Posted by Bob Mackey
Remember the Mother 3 translation, released late last October? We at 61FPS couldn't stop talking about it--until that court order limited our Earthbound/Mother posts to only a mere dozen a week. Thankfully, sites like Earthbound Central (a must-visit) exist to fill the needs of the most psychotic Mother fans out there, but that doesn't mean there isn't franchise-related news worth reporting about here. Consider the Mother 3 Handbook produced by the devoted folks at FanGamer, for instance; we were all excited about it last Fall, but as its release date slipped into March, most of us have probably forgotten that we dropped 20 bucks on the guide many moons ago.
So, as we reach the final days of March, where exactly is the Mother 3 Handbook? For all those concerned, a blog post on FanGamer's front page this week has confirmed that all of the books weren't lost in some freak postal accident:
The final proof has been approved and the Handbooks (and Poster Jackets) are now being printed/bound as we speak! They should be done either on Friday or Monday. We had a few printing-related issues which put us a few days behind schedule, but we’re still hoping to get the Handbooks in the mail on or before the 24th, meaning all domestic (USA) orders should arrive well before the end of the month.
Since I played through the entirety of Mother 3 from late October to late December, I probably won't get much use out of the guide until I decide to give the game another whirl--probably sometime in the summer. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to read the Handbook cover-to-cover as soon as I get it. As a psychotic Mother fanboy, it is my duty.
Related Links:
The Reason Why Mother 3 Never Came to America
What's In My MP3 Player: Mother 3+'s "Pollyanna"
Mother 3 Makes Me Feel Human Again
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About Bob Mackey
For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's
Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.
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