I'll keep this as spoiler-free as I can, but it really is a great game, I've cleared it. Anyway...
It all comes down to the Magypsies. They're aliens that look like drag queens...Mother games are weird.
You change the name, it's censorship.
You leave the name, Twitter explodes about an "anti-Romani slur."
You leave the sprites alone, it's anti-tranny stereotypes.
You change the sprites, it's LGBT erasure.
Nintendo's in a bind. So they just don't release it, because dealing with the "give us Mother 3" crowd is better than dealing with the SJW Twitter mob.
I mean nobody really gave a shit about trannies back when Mother 3 first came out, I’d be more worried about it actually getting a western release and having localizers really play up the tranny angle and inject it with more faggotry. You just know they’d make Kumatora a dyke and would probably make Lucas and Klaus gay lovers or something.
At this point we western Mother fans have probably dodged a bullet, the parade of shitty faggot hipster Indy rpgs Earthbound spawned is bad enough.
It’s had an excellent fan translation for years, I hate to think what the commies at NoA would do to a story like that today. At this point whatever weird niche Japanese shit you like never getting an official western release is probably the best case scenario.
I wouldn't be that surprised if this was the reason Nintendo hasn't released it. But at the same time I also have to think that many members of the latter are also part of the former group, and just as even the SJW crowd told Kotaku off for their article about Stray, I think they would mostly look the other way for Mother 3.
Of course, Nintendo wouldn't want to take that chance.
Nah, people have been asking for Nintendo to give Mother 3 a North American release for over a decade. For what it's worth, Nintendo is well aware of the fanlation patch and hasn't done anything to strike it down. Frankly, I think Nintendo are just cheap bastards who don't want to spend the money doing what a bunch of people did for free.
Fully aware--believe me, I was one of them.
But in Current Year, they'd ruin it.
Agree to disagree? When it comes to problems with the Big N (word), their biggest is how economically retarded they are. Either refusing to actually fix their Joycon drift permanently and instead kick the can down the road, making not enough of their Classic Consoles to go around, or just straight up removing the 3D Mario Anniversary collection from the eShop, Nintendo strikes me as too far out of touch to do any of the changes to 'cater' to an audience.
Man that Magypsies shit was hilarious, and gross. You're probably right if we're talking about why they don't release it today, but back when it was new cancel culture and social media wasn't quite the thing it is now.
I should've clarified--they waited too long, and now cancel culture is a thing.
They should have struck while the iron was hot.
There was a lot less wokery in 2006.
Sounds about right