EarthBound Beginnings

EarthBound Beginnings

released on Jun 14, 2015

EarthBound Beginnings

released on Jun 14, 2015

An expanded game of Mother

EarthBound Beginnings is the first installment in the EarthBound / Mother series. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products, and Pax Softnica, and was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989. Though officially translated into English under the name EarthBound in 1990 complete with a variety of updates and new content, the planned release of the North American localization was ultimately cancelled due to Nintendo of America ending support for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Despite this, the updates made to the game for the English localization was included in the Japanese Mother 1+2 rerelease for Game Boy Advance in 2003. The English version was finally released on the Wii U Virtual Console on June 14th, 2015, 25 years after its intended release date.


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Mother 3
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I've never understood the appeal of Mother/Earthbound. The first one especially feels like a pretty generic JRPG of the late 80s that involves a lot of grinding and some really annoying dungeons. The tongue in cheek humor is decent at best, but certainly can't carry the story which, while unique, isn't all that interesting to me.

I love almost everything about this game except actually playing it. The setting was novel and ambitious for the time, the world map is huge, the storyline has some interesting twists to it, and the music is among the absolute best on the NES. It's also a slog of an RPG mechanically, with underpowered player characters, constant random encounters, and hilariously imbalanced battle abilities.

If you've never played a Mother game, I recommend starting with EarthBound rather than this. That said, if you're willing to push through the difficulty and repetitive encounters, there is a fascinating game with a lot to like here in the end. You definitely will feel like a kid trying to fight an alien invasion, at least.

EarthBound Beginnings has this weird, quirky charm, and definitely made me laugh a bunch. But man, it's OLD. Like, grinding, random battles, and sometimes you get totally lost. It's more like a time capsule of old-school RPGs than a game I'd come back to often.

Não sei exatamente o que senti, só sei que senti alguma coisa,
talvez felicidade genuína?

7/10

Sans soluce j'suis perdu mdr. Sinon c'était un bon démarrage j'imagine, pour le Japon ?

I'm surprised 2 good games came out of this