No it wouldn't unless you know Japanese. It's a text heavy game. I don't know how good GBA emulators are for phones these days, if you think your phone is beefy enough to handle it go for it. If you can't run the translator program on a phone do it on a computer then email it. I actually somewhat recently played the first Mother. It was pretty good although slightly cryptic, but NES games are. Mother 3 Is really amazing though.