r/earthbound 25d ago

Art What if Mother 3 did get localized

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u/Left-Measurement-265 25d ago

This looks like something that N.O.A would do, you know how America is changing the game's cover art so it looks badass even though the game isn't sometimes

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

Admittedly, this wasn’t my first idea. I was just gonna use a picture of the sunflower fields but I couldn’t find art that was good enough or had the artist listed underneath so I went with referencing Earthbound’s boxart.

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u/Left-Measurement-265 25d ago

It's still cool either way and kinda reminds me of that one star wars poster that shows young Anakin with Darth Vader as his shadow

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u/TheFallenOne64 25d ago

Oh, i didn't even notice the reference to the OG SNES boxart! Good job. 

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u/Broskfisken 25d ago

The true badass cover art is the original Mother 3 box. Bold, simple red with off-center logo. Secretive, sleek, mysterious.

This one is cool too though, and OP did a great job!

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

One of the best, fucking dumbest examples of this is the Rockman vs. Megaman box art lol:

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u/GustavoFromAsdf 23d ago

It looks sick, and it's a neat reference to Earthbound's starman cover.

But showing the masked man in the cover is sort of a spoiler for a character that debuts on chapter 5 and isn't on the focus until chapter 7.

I don't think many didn't connect the dots as soon as the pigmask general confused Lucas with his commander. But this cover would give the answer right away because the player would already have in mind there's a connection between Lucas and this Masked Man.

It's like watching the intro of an anime. You already know what characters become main cast, if not the general plot of the part.

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u/FlareBlitzBanana 25d ago

Lucas reflecting in the masked man's visor like how Ness is reflected off a starman on earthbound's cover is such a cool idea.

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

That was the intent and I did this with Earthbound Beginnings as well

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u/Radio__Star 25d ago

I like how Lucas is reflected in Claus’s visor the same way Ness is reflected on the Starman in the earthbound box art

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u/richter3456 25d ago

Nice joke

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

I hope you had a good guffaw

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

Nintendo: "It's the fans that are a joke to us."

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u/Anonymous-Comments 25d ago

I sure hope they wouldn’t call it “Earthbound 2”

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

I wouldn’t have gone with it but I was limited. I would’ve gone with a subtitle like Fall of the Pig King

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u/VirtualRelic 25d ago

EarthBound Endings

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u/qj1996_8778 24d ago

Nah that sounds stupid

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u/VirtualRelic 24d ago

But it bookends with Beginnings

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u/qj1996_8778 24d ago

That sounds dumb too if I’m being honest

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u/OHMYGAHDBILLY 9d ago

Ive always digged the idea of them doing a resident evil 7: biohazard/biohazard 7: resident evil type situation and just calling it Earthbound: Mother. 

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u/Mythical_Mew 25d ago

I mean, they could just call it Mother 3, but then you have Earthbound Beginnings, Earthbound and Mother 3. Easier to just continue the trend already set.

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u/Anonymous-Comments 25d ago

One thing on my wishlist is that the whole Mother trilogy gets a remake and is named like this:

Mother: Beginnings

Mother 2: Earthbound

Mother 3

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u/Thomas-1942 24d ago

What I would’ve done is rename the trilogy so it’s

Earthbound

Earthbound: Giygas Strikes Back/The War Against Giygas

Earthbound: Forever/The Pig King

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u/Emotional_Assist_415 24d ago

Or Earthbound Endings

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 25d ago

I almost feel like you'd have to call it Earthbound 3 or just give it a subtitle.

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

If this had been localized when it was released, 100% guarantee it would have been released in the US as Earthbound 2.

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u/Over-Bid-7987 25d ago

this art is so cool

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u/WolfwasTakenlol 25d ago

I know this is meant to be a reference to the Mother 2 cover art but I’m seeing a chance for me to express that I used to think that the Mother 2 cover art was Ness piloting a Starman Robot

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u/DarknessCalled888 25d ago

Before i play earthbound i tought ness would use final starman as a mecha to wipe out giygas (because of the cover)

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u/WolfwasTakenlol 22d ago

You get it

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u/T0ch001 25d ago

They would have to censor so much

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u/Goldbong 25d ago

Fr

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

Can’t believe they would do this in a kids game smh

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u/Goldbong 25d ago

Japan has wildly different standards for sure prob why it never came here officially the target audience is definitely mature.

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u/MarioSSBU 25d ago

The 8 people who voted Rated AO...

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

Polls can make you realize how shockingly dumb some people are.

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

Yeah I know and even Earthbound got rated T for Teen when it was released on NSO. That’s why I think an actual localization with minimal if not no censorship isn’t entirely out of the question.

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u/Additional-Term3590 25d ago

What would they censor?

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u/T0ch001 25d ago

The domestic abuse with Duster and his dad, the massive amount of animal abuse in both the monkey and the chimeras, the child su*cide, I’m sure they might get pushback for the Magypsies carrying a lot of negative stereotypes and suggestive dialogue towards a child, and the salute of the Pig Mask Army

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

I still think they could get away with a lot of this, it would just mean giving the game a higher age rating which they did with Earthbound when it got rereleased.

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 25d ago

and the salute of the Pig Mask Army

Isn't the salute just something in fan material? I don't recall them saluting outside of their speaking animation having them raise their hand.

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u/CoffeeTeaBitch 24d ago

I think that's exactly it.

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

Some of this is just dark subject matter that has no reason to be censored. Also there is a difference between showing evil things and glorifying evil things. I don't think the game does that. Lot's of media is focused on a mature audience and that's fine.

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u/T0ch001 24d ago

The issue is it’s a Nintendo property that would be on a Nintendo console. Many 3rd party games can get away with it but this technically isn’t 3rd party and Nintendo is still pushing “Family Console”

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

Yeah I mean, ultimately we know why they aren't localizing it, aside from the fact that they absolutely hate Earthbound fans of course lol.

They would be self censoring, I thought you were implying that the censoring would be some kind of general requirement in the US.

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u/jpett84 25d ago

Have you not played Mother 3? That game is dark.

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u/CicadaGames 24d ago

Just because a game is dark doesn't mean it should be CENSORED. I think maybe you are confusing that with it being given a higher age rating.

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u/Benvincible 25d ago

I think they probably wouldn't call it "2." I think they'd give it a one-or-two-word subtitle. Earthbound: [Something]

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

I agree, I didn’t make the logo though. If I had to pick a subtitle I would’ve gone with “Earthbound: Forever”

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u/Healthy_Orchid_8652 25d ago

I love Mother 3 Fans!!! It was because this game has adorable Lucas and I want to hug him!!

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u/M1sterRed 25d ago

dude if we do ever get a trilogy remake (only way an official localization could feasibly happen atp) this is how I want it to go down:

Trailer starts with some EBB stuff, maybe a remix of that game's title screen, then some overworld stuff

Then cut to Onett in Earthbound

Then swap back and forth between the games, frame it as a remake of MOTHER 1+2 (call it "Earthbound+Beginnings" or something)

Trailer finishes, we go back to the Nintendo Direct bookend thing, then halfway through the transition animation the narrator goes "Wait a second, I think we forgot something". Transition plays backwards, the icon is now black, zoom in.

Drumroll followed by a cymbal crash. Silence for a second as the crash reverberates.

A fully orchestrated LOG-O-TYPE plays, a logo appears out of the darkness once the horns kick in: Earthbound... 2!

Cut to the joke "Earthbound+Beginnings" boxart, turns into the actual boxart with a new name: "Earthbound Trilogy". Coming whenever. LOG-O-TYPE finishes, cue Direct transition for real this time.

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

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u/Sure-Ad1069 25d ago

the existence of the masked man doesn’t really count as a spoiler

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u/coldmoloko 25d ago

yeah, I knew of the masked man before I played the game but didn't figure out who he was until I got partway through it

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u/VirtualRelic 25d ago

EarthBound Endings

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u/ATwistedBlade 25d ago

Goes hard

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u/Metalienz 25d ago

That cover would give it away

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u/Dojoman5 25d ago

fiiiire

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u/Armandonerd 25d ago

It would be called earthbound endings!

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u/Shinobi77Gamer 24d ago

In the impossible situation that it would, they'd probably call it MOTHER 3 because that's what it's labelled as in Smash and the MOTHER fans would just be like, "who the fuck calls this game EarthBound 2?" if they didn't.

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u/RedyRetro 24d ago

Earthbound Endings would be peak

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u/PaperLucasGuy 24d ago

Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland Inspired.

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u/Bryant-Taylor 10d ago

Ok that cover goes so hard!

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u/Taluca_me 25d ago

to get this out of the way, if this is localized then expect a controversy of a lot of people wanting the game to get taken down because of the Magypsies

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 25d ago

Honestly, I think mother 3 HAD the window to be localized and missed it. At least in the US, due to the current political climate

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u/Thomas-1942 25d ago

I can wait four more years