3rd May 2006, 4:44 PM
Why didn't you just link to the IGN article instead of linking to a forum that linked to it?
Anyway, interesting but I think too much is being put into this. All he's said is he won't be working on Mother 4. I'm not sure that translates to "I'm never working on this series again, it has drained away a 5th of my life!". He might come back to it some day after his next project. Further, there's the very likely possibility that if Nintendo is interested in making more money off the franchise, it'll be handed over to another designer to work on.
At any rate, no need to worry about it as we have yet to see the game announced for the States. I'd love to see all 3 games released here mind you :D, but I'll settle for the 3rd... I know that the compilation of the first two actually had it's flaws. For example, the dumbed down dungeon from the unreleased Earthbound Zero version of the first game made it's way into the Japanese game when they also stuck in the "run" command. And, the GBA Mother 2 game has some lackluster sound compaired to the SNES (er, Super Famicom) version. They could clean the first up by just making sure they include exactly the Famicom game ONLY altering it with the additional run command, and the second one can probably be fixed by, um, well why not just release the collection, updated with fixes for all the issues people complain about, on the DS?
Anyway, interesting but I think too much is being put into this. All he's said is he won't be working on Mother 4. I'm not sure that translates to "I'm never working on this series again, it has drained away a 5th of my life!". He might come back to it some day after his next project. Further, there's the very likely possibility that if Nintendo is interested in making more money off the franchise, it'll be handed over to another designer to work on.
At any rate, no need to worry about it as we have yet to see the game announced for the States. I'd love to see all 3 games released here mind you :D, but I'll settle for the 3rd... I know that the compilation of the first two actually had it's flaws. For example, the dumbed down dungeon from the unreleased Earthbound Zero version of the first game made it's way into the Japanese game when they also stuck in the "run" command. And, the GBA Mother 2 game has some lackluster sound compaired to the SNES (er, Super Famicom) version. They could clean the first up by just making sure they include exactly the Famicom game ONLY altering it with the additional run command, and the second one can probably be fixed by, um, well why not just release the collection, updated with fixes for all the issues people complain about, on the DS?
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