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Mother 3 is my favorite videogame.
Aug. 14th, 2007 12:39 pmOn April 20, 2006, a GameBoy Advance game titled Mother 3 was released in Japan. I had been waiting 11 years for this game; imagine my disappointment when it was confirmed that Nintendo of America had no plans to localize and release it in the United States. While some devoted fans of the series soon announced that they would release an unofficial translation of the game, many people just elected to play the Japanese version with the aid of a translation guide. One year later, the translation team hadn't announced enough progress for my liking, so I decided to take the latter route as well.
Upon finishing the game, I came to the following conclusions: Mother 3 is my favorite videogame. I will go to drastic lengths to get my game-playing friends to play Mother 3. However, no one who plays videogames should allow him or herself to be spoiled with regards to Mother 3.
On Friday, Masahiro Sakurai announced that the Franklin Badge (an iconic item in the Mother series) would appear in Super Smash Brothers Brawl this December. This was fantastic news; while the previous Smash Brothers games have included elements from the Mother series, this was the first proof that the tradition had been continued. It also strongly suggested that we might get a Mother 3 character or reference in Brawl, which is so high-profile that Nintendo might be more inclined to localize Mother 3 afterward.
This remarkable turn of events put the translation in the forefront of my mind, so I went looking for the website. What I found was both good news and bad: Super Smash Brothers Brawl will include major references to Mother 3 which will spoil events in the latter game for anyone who has not played it yet. (That link is spoiler-free.) While the translation team would like to have their patch finished in November so fans of the series can play it before Brawl is released on December 3, they've still got a lot of work ahead of them.
If you have any affection for EarthBound or the Mother series and you haven't played this game yet, I cannot encourage you enough to do so before December 3. This may mean grabbing the Japanese version and using one of the many translations to work your way through. Having done so myself, I can tell you that while it's challenging, it isn't as difficult as you might expect, and pretty much all the plot sequences are easy to figure out even without the accompanying translation.
One way or another, you really ought to play this game.
Upon finishing the game, I came to the following conclusions: Mother 3 is my favorite videogame. I will go to drastic lengths to get my game-playing friends to play Mother 3. However, no one who plays videogames should allow him or herself to be spoiled with regards to Mother 3.
On Friday, Masahiro Sakurai announced that the Franklin Badge (an iconic item in the Mother series) would appear in Super Smash Brothers Brawl this December. This was fantastic news; while the previous Smash Brothers games have included elements from the Mother series, this was the first proof that the tradition had been continued. It also strongly suggested that we might get a Mother 3 character or reference in Brawl, which is so high-profile that Nintendo might be more inclined to localize Mother 3 afterward.
This remarkable turn of events put the translation in the forefront of my mind, so I went looking for the website. What I found was both good news and bad: Super Smash Brothers Brawl will include major references to Mother 3 which will spoil events in the latter game for anyone who has not played it yet. (That link is spoiler-free.) While the translation team would like to have their patch finished in November so fans of the series can play it before Brawl is released on December 3, they've still got a lot of work ahead of them.
If you have any affection for EarthBound or the Mother series and you haven't played this game yet, I cannot encourage you enough to do so before December 3. This may mean grabbing the Japanese version and using one of the many translations to work your way through. Having done so myself, I can tell you that while it's challenging, it isn't as difficult as you might expect, and pretty much all the plot sequences are easy to figure out even without the accompanying translation.
One way or another, you really ought to play this game.
