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Mother 3 Fan Translation by the end of the week
Peronthious | 7:32 AM on 10.14.2008 25 comments



Ladies and gentlemen, the day has finally come. The fine excellent people over at the Mother 3 fan translation have finished their work, testing is wrapping up, and the patch for the game will be released by the end of this week.

Now if you will excuse me, I need to go run around campus sans pants.

In the meantime, for those of you unfamiliar, a quick synopsis.

Mother 3 was released in 2003 for the GBA, and was the highly anticipated sequel to Mother 2 (Earthbound. Mother 1 was for NES and was fan translated as "Earthbound Zero", found in the usual locations). The preceding game is recognized as one of the best parody RPGs, and spoofs everything from basic Dragon Quest mechanics to American culture, of the latter containing gross exaggerations of themes seen in American TV imported to Japan. Starring the above pictured Lucas, Mother 3 parts from the traditional linear framework seen in Mother 1 and 2 in favor of a chapter based story, similar to that in Draqon Quest IV, with each chapter showing different points of view on the story. To quote the wikipedia article, "Mother 3 is set in the Nowhere Islands. Chaos ensues after an invasion by the Pig Mask Army, named after the uniforms, which resemble pigs, and its leader the "Pig King". They slowly construct a police state, while experimenting on the land's flora and fauna, and introducing new technology and infrastructure to the islands. The various chapters record the life of a boy named Lucas and his family and friends, banding together to rid the Nowhere Islands of the Pig Mask Army."

If that doesn't set your quirk alarms off, I'm not sure what will. The story sort of reminds me of a short story about the evil pie kingdom which I wrote in my AP Government exam, but that's another subject entirely.



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johannhat's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 07:55
johannhat
I heard they were entering the final phase of the project, but I didn't realize it was this close. So damn awesome.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 08:16
Excel-2011
Please tell me why this is worth looking out for. I watched the video and the quality of the translation is unprecedented (seriously, they deserve a medal for their efforts), but I want to know exactly what about this game makes people drop their pants so quickly.
Messer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 08:44
Messer
Its from the guy who made Earthbound. A 'true' sequel to Earthbound if you will. If that's not enough for you to drop your pants, I don't know what is.
Tron Knotts's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 08:48
Tron Knotts
The-Excel- Mother 3 has one of the most original, surprising, tear jerking, laugh out loud storylines I've ever experienced in a videogame.

It also has a fairly kick ass battle system that plays sort of like a one-button rhythm action game crossed with the tradtion turn based fun Mother fans have grown to love.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 08:52
Excel-2011
@Tron Knotts:
Fair enough. I'm interested now. Why didn't anyone mention those to me earlier?
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 09:32
Gen Eric Gui
I think most people assume people know why they want Mother 3.

This news makes me as excited as the announcement of Megaman 9. I've wanted to play Mother 3 since the original N64 version.
Bizznet's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 09:52
Bizznet
I think I'm going to have to play Earthbound now.
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 09:55
Peronthious
@Gen Eric Gui

If only the N64 game had gone through. I'm pretty sure you mean SNES, unless you're talking about Mother 3, which was originally for the GBA to begin with.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 10:04
Excel-2011
@Peronthious:
He probably meant that he wanted to play it since it was announced for the N64.
Messer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 10:06
Messer
Mother 3 was originally a N64 project.
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 10:44
Peronthious
Oh, pardon me then. I knew there was a project for the N64, but not that it was dubbed "Mother 3"
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 11:26
F Whipple
this excites me
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 11:41
Gen Eric Gui
Yeah, I was talking about the original Mother 3 project for the N64, which got moved to the 64DD, which got scrapped completely and was eventually resurrected as the GBA game we know and love today.
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 11:52
Stella Wong
sweet! :D
Danl Haas's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 13:34
Danl Haas
So do I have to play Earthbound to understand what's happening in Mother 3? As shameful as it is, I never did make it all the way through... SNES emulators were never my thing, and carts are just too hard to come by. But I'd love to play 3.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 13:40
Brian Szabelski
Can't wait to see how this turns out!
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 13:42
Peronthious
@Danhaas

From what I've read, the story is completely separate and it only really carries on the spirit of its predecessor. Certainly go back at some point and play Earthbound (even on an emulator; it's quite worth it), but going into Mother 3 now shouldn't be a problem, continuity-wise.
SpiralViper's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 14:06
SpiralViper
It's a pretty sweet time for fan translations. Both this and P2: Innocent Sin. Well, if that dumb comment drama isn't still preventing Gemini from releasing it.

Either way this makes me pretty fucking happy.
Tristero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2008 16:12
Tristero
I haven't been this happy since they awarded Anwar Sadat the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award!
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