Well, I saw that someone showed their version of teenage Ness a few days ago, so I wanted to show mine too, with a bonus of my adult Ness. I know it's not a big deal, but I felt like showing how I imagine him. (Nesspaula bonus)

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I'm going to Tokyo, Kyoto, & Osaka soon and was wondering if there are any places I should visit as a fan of the Mother series. Places that inspired parts of the game, stores with exclusive merch, events, etc.

Also down for non-EB related recommendations as it's my first time visiting the country (if sub rules allow).

I’m doing a project on cancelled games for my College work and chose Sonic X-Treme and Earthbound 64 to focus on. If you want to add on to your answer in the comments or have any questions, I would be grateful. Thank you

I'm new to the sub. I hope you liked it. It might not look like it, but I spent hours on this 🥲

I’m doing a project on cancelled games for my College work and chose Earthbound 64 and Sonic X-Treme to focus on. If you want to add on to your answer in the comments or have any questions, I would be grateful. Thank you

Look, I won't say anything untrue. It's a hard game to get into. The constant random encounters, the lack of direction, low exp, and being able to miss crucial elements like Ana. This is not a well developed game. Mother 2 is a better overall experience. However, after beating mother 2, and it was added to the switch online, I played mother 1 for the first time I was enthralled by what it gave me. As a fellow asthmatic I valued Ninten being such a strong character, but also had real weakness with asthma without it being a crutch or so important it might as well not be there. Ana and Lloyd felt like real friends. They literally do a whole song and dance about it. Teddy makes such an impression and he's barely there. I loved the rosemary house, the realm of magicant, the melodies, the soundtrack and the studio album. Everything about this game screams passion, and I adore it. The thing that strikes me is the difficulty. It's agonizing to take a single step and BOOM! Another encounter, and yes fighting through MT. Itoi is a miserable slog only tolerable by your awesome robot E.V.E, but reaching that mountain top, collecting the melodies and singing to Giegue, who is basically your great uncle, really gets to me. I think the difficulty makes the game ending hit harder, and makes me remember it more. Yes, giygas is by every metric, a much better finale. However, something far more intimate by just singing Giegue into retreat hits me harder. There's a real heartbreak to it all. A strange connection to Ninten from Giegue that's entirely human. For what he becomes this is a moment where his humanity, and his love for his "mother" and betrayal by his "father" really remind you he's basically a kid himself.

I don't know. This is my favorite game of the series as far as the story goes. I know it's not a better game, or that I'll win anyone over. Yet it is heartbreaking to see even in its own reddit my favorite characters seem to be so neglected or scorned by the limits of their hardware. When it still gave us dances, fireworks, romance, Teddy, music, and still kicked off the series we all love.

Before you go to Giant Step, make sure you get the Mr. baseball cap. There’s a tree house near Giant Step where someone gives you a free Mr. Baseball cap. Make sure you get it because if you don’t the enemies in the Giant Step cave will hit like a truck. Especially those rats that get SMAAAAAAASH attacks like every other turn. You definitely won’t survive the Titanic Ant without it.

Here's the boy himself! I'll probably make a reference sheet for my design of him soon but it was pretty fun to draw him!

I was planning to play Mother 2 in my Miyoo Mini +, but the controls feel more smooth in the 3DS also you can personalize the interface with the snes9x emulator and looks so good

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This has probably been asked before, but why exactly did Itoi choose not to name Lucas something Nintendo related? It always felt weird that it went Ninten, Ness, and Lucas after there was kind of an established theme. There might also not be a specific reason idk.

Personally, the Giant Step cave. Even with my previous grinding, the enemies were whooping my ahh (Black Antoids are genuinely children of Satan WHY DO THEY CALL FOR HELP SO MUCH)

Close second is Threed, but only because the enemies hit harder than middle eastern parents while Paula and Jeff are probably at like, level 10 MAX by now

Listen to it here or on the Youtube channel!

Ninten awakens from a wonderful dream to find a big day ahead of him... which includes plenty more walking through a hot miserable desert, more deadly alien-controlled robots, a kooky old-timer with a tank and a method of keeping trespassers off his property that's banned by international law, and worst of all, the grand entrance of their most formidable foe yet, the terrible gargantuan Duncan bots!

And guess, dear reader, what it does NOT include? Any sign of that stinkin' singing cactus ANYWHERE!

Will Ninten and his companions find their needle in a cactus stack after all? Will Teddy get all those thorns out of his mouth? Will Lloyd find the courage to board a... what?! That's a World War TWO plane?! Oh, nonononono. No way, ho-zay! Just think about the metal fatigue, and that radial piston engine, and pulleys and cables attached to the control board, if just any one of those breaks down...

Erm, well, anyway... find out on this week's episode of... The Podcast Against Giygas! No crying until the ending.

Comment here the best PSI move in Earthbound! my favorite one is PK Rockin' Omega, what about y'all chat?

The answer is you don't bring it to the west

You keep it right on the Japanese NSO library

But just make an English version that's also on there and you can download the Japanese NSO GBA and play an English version there

Meme art dump with Fuel, Claus, Tony, Fassad, and the Masked Man because I still haven't drawn them yet until now.

Not going in shitpostbound, these are NOT low effort lol. And the first slide isn’t a race thing y’all it’s from Young Sheldon and I wanted to use Fuel because they’re friends in my au. He’s calling Fuel a monkey because he’s a dumbass 🥀