A mockup of the cover.
In 2003 Baten Kaitos director Yasuyuki Honne proposed to Nintendo a new Mother / Earthbound RPG for GameCube, but in the end the game was cancelled. This project was pitched in summer 2003, just a few months before the release of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, possibly to become their following collaboration between Nintendo, Monolith Soft, tri-Crescendo and Namco, the game was imagined in a quirky felt-made diorama graphic style, that would have been somewhat similar to classic Earthbound promotional clay models.
Plot[]
The game looks like it would've been a remake of the SNES game, EarthBound (AKA Mother 2) since Ness is seen as the player character.
Why it was Cancelled[]
- It was rejected.
- After the cancellation of Mother 3 for Nintendo 64, they were quite cautious about working on another new 3D Mother/EarthBound game.
- Itoi didn't seem very interested.
Result[]
The game was cancelled and doesn't look like it made it after the planning stages. 3 years later, Nintendo instead published Mother 3 on GBA and Yasuyuki Honne’s Baten Kaitos prequel (Baten Kaitos Origins) on GameCube.
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