Check it out in our Mother 3 Videos section!

Thanks to IGN64 for releasing this, to Morgul for notifying me, and to Grunt for doing the grunt work (heheh) by downloading/uploading it to our servers, because my 26.4 connection would have me waiting up till midnight.

In summary, we know the following things:

"The story begins with Flint attempting to figure out what's going on when a UFO lands nearby."

http://www.rpgamer.com/nsw99/082899f.html

"Mother 3 is the first game in this RPG series; "Mother" was released for the Famicom and "Mother 2" was for the SNES."

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Here's the information thats new to us:

"...By using 'energy' you can cast strong magic, however using this too much will cause a character to overheat and not able to battle..."

"...The game's characters are: A blone-haired kid named Ryuka, a cowbuy guy named Flint, a dog named Boney, and someone named Klaus... "

Well, we now know for sure that Flint (if that IS Flint), Boney, Ryukka, and his twin are the main characters of the game. Obviously, the Pig Army (Pork Bean Soldiers) are the antagonists throughout the game.

Anyways, he played Mother 3 for a total of 20 minutes (you're only allotted 10 minute slots) and informed us that these are the true battle commands:

• Fight
• Speak
• Magic (MAGIC, not PSI or PK or whatever)
• Call (Probably like when enemies call for help, but this time, you get to.
• Might be like the Call/Summon commands in the FF series. Ryukka only.)
• Stand (Not as in 'I am standing', but as a synonym for 'bear' or 'endure'.
Obviously the Defend command.)
• Check
• Goods
• Strength (Shows your stats?)>

Many many thanks to Tomato for translating EXCELSIOR!'s Japanese for us, and EXCELSIOR! for providing the information. Hopefully, he'll be providing us with more soon!

"The Space World demo opens in a village. From here, the player can take different paths out of the village and into the various segments of the demo. Two of the areas were just non-playable cut scenes: one showed two young kids -- one with blonde hair and one with red -- riding a mine cart through several tunnels, while the other showed a dog racing through a storm to its owner, whom it guided to the two kids and a man in black clothing. (Both of these scenes appear in the movie posted earlier today.)

The other areas were all playable: in one, the red-head (apparently the main character) teams up with the blonde kid to battle boars and birds. A second area takes place in the sewers, where the player hops around on mushrooms and battles snakes. Finally, a third playable area sees the party in a desert, battling a giant pig cannon. The team hops in a futuristic hover car and speeds about the landscape while the cannon shoots cannonballs at them."

"...Hallmarks of the previous Mother/Earthbound games are immediately obvious in the video trailer: hip musicians, boy adventurers, strange vehicles and psychedelic, RPG-style fight scenes... "

Peer Schneider commented that Mother 3 is "Looking good ". Thats a direct quote. Come on Peer, we need INFORMATION!

Good thing we've got Tomato's awsuma Japanese skills to translate that NOJ document for us. It appears that Pokey has officially made his return, but we're thinking that he's left Ness and friends alone for the most part and donned a freaky pig costume. Perhaps the first chapter or two of the game occur in Ness's time/location?? Time will tell. We might find out sooner than expected, if all goes well during this day 2 of Space World.