EarthBound

Charlie · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:31 pm Post subject: EarthBound

Never mind the Ear of Luigi, Shin Megami Tensei IV, Bravely So Gay, Link to the Past 2, etc., the biggest news out of the Nintendo Direct is EarthBound is coming to Virtual Console this year for North American and Europe. Is it only for Wii U? The chance to buy EarthBound again is fantastic. At least it means they've gotten over the whole copyright scare thing. MOTHER 3, please.
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Accelerator · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 7318

I actually own the GBA versions of all the Mother games, but it'll be really nice to have a version of Earthbound in English to play. I would buy it either way to show my support, but yeah, this is great.

Tenshigami · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:55 pm Post subject:

You can have my Earthbound cart when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

And now you don't even need it! Awesome.
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Cloud · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 17557

I own EB on SNES and GBA.

It's nice for people that don't, but I personally don't care unless it goes to 3DS or something.
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Jazzin' · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:37 am Post subject:

I'm sure this forum is happy about it, though personally I don't curr about Earthbound, so I wouldn't really call a virtual console release the biggest news out of Nintendo Direct. Though it is nice that it'll finally be available for people to purchase once again.
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Charlie · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:05 am Post subject:

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Cloud · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 17557

I'm not gonna buy a Wii U just to support MOTHER outside of Japan, sry.
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jesselt · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 7952 Location: Two years ago

Seven replies and still not a single person is getting this lol
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Charlie · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:59 pm Post subject:

At least a couple of us are buying it. This is also the first time Europe is getting EarthBound, you better send Nintendo your euros.
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DoubleL · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 8957 Location: Internetland

I mean, I'm gonna get it.

So there's that.
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SONGS FOR MOMS

Flamfas · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:09 pm Post subject:

Prinny · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:22 pm Post subject:

The first Mother is not a bad game, its just not a particularly good one, either. You have to level grind several times throughout the game, and the random encounter rate is pretty high. The GBA port fixes that by giving you a ring you can equip to get double XP and money.

Accelerator · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 7318

It's really old and Itoi didn't get a feel for the amazing dialogue he writes in EB and Mother 3 yet. It's pretty light on story and dialogue in general too so there's not much to talk about. though IMO it has the best soundtrack on the NES.

Also it wasn't the GBA port that added the easy ring, but the translation patch, which made the game a lot more tolerable and is how I beat it

Flamfas · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject:

Oh, that sounds awful. I'll be grateful for that patch when I get around to it
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