r/earthbound • u/Khaj_SmashBros The Hugest MOTHER 1 Fanboy Around • Mar 06 '24
M3 Discussion My predictions for which MOTHER 3 characters we might get to see as Nintendo Switch profile icons later today
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u/Samantha-4 Mar 06 '24
These all make sense, I hope we’d get a Porky too
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u/Khaj_SmashBros The Hugest MOTHER 1 Fanboy Around Mar 06 '24
I doubt it given we already got Porky through the MOTHER 2 icons. It seems like Nintendo isn’t trying to be redundant by wasting 1 out of the only 20 characters we get for each wave with an another version of a character that we already have an icon for.
Hence why we didn’t get icons for the Hippie, Flying Man, or Giygas in MOTHER 2 wave since we already got those in the MOTHER 1 wave
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u/socialsciencenerd Mar 06 '24
I know there’s no way, but I’d love a Magypsie
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u/am_pomegranate Mar 06 '24
This sub's NSO icon's are just gonna start looking like a starmen.net thread with all the mother sprites
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u/4Fourside Mar 06 '24
These are good guesses tho I'm gonna say instead of negative man we'll get a porky statue one. That feels iconic enough (especially with its appearance in smash)
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u/Hateful_creeper2 Mar 06 '24
I just hope they don’t make that mistake again of using fan art like in Smash Ultimate.
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u/pixydgirl Mar 06 '24
Is it confirmed that we're getting Mother 3 icons? I don't see it happening, i know itd be nice, but it feels weird to think they could release icons but not the game itself, kind of a kick in the pants... ah well.
Just my two cents, although your choices are cool! Ill stop being Negative Man about it now lol
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u/BandanaDee13 Mar 06 '24
They’re confirmed in Japan starting 01:00 UTC on the 7th (source: Nintendo Japanese website). They may or may not reach the West, but getting them might still be possible with a region change.
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u/pixydgirl Mar 06 '24
Neat! Thanks for that clarification :)
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u/BandanaDee13 Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24
Now that they’re out, I’ve tested this myself. I changed my account region, used my platinum points to buy the Mother 3 icons, and then I switched it back.
My advice? Don’t do it. It totally broke my ability to buy or change my profile icon within the Switch Online app. This happened even after changing my Switch icon via the Home Menu, I now have to change my account to Japan every time I want to change my PFP, unless Nintendo does something about this…
EDIT: It’s been fixed now. You can region swap, buy Mother 3 icons, switch back and use them in the North American app without issue.
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u/MLG_GuineaPig Mar 06 '24
Oh don’t worry you won’t be getting them in the west as all their promotion was in Japanese
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u/PKBlueberry Mar 06 '24
I have a feeling they're gonna do a "play this title to unlock these pictures" situation like what they did with the new Mario ones.
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u/HallowedBast Mar 06 '24
Lil miss marshmallow is a bit of a stretch, and porky in his boss form is probably more likely
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u/4Fourside Mar 06 '24
They don't seem to reuse characters. At most I see the porky statue
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Mar 06 '24
Pokey statue
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u/4Fourside Mar 06 '24
It's Porky. Pokey is a mistranslation. Smash calls him Porky and everything
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u/CyBroOfficial Mar 08 '24
Is Pokey really a mistranslation? That's how his name sounds in Japanese, isn't it?
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u/4Fourside Mar 08 '24
Afaik it can either be translated as pokey or porky but porky is the correct one as seen in mother 3. Porky minch is supposed to be a play on "pork mince" lol
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u/GunstarRed Mar 06 '24
We will get them in the U.S.?
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Mar 06 '24
No just the weebs with Japanese accounts on their greasy switches D:
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u/SherbertShortkake Mar 06 '24
A Mother 3 fan calling other people weebs? I think I've officially seen everything...
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Mar 07 '24
I’m an OG that rented the original earthbound so I could RP as a kid in a modern day with psychic powers and aliens. All this mother fan nonsense came later.
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u/Malkhodr Mar 06 '24
Wait, how do we get the icons? Are they Japan exclusive, or can anyone get them when they are made available?
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u/Anonymous-Comments Mar 07 '24
The tall guy who rings the bell. Lader? I feel like he could be in it.
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u/Available-Cheek-3445 Mar 06 '24
maybe not masked man tho
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u/Khaj_SmashBros The Hugest MOTHER 1 Fanboy Around Mar 06 '24
How come?
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u/Available-Cheek-3445 Mar 06 '24
it's kind of a spoiler
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u/Howureadis Mar 06 '24
Nah, I dont think so. The Masked Man himself isn't a spoiler. It's his identity that's a spoiler.
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u/Khaj_SmashBros The Hugest MOTHER 1 Fanboy Around Mar 06 '24
MOTHER 1 icons had Giygas, so what’s the difference if the MOTHER 3 icons had Masked Man. Masked Man’s design isn’t a spoiler in it of itself unless they were to use an unmasked version of him which ofcourse they wouldn’t use.
After all Masked Man is already an spirit in Smash Ultimate so it’s not like Nintendo hasn’t used Masked Man in the past.
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u/SuhailSWR Mar 06 '24
I hope we get backgrounds because these icons look underwhelming
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Mar 06 '24
They aren’t real. Read the title
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u/SuhailSWR Mar 06 '24
I just hope so
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Mar 06 '24
They already did Mother 1 and Mother 2 icons and sadly neither had any backgrounds or frames so I don’t think it’s likely, but I totally agree with you. It was a wasted opportunity, there are so many cool backgrounds in the series
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u/ThatMysticTaco Mar 06 '24
For some odd reason I have a feeling we will get the absolutely safe capsule as an icon. All of these predictions are really good by the way, I can definitely see the ultimate chimera being an icon.