As announced today in Japan’s Nintendo Direct Partnership Showcase,Mother 3is now available to the online service as part of Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance collection. Of course, you can always buy the RPG outside of the region. That is if you don’t mind playing in Japanese and adding an additional NSO app to your Nintendo Switch.
Unfortunately, it’s not the best news for those of us itching to see the classic series completely localized.Mother 3launched almost two decades ago, back in 2006, but never saw an official translation outside of Japan.
Those that came before,MotherandMother 2, did, however, see international releases in one way or another. The second game, you may know asEarthBound, launched in North America in 1995, a year after its initial release in Japan. Eventually, the series debut game, just plain ole’Mother, hit the North American Wii U Virtual Console service in 2015.
This is a lot to say, you’re still out of luck, for now, if you’re hoping forMother 3available outside of its original Japanese language script. However, you can still playEarthBound Beginnings(Mother) and EarthBound(Mother 2) via theNintendo Switch Online service. That’s not confusing at all. I’m off to kick rocks.
