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Anonymous01/29/26, 03:06No.731822181
Red pill me on Earthbound anon
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Anon01/29/26, 03:07No.731822247
Funny soulful JRPG with banging tunes
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Anon01/29/26, 03:17No.731822760
Its fun
you should play it.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:30No.731823405
Good jrpg with a cancerous fanbase
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Anon01/29/26, 03:32No.731823521
If you're competent at JRPGs, play Mother 2 Deluxe. It adds new difficulty modes and a shit ton of new optional content. Base Earthbound is way too easy for an adult, I beat it when I was 8 and enjoyed the fuck out of it but it's trivial now.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:33No.731823550
Terrible JRPG with terrible gameplay and somehow an even more terrible fanbase.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:34No.731823590
party members joining at level 1 is fucking stupid
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Anon01/29/26, 03:34No.731823598
Original was better
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Anon01/29/26, 03:36No.731823706
The gameplay is just a simplistic/generic JRPG, if you've played an older Dragon Quest game or any RPGM shitware you've pretty much got the gameplay down.Its main appeal is its aesthetics and humor. If you don't care about that then it's not worth playing. Earthbound is overhyped by nostalgiafags and people who have never played the game. It still beats out every "Earthbound-inspired" indieshit game though, none of them actually understand what makes Earthound the way it is.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:37No.731823717
this played in my head upon seeing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKfXsTkA71I
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Anon01/29/26, 03:38No.731823781
It's pretty decent. Play it, ignore anyone talking about it or saying they were inspired by it.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:40No.731823869
i hear the apple kid tune when im droppin a deucer
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Anon01/29/26, 03:42No.731823981
reddit.
paula is hot
kumatora is hot
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Anon01/29/26, 03:43No.731824010
there's a reason why every shitty indie dev tries to copy it
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Anon01/29/26, 03:46No.731824179
Uncslop.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:48No.731824248
best rpg I've played
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Anon01/29/26, 03:49No.731824312
its the best JRPG ever, according to people who didn't know who the fuck Ness was in smash bros
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Anon01/29/26, 03:49No.731824318
It's a fun little JRPG that occasionally likes to fuck with you
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Anon01/29/26, 03:50No.731824392
Early game is rough, but if you tough it out you'll be rewarded with kino
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Anon01/29/26, 03:51No.731824397
It's a funny RPG that's surprisingly grounded in realism despite all the wacky shit going on.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:02No.731824942
That's right keep walkin whyd boi
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Anon01/29/26, 04:13No.731825396
The "outer-game" (everything besides the main mechanics) is fucking great, I could easily say it's probably the best I ever played, but I just hate the 4-niggas-in-a-row gameplay.I dont know how there are people that only play turn based RPGs. Playing Pokemon games in my teenage years was more than enough to me.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:25No.731825954
the artstyle and environment is cool but the gameplay is annoying as hell. It's a JRPG dungeon wandering slog thats so repetitive they even fucking reference it in the game itself.
I quit around the time you get to the far away dinosaur area. If you like grinding in RPGmaker games have fun. Otherwise, watch a longplay.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:52No.731827036
>earthbound was based on the lead dev's childhood experiences and makes many references to real-world happenings
>"earthbound-inspired" games are just filled with internet references and take place in settings detached from reality
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Anon01/29/26, 05:29No.731828639
It's a game about coming of age, about the loss of innocence. With a cutesy and whimsical exterior, you will notice that the game tackles some very fucked up themes like the KKK or Giygas being a rape scene as Itoi witnessed it in his childhood (he walked into a movie theater's basement in Japan --some theaters in Japan have regular movies on the top floor and smut in the basement). It manages to feel refreshing and fun even though technologically it's stale compared to other RPGs of its time like Chrono Trigger or SMRPG. Itoi wanted to make a game "for children, for adults, and even your older sister", and he succeeded at that by tugging at people's heartstrings.
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Anon01/29/26, 05:36No.731828893
it's quirky wholesome chungus millenial core.
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Anon01/29/26, 05:53No.731829607
You play earthbound so that you can play mother 3
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Anon01/29/26, 05:54No.731829639
You play earthbound so that you can play earthbound
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Anon01/29/26, 05:55No.731829661
You mother 1 so you can play mother 2 so you can play mother 3
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Anon01/29/26, 05:59No.731829831
You play Mother 3 so you can say you played Earthbound
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Anon01/29/26, 06:01No.731829902
i've played it through like 8 times now. last time I played it on dreamcast through an emulator. fun gayme
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Anon01/29/26, 06:02No.731829927
I played Mother 2 a year or two back, thought it was fucking awful. Itoi's writing is shit, I assume it's a game you had to be 12 to enjoy like DQ5.
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Anon01/29/26, 06:07No.731830098
it's fun and funny. combat good but too slow for my zoomer brain
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Anon01/29/26, 06:08No.731830104
I did not care for Mother 3
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Anon01/29/26, 06:08No.731830110
I liked Mother a bit better. It's a much more interesting game, while also being much more rough around the edges.
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Anon01/29/26, 06:10No.731830209
Two humans were kidnapped by mewtwo aliens, they took care of a mewtwo baby and named it some stupid name and sang to it. The human dude discovered psychic powers and escaped, eventually his grandson learned of it too.
Aliens get pissed off and send the mewtwo baby (all grown up now???) to blow up the planet.
Small child sings to it and it has a mental breakdown, leaving but threatening to return again.
Apparently this doesn't happen because instead it gets so powerful it's fucking mind explodes and it becomes an abstract being of pure evil and power.
Then some kids pray the little fucker away lmao.
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Anon01/29/26, 06:11No.731830259
One of the all time greats. Top 10 hands down, arguable top 5.
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Anon01/29/26, 06:11No.731830260
reddit humor game
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Anon01/29/26, 06:16No.731830453
I love Earthbound. I discuss lore, repost art and listen to the OSTI plan on playing it the first time this year
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Anon01/29/26, 06:27No.731830908
For me, it's never skipping the intro when booting up the game, ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viP2-Mz4aaQ
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Anon01/29/26, 06:34No.731831201
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Anon01/29/26, 06:35No.731831231
>Disregards your meager Magicant character development
>Takes the lead role in the final battle, saves the universe
>Makes you take her home before you can end the gameAre there any other examples of a secondary character coming in clutch at the end of the story?
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Anon01/29/26, 07:42No.731833639
It's funny. Maybe not laugh out loud funny, but it will make you grin. I consider it similar to comic strip humor, which checks out since Peanuts is a big inspiration for the series.
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Anon01/29/26, 08:15No.731834640
It's a cute and quirky JRPG with some real time strategy by timing when to heal or attack.
The fanbase can be cringe and reddit but they're passioante, I'll give them that.
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Anon01/29/26, 08:23No.731834913
dragon quest set in fake america with goofy but earnest writing and mechanics that take the piss out of JRPGs