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Mother 3 coming to switch online in Japan Only
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Banned
It's easier to find Genghis Khan's tomb than Nintendo to release Mother 3 to America.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Banned
Why does Nintendo refuse to release Mother's IP to other regions?
CherryFalls
Member
Don't you guys have google translate?
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Bridges
Member
I haven't played it but I've always heard there are some things that might be "questionable" to a U.S. audience and something to do with depiction of trans people
ManaByte
Gold Member
some transphoba shit.
CuteFaceJay
Member
If the game is as good as people say this game would have had global release by now. Clearly the game is dog water.
Ulysses 31
Member
Same reason they won't release Captain Rainbow (Wii) outside of Japan.
ManaByte
Gold Member
That's complete bullshit as the game came out in 2006 towards the end of the GBA's life and a decade before the nutbars took over society.
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They aren’t trans. They are cross dressers. Drag queens.
ReyBrujo
Member
Maybe it was Itoi's desire, who knows. Also, his artistic interpretation of the game might not have been done correctly, he used pure hiragana in order to force people to carefully read every dialogue, if you wanted to do something similar for a English/Spanish translation you would have to write everything in uppercase (or lowercase) without spaces nor punctuation marks. Not sure occidentals would have approved that. I got the Japanese version, never played the fan translation but if you just (fan) translate it as any other game you are playing something that wasn't Itoi's artistic idea, you are just playing a game.
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oh pk so the big n is just lazy and the trans thing is just cover good to know.
asdasdasdbb
Member
The story calls them sexless basically. Which is close enough to be trans.
100% no chance it ever gets localized.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Exactly why that wouldn’t fly in a society that the nutbars took over.
You can hear them salivating at the mere thought of the game being announced officially in English, all social media accounts ready to fire the “Yikes, y’all”’s.
Honestly, what other reason would Nintendo have to not localize the game? It’s a feeble reason in the eyes of logical people, but what other alternative makes sense? They have never justified this decision officially, have they? All the acknowledgement people got was that clay stop-motion Reggie frying a fan in that video, so many years ago.
ManaByte
Gold Member
So Nintendo didn't release a GBA game in the US in 2007 because people in 2017 would be offended over it?
Power Pro
Member
I played through the fan translation after it came out, and I remember thinking it was one of my favorite RPGs ever. This is truly one of the GOATs, but I've also just given up on it coming out outside of Japan. A switch online wouldn't really do much for me anyway. I wouldn't want anything less than a physical copy in some form since I like the game so much.
asdasdasdbb
Member
Exactly.
ManaByte
Gold Member
So they can see the future now?
asdasdasdbb
Member
They didn't want to release it outside of Japan when the game was released because of the trans thing. Be worse now.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
If you listen closely you can hear the death threats being typed out.
No. They didn’t release it outside of Japan initially because Earthbound was a massive flop at the time.
ManaByte
Gold Member
That wasn't a level of offense in 2006 though. You're looking at 2006 through the lens of how fucked up things are now. Iron Man released in 2008 with RDJ making a joke about a transvestite and it launched a massive franchise.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
They didn’t release it at the time because they had moved on to the DS already and they knew an English version would be lucky to sell 100 copies then.
But people in the west have been discovering and praising the game since then. It would make more financial sense to release it now than 15+ years ago. SNES Seiken Densetsu 3 got an official translation almost 25 years after release, would Nintendo go bankrupt localizing Mother 3?
I agree Occam’s razor says they just won’t do it because they don’t think the sales would be worth the effort. Still, it would surely cost less than, say, remaking Metroid 1 and 2, or remastering Prime? Yet those have happened, while Mother 3 is still Japan-only for some reason. The fan translation is one of the most famous unauthorized mods to any Nintendo game, but in spite of its popularity, it’s one Nintendo never cared to nuke from orbit. What could be this game’s dark secret that Nintendo don’t want to air in the west, to the point they’re stubbornly leaving easy money on the table while still taking the time and effort to make fun of vocal fans in an official presentation?
ManaByte
Gold Member
Reggie tried to get it on the Wii before Iwata died.
JordiENP
Member
ReyBrujo
Member
Localization takes time and money and as mentioned the game was released at the end of the GBA life, it sold "enough" in Japan but with Earthbound having sold poorly they just skipped it. I would be curious, has any game been translated lately for western audiences, games that were not launched back in day but got a re-release recently with a translation? And contrary to the original Mother, there wasn't even a hint of a translation for Mother 3 as it was never considered for release outside Japan when it was developed.
Bridges
Member
Ah my mistake, like I said I've never played it but that's what I always heard.
Doesn't surprise me though that this kinda stuff gets conflated. It's definitely not the #1 reason why it didn't get a translation but I could see it being a contributing factor nowadays.
Captain Rainbow never made it to the U.S. probably in large part due to being super niche, but I bet the gender-bending Birdo storyline keeps it from ever getting a real chance here.
Sadly culture wars and retards have stopped the west from getting a lot of amazing games over the last few years, as well as turn amazing games into mediocre ones through censorship and awful “localization” efforts.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
#RuinedOrgasm
This is up there with the FF7 PS4 reveal lol
This is up there with the FF7 PS4 reveal lol
asdasdasdbb
Member
It was. That's why it wasn't released outside of Japan.
People have been asking for a localization since the game's release... and the answer is the same as it is now... no.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Banned
But if we are already in a time, where there are lesbians fighting zombies and killing a man with a golf club... There may be something that is controversial in Mother.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Banned
But that guy was as bad as Jim Ryan.... the public was begging to bring interesting games in the Japanese Wii catalog to the West and he put rock in the road in this work.
It wasn’t. You don’t seem to have a good memory on the culture of the west in the mid 00s.
Shut0wen
Member
Because trans rights and other weird shit
jshackles
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Sad this isn't getting released outside of Japan, but I've given up all hope of it ever being officially available in English.
That being said, the translated ROM has an amazing set of achievements on RetroAchievements, which makes it (in my opinion) the best way to experience the game.
That being said, the translated ROM has an amazing set of achievements on RetroAchievements, which makes it (in my opinion) the best way to experience the game.
asdasdasdbb
Member
I distinctly remember seeing English media coverage of the N64 version of the game before it was rebooted. Title was Earthbound 64. They certainly were intending to release it outside of Japan at one point. Perhaps during the reboot they added the trans part and the US censors took objection to it.
The content that's in Smash is all you are gonna get.
I would like to see Nintendo do another game in the series but I dunno if that will ever happen.
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Sleepwalker
Member
Should I play Earthbound before?
MarkMe2525
Member
If Nintendo released a faithful translation, the radicals would flip their shit and call them culturally insensitive. If Nintendo removed the reference and released the game in the US, video game forums would flip their shit and bitch about censorship. If Nintendo released the game faithfully with a disclaimer, video game forums would flip their shit and call them cowards for caving to the radicals (this one is new).
Obviously, I am generalizing and exaggerating, but in Nintendo's eyes, we are the problem and not them.
Obviously, I am generalizing and exaggerating, but in Nintendo's eyes, we are the problem and not them.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Yes even though Its not a good game.
JordiENP
Member
yes, but mother 3 has the best story on any nintendo game ever.
Again, nothing in the game is “trans” nor did it have anything to do with the game not getting localized in the mid 00s. Stop trying to push false information.
the guy who made the fan ome has said the big n can have translation for free.