This fan-crafted Mother 3 remake concept is one for the ages

destructoid.com:

With the Nintendo Switch Online release of EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings, the Mother series is fresh on fans’ minds — not that they ever stop playing, dreaming, and creating. Today, thanks to a fan-created trailer from Curiomatic, we can peer into an alternate universe where Mother 3 got a remake with stop-motion clay stylings.

It feels strange to even sum this project up as a “trailer” — so much work went into devising the visual identity of this (not actually playable) Mother 3 remake.

“This video represents over two years of work on a scale many times larger than anything we’ve attempted in the past,” said Curiomatic. “It is quite possibly the largest fan production we will ever produce.”

So while it’s not going to be a playable fan game, it was still a capital-e Effort from this group. Sharing more behind-the-scenes context on the official website for this unofficial love letter, the Mother 3: Tribute team explained that they wanted to “freely explore the aesthetics of a hypothetical remake without the anxieties related to fan games.”

The creators also spoke about the clay style and why it fits:

“In many ways, MOTHER 3 has always felt like a game that was never given the same presence as its predecessors. One particular shortcoming of the original game’s marketing was the lack of promotional imagery, especially when compared to the previous two games, which both came with a collection of charming clay model renderings.

In an effort to rectify this, many passionate fans in the MOTHER 3 community have taken it upon themselves to create their own clay models, some of which have become ubiquitous among the fandom. In that tradition, we’ve produced our own key art to represent our vision for what a MOTHER 3 remake