This topic is kinda cool because I was just reading up on the Mother trilogy on HG101. I think the timing wasn't very well done for Mother 3 but the timing isn't necessarily the game's fault. It seems that the game went through a very tumultuous development cycle. By the time, Mother 3 was finally released it just seemed that it was too little too late for the Japanese auidence. Now of course, there are still plenty of Mother fans that loved Mother 3 upon release but being released in 2006 on the GBA was the biggest factor as to why the game didn't release out of Japan imo.
That being said, the only Mother game I've played was Earthbound and that was 6 years ago. I seriously need to replay Earthbound and play Mother 3 as I still haven't played it yet.







