mother 3 came out so long ago that we could have learned japanese to this point

Props to that one girl who held up a localize mother 3 sign at wwe

I still can’t even believe they did the “Reggie give us Mother 3” thing. I remember watching that live.

saying the fan translation for this game is "very good" is totally underselling it. it's absolutely phenomenal, one of the greatest fan efforts ever made. I would have gladly paid full price for it.

mother 1 took around 25 years to be officially localized so see u in 2030 everyone

"Saving is done quickly using frogs instead of calling your dad." I'm pretty sure that's a brand new sentence you've constructed there, Nerrel.

Imagine the game being localized only to be sold for a limited time only

"Look daddy, teacher says, every-time someone mentions Mother 3 on the internet, an Angel gets its wings!"

I would like to appreciate how Nerrel puts subtitles in his vids. As someone who sometimes has a hard time hearing, I greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

Mother 3 will now be exclusively available for a limited time until March 31st, 2021!

I really like the boss fight where you can throw his favorite merchandise at him to make him weaker in battle

I just love the irony Nerrel points out here: that if Nintendo really believed that emulation was the devil and people just want to not pay for games, why does everyone want an official Mother 3 release at all? Check-and-mate-and-RELEASEMOTHER3NINTENDO

Mother 3's fandom in a way surpasses Half-Life 3's, because fans already get to play it and yet still demanding for an official release because they genuinely want the public to experience this special little thing.

"must resist urge to dance" you can't, Mr. Batty Twist is just the best track in the game to dance

My favorite thing about Mother 3 that wasn't mentioned in the video: the rhythm-based battle system is used for musical jokes. A couple hours into the game, once the player has figured out how to chain attacks by following the beat, battle themes start speeding up or slowing down, switching time signatures, or abruptly cutting to dumb little musical interludes, disrupting your hits until you learn the songs and start planning around them. It's amazing and made me laugh out loud several times.

The fan translation is far better than anything we would probably get from a treehouse-helmed translation nowadays. It's my favorite game of all time, and I think it's gotten to have a decent life online despite never getting an officially-localized physical release, just because of the work Clyde and his team did.

"Come on Reggie give us Mother 3!"

The line, "Either way, the game would certainly generate discussions in today's climate, and they aren't discussions Nintendo likely wants to have," had me crying because literally the whole point of the game is to generate discussions...

Mother 3 is one of those experiences I dont think I'll ever be able to forget. I wish more people would give it a shot.

Well! I had a blast working with you on this one. Thank you for making the video! I was happy I could help you. :)

3:28 “..and subtle enough you wouldn’t even notice them” *_proceeds to play one of the most recognizable bit of music ever_*

You know, after methodically researching all material about this series I can find for the past 15 years, somehow I'm still able to be surprised. The inference on the map layouts is new to me, and makes sense.

Mother 3 is one of the all-time greats. It inspired some truly excellent games, but none of them quite managed to capture its range or resonance; I'm still thinking about it years later.

hearing about mother 3's troubled development is really cool. It makes the finished game almost seem like a fan project with all the recreations of the original game's environments in a pixel art style, except its from the actual team.

"It's a story as old as time." *Terranigma is shown* [Indeed.]

It probably wasn't released in the West as it didn't have motion controls :P

6:34 Nerrel I just want to talk

Playing Mother 3 ended a pretty long spell of apathy for me; if it can make an emotionless sack like me feel something, I feel like releasing the game could make a lot of other people happy.

WHEN PAPPA NERREL POSTS, WE ALL STAND

Mother 3 will finally launch on the Switch in the West on March 30th 2021!! (Only available for a limited time until March 31st 2021)

I'm going to be dead before Mother 3 gets localized.

I remember that video I saw of someone finding a Dr. Andonuts door at an E3 event and asking one of the workers what it meant and he was just like "it's not really anything" lol damn

This video is even funnier this week 😅

Omg you run one of the most interesting gaming channels in the scene right now. Thanks so much for the quality content nerrel!

I've known people who are so dedicated to an anti- emulation stance, it gets sad when they say they'll wait for the official release. Unless they change that stance or make exception, it's always going to be an unhappy ending for them. :(

I laughed good at “spank my little ass for being such a noob”

Lucas in Smash Bros and The Completionist's froggy car merch is the closest we've gotten to Mother 3 in the west.

I wanna thank the Mother/Earthbound series for giving us great Earthbound-Like games which were inspired by Earthbound/Mother and these great and wonderful games are Citizens Of Earth, Undertale, and LISA The Painful I'm really happy and proud to play them all from beginning to end hopefully in the future people and fans will finally get Mother 3 or Earthbound 3.

“A Story as old as time” When you don’t officially release a game so you don’t get bad press but let it be played on an emulator to avoid controversy. The end

I'm gonna say it. I really think there's no reason to want an official localization at this point. The fan translation is frankly better than anything Nintendo of America could give us, and it can be played easily by anyone with even a phone. Even if you want to play it on official hardware, patched cartridges exist. As someone with massive love in my heart for this game, I don't give a damn if Nintendo ever touches it.

Shogo Sakai is arguably an unsung hero of the Nintendo composer lineup. Toru Minegishi, too.

Just gonna watch it before it is on everyone’s recommended

I'm so pleased by how you addressed the magypsies. A lot of online conversations act like theyre too "edgy" for a western audience, as if there's no nuance to their portrayal, and that really pisses me off. Just in general I feel like there are so few good videos about mother 3 and this one made me so happy :)

Welp it came to NSO in JP only today. Rewatching just to rub the salt in my wounds I guess IDK I'm just sad ok

As someone who doesn't even like EarthBound or RPGs that much, I used to think the desperation for Mother 3 to get localized was overexaggerated. When I tried the English patched ROM on my 3DS, however, I was blown away - It's easily the best traditional RPG I've ever played.

not even watched 15 seconds, but that opening is gold, as per usual. ok I watched the full video and that was another banger, amazing job!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t like rpg’s or story focused games I will still recommend that you NEED to play mother 3 if you can

When I'm on my deathbed I'm certain the memories and emotions I had playing Mother 2 & 3 will resurface during final moments.

What I’d do in Nintendo’s position is release the game as is, then slap on a giant ass red screen every time you boot up the game saying “This game was made for a different audience a long time ago, and some of the concepts and ideas present in the story may not reflect our current views, and may not be for everyone.”

I love your dry delivery so much. It fits the serous moments and makes the jokes land much harder for me

I love this video title. It’s like those cancerous ads you see on “news” sites. I love your sense of humour.

If that's you playing at the end, then ugh you are amazing at capturing those emotions. Great work as always, baby daddy Nerrel xoxo

Mother 3 is my favorite game ever and honestly I don’t really care if Nintendo made a official localization because they would probably censor and ruin some stuff in it and you can just play the fan translation which is still open

5:23 _"I'm gonna beat you, boy. Daddy's gonna beat you."_

14:40 "play skullgirls" i completely agree

After seeing this video, I finally began playing and beat Mother 3 over a couple months on my GBA. There is so much love and attention to detail in this game that I completely understand why it has developed the reputation it has. It is so much more fun and accessible than Earthbound, in my opinion. The ending was very sad and actually made me tear up as I have such a close relationship with my mother and brother. If you've been on the fence, sit down with the game and play it when you have time, as I did with a busy schedule, and you will absolutely adore it.

That's the sad part about all this, if Nintendo eventually does release their own translation, it'll become the mainstream one, but it will undeniably be inferior to the one we've got now. Either people will get pissed that Nintendo's translation sucks, or the original translation gets lost to time, ya can't really decide if you want Mother 3 to be realistically released of if people just wish the patch was how the game would release all those years ago.

The cast can't identify their genders because they don't have any. In the U.S. is this not a common school of thought? People dont know how deep this game is and the developers/Nintendo underestimate it's impact. In the U.S., this game would be seen as revolutionary now. I played it when I was 12 or 13 about a decade ago and it changed my life.

I'm convinced most people don't know what the L button does in Earthbound.

What sold me on the fan translation was a simple little thing. The healing springs have haikus. Whenever the translations add an extra syllable, it will say so at the end. This actually followed the original gam which would note extra syllables. He kept that part in but then only added it when the English version would have them. A wonderful little change which took and applied context in both languages while translating meaning :)

I never thought I could be emotionally touched by a video essay yet here I am. Thank you, Nerrel. I really mean it.

Wow. These videos all have so much effort in them and it shows. Good job. No wonder your my favorite KZfaqr

not the piano at the end actually moving me to tears :sobbing: this was such a good video, thank you for this

If Nintendo was to release it, the game would probably have an M ratting/a disclaimer in the beginning.

we even finally got seiken densetsu 3 officially, it's beyond time to localize mother 3

I was just checking your channel earlier today to see if you released a new video and I missed it, only to have this show up in my sub box a couple hours later. And it's about my favorite game, too! Even though I knew pretty much everything in this video, your style of editing and writing made this a treat to watch.

Thanks for releasing this and making a great video, and a trip down memory lane for me that made me cry.

apparently the actual reason it's not released in the US is because of the ost, and japan's wildly more free sampling laws

4:04 Some HD recreations actually used the source samples found in the Roland Sound Canvas series of synths. Dunno if that's your thing, but I think it would be interesting if you talked about the instruments and modules used in video game music. Sometimes it can be useful for recreation and preservation purposes to know the source of the assets found in video games, including music.

This is probably one of the most comprehensive videos about Mother 3 overall that I've seen and its not even 15 minutes, you bastard you did it again

you are my favourite youtube channel. the only channel i genuinely look forward to when they will upload next

So far it's the only game that made me cry

Mother 3 is absolutely one of the best games ever. It, more than anything ever, deserves to be localised and played by as many as possible.

5:12 "It's because you skip through all the dialogues." is what I usually say to my 8yrold cousin (which I introduced to gaming) whenever he gets stucked in a game and asks for help. Talk to every NPC's, break every possible objects are some of the things I encouraged him.

Welp. It got announced for switch. Only in Japan though.. I swear they want to keep this meme going as long as possible

If it weren't for Chuggaaconroy's playthrough of Mother 3 (and EarthBound in general), I possibly would have never gotten into the game. I hope someday Nintendo rereleases it, or just makes a full-on remake FFVII style.

Please Nintendo, If it has all of that “inappropriate” stuff You can always make it rated T like earthbound

Bro the pic that is slightly shown at 0:21 in the fight is pure gold

Excellent job. This is a really good and short video on why this game is loved so much and why it deserves to be translated and released while also telling why it most likely is having a hard time not doing so.

Someone should make an art piece and call it "Who is afraid of mother 3" on a big wall

Finally got around to playing this in January. One of the best games I’ve ever played. Drastically exceeded my expectations. Like playing a well written novel. Play it if you haven’t yet

id just like to say that i really like this type of video, your voice suits it perfectly, id love to see more in the future. Thanks

I hate you because your videos are so good and it's 3 AM but I can't stop watching them.

As a mother fan, I prefer that they never release an "official" translation as it won't be as good as the fan translation and probably horribly censored...

EarthBound Beginnings (Mother) EarthBound (Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back!) EarthBound 2 (Mother 3)

I remember checking out the Mother 3 Translation blog everyday for new updates at the time. It was fun to see all the bugs they would run into and had to overcome. When it finally came out. They had announced the Mother 3 Handbook to go along with it. So I order that right away. I still have the Handbook.

I'm literally subscribed to Nerrel and this still follows me into all of my reccomendations This is the new "Was Majora's Mask 3D a Bad Remake"

Sorry if I'm like the billionth person to tell you this at this point but Moon Channel did a video recently on why this game won't be localized - its because of the change to US copyright about use of Music. You can thank Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines for that

The pepole that know ness from smash be like "This game sucks pika fire" Btw the king is back and he came back from nowhere

The main reason it hasnt been ported is because of copyright issues with the songs in the game because of all the "references" it makes to other artists works which are fine legally in japan but would get nintendo themselves copyright striked in america. There is a great video by Moon Channel explaining some of this.

what is this renaissance of mother content actually made in 2020 that keeps getting recommended to me i love it

9:14 It's VERY worth mentioning that the "heartbeat" is usually synchronous with the rhythm of each battle theme and can mostly be guessed, which is why some themes sound wonky or randomly speed up and slow down - it's to throw you off and make the battle harder. Not everyone has a sense of rhythm though, which is why the game works perfectly without it (on my first playthrough using a GameFAQ walkthrough before the fan translation came out, I didn't even know this system existed lol.) Anyway, this is a surprising review to come out but I'm happy all the same. Besides the fact that this is a short and sweet presentation of the game, it's also a rational and understandable explanation as to why Nintendo is very unlikely to ever bring it out now. Also, any chance I can get to listen to your permanently annoyed-sounding voice, I will gladly take.

I finally got around to playing this game. Such a masterpiece. The fan translation would probably be better than anything Nintendo will do with the game

bro, on got that WAP portion had me dead, But all seriousness intact this video essay speaks more than i could ever say, there are things that if i chose to do this video when my mic comes in would've been a bastardization of what this video highlights (ie the differences between audio qualities and the reason that people torrent this game, not for "oh boy, free game" but "i have no better option at the moment") it shows every point of view that me; myself, would have overlooked, this channel is a beautiful limelight for me to attempt to beat the true and utter thoroughness could not be replicated, it has become a beacon for me attempt to become a better and more truthful channel and for that; you have earned a new subscriber to your brilliant channel to learn from your style. keep up the good work.

5:22 That exact situation happened to me on my playthrough as well, so you ain't alone in that

Actually, I kind of disagree with the end of the video. I don't want Nintendo to release it, and I don't a "legitimate" version of the game. There is no way on earth Nintendo is going to create a better or more accurate translation than the fan patch, and I'd rather them not release an official version, because I'd rather people not play what's almost certainly going to be an inferior experience.

Honestly, I feel like Mother 3 wouldn't be too out of place with modern games?

I remember playing the same section you talked about with the train station, and I did 100% the exact same thing.

How is this video only a day old, In thought I saw this in my recommended months ago