376:). Some of the artists had been on the project for over three years. They estimated the project to be about 60 percent complete at the time of cancellation—the basics were complete and only programming was left. About 30 percent of the final product was completed. Itoi estimated that it would have taken an additional two years to finish properly, and Iwata said that the game might have been finished by 2000 had the scope been reduced two years earlier. Miyamoto was involved in other work and spent little time on-site with the project, and Iwata too was distracted by bankruptcy concerns at HAL Labs and was off-site in 1999 due to circumstances that required travel. Iwata was also hospitalized during production for stress-related reasons. The team intended to have the game finished by the end of 1999 and knew they had to reconsider their priorities when they missed the milestone. They said that the
456:. He conceptualized the process as designing 3D "puppets" that could then be easily moved around the "stage". In actuality, each custom scene required special programming. The player-character changed between each chapter—a concept they first attempted in their previous game—so as to see multiple characters grow. As development wore on, Itoi offered to compromise by replacing full chapters with sequences of still images and text. They cut the total chapters to seven or nine by the time it was canceled. Itoi described the story as "normal" for its first half, leading up to a "triple-play twist". One of the game's themes was the reckless appearance and "uncomfortable beauty" of
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Pigmask theme, but they decided to add a new song to
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Nintendo 64 version was darker, "dirtier", and more upsetting, though the final version changed little in concept. The Nintendo 64 version was to be more vague and left to the player's imagination through its sparse dialogue. Itoi attributed the change in tone to his own growth and
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was "one of his themes". As such, players sweat when learning an ability, based on Itoi's belief of how physical struggle facilitates growth. He also included characters like the
Magypsies and Duster (who has a bad leg) to show the value of having friends with different qualities. Some environments
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Chimeras". Itoi compared the reckless
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supervisors had wanted to cancel the project since 1999, but later changed sides and said that cancellation would be wasteful. They discussed bringing the game to their forthcoming GameCube, which
Miyamoto said would have solved some of the Nintendo 64's hardware issues. Miyamoto and Iwata also
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and decided, based on encouragement from several failed fan petitions, to release the game. Itoi had earlier assumed that restarting the project was impossible, and said that his final effort to finish the game to be more like a "prayer" than like "vengeance". Other than the graphical changes
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who would become engrossed in a big murder case, and the story would unfold from a young female clerk at a flower shop who would slowly recall parts of a story consequential to the plot. Thus, the city would appear to grow. This idea of a "single place changing over time" was central to
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development team carried over to the new game's development, though several people left and the team grew in size. They forwent the usual prototyping phase and went straight into development expecting to create something unprecedented. Itoi said he wanted to make the game like a
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the character composition of the new development team. He said that he had not been changed by fans. Itoi always planned for the two brothers to fight each other, though he did not write the ending until after production had already begun, a process he compared with
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with two boys, Lucca and Klaus (later becoming Lucas and Claus), and a dog, Boney. The game was to include over 10 playable characters and span 10 years in its story based around the Pig army, which attempts to use "primitive machinery ... to enslave mankind". At
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s "hallucinatory city", Moonside. Another of his themes is the duality of the seriousness and lightheartedness of games, which is why he added a serious death scene to the first chapter. Parts of the game reference outside media such as
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Advance, whereupon it became a bestseller. A
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were added to serve specific purposes. For example, Osohe Castle was meant to show the scale of time and
Tantane Island was designed to reflect the player's worst nightmares as similar to
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Iwata clarified that the franchise was not abandoned but that the game would no longer be developed for the
Nintendo 64, and Miyamoto added that it was not due to project complications or
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appearance of chimeras to the mutilated toys of Sid from
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1835:"Years Later, Mother 3 Still Lives Up to All the Hype"
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1936:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part One)"
1761:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part Two)"
1712:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part One)"
1670:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part One)"
1625:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part Two)"
1583:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part One)"
1538:"Shigesato Itoi Tells All about Mother 3 (Part Two)"
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926:"Vapor Trails: The Games that Never Were"
638:Itoi chose to use the pixelated style of
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1872:"Mother 3 Gets a Little More Special"
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1046:Thomas, Lucas M. (August 17, 2006).
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381:discussed releasing the game on the
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354:Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto,
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1802:Adashek, Jeffrey (July 22, 2004).
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1186:"MOTHER 3's Timeline of Hope"
1144:IGN Staff (August 22, 2000).
848:"『ＭＯＴＨＥＲ ３』の開発が中止になったことについての"
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1342:"THE BEST OF SPACEWORLD"
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1190:Legends of Localization
1048:"RETRO REMIX: ROUND 25"
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