What is Mother 3?
{{Infobox video game |image= |caption= |developer={{ubl|[[Brownie Brown]]|[[HAL Laboratory]]}} |publisher=[[Nintendo]] |series=''[[Mother (video game series)|Mother]]'' |platforms=[[Game Boy Advance]] |released={{vgrelease|JP|April 20, 2006}} |genre= [[Role-playing video game|Role-playing game]] |modes= [[Single-player]] |director=[[Nobuyuki Inoue]] |producer={{ubl|[[Shinichi Kameoka]]|[[Kensuke Tanabe]]|Keisuke Terasaki}} |artist=Nobuhiro Imagawa |writer=[[Shigesato Itoi]] |composer=Shogo Sakai }} '''''Mother 3''''' is a [[video game]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]], made by [[Brownie Brown]] and [[HAL Laboratory]]. It was released on [[April 20]], [[2006]] and it is the third game in the ''[[Mother (video game)|Mother]]'' video game series, called ''[[EarthBound]]'' outside of Japan. The game was kept secret until it appeared in June 2003 during a ''[[Mother 1 + 2]]'' commercial in Japan. Once it appeared, the game stayed near the top of [[Famitsu]]'s Most Wanted Games list.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://forum.starmen.net/?t=msg&th=21957 | title=Earthbound 2 / Mother 3: Mother 3 is THE Most Wanted in Weekly Famitsu! « the Newsroom « Forum « Starmen.Net }}</ref> ==Development== ''Mother 3'' was first going to be made for the [[Nintendo 64]] and then later for the [[Nintendo 64DD]]. It was going to be called ''Earthbound 64''. It was canceled after the developers were having problems making the 3D graphics work. It was moved to the [[Game Boy Advance]], and came out in [[2006]]. It uses much stuff from ''EarthBound 64'', including the characters Lucas, Claus, Flint, and Boney, as well as the villain of the game, Porky ==Storyline== ''Mother 3'' takes place on Nowhere Islands. The Nowhere Islands are a large amount of islands in the middle of the ocean. They contain one volcano, two mountains, a castle, and one small village called Tazmily. The story takes place when Lucas, his brother Claus, and his mother Hinawa take a vacation to his grandpa's house. During the vacation, Lucas and Claus play with a race of peac