Mother 3 localization calls come from Terry Crews of all people

Mother 3 localization calls come from Terry Crews of all people

By Michael Leri

The calls for a localized Mother 3 port have been loud for years upon years and seem to pop up around every Nintendo Direct. Ex-President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé has often joked about the persistence of its vocal fan base. And now former professional football player and actor Terry Crews has joined that chorus asking for an English Mother 3 localization.

Crews summed it up quickly in the above short, all-caps tweet. No one from Nintendo (or ex-Nintendo staff like Fils-Aimé) have responded to the tweet. Crews also did not elaborate on what spurred this succinct call to action.

The Brooklyn 99 star has been intertwined with the gaming world before. He voiced a character in Crackdown 3 and even starred in its live action ads. He’s spoken in the past (especially in this interview with PCGamer) about his love for building gaming PCs, Overwatch, PUBG, and the way in which gaming lets him bond with his son. But this is the first time he’s mentioned this old classic RPG.

Not mentioning it until now makes this whole story even more bizarre as it celebrated its 15th anniversary on April 20, 10 full days before this tweet. The calls for localization have been mounting in those years since when it came out on the Game Boy Advance in Japan. Some particularly desperate players have even offered to localize the game for Nintendo.

Nintendo has been quiet about the prospects of a Mother 3 port. According to Video Game Story Time, hopes for the localization died along with Satoru Iwata in 2015. Iwata was reportedly a “consistent advocate” for the project and told Nintendo of America to look into it. After his death, Nintendo no longer had anyone within the company cheering for the game. In 2016, Eurogamer reported that Nintendo was trying to translate it, but FanByte’s Imran Khan said work on it had halted. A portion of these problems seem to be centered around its dated and negative portrayal of transgender people. Terry Crews is a physically strong person, but it’s unlikely he can use his muscles to move this project into reality.

Michael Leri
Michael Leri

Michael Leri is Evolve's senior gaming editor. He prides himself on playing and finishing as many video games as he can in all sorts of genres from shooters to platformers to weird indie experiments. There's always something to learn from rolling credits and that thirst for experience and knowledge is mostly what drives him. You can find him on Twitter, Backloggd, Bluesky, and Letterboxd as @OrangeFlavored.

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