768: Mother 3
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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For over a decade, its release seemed like an impossibility, but 20 years ago, Mother 3 entered our world—and then proceeded to never leave Japan. While it superficially resembles the earlier Mother games, this long-awaited sequel differs greatly in tone and structure, yet somehow delivers a satisfying (if surprising) final installment of Shigesato Itoi's beloved RPG series. On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Reid Young, Charlie Verdin, and Everdraed (all of Fangamer) as the crew turn off their Happy-Happy Boxes and sit down to discuss the Game Boy Advance game that gives new meaning to the term "tonda gossa."
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| 0:30.1 | This week on Retronauts. |
| 0:58.4 | I'm your host for this one, Bob Mackie. |
| 1:00.0 | And this time we are talking about Mother 3, the long-awaited Earthbound sequel that went through development hell, only to emerge in a pretty unexpected form. |
| 1:07.9 | And then it never left Japan, much to our chagrin. But thankfully, some |
| 1:12.3 | savvy and kind folks gifted us a localization a few years later. So we are here to gather on its |
| 1:17.5 | 20th anniversary to ask, how do we feel about the supposed finale to the mother series? I have a lot |
| 1:23.9 | of thoughts. Before I continue, who is here with me today? My name is Reid Young. I am the co-founder at Starman.comnet and FanGamer. |
| 1:31.6 | And who else do we have? I am Charlie Verden. I'm a old starman.net user and also an employee at FanGamer. |
| 1:39.8 | And last moment least, who do we have? |
| 1:41.4 | Hey, it's May Everdread uh so i'm a weird internet guy |
| 1:45.0 | animator video editor i work at fangamer uh helped out on undertale sort of things and do some stuff for toby |
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