Mother 3 is a 2006
role-playing video game in the
Mother series, developed by
Brownie Brown and
HAL Laboratory and published by
Nintendo for the
Game Boy Advance. The game, intended to be the final entry in the series, was directed by
Nobuyuki Inoue, written by series creator
Shigesato Itoi, and scored by composer Shogo Sakai. The story follows Lucas, a young boy with psychic abilities, as he attempts to prevent an invading army from destroying the world. The game's themes include
human physiology, renewal, moral fungibility, and dualisms such as nature and technology, and
feudalism and
capitalism.