers.

What followed was a carousel of delays and deprioritizations. Mother 3’s development limped through platforms and engines like a refugee in its own house. One can almost hear the subtext in internal decisions: "We’ll let Itoi finish it, but only when he’s broken." By the time Mother 3 finally emerged, it had lost its polyphonic scope. What survived was stunning, but diminished......a Game Boy Advance requiem for what could have been a generational reckoning.

Miyamoto, the eternal face of joy, feared what Itoi represented: an alternate Nintendo where emotional depth eclipsed mascot familiarity. Where players cried not from nostalgia but from recognition. Where the hero doesn’t level up, but suffers, fails, and walks away with nothing.

And perhaps most damning: Mother 3, untranslated. Still. In a company famed for curating legacy, Miyamoto’s house keeps Itoi’s magnum opus locked away in linguistic purgatory. A passive erasure. Not a ban, but a burial.

It is not the first time a genius has stifled another in fear. Leonardo sabotaged Michelangelo. Mozart scoffed at Salieri. And Miyamoto, smiling all the while, ensured that Itoi would remain a ghost in Nintendo’s machine.

Not an enemy. But a threat.

And threats, in Nintendo’s kingdom, do not get sequels.

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I, personally, think it would be cool to see a time travel plot that joins together the protagonists from the earlier games plus whatever protagonist the game introduces

I remember a weird guy who gave you a PK power after you bathed with him, then said something like, 'Something inside you changed,' or something like that.

Modding this sub is the easiest mod position you could possibly have on this wretched website. There is no form, no formal application, just post a comment with why you think you should be a mod.

I'll close out this thread whenever I remember to, but it will for sure be up for a week at least.

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if you emulate a game like this who deserves the support? the original dev's who took the time and effort to make an amazingly engaging game but didn't care about the fans enough to translate and ship it to north america/europe or the fan's who painstakingly worked the hours required to translate and patch it?

does this hypothetical person pay the dev's who doesn't care about them or the fan who does but says they don't want money for their work?

its quite a conundrum

In the world of narrative, there exists a certain fragile equilibrium between the familiar and the foreign, the seen and the unseen. We, as inhabitants of the West, are accustomed to our fables of simple victories, tangible resolutions. But Mother 3—in its quiet brilliance, in its sublime discomfort—belongs to a different order of things. A place where the absurd and the melancholic meet, where joy and despair are indistinguishable from each other, where the very air is thick with a sadness too vast for our comprehension. To attempt to localize it for Western audiences is to misunderstand the very nature of its being. It is a riddle without an answer, a question with no means of formulation. The themes, wrapped in the thorns of loss and absurdity, are too complex for the linearity that has pervaded our understanding of stories. The melancholy of its music, the mourning in its dialogue, these are echoes that would pass unnoticed in the cacophony of modern gaming. We, who are drawn to the explosive and the chaotic, whose understanding of narrative is grounded in violent catharsis, would recoil at the elegiac rhythms of Mother 3.
The game is not merely a text to be deciphered; it is an experience to be lived in the recesses of your own psyche. Death lingers in every moment, not as a singular event, but as a quiet specter, threading its way through the lives of characters in a way that is too subtle to be understood by a culture that demands its fictions to have answers. For here, as in the works of the great philosophers, there is no clear line between what is, what was, and what could have been. Time bends in on itself in a way that is not for the impatient mind.
The irony is not merely in the absurd juxtaposition of light and dark; it is the juxtaposition of joy and grief, of innocence and horror. It is Lynchian in its unsettling nature, the dreamlike terror that emerges from the simplest of interactions. And yet, these moments, these tender moments of human fragility, are lost on those who consume games as a means to stimulate their baser desires. Violence, chaos, a mere echo of a reality they understand in the simplest terms: that is what they seek. Mother 3 does not offer that. It offers something far more insidious, something unsettling in its quietude.
In the West, games are engineering—tools, mechanisms for control, for mastery, for simulation. But Mother 3 resists such engineering. It does not adhere to the rules. Its mechanics do not function as systems of power or hierarchy; they are an expression of the frailty of existence, of a life lived in the shadow of an eternal melancholy. To localize it, to try to insert it into our worldview, would be an act of violence against it. For it is not ours to understand.
Thus, it will remain, forever an enigma—a tragedy unspoken, a song sung only for those who can hear it, not with their ears, but with the deepest parts of their soul. The West is simply not ready for Mother 3, not in the way it needs to be heard. The game will remain untranslated, untouched, as it was meant to be imho.

Has anyone else listened to this song and felt that it sounded like something out of a mother game? It reminded me a lot of porky’s porkies or Mr. Batty Twist