Random: Fan-Made 'Mother Direct' Airing June 12th - Get Ready For New Games, Projects And Exclusive Looks

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the image .... then I realised the truth of the headline....

I think folks want Mother 3 released officially because most countries didn't get it and not everyone is cozy taking the emulation route. I gladly played Mother 3 (translated to English) and enjoyed the experience. Most of the appeal for me is the graphical charm and quirky combat/dialogue. Can't fault folks for being passionate about it when, as a promising series, it came to a halt. It's made all the more frustrating by Nintendo offering Earthbound characters in Smash, reminding us that the franchise it important, but not important enough to move forward

@Anti-Matter I don't know, it seems like you're trying really hard to say that the Mother series can't be special to people. Many other series have their own style and atmosphere that people enjoy and plenty like Itoi's take on RPG games for those reasons. They want to show how much they like it by paying tribute to it and be part of a community and there's nothing wrong with it. No one said that you need to play the series to be a ''true gamer''.

@Anti-Matter
And I don’t understand your obsession with boxing. Why does it matter what other people enjoy?

@YoshiF2
We're in the same boat...

@Anti-Matter it’s called an opinion.

Dang it, thought it was real, I was happy, even only it was a second.

@Anti-Matter Same reason why you like your girly games. People can Enjoy other things, idk why you think people think there a real gamer for playing specific games? No one says that but you.

Orphans everywhere are rejoicing.

On a related note it's getting pretty late in the day for Nintendo to announce a direct for the 15th of June, which was leaked recently, hope I am wrong.

I smell a cease and desist in the air

@Anti-Matter I don't understand how people will be like "I'll pay $60 for that!!" when they can be playing the full translated version on their phone/laptop within 5 minutes from now. It's just...odd.

@johnvboy it’s still possible- Nintendo do announce Directs at short notice. I think it’ll be the week after

I think a new mother game in the 2.5D style from games like triangle strategy would be amazing. Please nintendo....or really dedicated fans xD

@SteamEngenius

guess what? ive played the fan translation, downloaded it multiple times over the years, and id still pay to buy an official english copy if it were available. that doesnt seem odd to me at all.

in fact, why buy any game that you can simply steal, by your logic? or anything else?

@Anti-Matter

nope, sorry. not a true gamer 🙃

Playing Earthbound on the SNES app for the Switch. Either you’re into it or you’re not, but it holds up really well in my opinion. It’s easy to see what makes it so special and why it sprouted a legion of fans that are still passionate about it to this day.

@Anti-Matter just like how you find Dance Dance Revolution and Boxing Games appealing?

Back on Topic,
i will defiantly check this out. i remember seeing this last time and really enjoyed on what they show so far.

@Mattock1987,

Yes, they have announced them at short notice before, I think if we do not get an announcement on Monday, then it will be looking at the week after, just like you suggested.

@-wc-
Well, I don't even need somebody called me true gamer or not.
I played games what I like.

@johnvboy Yes, I agree. The following week makes a lot of sense in terms of avoiding other major announcements... but perhaps more pertinent that it would keep Strikers in the spotlight.

What attention seeking behaviour to call it that

@BinaryMessiah as I understand it, Nintendo doesn’t fully own Mother. Creator Shigesato Itoi needs to sign off on anything related to the IP, which is why all these fan projects have been thus far able to evade the Nintendo Ninjas.

Every single project that will air will be taken down by Nintendo. What a stupid thing to announce haha

@cammers1995 will edit this tomorrow with the results of your theory

edit: without a hitch nothing gone so far, or gone from the one from the last year either afaik; even toby fox got interviewed

@somebread I never said it would be immediate, but knowing Nintendo it will happen eventually.

I’d love Nintendo to make a modern Mother game. Everything I read about the story and vibe seems right up my alley. But when I tried Earthbound (on the SNES mini I believe) the archaic RPG mechanics turned me off in no time.

Actually the most intriguing Mother bit I’ve seen to date is the cancelled N64 game. Has strong Majora‘s Mask resemblance.

On topic Best of luck to them, I admire the dedication. But I‘d want the real thing…

I think I might have to revisit Earthbound this summer. Still want an Earthbound remake with Links Awakening engine. (In fact, heck, remake them all!)

I would love to see a new Mother game on Switch but I'm afraid it won't happen because the creator of Mother , Shigesato Itoi, said there wouldn't be anymore Mother games.

@cammers1995 A fair few of them are just Earthbound/Mother inspired rather than directly using the license.

@Anti-Matter You can't talk about what games people should be playing when you're the same guy that plays pre school and children games. The reason people love Earthbound so much is because it's a great series with amazing characters.

@Anti-Matter is steadily becoming this sites biggest troll and he doesn’t even mean it…

Love the Mother series to death, but this kind of stuff makes me a little embarrassed to be a fan. Just let it be three amazing games.

It's really bizarre to me how NL doesn't report on some important official Nintendo news, but loves covering any fan project that can poke sore spots in the fandom.

Nintendo will bring the hammer down on this thing sooooo fast. Haha.

Oddity, please! I still have faith in it being actually in development.

I'm glad more gaming communities are making their own Nintendo Direct style broadcasts. I'd still like to see Mother 3 get an official release but I'm happy for having the original japanese version and a fan translated reproduction cartidge on my videogame shelf.

The first non-Nintendo Direct one I saw was Rivals of Aether Direct in 2018 right after a Smash Bros tournament.

@-wc- “ in fact, why buy any game that you can simply steal, by your logic? or anything else”?

Why, indeed

@Anti-Matter

Same here! i was just playin 🙂 it's good to be in touch with what you like, regardless.

Earthbound happens to be my favorite game of all time, but i would never bother trying to argue that it's objectively the best. It's cool that people are into different stuff! 👍

@Omarzy

lol sure, have fun stealing everything you need, let me know how that goes for you 👍