Ninten's dad: (distant, yet supportive) Ness's dad: (same as Ninten's dad) Flint: "Screw my mentally scarred son, I'm just gonna look for the one that is most likely dead"
One last thing: The eight melodies definitely feel like the evolution of life. You start off as a baby (Doll), show early signs of growth (Bird), become a rambunctious child (Monkey), demonstrate your talents as a teen (Piano), go out to explore as an adult (Cactus), overcome your hardships as you retire (Dragon), remembering your life just before you die (Robot), and death (Tombstone).
I wanna say holy crap the random encounters in this game is nuts. It's like you start a battle in under 5 seconds and then you go to another battle less then a second.
Once you level up you dont mind it unless you're about to die, Mother 2 is alot harder even with the visible enemies (well for me I got one shotted by a roach )
Earthbound Beginnings/Zero/Mother... whatever you want to call it, is a really special RPG, and its one of the best on the NES. Just be sure to remember: "No crying until the end."
EarthBound might trump its predecessor in MOST ways, but this game is timeless, all the same. And it all started with a posessed lamp as your first battle!! *SPOILERS* The story of Queen Mary and her taking care of Giygas like it was her child, and then the destruction of Magicant after finding all the Melodies, and the icing on the cake, defeating him in the final battle with the song she sang...This game is just so classic, and a charming adventure, all the way through. Again, generally not _quite_ as good as the sequel, but, then again, what _is?_
@@Dorian_Scott I know the lyrics of Earthbound's 8 Melodies Actual lyrics: Grown-ups have done so much more stuff than me There's many things that I still want to see Now I take my backpack to the world and fill it with memories
The quirky enemies, the suburban modern American-style setting...Shigesato Itoi struck gold with his imagination here. Instead of knights, dragons, swords, magic and potions, we have kids with baseball bats beating up lamps, dogs, aliens, robots and hippies with PSI and eating hamburgers. Brilliant. It was *Dragon Quest* that inspired it, too. And it was all made as Itoi wanted to come up with something that he would want to play too. There's just not enough games that take risks anymore.
Wait she's called Nancy in the Earthbound Zero version, like how Wally is actually named Redneck and the Crow has no cigarette and the Zomebie Gangster has no bloody holes in his body
It feels so good to play a legitimate version of this game on the Switch. Admittedly I played the english translation rom on my phone on an NES emulator before it was released in the West for the first time on the Wii U. Still one of my favorite games to this day.
First of all his name is Ness second of all this game must have been made by Cartman because Cartman hates hippies third of all why is the town called Podunk
Every single one step e takes you always has to fight some kind of enemy I think there's a Code out there that does it make the enemies pop up at all what's the point of the path if it still makes the enemies appear even if you're on the path
Modern games: so, well, theres a long story to explain your current situation. Relax and then do the tutorial we made, so that you understand, how the game works. Mother: Yeah, there was a dude who got abducted 80 years ago, so now fight this lamp.
And it's actually _very_ open-ended. Like, you need Loid in your party to trigger two necessary events, but beyond that, the game does very little to hinder where you can go and what you can do beyond what resistance the standard enemies provide and what key items need to be found.
There's a magic to this game that no other game has. Not even its two sequels. I really wish I could explain why I absolutely love this game, but i cannot put it into words.
Their are many problems with this game from a gameplay standpoint. In fact id say its downright terrible. But with everything else this game is a masterpice. The music, the feel, the story and the characters are great. While it is very lacking to the point where i suggest u dont neccessarily play unless your a fan. I still appreciate the impact it left and the two sequels it gave way to. There definetly is a certain magic to this game that no one can put into words.
It's incredibly charming in a nostalgic way. The aesthetic is inspired by Peanuts Comics and BOY does it absolutely nail that style despite obvious limitations. Combine that with pulpy horror tropes and under a cartoonish filter and you get a unique experience unlike any other.
_Take a melody. Simple as can be. Give it some words and...Sweet harmony. Raise your voices all day long now, love grows strong now, sing a melody of love, ohh, love._ *MOTHER. No crying until the end.* One of the finest RPG series ever devised started here. Humble beginnings. A masterpiece that bred two more masterpieces! The adventure of Ninten and his funny, yet emotional adventure that tackles the real and the fantastic is inspiring, even today.
Michael Todd when i played through, i thought that was where you were supposed to go, ended up having Ana before Lloyd Edit: I resorted to using the 4-d slip
It’s not that it was too hard for me to walk that long distance, I’m just claustrophobic. Imagine having an asthma attack in there. I’d start panicking. There’s the true story.
1:31:16 there's something incredibly moving about the music in Queen Mary's castle + the dialogue from the servant about her calling to her child in her sleep and waking up in a cold sweat
Ah yes, the lifelong adventure that I will never forget and ultimately caused me to be diagnosed with crippling depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Good times.
I remember trying to play an Earthbound Zero ROM back in the day and hitting an "illegal copy" screen after hours of gameplay that wouldn't let me proceed further, so I never touched it again. Apparently there were different versions of the ROM floating around, and that particular one had some kind of error that triggered the copyright checksum at a certain point.
I find it interesting how Pollyanna and Bein’ Friends are the ONLY two soundtracks in the franchise that will only play if your party is just Ninten or not. If Ninten is by himself, Pollyanna will ALWAYS play, but if another character joins the party, like Lloyd or even Pippi, it changes to Bein’ Friends. It even changes back to Pollyanna after dropping Pippi off with the mayor, as can be seen at 55:55. Just seconds before, Bein’ Friends can be heard, but after leaving, Pollyanna plays. It does, however, suck that you can’t really control which is playing at all because of this. If you like Pollyanna, you can’t ever hear it again after getting Lloyd.
Earthbound has a similar tone but I think the contrast between the cutesy music/ visuals and the horror of what's going on (ghosts, zombies, animals going out of control) feels more extreme here? maybe because of how plainly people talk about it. it's very jarring (in a fun way) hearing that cheerful 8 bit music while some npc is talking about the dead coming back to life
I love the overly simplistic visuals of this game. It allows you to use your imagination more. That being said, I also love the visuals in Earthbound, and the latter does have better music if you ask me.
@@iamdamosuzuki_ I thought so too at first concerning the music, but honestly outside of Paula's Theme I found Mother 1's tunes lingering far longer in my head.
One of the things that I really liked about this game was the fact that all of Ninten's stats would go up as he leveled up, including his speed. The power shield was also one of the best PSI techniques. The fact that it would block almost any type of enemy attack was just fantastic! Sadly, Earthbound didn't have these features. It made it impossible for Ness to outspeed enemies like crow, runaway dog, skelpion, and loaded dice despite having the offensive power to defeat them in one hit. Also, the shields would only block either physical attacks or PSI attacks but not both and didn't last for the entire battle :(
In Mother 1 you can’t outspeed enemies in the first place, as there are random encounters that activate every five seconds. And in Earthbound you gain the ability to skip battles with easier enemies, and they even run away from you.
@@thehydrationman5500 It's not about outspeeding before the encounter but during the encounter. Ness was slower than enemies like bats, skelpion, crow, and UFO, enemies that could easily be defeated in one hit but because of their speed would be able to inflict damage, give ailments, dodge attacks, and prolong battles before he could finally hit them. These enemies didn't always run and if not, would drag into an unnecessarily longer battle. It took much longer to build his speed over the course of the game and even then he was slower than the fast enemies, which ensured that he would take damage in the fight. Ninten on the other hand would gain stat boosts continually without any equipment or capsules and surpass all the enemies including the fastest ones. The stat boosts came just from leveling up and guaranteed win against any enemy that could be OHKO'ed regardless of their speed and without taking damage or ailments.
@@cdxs-pf7ju fair point, I also thought the run mechanic in Earthbound was more useless, but even though Ninten gains all of these stats that make the later portion of the game less frustrating, the first few hours are abominable with his lack of good stats.
This game has always struck me as eerily melancholic. It really is an old classic, even with all of its flaws. Well, what can I say - I'm waiting for the LP of Mother 3, perhaps the best one in the series! ;)
Dorian Scott you have plagued this comment section with your demanding use of Mother. I get you are trying to act big when you are actually tiny, but calm the fuck down. Let people call it whatever they want. THEY KNOW ITS CALLED MOTHER 2. They would just rather call it Earthbound.
@@itsraventm What are you talking about? I call it *_MOTHER_* because I prefer the Japanese name. I am by no means trying to "Act Big", it's personal preferences.
Unfortunately he is only a figment of my imagination so I had to make sure he stopped chilling before he sneezed and made me forget why I was on this entire journey in the first place.
Shame Nintendo cancelled this game. It would've been something they could've released here around May/June 1991 to tide NES gamers over until the release of the SNES in August.
I just bought a physical copy of the English translated Mother 1+2 cartridge just so I can have a physical copy of the game. Maybe one day I'll get an unofficial English translated NES cart
@@spiff6293 That may have been the case. Theres also the possibility that it could've had the opposite effect. As much as I love the 1st Mother game, it's fucking hard. There's lot's of grinding, the maps are gigantic and rigorous, you don't see enemies coming, and the goals arent always clearly defined. We'll never really know though.
@@iamdamosuzuki_ two dungeons got changed to be easier in our version. the lower level of magicant was originally much bigger, the dragon was also in a different spot. supposedly the rosemary house was another one, but i've never actually seen a map regarding the japanese version.
With a soundtrack this good, it's a crying shame that the encounter rate is so high, meaning you're constantly hearing the area BGM start from the beginning every time you exit a battle. I don't know why it seemingly took JRPG devs so long to pick up on the notion of suspending the area BGM during a battle and picking up where it left off. FFV is one of the first games I remember using this trick.
Thank you for making this video. It is simply amazing how such a complex and massive game can fit in that little 8 bit cartridge. I have no idea how anyone, in 1989, with no Google, no UA-cam, and no forums could figure everything out in this one. This helped me finally beat this one!
I'm pretty sure in Japan they released this with a guide because DAMN the patience you would need to have for this game without one is insane. I've made it pretty far without a guide at the moment but I doubt anyone else would have such patience.
The gameplay isn't even good compared to its contemporaries but the emotional moments and setting are fantastic. Magicant disappearing is one of my favorite all time moments.
@@ninten1305 Yep , you need therapy after that . And all of that torture could have been avoided if the Starmen aliens didn't abduct George and Maria . So , hows life going ?
Its a shame what happen with the Mother/Earthbound series in America, a cancelled localization, a game which was a failure in sales, and the 3rd isn't was distributed outside of Japan.
The modern-day America aspect really shines in this game. While in EarthBound, you had places like the Lost Underworld which are not realistic in the slightest, in Mother, everywhere except for Magicant seems like a real place.
This and EarthBound's endings just show how much Giegue has suffered from his defeat here. After forcibly hearing the Eight Melodies his adoptive parents whose memories of he repressed being sung to him, on top of trying to do everything in his power to prevent the Apple of Enlightenment's prophecy from coming true, and staying isolated in the Devil's Machine for so long, Giegue has essentially become insane and formless. Giygas is essentially what little remains of Giegue's twisted, corrupted and insane, suffering mind.
It's so infuriating to me that with maybe two exceptions, every indie game that wears "inspired by Earthbound" emblazoned on its sleeve completely fails to understand that these games are a lot more than just silly named enemies and a contemporary setting.
because 99% of the games people say are "inspired/like earthbound" aren't even trying to be anything like earthbound, and people just see any sort of game with wacky characters or strange visuals and go "wow this is earthbound!". even in cases where the developer actually was inspired, like undertale, the games are nothing like earthbound whatsoever. the only time i've seen a game that legitimately is quite like earthbound is jimmy and the pulsating mass, all the other times, OFF, omori, yume nikki (this one is just baffling lol, it's a dialogue-free surreal exploration game), people are usually just talking nonsense and there are no similarities beyond very very vague stuff that hundreds of games even predating MOTHER have they might as well say earthbound is missing the point of... the ultima games because it is older and has some wacky characters and talking animals
Now after watching all the video, the sound of starting the battle will be engraved deep into your brain. And will show now in your nightmares as the most annoying sound ever.
@@superyuriworld5314 Yo pienso que Mother 1 merece un remake y con algunas mejoras, para que se vea como un RPG actual pero conservando su esencia que la hace única.
Este juego tenía muchas ganas de jugarlo, sería muy buen juego para empezar una saga y no me decepcionó, ame la música la historia los personajes y como era muy original Sin duda uno de los mejores RPG
The music is excellent and very catchy. The game also looks great as well, with a ton of colorful and well detailed backgrounds and sprites and battle sprites too.
Right?! First five minutes you're fighting snakes, crows, hippies and some dick named Wally. Was Nintendo so burnt out of ideas they were like let's just throw every possible thing into this game for enemies including big foot?
@@exotic_existenceiquit4130 Please no. He has so much potential. He could be more of a healer and supportive character, he could use items for his moves, and of course he would have the iconic boomerang, PK Beam, and the Eight Melodies. All of that potential would be wasted if they were to make him "just a Ness echo"
Ninten and his party go around beating up possessed cars and trucks with bats, boomerangs, laser guns, bombs, and psychic powers. I wonder what the townspeople would look like when they witness that.
Here is the stats of the lamp if you didn’t know, I didn’t look it up, it’s just knowledge from the first two fights :) Speed: 1 HP: 6 Attack/offense: 2 Defence: 1
I’d love to see an official remake of this someday, perhaps in the vain of Mario RPG. There’s so much to love about 1, but gameplay-wise it’s extremely rough.
I hope everyone appreciates eves sacrifice. A robot helping and sacraficing its life to help save humanity. Against aliens no doubt. Also the hell is this alien a child also? Or do they juat not sing enough to their off spring?
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I like how his side sprite looks so happy, but when he faces the screen he’s like; Oh, you’re still here...
And this side sprite thing comes back in the other games.
Narancia??
Ana's face is so funny cause she looks so happy then when you look straight at her she looks like you said something rude about her
it’s the same in every MOTHER game and it’s weird
Just like Earthbound SNES.
I love how you can't "Eat" various items, but the game still gives you the option anyway.
Yeah, it's really only there for the Bread, heh.
"Don't be silly, you can't do that"
@@reginangel_official XD
@@reginangel_official "Please don't do that."
~ GBA Version 2003
You just give it a PK fire and it’s toasted and ready to eat.
Even though he’s on a telephone, Ninten’s dad is one of the most supporting dad out there...
Dat0n3 GuYD0uGH also ness’ dad
While Flint in Mother 3 in the ending is like: Welp, that did happen.
Agreed
Ninten's dad: (distant, yet supportive)
Ness's dad: (same as Ninten's dad)
Flint: "Screw my mentally scarred son, I'm just gonna look for the one that is most likely dead"
"Ive put $999999 into your account"
One last thing: The eight melodies definitely feel like the evolution of life. You start off as a baby (Doll), show early signs of growth (Bird), become a rambunctious
child (Monkey), demonstrate your talents as a teen (Piano), go out to explore as an adult (Cactus), overcome your hardships as you retire (Dragon), remembering your life just before you die (Robot), and death (Tombstone).
*slow clap* absolutely beautiful
I smaaaaaaash the like Button :')
It's the other way round in Earthbound, hmm
@TeamUSASportsFan indeed
@TeamUSASportsFan explains Giygas and Ness completely
I wanna say holy crap the random encounters in this game is nuts. It's like you start a battle in under 5 seconds and then you go to another battle less then a second.
Now you know why the sequel is much more bearable to play through to me
Yeah this is exactly I ain't playing it. Rather just watching plus you never see most of the enemies.
@@jonathansteinfort2975 If only that Mother 1 remake fangame
Its like pokemon in cave or on water but without max repel
Once you level up you dont mind it unless you're about to die, Mother 2 is alot harder even with the visible enemies (well for me I got one shotted by a roach )
I love that you only actually need to get Lloyd as a party member, you could completely skip Ana and Teddy and still beat the game
There's one problem with that: If you do this, the game becomes 489% harder
Is there a play through with only loid as party member?
I really wanna see that xD
@@meattree speedrunners do it
Es muy lindo ninten
7:16:00
Earthbound Beginnings/Zero/Mother... whatever you want to call it, is a really special RPG, and its one of the best on the NES. Just be sure to remember: "No crying until the end."
7:16:38
Oddly enough itoi has stated that ness from earthbound might or might NOT be ninten
...
And as for what happened to him after earthbound ...
EarthBound might trump its predecessor in MOST ways, but this game is timeless, all the same. And it all started with a posessed lamp as your first battle!!
*SPOILERS*
The story of Queen Mary and her taking care of Giygas like it was her child, and then the destruction of Magicant after finding all the Melodies, and the icing on the cake, defeating him in the final battle with the song she sang...This game is just so classic, and a charming adventure, all the way through. Again, generally not _quite_ as good as the sequel, but, then again, what _is?_
Call it "Mother", dude.
@@Dorian_Scott I know the lyrics of Earthbound's 8 Melodies
Actual lyrics:
Grown-ups have done so much more stuff than me
There's many things that I still want to see
Now I take my backpack to the world
and fill it with memories
I call it Earthbound 1 just to infuriate pedants.
The quirky enemies, the suburban modern American-style setting...Shigesato Itoi struck gold with his imagination here.
Instead of knights, dragons, swords, magic and potions, we have kids with baseball bats beating up lamps, dogs, aliens, robots and hippies with PSI and eating hamburgers. Brilliant. It was *Dragon Quest* that inspired it, too. And it was all made as Itoi wanted to come up with something that he would want to play too. There's just not enough games that take risks anymore.
Plenty of indie developers are taking risks and creating games that are special. You just gotta look for them.
Wait really..?!
Never knew! But I do love mother AND dragon quest!
@@pollo20x6 That's the problem. Most AAA companies can make shit games and get 10x more attention and 100x money from it.
4:32:37 And then there's Jane.
Wait she's called Nancy in the Earthbound Zero version, like how Wally is actually named Redneck and the Crow has no cigarette and the Zomebie Gangster has no bloody holes in his body
Ninten and Ana falls in love
*Teddy literally gets hospitalized*
I actually don't know what to say :/
The Chad Robot vs the Virgin Teddy
The Freak Are You Guys Talking About
@@WispyBlueBricksGPX watch the playthrough
Ness is his name
The inspiration Toby Fox took from the Mother series is incredibly evident here, but I couldn’t love it more
Megalovania intenseify
you mean like ecounter every 0.0000001 step(s)?
Moreso Earthbound rather than Earthbound Beginnings.
ye
@@randomnerd4600 undertale has scripted encounters unless you do a no mercy run, not random ones
It feels so good to play a legitimate version of this game on the Switch. Admittedly I played the english translation rom on my phone on an NES emulator before it was released in the West for the first time on the Wii U. Still one of my favorite games to this day.
For me, I played the fan translation of the Japanese Mother 1 + Earthbound on Gameboy Advance via MyBoy.
Mario And Sonic
I like how the sign next to your home says "Nintens House"
I'm pretty sure he isn't paying the bills or doing taxes.
i mean its simpler than making you name your mother
@@randomnerd4600 oh SNAP!
I'm the 100th like
Plotwist : His mom is named Ninten and her dad is named Ninten as well
@@jambon2730 his mom has an official name
Ninten used swear words!
“I hate you”
OH NO
First of all his name is Ness second of all this game must have been made by Cartman because Cartman hates hippies third of all why is the town called Podunk
Every single one step e takes you always has to fight some kind of enemy I think there's a Code out there that does it make the enemies pop up at all what's the point of the path if it still makes the enemies appear even if you're on the path
That’s the joke
arls6804 please watch your language their might be kids near
>Be Ninten
>chilling in chair
>a lamp tried to kill him
*Möth is angery*
*Möth ättäckëd!*
@rng Ninten used Pk Fire b!
@rng what
@HappiNess wut
@HappiNess is he a pacafist
I laughed when he tried to eat the plastic bat.
"Please don't do that."
nom
@@krisandthebluesurgeons can someone make memes about Ninten eating his plastic bat
It's practice
Lol you just reminded me of the chimp from super Mario galaxy 2! I forgot about him.
Modern games: so, well, theres a long story to explain your current situation. Relax and then do the tutorial we made, so that you understand, how the game works.
Mother: Yeah, there was a dude who got abducted 80 years ago, so now fight this lamp.
Bandai vs Nick jr
Damn this game is hella huge for the nes
And it's actually _very_ open-ended. Like, you need Loid in your party to trigger two necessary events, but beyond that, the game does very little to hinder where you can go and what you can do beyond what resistance the standard enemies provide and what key items need to be found.
We got this on the same console that gave us Ice Climbers....
*Nintendo was only giving us half the experience!*
Try legacy of the wizard too
Bebe nessquick
bank switching. imagine if NES had no bank switching chips
There's a magic to this game that no other game has. Not even its two sequels. I really wish I could explain why I absolutely love this game, but i cannot put it into words.
Try
@@rulasmania he can’t cause he’s lying to himself
it’s 8-bit?
Their are many problems with this game from a gameplay standpoint. In fact id say its downright terrible. But with everything else this game is a masterpice. The music, the feel, the story and the characters are great. While it is very lacking to the point where i suggest u dont neccessarily play unless your a fan. I still appreciate the impact it left and the two sequels it gave way to. There definetly is a certain magic to this game that no one can put into words.
It's incredibly charming in a nostalgic way. The aesthetic is inspired by Peanuts Comics and BOY does it absolutely nail that style despite obvious limitations. Combine that with pulpy horror tropes and under a cartoonish filter and you get a unique experience unlike any other.
_Take a melody. Simple as can be. Give it some words and...Sweet harmony. Raise your voices all day long now, love grows strong now, sing a melody of love, ohh, love._
*MOTHER. No crying until the end.*
One of the finest RPG series ever devised started here. Humble beginnings. A masterpiece that bred two more masterpieces! The adventure of Ninten and his funny, yet emotional adventure that tackles the real and the fantastic is inspiring, even today.
A Good Start to a *Fantastic* Trilogy of RPGs, Though Not Very Polished Like *_MOTHER 2 & 3_* .
Mother 1 sucks
@@santiagocarrer7394 Repeat that and your free trial of existing will be expired.
Just a warning
@@santiagocarrer7394 you try beating up monsters for 7 hours straight with short naps in between. Let’s see if it’ll suck then.
*Guaranteed masterpiece*
2:33:12 I like how he goes in the tunnel, and immediately is like, "Nope!" Anyone who has tried knows the difficulty.
Michael Todd when i played through, i thought that was where you were supposed to go, ended up having Ana before Lloyd
Edit: I resorted to using the 4-d slip
Yeeeeeeeah
i tried that once. notice i said "once."
It’s not that it was too hard for me to walk that long distance, I’m just claustrophobic. Imagine having an asthma attack in there. I’d start panicking. There’s the true story.
@@ninten1305 Yes😁
1:31:16 there's something incredibly moving about the music in Queen Mary's castle + the dialogue from the servant about her calling to her child in her sleep and waking up in a cold sweat
Ah yes, the lifelong adventure that I will never forget and ultimately caused me to be diagnosed with crippling depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Good times.
For the longest time, I thought that Ninten's dad was saying "slam" instead of good bye, hhaha
EVERY BYTE ON CARTRIDGE COUNTS THERE IS NO PLACE TO ADD *'S
I really wanna just say “slam” instead of “bye” when I call someone now
Earthbound and Mother 3 are great, but my heart will always belong to this one
Aw shucks I don’t deserve that much love I honestly don’t think my adventure was half as good as Lucas’s, let alone Ness’s
Same here, considering this is the one I played last
@@ninten1305 Hey , atleast you're the strongest main character of the franchise .
I like how the characters are 2 kids with physic powers, a body builder, and some random nerd who likes bottle rockets
And the nerd one is the one, who saves everyone's ass
Great, great game! It's such a shame that we didn't get it until over 25 years after its initial release. Oh, the good 'ol "EarthBound Zero" days.
Joe’s a sexy man
I remember trying to play an Earthbound Zero ROM back in the day and hitting an "illegal copy" screen after hours of gameplay that wouldn't let me proceed further, so I never touched it again. Apparently there were different versions of the ROM floating around, and that particular one had some kind of error that triggered the copyright checksum at a certain point.
I find it interesting how Pollyanna and Bein’ Friends are the ONLY two soundtracks in the franchise that will only play if your party is just Ninten or not. If Ninten is by himself, Pollyanna will ALWAYS play, but if another character joins the party, like Lloyd or even Pippi, it changes to Bein’ Friends. It even changes back to Pollyanna after dropping Pippi off with the mayor, as can be seen at 55:55. Just seconds before, Bein’ Friends can be heard, but after leaving, Pollyanna plays. It does, however, suck that you can’t really control which is playing at all because of this. If you like Pollyanna, you can’t ever hear it again after getting Lloyd.
Earthbound has a similar tone but I think the contrast between the cutesy music/ visuals and the horror of what's going on (ghosts, zombies, animals going out of control) feels more extreme here? maybe because of how plainly people talk about it. it's very jarring (in a fun way) hearing that cheerful 8 bit music while some npc is talking about the dead coming back to life
I love the overly simplistic visuals of this game. It allows you to use your imagination more. That being said, I also love the visuals in Earthbound, and the latter does have better music if you ask me.
Ness’s adventure was definitely far more superior to mine
@@iamdamosuzuki_ I thought so too at first concerning the music, but honestly outside of Paula's Theme I found Mother 1's tunes lingering far longer in my head.
The way this guy spelled Lloyd gave me so much anxiety
zach Oh, that’s what people called him during the old Earthbound Zero days
Same man 😔
Same. And isn’t the favorite food Steak??
@@Marc-kc3nz No. Pretty sure it's PrimeRibs
@@SurmenianSoldier pretty sure it isn't
Suprised to see someone playing a game like this in 2018 on UA-cam, gotta say this game aged pretty well
Braneyes Gaming the game is quite grindy though and the lack of direction can be confusing for newcomers
It’s an NES game. Games back then were pretty brutal to kids.
@@judd0453 Still better than Phantasy Star 2
@@ninten1305 yeah old games are so much harder.
Expect more now that it's coming out on the Switch!
Beautiful story... Beautiful music... Beautiful game.
Ness: I took damage.
Ninten: *SUFFER*
Just goes to show that I don’t take, I suffer like a man.
NiNtIn: I have herby accumulated injury of my person
Yzarc Gorf
and here we go, I'm going to watch on the tv at night! Thank you for bringing one of the best games of my childhood, thanks coming from Brazil!
É nóis. Rsrsrsrs
YOUR GOING TO BRAZIL
AEEEE BRASILEIRO AQUI 🇧🇷💕🇧🇷💕🇧🇷
É noís :)
@@bluetophatanimations too late
I've been playing Earthbound for the first time, I didn't realize how many melodies/songs are carried over from this game to its sequel!
The best thing about this series it just gets better and better
me after watching the whole thing in one run realizing i have to watch the second one now
ah shit, here we go again
Wow, all at once? That's some dedication:) thanks!
@@NintendoComplete honestly for people like us it's more a lifestyle to watch long stuff like this instead of short stuff
He had courage the whole way through. I respect that.
and then the third one
One of the things that I really liked about this game was the fact that all of Ninten's stats would go up as he leveled up, including his speed. The power shield was also one of the best PSI techniques. The fact that it would block almost any type of enemy attack was just fantastic!
Sadly, Earthbound didn't have these features. It made it impossible for Ness to outspeed enemies like crow, runaway dog, skelpion, and loaded dice despite having the offensive power to defeat them in one hit. Also, the shields would only block either physical attacks or PSI attacks but not both and didn't last for the entire battle :(
In Mother 1 you can’t outspeed enemies in the first place, as there are random encounters that activate every five seconds. And in Earthbound you gain the ability to skip battles with easier enemies, and they even run away from you.
@@thehydrationman5500 It's not about outspeeding before the encounter but during the encounter. Ness was slower than enemies like bats, skelpion, crow, and UFO, enemies that could easily be defeated in one hit but because of their speed would be able to inflict damage, give ailments, dodge attacks, and prolong battles before he could finally hit them. These enemies didn't always run and if not, would drag into an unnecessarily longer battle. It took much longer to build his speed over the course of the game and even then he was slower than the fast enemies, which ensured that he would take damage in the fight.
Ninten on the other hand would gain stat boosts continually without any equipment or capsules and surpass all the enemies including the fastest ones. The stat boosts came just from leveling up and guaranteed win against any enemy that could be OHKO'ed regardless of their speed and without taking damage or ailments.
@@cdxs-pf7ju fair point, I also thought the run mechanic in Earthbound was more useless, but even though Ninten gains all of these stats that make the later portion of the game less frustrating, the first few hours are abominable with his lack of good stats.
@@thehydrationman5500 True! The first couple of hours were definitely a real grind with those low EXP points. Good thing it pays off in the end :)
@@cdxs-pf7ju it was my mistake not emulating the game with the easy ring
This game has always struck me as eerily melancholic. It really is an old classic, even with all of its flaws. Well, what can I say - I'm waiting for the LP of Mother 3, perhaps the best one in the series! ;)
Eh... *_MOTHER 2_* is Better!
Dorian Scott you have plagued this comment section with your demanding use of Mother. I get you are trying to act big when you are actually tiny, but calm the fuck down. Let people call it whatever they want. THEY KNOW ITS CALLED MOTHER 2. They would just rather call it Earthbound.
@@itsraventm What are you talking about? I call it *_MOTHER_* because I prefer the Japanese name. I am by no means trying to "Act Big", it's personal preferences.
I just want us to get mother 4 after all these years
@@Dorian_Scott I love Mother 2, but in my personal opinion Mother 3 from GBA is more intense.
“The encounter rates aren’t THAT high”
The Encounter Rates: *insert picture of snoop dogg*
They actually aren't as high as people say it is.
@@joaonitro5149 they're not as high as say, the Megami Tensei games, but they're still quite high.
They really aren’t that high. It just seems high because the maps are so large in this game
Just got this game on my Wii U a few days ago, I'll use this vid as a guide in case I get stuck on a certain point.
Hope you finished playing my adventure yet. Did you enjoy it?
@@ninten1305 Yeah I enjoyed it Ninten.
This just might be the best Christmas gift ever! Thanks, NintendoComplete!
I remember this game scared the hell out of me, particularly the house going crazy!
I knew this game was special.
The forgotten man was chilling.
^^^^
Who?
Unfortunately he is only a figment of my imagination so I had to make sure he stopped chilling before he sneezed and made me forget why I was on this entire journey in the first place.
Shame Nintendo cancelled this game. It would've been something they could've released here around May/June 1991 to tide NES gamers over until the release of the SNES in August.
chaseman94 they localized it on the wii u
I just bought a physical copy of the English translated Mother 1+2 cartridge just so I can have a physical copy of the game. Maybe one day I'll get an unofficial English translated NES cart
If Nintendo hadn’t cancelled Mother, EarthBound would probably be more popular and not flop in the US, and Mother 3 might’ve even been localized.
@@spiff6293 That may have been the case. Theres also the possibility that it could've had the opposite effect. As much as I love the 1st Mother game, it's fucking hard. There's lot's of grinding, the maps are gigantic and rigorous, you don't see enemies coming, and the goals arent always clearly defined. We'll never really know though.
@@iamdamosuzuki_ two dungeons got changed to be easier in our version. the lower level of magicant was originally much bigger, the dragon was also in a different spot.
supposedly the rosemary house was another one, but i've never actually seen a map regarding the japanese version.
With a soundtrack this good, it's a crying shame that the encounter rate is so high, meaning you're constantly hearing the area BGM start from the beginning every time you exit a battle. I don't know why it seemingly took JRPG devs so long to pick up on the notion of suspending the area BGM during a battle and picking up where it left off. FFV is one of the first games I remember using this trick.
Prope to Ninten for remembering all those melodies. He had a long journey and e still remembered each melody.
some of the descriptions of Loid's items literally roast him.
A strip joint? That's a reference I never thought I'd see in a NES game.
Pretty sure there was a JP only game on the NES where you could microwave a cat.
Edit: it's called Maniac Mansion and it was a hamster.
@@ChrrolloDI hol up
Might not want to tell my mom or Ana that’s where I go during my free time
Giegue character is truly sad. I always wished there was a way to save him from his ways.
Thank you for making this video. It is simply amazing how such a complex and massive game can fit in that little 8 bit cartridge. I have no idea how anyone, in 1989, with no Google, no UA-cam, and no forums could figure everything out in this one. This helped me finally beat this one!
I'm pretty sure in Japan they released this with a guide because DAMN the patience you would need to have for this game without one is insane. I've made it pretty far without a guide at the moment but I doubt anyone else would have such patience.
The gameplay isn't even good compared to its contemporaries but the emotional moments and setting are fantastic. Magicant disappearing is one of my favorite all time moments.
Classic.
Before Ness it was Ninten
Nintendorak Yamato what do you mean
@@Neoptolemus beginning of Earthbound
1985: Ninten
1995: Ness
2990: Lucas
@@leolaus 2990: mother 3 International version release year
Leolaus :D actually 2006**
“The hippie came to its senses” lmao
I will always imagine Ninten just slapping the shit out of them
"Don't run in the hall!"
*proceeds to run in the hall*
When you’re saving the world from your crazy adopted grand-uncle, you don’t have time to walk in the halls.
@@ninten1305 Yep , you need therapy after that .
And all of that torture could have been avoided if the Starmen aliens didn't abduct George and Maria .
So , hows life going ?
Its a shame what happen with the Mother/Earthbound series in America, a cancelled localization, a game which was a failure in sales, and the 3rd isn't was distributed outside of Japan.
Oswald Epic Loquendero in the uk we didn’t even get any of them
Michael Richardson
Why?
The modern-day America aspect really shines in this game. While in EarthBound, you had places like the Lost Underworld which are not realistic in the slightest, in Mother, everywhere except for Magicant seems like a real place.
Lol the onix hook
I love the magicant resident at 1:23:14. "I can't tell you're not from this place" then moves like saying "Now get the fuck outta my house"
I played a *lot* of Mother 2 and 3 so watching the original is a real treat. Nice one mate, this'll be a great watch
Wally be like: “You darn kids stay out of the grass because I think all of EagleLand is my property!
Wally had to chill.
This is amazing.
Imagine being a Japanese gamer and being able to play this on your Famicom when it came out.
It was ahead of its time
I would feel confused as to why there is a gray brick in my room. Because the NES wasn't in Japan. We had the Famicom.
@@ori.g4mi Hahahaha.
That was awesome, and you completely owned me.
Very true.
Good show.
This and EarthBound's endings just show how much Giegue has suffered from his defeat here. After forcibly hearing the Eight Melodies his adoptive parents whose memories of he repressed being sung to him, on top of trying to do everything in his power to prevent the Apple of Enlightenment's prophecy from coming true, and staying isolated in the Devil's Machine for so long, Giegue has essentially become insane and formless. Giygas is essentially what little remains of Giegue's twisted, corrupted and insane, suffering mind.
When you realize nintens face is just a question mark
Dammit! Now I can't unsee it lmao
Why
Why did you do this to me
NOOOOOO
I see an art coming soon...
Ninten’s forward facing sprite looks like a question mark, you can’t unsee it.
Please stop this is the second time today someone said my face looks like a question mark my face does not look like a punctuation point
Forward-facing Ninten is the embodiment of “damn bro you got the whole squad laughing”
Ahhhh, I remember getting that game on my Wii U. It is a nice game overall. I never beat it until Halloween of 2015. Good times, I tell you.
“Have you played Super Mario Bros. 7? I’m still on Super Mario Bros. 3” lmao
Look, it pre-dated the Grand Dad 7 meme (a bootleg game that's Flinstones (NES) with Fred replaced with Mario)
Mario 7? Is that the one I played?
Oh, let's check it out.
Grand Dad.
Fleenstones
I actually played grand dad once, let’s say that it was extremely trippy. Possibly even more trippy than my adventure.
GRAND DAD? FLEEN STONES?
The drum sound in musics is pretty good for a nes game.
I'm more surprised how they managed to fit 7 hours of content on an NES cartridge
longer than resident evil 3 remake
I also like to think of the expanded ending as the equivalent to a TV version extension. It may be edited, but there's more scenes to make up for it.
It's so infuriating to me that with maybe two exceptions, every indie game that wears "inspired by Earthbound" emblazoned on its sleeve completely fails to understand that these games are a lot more than just silly named enemies and a contemporary setting.
because 99% of the games people say are "inspired/like earthbound" aren't even trying to be anything like earthbound, and people just see any sort of game with wacky characters or strange visuals and go "wow this is earthbound!". even in cases where the developer actually was inspired, like undertale, the games are nothing like earthbound whatsoever. the only time i've seen a game that legitimately is quite like earthbound is jimmy and the pulsating mass, all the other times, OFF, omori, yume nikki (this one is just baffling lol, it's a dialogue-free surreal exploration game), people are usually just talking nonsense and there are no similarities beyond very very vague stuff that hundreds of games even predating MOTHER have
they might as well say earthbound is missing the point of... the ultima games because it is older and has some wacky characters and talking animals
Best 6 dollars I spent on wii u eshop
Who would agree
BTW this was my 1st Earthbound game
Now after watching all the video, the sound of starting the battle will be engraved deep into your brain. And will show now in your nightmares as the most annoying sound ever.
Im already hearing it all over again.
*Encounter music"
Ninten slaps snake
1 second later...*Encounter music*
Ninten slaps Wally
0.0000001 seconds later...*Encounter music*
Ninten:*Angry quiet noises*
This game is the definition of grind or fail
No it isn't, first time i beat this game i didn't grind at all.
There is finally a use for auto fighting in Mother 1!
"Plasma Beam"
It helps that weenie Loid quite alot.
Loid: ALRIGHT I GET IT!
I love this game! My first time playing any EarthBound game ever!
6:06:53 La única pareja de la saga Mother/Earthbound más bonita y la más infravalorada de Nintendo ❤️
Con esta escena adorable toda la saga Mother/Earthbound se ganó mi respeto.
@@superyuriworld5314 Yo pienso que Mother 1 merece un remake y con algunas mejoras, para que se vea como un RPG actual pero conservando su esencia que la hace única.
Este juego tenía muchas ganas de jugarlo, sería muy buen juego para empezar una saga y no me decepcionó, ame la música la historia los personajes y como era muy original
Sin duda uno de los mejores RPG
The ending is the best part, makes your emotions activate.
I adore that train music for some reason
The music is excellent and very catchy. The game also looks great as well, with a ton of colorful and well detailed backgrounds and sprites and battle sprites too.
Find a mod where you dont have to fight a boss every second
Right?! First five minutes you're fighting snakes, crows, hippies and some dick named Wally. Was Nintendo so burnt out of ideas they were like let's just throw every possible thing into this game for enemies including big foot?
@@jonathansteinfort2975 It was 1989. They couldn't find as many weird looking machines to give life to then
a enemy, not a boss xd
*No.*
They're only like 2 bosses in the entire game what are u on about bruv
I really enjoyed this, sad to have gotten to the ending already, great game
11:39 ninten becomes pissed
Ninten: >:(
Imagine Ninten just bringing Loid casually to magicant and going around while Loid is like "Am I trippin?"
Awesome walkthrough! Thanks for helping me out, 13 hours of my life wasn't wasted.
Alongside with StarTropics, this series became my favourite!
Thanks for a like. You got a new subscriber)
Yeah Earthbound and Startropics are some of the greatest older console games.
You have no idea how much I love this game! A masterpiece entirely.
#Nintenforsmash
its a spirit...
But is better than nothing
His final smash will be the 8 melodies
@@hacked__linkk8728Porky would be cool as DLC
@@hacked__linkk8728 He still would be a echo fighter to ness right ?
@@exotic_existenceiquit4130 Please no. He has so much potential. He could be more of a healer and supportive character, he could use items for his moves, and of course he would have the iconic boomerang, PK Beam, and the Eight Melodies. All of that potential would be wasted if they were to make him "just a Ness echo"
Ninten and his party go around beating up possessed cars and trucks with bats, boomerangs, laser guns, bombs, and psychic powers. I wonder what the townspeople would look like when they witness that.
“Have you played super Mario bros.7?”
Anyone who knows silvagunner and/or 7 Grand Dad:
Here is the stats of the lamp if you didn’t know, I didn’t look it up, it’s just knowledge from the first two fights :)
Speed: 1
HP: 6
Attack/offense: 2
Defence: 1
Here’s also the dolls stats
Speed: 3
HP: 11-13
Attack/offense: 2
Defence: 1
The best way to beat this game is to know the PSI learn list beforehand and grind to get the attacks you need for each dungeon.
In dragon battle only you need one ¡Super Bomb!
6:06:46 my favorite Scene begins
I dont think I even used one bomb during that battle. I just used PSI Block and it was a sitting duck
I didn't either. I just used Psi Freeze Gamma and finished It with an single Lloyd attack
In my opinion Mother is one of the best RPGs Nintendo has ever produced. Too bad it was never officially released outside of Japan.
And now it's on the NES Online catalog for Switch! :D
It did get first officially released to the West in the Wii U Virtual Console.
Mother 3 is the only Mother game to never be released in japan
I’d love to see an official remake of this someday, perhaps in the vain of Mario RPG. There’s so much to love about 1, but gameplay-wise it’s extremely rough.
The sprite work looks surprisingly good for an NES game. Either that or I haven’t played a good NES game.
Edit: I meant in battles.
"Lamp
draws near!"
Ah yes, the iconic first enemy to end all first enemies.
2:09:46 i love that you checked the view out, just like the janitor said :)
It’s nice to watch this and see what visual upgrades and game design changes were made for Mother 2
I really spent my whole Sunday watching this was worth
I hope everyone appreciates eves sacrifice. A robot helping and sacraficing its life to help save humanity. Against aliens no doubt. Also the hell is this alien a child also? Or do they juat not sing enough to their off spring?