Nintendo’s cult classic Game Boy Advance (GBA) role-playing game Mother 3 is being released via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service exclusively in Japan, and those still hoping for an English release are heartbroken.
For the uninitiated, Mother 3 first launched back in 2006 on the GBA, and is the third Mother game after the Super Nintendo Entertainment System title, Earthbound. While Earthbound received a North American launch in 1995, around a year after its Japanese release (where it’s called Mother 2), the series’ next installment was never localized. Despite this, 1989’s Mother 1 got an official English release in the form of Earthbound Beginnings in 2015.
