Even after talking to the famed tipster Surfer Girl, we still don't know what to make of her. We do know that she says a lot of things that we like to hear, and on Christmas she said that the Mother/Earthbound series will come to the US, possibly sometime next year.
Listed as #2 in her December twenty-fifth things, SG says that the title will hit either the Nintendo Wii or DS, which makes total sense as Mother is a Nintendo series.
Among other rumors/tips, we see that Team Ico is supposedly working on a couple more titles, and one is likened to Echochrome. Also, she says that Kane & Lynch 2 is still happening.
We've heard rumors that Earthbound is US bound for so long now that it's hard to believe anymore, so for now we'll stay positive and look to the lyrics of Earthbound's "Pollyana - I Believe in You" as a source of hope.
I believe the morning sun is always going to shine again, and
I believe a pot of gold waits at every rainbow's end
I believe in roses kissed with dew
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
Hit the jump for the rest of Surfer Girl's predictions.
1) SSX 5 is dead, rivalry between fall 2008 PS360 snowboarding titles of Montreal studios still existent.
2) The Mother/Earthbound series is coming to Wii and/or DS stateside, very possibly next year.
3) Team Ico is working on two titles (maybe three), one major and the other(s) smaller. The smaller one(s) is/are more like Echochrome and does/do not take place inside the Ico canon.
4) Kane & Lynch 2 is still happening.
5) Also to look forward to next year is "Shrek going to unprecedented video game territory." Using skills of deduction, it is either a music title or a quality title. It is fairly obvious that the latter is definite no, so it probably a musical title.
6) Even more exciting unprecedented occurrence in interactive entertainment is the release of a new Leisure Suit Larry title and a new Sex & the City titles in the same year for mobile communication tools, computing devices and other things.
7) A2M is working on Indiana Jones for people who cannot stand to play consoles with the number three in the name--DS/Wii/PS2/PSP.
8) EA's Wii Balance Board title ain't SSX.
9) Cyclomite is absolutely amazing.
10) When is Rage coming out?
Second half of 2009.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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11:10 AM on 12.26.2007
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well thats not somthing you hear everyday about the wii.
What the hell does that even mean?
Wait, Wii or DS? Why don't they just bring the damn GBA game that they already have made (but not translated) over?!
Or perhaps they're converting it to a DS game, a la Phoenix Wright? Ohh the speculation!
I need my Earthbound/Mother fix.
Possible.
Go check out videos of Magical Starsign and think of how cool it would be to play Earthbound with a grahpic setup like that.
Also, Shrek. Hoo-fucking-ray.
Please be true!
Seriously, if I get cancer, that's my fucking Make-A-Wish
Mother 1 + 2 = 3 for DS. Make all of them ports, please!
Playing Mother 3 and not being able to understand the dialog really sucks. It's the only way I can play it now, and it still pretty fun, but so much of the appeal of the series is the ridiculous things told to you by NPCs. The game just has so much personality, which I am missing out on by playing it in Japanese.
Please be true!Please be true!Please be true!Please be true!
There's no other reason Nintendo would release an Earthbound title outside of Japan - as painful as it is to say - other than the original because it costs so little to port a title to the VC and they just aren't willing to spend money on a game that may not sell enough to justify the time, energy and money put into it. If that sells a ton and gives the franchise viable legs, then I'd say the chances of seeing something new (even if its just to us) in the franchise coming over here (or out at all) goes up.
Fuck SurferGirl and her bullshit - she's just stirring up the bee's nest with this one for fun and not even attempting to produce 'accurate' rumors.
Earthbound 64 became Mother 3, and that's why the N64 version was never released. Check out this video for many reasons why a 3D Mother game should probably never be released. The series should stick to 2D.
@wannabepunktony; if it were for either, my guess would be Wii would result in a VC, but there is a huge market for it on the DS. The main thing I'm referencing here is the fact they are bringing Kirby Superstar to the DS; both would be games that the DS market would eat up and sell millions of copies of just in their nature.
in related news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJlA98xhDg
The coolest thing would be a Mother 1-3 pack on a DS cartridge. Not likely knowing Nintendo, but it'd be sweet.
Also your closing song on Bound Together was lovely Dale ;O.
Bring Earthbound to VC
Bring Mother 1 to America on the VC (remember, they've already released TWO previously Japan only games in North America through the VC)
Bring me some motherfucking Mother 3 any way you can (maybe as a GBA game, as was its original form)
Surfer Girl better be right about this. Or I suggest a naming-and-shaming style punishment...
Oh god, I hope that this is true.