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alt title(s): Mother 2
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
Three things are of utmost importance: courage, wisdom, and friendship.
An SNES game about Ness, a seemingly normal boy in Eagleland who is suddenly awakened by a meteorite. The meteorite brings a bee from the future, who tells of an indestructible being, Giygas, that Ness is destined to defeat. Thus begins Ness's journey through time and space to meet the other destined children (Paula, Jeff and Poo) and collect all the different "sounds" for his Sound Stone.
The second of a series of Japanese role playing games known as Mother, the setting of the first two are essentially the same - an affectionate homage to 1950s America. Earthbound ( Mother 2 in Japan) was the only game in the series that was released in North America; while Mother 3 was released in Japan, there are no plans for a North American release.
The first game in the series was originally planned for North American release and originally had the name Earthbound; Nintendo of America scrapped release plans after the translation was complete, however, as the Super Nintendo had already launched and the company wished to focus on that. A prototype of the game surfaced years later in the hands of a collector; the ROM was dumped and released to the Emulation community as Earthbound Zero.
Earthbound was best known for its unusual gameplay — fantasy goblin-slaying gave way to the realities of urban life, with slingshots, frying pans, and baseball bats taking the place of swords and axes; rather than goblins, the party battled drunks, hippies, angry taxicabs, a cult dedicated to worshiping the color blue, and even a giant circus tent. The vast majority of the game's non-plot related humor is focused on the way the West is viewed by other countries (in particular, Asia/Japan), with references to the Beatles and the Blues Brothers found throughout.
Notable for including the official Strategy Guide with every copy of the game yet costing no more than other games. Shows you how much faith Nintendo had in the game's ability to sell. But due to a very strange and failed advertising campaign , the game sold horribly in the States.
Ness and Lucas (the protagonist of Mother 3) are probably best-known to American audiences for their appearances in the Super Smash Bros games.
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