Would you like the 'Mother' franchise to be released outside Japan?

[Mr. Fister]

Mr Khan said:

Riachu said:

Mr. Fister said:

Riachu said:

Mr Khan said:

Nintendo seems to want that franchise to stay dead, as far as i can see. I mean, it hasn't seen the light of day on VC anywhere, even in Japan where this should be less of a legal/localization/whatever hassle, right?

 

A three-in-one remake would be the best bet, but it would have to be something that would revise the various games, because clearly there's something there that's convincing Nintendo to not touch that franchise with a 10-foot pole (aside from Smash Bros)

It might have something to do with the fact that Earthbound bombed when it originally came out and that Miyamoto hates RPGs.

Then how do you explain the Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi, and Golden Sun series?

I forgot about those. 

I wonder if it has something to do with Itoi, myself. It clearly isn't just NoA. I mean, it's not there in Europe, it's not there in Japan. The legal reasoning cited by NoA lawyers at one point might have something to do with it, if it's something that European and Japanese legal codes cover, but there's gotta be something in there.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Do you think it may have something to do with the dark undertones in the Mother series? I mean, Earthbound was mainly a parody of American culture, and Mother 3 had some pretty sinister underlying themes (unnatural fusions of animals, the propagation of false happiness, the final boss fight, and just the whole sense that it's mostly a tragedy). I would imagine that if the games were remade and released in America, a lot of that content would be altered in order to make the series more kid-friendly.