Ah, the things that people will do while waiting for a localisation. Though it seems unlikely that Mother 3 will ever officially come to consoles out west, we can at least comfortably say that its fanbase has now discovered every last one of the game's details - right down to the wood used on the logo.
Symbolic of Porky's takeover of the Nowhere Islands (man vs. nature and all that) the Mother 3 logo depicts the title in a combination of metal and wood. There are many of us who have never looked at this image close enough to really see whether it was real wood in the first place. Then there are people like @PineappleCarl3, who not only has looked closely enough to see that it is indeed real wood, but has gone on to study tree pictures until they found the mother tree - the wood used in the logo.
The tree studier shared their findings on Twitter, with the image that they believe to be the secret source behind Mother 3's logo as well as some close up comparisons between bark and text.
While it is a little hard to tell exactly where those close ups come from on the larger 'source tree,' that wood grain certainly seems to match up. Could this really be the original image from which the designers crafted Mother 3's distinctive lettering, or could it just be a meagre coincidence because, ya know, it's a tree? Either way, the resemblance is definitely there.
Next up on the horticultural hunt is tracking down the peeled pieces of wood from the title's 'M' and the circular cross section on the '3,' according to @PinappleCarl3. We can't put a precise number on it, but there are a lot of pictures out there which could have inspired the game's logo, to come this close again would be a tree-mendous discovery indeed.
What do you think? Is this the official wood or are the searchers barking up the wrong tree? Let us know in the comments below!
[source twitter.com]
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So glad they finally found it, it was keeping me up at night*
*I very nearly did a joke about early morning wood, but thought better of it.
Ah, I knew it woodn't be hard to find in the morning! (I've done it for you, @sikthvash!)
Who wood have thought and figured?
@Pillowpants I saw what you did there.
I'm glad they have a hobby but I'm mildly worried about how much time they might have put into this. I hope it was an A.I. search
Hidden in plane sight.
Show me a pixel perfect match and then I'll believe this. If anything, they found what kind of a tree the logo is based on. But source picture? Not convinced.
Then again... I really don't care.
Must have been an exhilarating search...
Some people really have a lot of time on their hands. As long as they've scratched whatever itch this was causing I'm happy for them.
@sikthvash It didn't keep me up at night because I was... sawing logs.
@Dom_31
the first ten years of my life, star wars was a dead series.
They got wood
@sikthvash I don't think they would (the wood joke has already been used) have been too... hard on you for making it. The imagination probably goes to darker places than the joke itself would have gone.
You found it. You finally found it. The key. Now Mother 3 will be translated and released on Switch.
Yeah, so I was just lookn at images of trees and thought one looked so familiar...
Is what I like to imagine what happen and not someone obsessing over some wood. (Unlike some people i know)
Well, as much as I want a Mother 3 localization, I'm not so bored imma gonna do something like this!!
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