Everything we've seen of this game is so painfully "Nintendo 64" that it makes me instantly nostalgic despite not being aware of it as a kid. As cool as it would have been to see this version of Mother 3 completed, I'm weirdly happy it wasn't - there's something about these lonely, abandoned concepts that lets the mind go wild with "what if" and "if only". The screenshots and videos are little portals into a bygone era, and help us recapture some of that feeling of excitement towards the seemingly limitless promise and potential video games had back then.

That dog haunts my godsdamned dreams, though