EarthBound is a role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super NES video game console. It was designed by Shigesato Itoi, who also developed its predecessor, the Japan-exclusive Mother. Despite being successful in Japan, the North American version was released to poor commercial response. Despite the poor sales figures, the game has been lauded by gamers for its humorous depictions of American culture and parody of the role-playing video game genre, and has since become a cult classic.

EarthBound takes place on Earth in the year 199X. Throughout the game, four characters, known as the Chosen Four, come to compose the party in the game. The player is able to change the default name of these four characters. The player controls Ness, a young boy possessing strong psychic abilities. Early in the story, he meets an alien named Buzz Buzz with the appearance of a bee, who explains the quest that Ness must embark on. Over the course of his quest, Ness is joined by three other children his age: Paula, another powerful psychic; Jeff, a mechanical genius and child prodigy; and Poo, a martial arts master with some psychic ability.

Reviews

EarthBound

Written by CarlosBRHue8000 on September 04, 2019 @ 8:35 pm

The second installment on the Mother series, and considered by now as a cult classic, as someone who replays this game a lot, i think it deserves a good review GAMEPLAY - 9/10 There's almost nothing to say about the gameplay tbh, it's pretty much a better version of your regular JRPG...Continue reading...

EarthBound

Written by xXOmegaDarkness16Xx on June 10, 2016 @ 9:16 pm

Good people, in this first review written on this page, as I did in the MyAnimeList page, I'll make some reviews of some games I've played, and as no ?. Today I will begin to review that personally I consider my RPG favorite, "Mother 2" known in America as "Earthbound" a...Continue reading...

Comments

xwingz900January 27, 2016 @ 4:36 pm

This game may be the best of all time!

speed808November 10, 2017 @ 2:22 am

earthbound and chrono trigger are the best SNES games.