mother 3

The Mother games are a highly celebrated RPG series, containing the likes of both Mother and EarthBound. There’s also Mother 3, a really good RPG from what I’ve heard, that still hasn’t made it to the west. Ever since it came out in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance, fans have been begging Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi for an official English release. We’ve recently learned that Mother 3 will be coming to Nintendo Switch Online, but still only in Japan. Western fans naturally clamored for a Western release, which got…

Nintendo Mother 3, the highly requested cult-classic RPG for the Game Boy Advance, is set to appear today on the Nintendo Switch Online service. But there’s a catch: It’s only available in Japan. North Americans were first introduced to the Mother series under the name Earthbound on the SNES in 1995. As was common at the time, the game was renamed for the West in an attempt to avoid confusion. In 2006, a third entry was released in Japan for the GBA simply called Mother 3, but it has never had an official translation…

For some of us, it’s a good day to subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online as Mother 3 heads to the service for users in Japan. As announced today in Japan’s Nintendo Direct Partnership Showcase, Mother 3 is 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. Screenshot via Nintendo of Japan YouTube Screenshot via Nintendo of…

Now that 2024 is here, the countdown is on. Rumors suggest that the Nintendo’s Switch long-awaited successor is coming by the end of the year. While there’s no official word from Nintendo on that yet, there’s good reason to think it could happen. The current lineup of Switch games for 2024 is looking thin, so one could reasonably guess that developers may be off working on Switch 2 games by now. As I begin to reflect on the Switch’s wildly successful life span, I can’t help but think  about what a bounty of games its…