Video: Mother 3 Trailer In The Style Of Link’s Awakening? Okay, We’re Listening

Simply Beautiful, If Nintendo were more like Sega, or if I were Nintendo, I would have hired them to work as designers and animators on a Mother game. But Nintendo is truly foolish. This honestly breaks my heart.

Well that's closer to Earthbound 64, the original (cancelled) game that Mother 3 is based upon (supposedly).

It's ridiculous how badly mismanaged the series has been, especially in the west.

The fact that this will never be an actual game is the saddest thing I can think of. Because HOLY HELL this is an astounding achievement in 3D animation and fan dedication.

I hope someone makes an amazing RPG with this kind of graphical style in the future, though.

Oh wow this is such a step above these normal efforts. It’s absolutely what I’d want a remake to look like, utterly beautiful.

I actually started tearing up when I saw the beginning of the video. This game means so much to me and I can only hope one day Nintendo will give us a remake as beautifully made as this.

this is how you do fan trailers, forget that cheap "hey we did zelda in unreal" crap .
this is respectful to the source

What are they doing with my head!!! I want this ao bad lol.

I was like... I can see that being a thing but... Looks too good and anti aliasing would not be a thing. Also, NINTENDO! PEOPLE ARE MAKING FAN PROJECTS AGAIN! NINTENDO!

PERFECTION!

If only this were real. I'd buy it in a heart beat. This actually looks so good!

Well, it may be an unpopular opinion here, but I truly hate that childish, plastic-looking, big headed art style. That's why I never bought new Link's Awakening and that's why I cannot stand AC. It's a pass for me if they go for this aesthetics.

Beautiful. There are no other words.

@NintendoKnight The thing is, this is a fan animation, not a game. Not to mention, the series creator of Mother, the person who holds most of the rights, said that the series was done, so there's no way they'll make a new one.

This just looks incredible.

This would be awesome. Nintendo could easily get Grezzo to work on a Mother 3 remake to try and get Earthbound back as a franchise.

Just release mother 3 already I want to play all the earthbound/mother games!!!

And here I clicked play thinking yeah right, Mother 3 needs those 2d sprites and pixels to have its full charm. Ten seconds later:

NINTENDO HIRE THESE GUYS OR I WILL LASER EYE YOU INTO OBLIVION, KICK YOUR S AND TAKE YOUR NAMES. YOU BETTER BELIEVE MY BODY IS READY. YOU CAN TELL THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE IT SERIOUS BECAUSE OF THE CAPSLOCK USE ON THE INTERNET.

This is BREATHTAKING!! The style perfectly translates and this looks good enough to be official. Wow. I really hope Nintendo takes notice, even if this is only a rendered video and not actual gameplay. This is the perfect way to translate Mother to modern graphics.

Wow, that was incredible. I would buy this game in a HEARTBEAT. Nintendo, hire these people, this needs to reach every single Switch system out there.

Oh my Lord! I wish this was real!!!

Man, it’s hard not to imagine if a trailer of this calibre had played during the direct.
As previously mentioned, I thought you couldn’t beat the wonderful spritework of the original, but this certainly matches it!

Remember: No crying until the end.

Nothing short of incredible

Beautiful! this absolutely needs to become a thing. Nintendo should hire this human and make this happen! The only thing better would be ACTUAL claymation - it looks like that smelly SNES box art come to life!

throwingmoneyatthescreen
I know, it's pointless.
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Hopefully Nintendo copyrights the video so Nintendolife can make an article about it and people can be angry at a Corporation overseas.

Why must they torment us with these beautiful visions of what will never be?

I've dreamt about what a Mother 3 remaster could look like. Knowing thats the sprites were based off of clay models, I've always thought this would be the perfect choice. And yet somehow this video blows all those expectations out of the water. This is a fantastic tribute and its heartbreaking that its only a tribute and nothing more.

@Bydlak I disagree with you, but I can see where you are coming from. This art style does look a bit generic but it's pleasant in my opinion and it's done well here.

I will never understand the obsession with this game

Inject this into my veins!!

@JayJ Not supposedly. There were a lot of changes (cuts mostly) but the characters and the overall plot was the same.

Like, is the main reason mother 3 never getting a western release the magypsies? Like, child death, but it's 2022 and the west and Japan are different. The depiction of the magypsies would get some heat for sure 100%. I honestly think this is the reason mother 3 doesn't get a remake, but square enix greenlights live a live.

@SwitchVogel A lot of it is hype because it never got a release and part of it is it actually broaches things that games just don't if they're not directed by yoko taro. It's lowkey a very depressing game with the tiniest silver lining. It's remarkable how just dark that game gets thematically while still remaining hopeful somehow, maybe. Or everyone dies. It's just a brilliantly written game. Gameplay is earthbound which is dragon quest so that's definitely not the selling point.

@somnambulance I'd preorder a preorder on those preorders.

This is why I perfer 3D graphics over HD-2D. Mother 3 would look souless in HD-2D.

I would buy the whole trilogy for $60 if Nintendo did this. I would even pay $70. This is amazing.

Gorgeous animation. Probably too late for Mother 3 to ever come out; feels like they missed their window of opportunity, there.

Oh my god, why? Why isn't this a real thing? I play this game every year like clockwork and I would gladly shell out full price, even $70 or $80, for this.

@fenlix To be fair, square enix has only tried one style that way so far. It'd probably look like the Ds Pokemon games of they did 2.5 D. I can definitely imagine mother 3 with hd sprites and 3d environments.

That was insane.

Another beautiful fan made Tribute that will keep us wanting that game but probably wont happen. sigh..............

@NintendoKnight If Nintendo were like Sega, they would be a 3rd party developer, and incapable of making a good Mario game.

Maaaaan I wish. This looks so good T-T

I really like this, but why tease us? Make it a full game!

Nintendo: "that's a real nicely done video..... now here's your cease and desist take down notice."

they would still have to change the problematic designs of the Magypsys and the er... baptism lets call it.

But I'd be 100% in on this. I'd even do the unthinkable and back it on kickstarter

@VoidofLight
Yeah bro, I know that this is an animation rather than a game, that's why I stated "to work as designers and animators". As for a mother game, it doesn't need to be another mother game, it could be a remake of Earthbound or Mother 3 in this style.

@Troll_Decimator
It doesn't have to take the negative prospects of SEGA, all I'm saying is that Nintendo could take some notes from the positive prospects of SEGA.

@NintendoKnight You realize that Sega doesn't go out of their way hiring fan project creators, right? That's a myth that is constantly perpetuated for some reason.

This is fantastic! I wish it was real.