Does anyone else just LOVE this game? I've lost count of how many times I've played through it. It just seems to never get old. It's more of an RPG for kids, but it's sooo fun that I'm still able to enjoy it in my 30s.
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I whip out my SNES about once a year and play it. One of my favorite RPGs. Have you tried the sequel?
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Mother 3 only came out in Japan for the Game Boy Advance, but there are English fan translations floating around the Internet.
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Have you seen what this game goes for on Ebay? Holy moly!#LFC
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Yep, it's best to buy Earthbound on Nintendo's eShop, if you have a Wii U. I think it's something like $10 on there.
That version has a cool feature that lets you view the game's official player's guide on the GamePad.Comment
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I've got the snes9x emulator on my computer at work so that I'm able to play it anytime and being free, it doesn't get any better than that. Lol! I've got E.V.O. Search for Eden on there, too, which is one of the most expensive games I've ever seen on ebay. Like, RIDICULOUSLY expensive. Really wish I still had my cartridges of these two games.#LFC
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Never got into this when I was younger when it came out.....but now that it is way beyond the year 199x and I saw this thread I thought I'd give it another go in my mid 30s.......
DAMN YOU FRANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frank and your brandishing of knives.......haha. I"m hookedComment
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Argh, don't tell my kid self that. Back when I first played the game I barely understood it at all after the first town or so (Frank and his bot in particular are a nice early "Welcome to RPG's" for anyone not familiar with the leveling up concept.
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That said, it along with Super Mario RPG are two of the 3 reasons I became such a fan of JRPG's - they were released about a year apart and are the first two of the genre I really played. The third reason is Final Fantasy 7. Mario is the first one I finished - I didn't beat Earthbound until many years later.
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Hahah. Welcome to RPG....I never played them. Frank beat me like 12 times before I said, "I bet I need to get more mp and pp or whatever that is by fighting dudes"Argh, don't tell my kid self that. Back when I first played the game I barely understood it at all after the first town or so (Frank and his bot in particular are a nice early "Welcome to RPG's" for anyone not familiar with the leveling up concept. ).
That said, it along with Super Mario RPG are two of the 3 reasons I became such a fan of JRPG's - they were released about a year apart and are the first two of the genre I really played. The third reason is Final Fantasy 7. Mario is the first one I finished - I didn't beat Earthbound until many years later.
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I fought everything in site, got tons of good night sleeps and pizza..beat Frank.Comment
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This game actually is very adult. A lot of things about this game is adult oriented. It just seems like a kids game. Definitely play Mother 2+3 for GBA on an emulator. They were Japanese only but their are some English translations for it.Comment
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Yeah the only kid friendly aspect of Earthbound is its comic book art style.
The battles requires a lot of grinding and lack the flashy combat animations of other 1990s RPGs. The script contains lots of adult themes and is full of references to stuff only adults would understand.
Super Mario RPG is a much more kid friendly game, and it is the one that I would recommend to people who are new to the genre.Comment
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Yeah, whereas Earthbound (Mother 2) is pretty subtle about its adult orientation (except for Giygas which is just pure nightmare fuel for everyone), Mother 3 makes makes no attempt to hide it right from the start. The first section of the game was quite a shock given how I remembered EB.Comment
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I played this game and rented it a couple times from Blockbuster.
One weekend, I played pretty much non stop and got to the end. But I never actually beat the final boss despite spending 2-3 hours fighting him.
All because I didn't have a strategy guide and I had no idea you were supposed to pray like ten times with the girl. If that was mentioned at all during the game, I missed it.
I remember returning to school Monday morning after sliding this game into the Blockbuster slot and being told by some kid in school that had the guide what I was supposed to do. Then he laughed at me.
Always bothered me. It's the game I always say I finished if only I had beat it."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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