What is MOTHER 3?

An awesome RPG. This video (which, like any good trailer, contains some spoilers!) says it all:

The Backstory

Mother 3 is the sequel to EarthBound (an epic Super Nintendo RPG released in 1995) which was in development for 12 years before it was released in Japan in April 2006.

It soon became clear that Nintendo of America was uninterested in localizing the game, so in November 2006 the fans took matters into their own hands with the Do it Yourself Devotion project.

For two years a team of translators and hackers worked to produce an in-depth, professional translation and localization of MOTHER 3. In August 2007 the team began blogging about their progress, attracting the attention of the gaming industry, media, and more than half a million unique visitors.

On October 17, 2008, version 1.0 of the fan translation was released. It was downloaded well over 100,000 times in the months which followed. On July 19, 2009, version 1.1 was released, containing typo/grammar corrections and a series of bug fixes.

Good times.