God, it's like the late nineties again, when people would regularly make mods/translations to GBC games. I remember playing a 100% translated copy of Pokémon Silver before it came out in the UK. It was fun.
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Yeah I beat it yesterday. I think the ending was nice, maybe not great, but it was really something I would expect out of a Mother game. SPOILERS AHEAD:
I liked how it wasn't a miracle happy ending: I mean, we are talking about a dragon as big as the fucking world, shit was obviously gonna happen, but you still ended up talking to all the main characters in the end, so you know that it will all be alright. I read somewhere that the last speech box, the empty one, is supposed to be Leder's. Oh, I loved it when I found Leder near the end it was such a cool detail. I think the game was AWESOME all in all. Also, go back to your last save and speak to Flint about ten times in a row just before the last boss. It will be fun.
And also also, I swear I almost shed manly tears when it said "Lucas remembered Claus's smell". ;_;
Is Earthbound out for the virtual console? I never played it, and I'm one for playing the original before entering a sequel. (And that is why my PS3 will never feel MGS4 inside it.)
But if you're wanting to play the original before the sequel, you should start with 'Mother' for NES. I would recommend an Emulator for both Mother and Earthbound.
Mother is canon, but it was never available commercially in the US, so most Earthbound fans didn't grow up with it and don't care about it. Personally I think it's a pretty slick NES game.
*shrug* Earthbound got a pretty big following all on its lonesome.
I should probably confess that I don't think Earthbound is, as they say, "all that and a bag of potato chips". It's okay, but it's not AMAZING. I think the game just couldn't amount to all the extreme hype from the Earthbound devout. Same thing happened to me with Chrono Trigger and 3D Final Fantasy games.
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I downloaded it yesterday. It's fecking AWESOME!
I'm not quite sure what to think.
I liked how it wasn't a miracle happy ending: I mean, we are talking about a dragon as big as the fucking world, shit was obviously gonna happen, but you still ended up talking to all the main characters in the end, so you know that it will all be alright. I read somewhere that the last speech box, the empty one, is supposed to be Leder's. Oh, I loved it when I found Leder near the end it was such a cool detail. I think the game was AWESOME all in all. Also, go back to your last save and speak to Flint about ten times in a row just before the last boss. It will be fun.
And also also, I swear I almost shed manly tears when it said "Lucas remembered Claus's smell". ;_;
But if you're wanting to play the original before the sequel, you should start with 'Mother' for NES. I would recommend an Emulator for both Mother and Earthbound.
Honestly, I'd just skip Mother (Earthbound Zero) and go straight to Earthbound on the SNES.
I should probably confess that I don't think Earthbound is, as they say, "all that and a bag of potato chips". It's okay, but it's not AMAZING. I think the game just couldn't amount to all the extreme hype from the Earthbound devout. Same thing happened to me with Chrono Trigger and 3D Final Fantasy games.