re: Earthbound for SNES - Who completed this game?

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Sort glad and sad I will experience it for the first time as a 30yr old.

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Yea, so as a kid I just played it just because it was fun. Didn't get the layers of humor and themes. Then played it again in college and really enjoyed it. Then played it I think a year or two ago (so just right before 30) and totally loved it. I need to research how to play the next one soon.

One of my ALL TIME favorite games. I didn't even play it until nearly a decade or so after it released. Called Nintendo to order a SNES and everything well into the PS2's life.

Yeah, my first post on the first page has the actual version of the guide. I love it because they made it look like a travel guide more than anything. I still read through it from time to time just because of their creativity

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So this game was only sold with the guide?

Why? Makes my question about if I should play with a guide not sound so bad. I had that feeling it was one of those games.

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Yes, the game came in an oversized box and the Player's Guide served as its manual. No normal manual exists.

It's no more difficult or confusing than any other RPG of that era, you really don't need a guide to complete the game. You may miss a small secret or trick here or there but you'll never get stuck. The game is fairly linear and it's always pretty clear what you're supposed to do next.

Earthbound, and the guide that came with it, are big collector's items because it's the perfect combo.

Rare + Great Game.

Despite being awesome, the game didn't sell well at all (believe it or not most of the great JRPG's on the NES/SNES didn't sell particularly well, even classics like Chrono Trigger, it wasn't until the PS1 and FF7 that the JRPG finally hit it big in the West)

RPG's were still a niche genre and Earthbound was so strange compared to the usual RPG fair, very difficult to market. The large oversized box also probably made it hard to display for stores. There was no internet back then either. In today's day and age no game this good would fly so low under the radar. Word of mouth on the internet and Twitch and such would get the word out.

I still have my copy of Earthbound in perfect mint condition with all my other SNES stuff. Unfortunately didn't keep the box. I sold the player's guide for it just recently actually. It sadly had been out of my possession for decades and had been stored in an outside garage not well and thus had quite a bit of damage to the cover. I still got $70 for it, even with the damage. All my other gaming stuff is in perfect condition and a ratty player's guide didn't fit in. One day I'll probably try to buy a good condition copy of the Player's Guide, although that could run like 200-300 bucks.

It's a crime against humanity that Nintendo has pretty much left the Mother series for dead. Apparently the main creative guy behind them didn't want to keep making them. Not sure if Nintendo chose not to make them without him or possibly couldn't.

Jumping back into it tonight.

Very different so far. It feels like Pokemon in a way but without the catching. IDK why. Maybe it is the art style.

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Dude, when I walked into the rental store and saw that huge arse box on the top of the shelf....I thought....IT HAD TO BE INCREDIBLE.

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That was my same thought process and I think that may be how I initially fell in love with the game.

I purchased it used when I was a kid and wound up selling it a couple years ago for like $350 seeing as I had a rom for it and now that it's on the SNES Classic as well

What else do you have going on?

Dont be a conformist and play RDR2. So mainstream.

CONSOLES SUCK.

COMPUTERS 4EVER.

ROMS ON COMPS.