Over the past month, there have been quite a few stories about Mother 3. You see, the Game Boy Advance title recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, and it's still not been released outside of Japan.
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé even teased fans about an English copy of the game, and now, to add to all of this - US actor, comedian, and former NFL player Terry Crews is calling for Nintendo to localise this cult hit. Terry is known to be quite the gamer.
As nice as it is to have some celebrity support, admittedly this all seems like an uphill battle. As previously suggested, the localisation was supposedly cancelled due to its controversial aspects.
For those that can't wait any longer, you might be interested to know that the fan translation patch was recently updated. You can read more about it on our previous post.
Do you think Nintendo will ever localise Mother 3? Have you played the Japanese version of the game? Tell us down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Whelp, you heard the man. DOUBLE SUN POWAAAAHHHH!!!
If Nintendo just stuck the three games together in a collection for $40, I bet they would make a killing. Even if they made it $60 people would still buy it. They literally have nothing to lose.
I knew he was a nerd ever since Brooklyn 99!
That’s funny, I remember a video with Crews in it talking about the sacrifices he makes to be muscular, and he was disparaging the audience from playing video games. Heh.
Terry is into a little of everything.! I remember him wanting to voice doomfist in Overwatch. I’d like to see what all the fuss is on mother 3 so yeah localize it Nintendo!
One day, we will get our wish, but nintendo will remaster them, or keep them the way they are and sell all three for 60 bucks. (HMM)
Ever since the movie Idocracy, I love Terry Crews<3 He's amazing!
@WoomyNNYes That movie’s totally slept on. Not Mike Judge’s best but I have a soft spot for how silly it is. Plus it has a guitar army!
This was one of those tweets where you had to check if the person was verified because it just HAD to be a gimmick account
I’m laughing just imagining him saying that in his Old Spice commercials 😆
I'm still stunned this even happened, just for how random it is, but I'll take it. More support for localizing Mother 3 is appreciated, and any attention the game gets too.
I do still think even if Nintendo did see enough support to justify localizing it, it won't happen while its not on Switch in Japan either anyway.
The only way Nintendo would localize Mother 3 is if the US President asks Japanese PM to ask Nintendo to release it overseas.
@MasterGraveheart very appropriate avatar for your comment. 😂👍
@Don You mean President of America Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho? Dude that's pretty much exactly what's happening. 🤣
I have no way to play EarthBound Beginnings or Golden Sun, as I skipped the Wii-U.
I have Earthbound on my "NEW" 3ds though.
I bought Earthbound for the 3ds in April 2021. Its my first time playing it.
@chocolate_supra 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😭😭😭
I am extremely confident in my hunch that Nintendo is up to something having not yet released Earthbound for the Nintendo Online service. I don’t know what, but they are definitely up to something with the franchise.
@ChromaticDracula Plus, Reggie has been joking about it a lot on twitter, unprovoked. It's almost like he knows Nintendo has it cooking and is purposefully stirring the fans up.
Considering how cancel-happy people are nowadays, I suspect that a localisation is even less likely than ever before. At this point, I think a reboot is more likely than a retroactive localisation of the original.
Won't happen, due to the drug and other adult references in the game and how the Magypsies were deemed transphobic.
I don't agree with the latter; I think the depiction of the Magypsies was done in a very positive way, and the other adult references could either be changed, or they could just rate it M or something.
It's so easy nintendo...just do it
Off-topic and a downer I know, but why haven't you guys made an article about Toys for Bob now working on COD development?
If I were Crews, I'd put up my own money to Nintendo and head up the localization process. He has the funds, why doesn't he do it? There is an incredible localization already completed by some talented fans, I've played it, and it is easily comparable to anything Nintendo could do. Crews needs to put his money and star power on this.
I really don't get why everybody is so Gung Ho on Nintendo officially releasing it in the west. Just download an emulator and the fanslation, or if you're not into that just buy the cartridge, ffs.
I do not want any old games locked behind a subscription service. If I can't buy it, permanently, I'll get it for free elsewhere.
To have the America's Got Talent host to be mentioning a call to release Mother 3's English copy is mind-blowing to me!
Nintendo would also have to release the other two because alot of people aren't familiar with the series.
Terry will do what Reggie couldn't.
Wait, his last name is Crews?! I’ve been calling him Cruz!
A game we all want so badly... might be best to jump on that fan translation.
I think Nintendo has a long and proud history of not giving fans what they want
REMEMBER
The so-called fan translation, was made by professionals and has been highly praised multiple times! Play that and you won't regret it. I decided to give it a go a few weeks ago and oh my...
is it a good game! O_O
@sleepinglion I'm a fan because of what they create, not what I want.
Be careful what you wish for. Mother 3 will be censored like hell. I can already feel the fan outrage when the fan translation will be a lot better.
Terry Crews and gaming immediately makes me think of that Game Grumps YouTube Red show
Terry Crews is such an odd duck, I want to like him but he says so many stupid things.
Are Reggie and Terry Crews going to reveal Mother 3 at E3?
If President Camacho wants it, Nintendo better localize it!!!
Gotta love how whn there's an article about Terry Crews tweeting that he wants a game, eveeybody comments YEAH TERRY HE'S OUR MAN, ONE OF US, WE ❤ YOU TERRY!!!!!
But when there's an article about, say, Brie Larson or Ariana Grande talking about games, the comments are all "who cares if some stupid celebrity likes games? SLOW NEWS DAY, HUH?"
It'll happen eventually, look how long is took for Mother 1 to make it to the west. I do feel like we may be having this conversation again in a few years time though.
Terry Crews is an absolute legend.
@BloodNinja "a video with Crews in it talking about the sacrifices he makes to be muscular, and he was disparaging the audience from playing video games"
He was disparaging people who use gaming as an excuse not to exercise. Gamers can be fit. Get liftin', everybody!
I don't think it's necessary to change anything, and I'm not a fan when this happens, but at the same time I don't think it would that hard to slightly alter a few details to get around any "controversy", and I'd rather all the Nintendo gamers have that than absolutely nothing at all [officially].
Darn, part of me wishes this was a video of him yelling at the camera "Come on Nintendo... localize Mother 3!"
Lol I love this guy. Only makes me like him that much more.
@JasmineDragon
I quickly went to the comments to see if there were going to be bunch of the usual hateful comment so I noticed the exact same thing you did. Very strange.
Well, Nintendo doesn't even have their laser eyed giant anymore, but of they did, I'm sure they would deflect on this guy. Not sure who'd win in an all out battle though, only that the city underneath them would crumble.
Anyway, I'm curious as to what the near future will bring, but Mother 3 or not, I have several ways to play it already, including the original on GBA, and a GBA cartridge with the fan translation. So to me personally, not that exciting.
@Muddy_4_Ever We are probably referencing different videos. Either way, I don’t find him to be a good roll model for lifters.
@GrailUK They created Mother 3 and I want to play it in English without an emulator
So many people begging for this game to make a comeback. (Including me) Somehow i think, that nintendo will blow us away at E3.
We will see every game revealed that we wish for, including Fzero, lol.
@sleepinglion I know. But shhh. If we keep asking for it, we'll never get it.
Terry Crews is a legend the man knows what the fans want
@BloodNinja it is indeed funny to see people who once mocked and ridiculed gamers and "nerds" in general suddenly rushing to prove their fandom lol
I work out, play video games, and have done martial arts since I was a kid. You can do more than one thing, quite easily in fact.
If it was cancelled then, there's no way the woke virtue-signallers would let it be released in 2021. Also, localizing the game would defeat the purpose of the internet meme.
Now you're playing with paaa paaa paaa pa powahhhhhhh!
Entertaining for sure, but I'd hardly conclude that he legit wants it localized. He's just goofing around and wants in on the old meme. His reasoning, I cannot say, but I doubt this is in any way sincere.
Does anyone really want to upset Terry Crews? I don't think so...
Do it Nintendo or Terry Crews is goign to bust into the headquarters with a jet ski and start screaming about how you guys stink and need more Old Spice.
@JasmineDragon people hold different celebrities in different regards depending on their contribution to pop culture. That should be obvious, do you really expect every celebrity article to be treated the exact same way? Contributions aside, Terry Crews was never filmed licking donuts at a bakery when the staff was turned, so he's already got a big leg up on public opinion over Ariana.
@KiryuJ Same here! Been teaching martial arts for 16 years, training for 20. I'm also a power lifter and olympic weightlifter. Whenever clients come to my house for training, they are always happy to see my old NES, SNES, and N64. It reminds them of fond childhood memories.
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I've never played this series yet I've wanted to (with ease and legally) for soooo long now. Just release the damn games, the whole Mother series, on the Eshop like you did with that old Fire Emblem throwback Nintendo. Not even asking for it to be on Switch online. We will pay a cheap price. C'mon smh.
Mother 3 is the Snyder Cut of the gaming world.
@Eel No, that's Ted, not Terry.
Ugh, NintendoLife, what does this have to do with games? This is just a celebrity trying to promote... wait... what was that? This ISN'T a Brie Larson article?? Oh, then proceede.
I rather not, they'll have to change or remove a lot of music, and that's only the least of the problems with the game. Just play the amazing fan translation, any toaster can run it just fine.
This is the start of a viral marketing campaign is my guess, or at least I hope it is.
Here is a compromise. Release the japanese version on the Snes nintendo online service. And also have a selector for the English language option in the game. Then it's still a Japanese release but can be accessed by western gamers if they so choose.
When you have two reps and multiple stages from a series in Smash Bros. and no game for NA fans to play it. It’s asinine.
Who is this guy and why should Nintendo listen ro him?
@Ulanda You serious? Live under a rock much?
@ivory_soul I'm not following social media or watch tv, so yeah, I'm serious.
Terry Loves Yogurt!
PC crap again, I get offense to some things but who cares this os a fictional world, drawing offense from fictional settings is a mental problem.
@Ulanda So you have NEVER watched a movie in the last decade? You've NEVER heard of Crackdown 3? So you live under a rock? Got it. That amount of isolation from the world can't be healthy.
@Jokerwolf The hell are you even talking about?
@ivory_soul Most think the reason it wasn't localized is because they kind of make fun of Gypsies but it's a damn game lol.
@ivory_soul Again, no I don't because I have more important things to do than follow everything on social media, games or movies. There are more important things in life than that.
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