#earthbound spoilers

[maskedteatime]

self destruction

giygas is such a fascinating situation. imagine being so overwhelmed that your physical form dissolves

#earthbound spoilers #earthbound beginnings #mother 1 spoilers #earthbound #art #digital art #giygas #giegue #gyiyg #i love animal symbolism #this is an insane contrast to my last post but whatevs #he looks like a dog because because. mans best friend. #and ninten's family probably loved dogs #and he he looks like a goat because. sin symbolism.

[prokopetz]

why do you think earthbound was THE progenitor of so many inde rpgs? was it just that it was an rpg that did something new with its setting published by a big name?

(With reference to this post here.)

The big-name marketing engine and where it happens to be situated in time is certainly a big part of it, but something that's easy to overlook about EarthBound if you're not familiar with the timeline of console generations is that EarthBound is so frequently name-checked by weird meta retro games because EarthBound is, itself, a weird meta retro game – one of the very first of its kind.

It's funny to think of a Super Nintendo game from 1994 as "retro" from the perspective of 2022 – isn't that just what games were like back then? The thing is: no, they weren't. Most Super Nintendo RPGs did not look like EarthBound.

A big part of EarthBound's aesthetic boils down to juxtaposing current gen flash and spectacle (understanding that "current gen" means "for 1994") with deliberately shitty graphics and audio, and mechanics that are janky and counterintuitive in a calculated way to create a very specific experience.

This is apparent in everything from the old school pick-a-verb menu interface that you literally never have to use because the game also has a context-sensitive action button, to the soundtrack's whiplash-inducing transitions between NES-style bleeps and FM synth (wait for it at about 0:53), to the American localisation's script being a blatant spoof of the frequently genuinely terrible translations of the game's NES predecessors.

Plus, the weird meta stuff that modern retro RPGs are known for? EarthBound already has that. It's famous for being one of the first console RPGs where diegetically acknowledging the human player as a separate entity from the player character is an explicit plot point. It even has a clever sleight of hand where it asks the player to fill out a fake consumer survey partway through the game so that it can drop your real name into dialogue later on, prefiguring the way that later games would lift information from your Steam profile to similar effect.

Bascally, EarthBound is a big inspiration for a lot of deliberately janky, insufferably meta retro nostalgia RPGs because that's literally the kind of game that it is.

#gaming #video games #earthbound #game design #history #swearing #earthbound spoilers #spoilers

[felis-rach]

(Translation: "Dude so what if I destroyed your life, talk to me")

#I dont even have a caption for this thing #earthbound spoilers #I guess?? just to be safe #earthbound fanart #mother 2 #ness earthbound #paula jones #poo earthbound #jeff andonuts #porky minch #earthbound #mother series

[the-everlasting-ash]

Spankety Spankety Spankety!

#art #earthbound #mother 2 #pokey Minch #porky minch #the devils machine #giygas #giegue #this apparently became a stranger things parody whoops #oh well #print maybe? #earthbound spoilers #spoilers

[warpzoned]

Maria and Giygas, from Earthbound Beginnings

#earthbound beginnings #giygas #queen mary #earthbound spoilers #earthbound #my art #Happy Birthday Hedwyn :)

[andonuts-about-you]

sometimes I think about how fucked up a specific interaction between Ness and Lucas would be (ignoring Smash Bros. for multiple reasons). learning that they have a certain person in common would be.. hoo boy.

like imagine meeting this person who's from the (debatably distant) future, but learning that their life got completely and utterly fucked over thanks to the consequences of your.. inactions? and by that I mean letting Pokey/Porky get away.

OR. or. imagine getting to meet one of the heroes that you've somewhat heard about (thanks to the New Pork Theater), only to find out that he was friends with your mortal enemy at one point (it'd be pretty hard for Lucas to see Pokey/Porky as anything less than.. well yk)

oh, the guilt Ness would feel.. :(

#goku-nba text #mother 2 #earthbound #earthbound spoilers #ness #ness earthbound #pokey minch #mother 3 #mother 3 spoilers #lucas #lucas mother 3 #porky minch #i feel like i just accidentally wrote someone's next angst prompt.. i don't even like angst so WHOOPS #i wanna ramble more via text posts but i never know how to properly word shit. i'm also just the irl equivalent of a tenda so- /hj #also putting the spoiler tags on this just in case

[kelsey-skybox]

My headcanons about the Dragos from Mother 3

(This is a repost from my old Tumblr account.)

Drago eggs are green with yellow horizontal stripes.

Dragos love chin rubs, belly rubs, and being tickled.

When a Drago is happy, their ears will twitch in a cute way.

Dragos age very slowly, and have great memory retention.

The Dragos are buddies with the Save Frogs.

Dragos eat grass, like cows. They have nine stomachs.

Dragos are VERY loud snorers. It's a common sight to see them sleeping with their mouths willingly held closed, so they don't annoy the other wildlife. Don't worry, they can breathe through their nostrils 100% fine.

Mama and papa Dragos often carry all their babies around on their backs… in a vertical stack. Thankfully, Dragos have sticky feet, so they can hang on just fine. And the Drago babies frequently get into arguments about whose turn it is to be on top of the stack.

Dragos are warm-blooded rather than cold-blooded, but love sunning themselves anyway, and often fall asleep while doing so.

Despite being mostly nocturnal, Dragos ignore their sleep cycle when humans visit them in the daytime, because Dragos think humans (especially human kids) are super adorable.

The headcanons below contain SPOILERS!

The Dragos are descended from herbivorous dinosaurs, since the Dark Dragon's power protected the Nowhere Islands from whatever event(s) killed all the other dinosaurs.

Lucas helped the surviving Dragos hide from the Pigmasks during the three-year timeskip. After the Earth is finally restored, he visits them frequently.

Hinawa stays good friends with the former Mecha-Drago in the afterlife, and reassures him that she doesn't blame him for killing her while brainwashed.

Ionia and Aeolia are buddies with the Dragos, since they both live relatively close to Drago Plateau. Alec's love for Dragos is one of the main reasons he became friends with the Magi.

#mother 3 #mother series #earthbound #nintendo #gaming #video games #dragos mother 3 #mother 3 dragos #mother 3 spoilers #earthbound spoilers #headcanon #headcanons #my headcanons #cute #cute animals #video game animals #fictional species #death mention #death mention tw #tw death mention #cw death mention #death mention cw

[windmills123]

GIYGAS!!!!!!!!

#earthbound #mother #mother 2 #mother series #giygas #gigue #earthbound spoilers #my art

[ms-foobles]

The more I think about Pokey's motivations and character development the more profoundly sad and disappointed I am for him.

When even the omniscient narrator calls him "the worst kid in the neighborhood," and his parents are the way they are, it feels like he wasn't given much of a chance to begin with.

When you're fighting against him and Giygas, and he says "Well isn't it terrifying? I'm terrified too," I can only read those lines and imagine his lip quivering.

#earthbound #pokey minch #porky minch #earthbound spoilers

[zoteboateveryday]

Drawing Zote every day until we get Zoteboat: day 87

Zotegas

#hk zote #zoteboateveryday #zote #hk fanart #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight zote #zote hollow knight #zote the mighty #earthbound #giygas #mother #mother 2 #earthbound spoilers

[swimming-guy]

OK I started Earthbound earlier this week and I'm pretty far through (I just got past moonside) but I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!!! ITS SO GOOD!!!!!! JEFF IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the bit where he leaves Tony? HEARTBREAKING. MY HEART SHATTERED. IM IN PIECES.

#earthbound #mother 2 #earthbound spoilers

[maskedteatime]

army dreamer

MOTHER 3 SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

i heard this song on tiktok and i knew what i had to do straight away

#earthbound spoilers #mother 3 spoilers #cw blood #very minor tho #but still present #mother 3 #claus mother 3 #lucas mother 3 #hinawa mother 3 #mother series #mother 3 art #animation #animatic #the gradual delay in quality is crazy but we lived #art #digital art #2d animation #i'll die if someone's done this already

[snakechu]

I made this for an art contest, and the winner was announced today.

I didn’t win, but I still want to share this as I do genuinely like this piece and enjoyed making it!

#Mother Series #Mother #Mother 1 #EarthBound Beginnings #EarthBound Zero #Mother 2 #EarthBound #Mother 3 #Ninten #Ness #Lucas #Giegue #Giygas #Pokey Minch #Porky Minch #Snakechu art #EarthBound Spoilers #Mother 3 spoilers

[video-game-kids-tournament]

MEET YOUR CONTESTANTS!

EarthBound spoilers under the cut!

Name: Ness

Age: 12

Gender + Pronouns: Male, 12

Video Game: EarthBound

Backstory: “he was fighting moles with a bat and slowly moved up to fighting cosmic horrors with his friends (and a bat)”

• “A fairy from outer space charged him with stopping an ancient evil, despite the fact that he's ten and his only weapon is a bat. He went on to fight cultists and zombies become psychic, and travel through time in a robot body. Also he shows up in Smash sometimes.”

• “He is a 13 year old boy gifted with special psychic powers, and became the hero of his country, Eagleland.”

Why should they win the tournament?: “i liked him”

• “Earthbound is one of the most bizarre games Nintendo ever put out and Ness is the main character. He beats up cops with a baseball bat. He bails the Blues Brothers out of an abusive contract. He learns telepathy and eats hamburgers out of the trash. The secret to defeating the ancient evil is his childhood nostalgia even though, as stated, he is thirteen. Sometimes mushrooms grow out of his head. None of this really seems to shock or surprise him and when the game ends he just goes back to normal.”

• “PK BEAM”

#video game kids tournament #contestant info #earthbound #ness earthbound #earthbound spoilers

[pollydot]

fuckin umm. Moonside moment

Please someone talk to me about moonside..

#earthbound #moonside #magicant #earthbound spoilers #im like 99% sure i got something wrong about eb canon in this PLEASE correct me

[rpgmakerds]

i just remembered when i was fighting giygas in earthbound. yknow that part where gigyas says ness' name over and over? it was probably intended to sound more, idk, mumbling? but i forgot that i set everyones' names in all caps so it sounded like gigyas was suddenly yelling at ness which actually made me kind of scared

#it was such a sudden shift from like #pain?? thats what i assume anyways #and burning rage #earthbound spoilers #mother 2 spoilers