As cries for an English version of Mother 3 intensify, the creator of the cult classic JRPG series tells fans to "talk to Nintendo"
Feb. 22, 2024Shigesato Itoi says to take it up with Nintendo if you want Mother 3 in English
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If you want Mother 3 on Switch in English, you’ll have to take it up with Nintendo, according to series creator Shigesato Itoi.
In case you missed it, it was announced during the recentNintendo Partner Directthatthe critically acclaimed JRPG Mother 3 is coming to Switch… but only in Japan. Naturally, the news was disappointing to fans livingoutsideJapan, and as demand for an English version intensifies online, Itoi is pointing those fans toward the Big N itself.
“Please talk to Nintendo about that, not me,” Itoi said in an auto-translated tweet (verified by a Japanese-speaking member of GR+) responding to one of many fans requesting an English version of Mother 3.
Mother 3, the final entry in the series and often considered one of the best Nintendo-published games ever, first launched back in 2006 on the Game Boy Advance. English-speaking fans may very well know the series best for the cult classic SNES game Earthbound, which was released as Mother 2 in Japan. Nintendo eventually released the original Mother as EarthBound Beginnings on Nintendo Switch Online, but the third game is still Japan-exclusive with the exception of an acclaimedfan translation.
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