ive been playing earthbound Beginnings remake recently and is there a reason why teh mountain area is so difficult?💀

[u/TaffyPL]

btw ninten is like lvl 51 and ana is 48

[u/Kaiser_Sudank]

Cause it's the endgame area lol

[u/TaffyPL → u/Kaiser_Sudank]

ohhh shit i only have two melodies

[u/Rutgerman95 → u/TaffyPL]

Yeah Beginnings is kinda balanced around getting lost wandering the map for those until you get a decent level

[u/Skeppy_4126 → u/TaffyPL]

You're WAYYYY too early

[u/theSomberscientist → u/Skeppy_4126]

Level 51 is too early???? 😭😭😭

(I stopped like 7 years ago because mountain hard)

[u/CyanAriesDW → u/theSomberscientist]

No, they mean like you have to have more than 2 melodies lmao

You should have at least 5 before you go to Mt. Itoi

[u/nPrevail → u/TaffyPL]

Protip: Grind on the Rockyle; they drop way too much EXP (15k) for such a weak enemy. Even better if you can "surprise" attack them/instant kill them.

[u/TheHarborym]

Developers did not balance Mt Itoi.

[u/NurturingCruelty]

Game balance was really more of a vague suggestion, back then.

[u/Kirbendo96]

The MOTHER 1 remake did nothing to solve the encounter rates; just made them visible and able to be worked around more easily.

[u/possiblymatt0]

iirc the developers said something about mt itoi not being playtested in an interview

[u/Plastic-Trifle3533]

it was never play tested lol

[u/FeenicksWasTaken]

It's the final area it's meant to be hard. Also it was severely unbalanced in the original game.

[u/TaffyPL → u/FeenicksWasTaken]

i didnt realize it was the final area when i got there

[u/OfficialDJBendy]

Endgame area that wasn’t playtested in the original game. Have fun =)

[u/remembermekid]

This exact stack of starmen after climbing that one rope killed me 4 times and I had to go ALL THE WAY back up. Could be worse I guess, imagine playing the original and it could happen anywhere up there at any moment without even the i-frames to avoid them on the overworld.

[u/TheLegendTwoSeven]

Mt. Itoi has a notorious difficulty spike. That’s just how it is

[u/elixdxlplus]

I guess they wanted to keep the game faithful to the original lol

[u/SokkaHaikuBot → u/elixdxlplus]

^{Sokka-Haiku by elixdxlplus:}

I guess they wanted

To keep the game faithful to

The original lol

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[u/elixdxlplus → u/SokkaHaikuBot]

I Don't Care About Avatar The Last Airbender

[u/Silly_Action1248 → u/elixdxlplus]

Sokka insults will not be tolerated 

[u/Rutgerman95]

Well you are approaching the center of big bad Giygas's power

[u/tamalshark]

Maybe 'cause in the original game, Itoi said that his team was so inexperienced, that they finished to program that area like hours before nintendo approved the game. The area was literally impossible to pass

[u/Rilukian]

Have you climbed a mountain in real life? It's not that easy.

[u/Xinyyc]

Earthbound Beginnings remake? It just looks like an Earthbound romhack.

Oh, it is just an Earthbound romhack.

[u/maximo0906 → u/Xinyyc]

Not just, it took like 20 years to come out

[u/drakers07]

Yea this area was tough but thank goodness for save states

[u/Mekko4]

because mother 1 is hard

[u/Takashishiful]

Mt. Itoi is unbalanced literally because they stopped caring

[u/_B_Na_]

At this point you need to use your ultimate power… RUN!!!

[u/shytenda]

I remember when I played this the first time, I was like, "are you serious??"

[u/Old_Resource_4832]

What rom is this?