 All right, this news you need to take with an obvious grain of salt It's a rumor, but it's a rumor that destructoid is backing heavily and It kind of is interesting in wake of some comments that Reggie Feeza may stated earlier this year But let's just get right into it. So destructoid Editor Jonathan Holmes put up a post. He's calling it an opinion It it fits more in the rumor territory. He admits kind of in the leak of the SNES classic He says he has sources that are very trustworthy very close to the situation but obviously you can't reveal them and Essentially you saw the title of the video It's that mother three is never going to be localized and the Rhythm Heaven series is dead Here is what his source said to him verbatim You never know what's going to happen, but the way it looks right now under Nintendo's current administration Mother three will never leave Japan and there will never be another Rhythm Heaven game Iowata was a driving force behind the Rhythm Heaven series and a consistent advocate for NOA to at least look at the possibility of Mother 3 Finding a new audience in the United States and Europe with him gone There is no one at Nintendo pushing for either anymore The core team behind Rhythm Heaven series has more or less been Disbanded and the last time anyone at NOA considered translating Mother 3 They shelved the game as soon as they got to the mega The Meg sees I can't really pronounce the word MAG YPS IES And that was a while ago now and if anything Management has gotten even less adventurous since then depicting trans characters in a way that would likely insult both the political left and the right in the US is The kind of attention that Nintendo Wants for themselves in in 2017 or doesn't want for themselves They want nothing to do with those kinds of headlines and potential protests Ho man So this is a lot to digest for starters It sucks that the Rhythm Heaven series is Seemingly done. It was a series. I enjoyed. I'm sure many of you enjoyed as well But obviously with the late Satoru Iowata passed away And him being the sole advocate for that series Obviously, it's not gonna happen anymore and the fact the whole team for the Rhythm Heaven series has been disbanded Dispursed maybe some people quit maybe moved on to other positions. That's where a very good side of Rhythm Heaven is done Mother 3 coming West it sucks that Mother 3 is a fantastic game We all know for a long time now There's been a fan Translation that has existed for a long time for people who want to play the ROM version of the game and enjoy it in English and what how accurate that Translation is I can't verify because I don't speak Japanese but it's very interesting that the hook up here has to do with the depiction of trans characters and The way that it would upset the left and right politically and that Nintendo doesn't want that kind of attention it sucks we live in a world where Nintendo has to worry about the political backlash of the United States government officials When it comes to releasing a game because we've seen games tackle, you know gay people and trans and you know the whole wide spectrum of of sexual preferences and Gender identities and for Nintendo to be afraid to dive into that territory themselves when they very clearly We're not afraid of it when mother 3 was created many many many years ago in Japan It kind of sucks that they had they have this fear that it's going to have create some sort of Backlash that isn't worth the sales. They're going to get and I think Nintendo Sometimes especially in a way and this has been a criticism of and away for a long time We've seen how they have altered text in games from their original Translations several times over it happened or even in Breath of the Wild It wasn't as bad in Breath of the Wild But there are certain elements of people are trying to place it timeline wise that literally do not exist in the original text in Japanese Speaking specifically of a reference to Twilight Princess. So it's It's really interesting When you sit back and you look at how Nintendo of America has handled translations over years in the way They've altered things and the type of things they've censored You know, we've seen in the Fire Emblem series. Oh, someone's you know, there's a girl showing her hip We better hide that in the box art or in the official art or in the cut scene by having some clothes covered up And it's not like that kind of stuff to me is a big deal I understand where they're coming from trying to desexualize the game a little bit because it's more acceptable in Japan than it is here. I mean kind of crazy, right that that in the country were porn and You know at late night TV and you know all these You know Game of Thrones has naked people at it I mean in a society we live in today in the United States that we're afraid of a little hip action in a video game Just seems weird, but Nintendo of America has had a lot of Issues when it comes to translating games and their strict policies regarding it and as much as Reggie Fesame and others might advocate Nintendo for games like Xenoblade Chronicles It's really hard Looking at them with a straight face when you hear news like this that Satoru Awada the literal like guy who ran all of Nintendo Wanted Mother 3 to come to the US, but it was Nintendo of America that put up the Roblox for it That sucks when you hear that because the translation team as they're translating the game stopped at a point where the trans came into the game like I It's really frustrating that a game like this is Likely never going to come to the United States never get an official translation Because Nintendo is so worried about political backlash. I don't think I Mean there's a there's a place where politics and video games cross right that happens There are games that are very political oriented just like there's TV shows that are political and you know last man standing was very right-leaning It was definitely like a Republican kind of show and there's lots of you know Leftist shows as well out there that dive into politics and that's fine That's okay, and it's okay for video games to do that as well But that's not really what mother 3 does right? It's at least from what I could tell from the fan translation How it approaches trans people isn't that bad is it? Insulting in some ways. I guess I can see it, but it's not it's not like it's definitely an adult theme But it's not something that we should be so afraid to wrap our minds around as Consumers and Nintendo of America shouldn't be afraid as well And that's what sucks is that as long as it's got this controversial theme in the game Nintendo's not going to bring it over and it feels weird saying this because earlier this year You know Reggie Fizemei hinted that if we didn't hear anything about mother that we that to talk to him about mother 3 at the end of the year if we don't hear anything about it by then and Lo and behold now we finally hearing something come out of the grapevine and that is that it's not coming and it's like The excuse here sucks and I'm sure Someone's gonna have the balls to ask Reggie about this specific instance and Reggie of course Isn't gonna comment on anything behind the scenes like that But it would be cool to get clarification from him that it's not a theme in the game That's that's preventing it from coming to the United States because if that's the case I Don't know how to feel and I don't know if you guys know how to feel either because Some of you might not even be aware of what the theme is here and why the right end left would both be upset at Nintendo If they release the game with it's it's really mind-boggling to me and Nintendo Is definitely a company that always tries to be at least in America politically correct I think we can all as Nintendo fans admit Nintendo doesn't like to stir the pot and doesn't like to create controversy But I don't really know what the problem is with doing that once in a while It's not like the right and the left are gonna suddenly shun your games From retailers they want to make money and there's plenty of more controversial games that get released and still come to the retailers Heck if you're worried you can make it retailer Specific you did it with xeno big chronicles. You could just talk about the game stop They're not gonna care. They just want money and just be like game stop We'll release some of the three but exclusively there so then you don't have to worry about People that run other companies like wal-mart and target and toys are us and best buy There's ways around this and I mean that most obvious way around it is just make it a digital download Then who cares? I mean will the new york times or somebody else write an article about it? Sure And they always paint video games seemingly in a bad light But there's so much good will build up nintendo that I think you can handle a blow like this to Satisfy your fan base. I mean you're putting these characters in games like smash bros The least you can do is give us the the supposing conclusion To the earthbound series in the west in some way even if it's just a digital download do it nintendo Don't let politics get in the way of releasing one of the best games You guys have ever made in the history of your company. Come on nintendo Get off your butts and give us the game. We all have been wanting for decades It exists. It's in your library. If it's not a problem in japan It's not like we have any worse rules here in the united states. Let's make it happen Stop worrying about offending people. Anyways folks. I am Nathaniel ruffle jance from nintendo prime If you like this video, you know what to do if you dislike the video hit that dislike button Subscribe for more and oh man. I'll catch you guys in the next one