Mother 3. Japan. April 20th. [Update]

by Ross Miller { Jan 24th 2006 at 4:30PM }

In early November, Mother/Earthbound creator Shigesato Itoi asked us to "please forget about [the impending Mother 3] for a short while." That short while has ended today, as Itoi himself confirms the release date of Mother 3: April 20th, 2006 (Thursday).

According to his website (translated by a forum poster known as NattyBumppo), this is the "final" date: "once the release date is set...we'll no longer be able to fiddle around with anything in the game." Hence, the game is complete and is just hiding in the bushes, awaiting its assault upon the eager Japanese consumer.

How about some screenshots? Any word on a US release? So many questions still left unanswered, but at least we're sure that these questions will be answered sometime before the end of April. Mother 3 is a GameBoy Advance title, and "that naturally means that you'll also be able to play it on the Nintendo DS that everyone's so crazy about these days."

[via GAF; thanks, DidYouLoseASock]

[Update: fixed the title - a horrible error on my part that should have never made it to publication. I apologize for the confusion and as an act of contrition I will now insert this carnivorous Earwig into my brain.]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rhine @ Jan 24th 2006 4:41PM

Which date is correct the 30th of the 20th tyou have two in the article

GlitchCog @ Jan 24th 2006 4:41PM

The title is wrong. It's definitely 4/20/2006.

And unfortunately it'll be a cold day in hell when Mother 3 sees American shores.

Just for the record: Gameplay > Graphics

Zerms4 @ Jan 24th 2006 4:54PM

Earthbound. ,. One. Of. The. Best. RPGs. Ever. ,. Period. And. I. Mean. It.

If this had a english Language option, people will be importing this game left and RIGHT!

Me @ Jan 24th 2006 5:09PM

Anyone else find it humorous that one of the oddest, trippiest RPGs ever is being released on 4/20? It's like they're almost implying something...

Xomphos @ Jan 24th 2006 5:28PM

I haven't really played any Earthbound games, but this might be my first. It is amazing that a game that has been indevelopment for what-10 years now? Is now coming out finally. It was originally for the disk drive with development going for 6 years I think and then they pulled the plug on the disk drive and it became a GBA project that is FINALLY coming out. I am surprised that they are still coming out with a game that has been in development so long.