Earthbound Beginnings - Blog Posts
He's Here!
This is very much a work in progress...
I mostly made it to test a pod design...
...I may have gotten carried away.
I've been sitting on these for about a week.
The original sprites (on the left of each) were found through Spriter's Resource and ripped by the following users there: DragonDePlatino, Solink, Mike W, Sunny Cassette
You know how some artists draw Ninten with the red blue and white shirt he has in the Mother 1 commercial to differentiate him from Ness? While I was in my algebra 2 class and saw a kid wearing a shirt exactly like the one Ninten wears in the commercial bro had the Ninten drip
I got to the sunflower fields in Mother 3 today… man these games they just keep on destroying me emotionally and when Hinawa’s ghost or Lucas’s hallucination of her whatever it was supposed to be made me cry again I had already cried when she died I cried when Queen Mary/Maria disappeared after the 8 melodies were played I cried during EarthBound’s 8 melodies flashback these games man they’re killing me with my own emotions in the best way possible and based off what Alec said I now headcanon that Hinawa has been following around Lucas as a ghost to keep an eye on him just to make myself feel a little better I need this
My First Time Playing EarthBound
The second thing I did besides text the person who convinced me to play it that I had finished it is make this tumblr post. I would say how incredible of a game EarthBound is but I think we all already know that. Let’s get one thing out of the way I am no gamer. The Mother series is the first video games I’ve played in a while. And just getting to Giygas was a challenge but when I got to the part where it says that the player was praying for the characters you bet your ass I was. I genuinely feel so bad for killing all of my flying men.
I had decided to play Mother 1 before EarthBound just to see what it would be like and man was it weird like I immediately knew where the chick in Magicant was from. And there was a bunch of other things that made me think “that doesn’t make sense if you haven’t played M1.”
M1 already made me cry and I also cried a couple of different times during EB. During the 8 melodies flashback, when everyone is praying for Ness’s and his friends’ safety. It’s amazing just how hard emotionally these decades old games can hit. And of course I’m gonna play Mother 3 next. Thank you Mr. Itoi for these wonderful games, and thank you to my best friend who convinced me to play them. I don’t think I will ever forget the experience of playing these games.