So happy to hear there's a bestiary! Model/sprite viewers with flavor text are the best.There is a Bestiary, and it lets you practice rhythm combos!
Question: How do rhythm attacks work in a turn-based game??
So happy to hear there's a bestiary! Model/sprite viewers with flavor text are the best.There is a Bestiary, and it lets you practice rhythm combos!
Speaking of unreliable attacks, the thing that made Magicant go much more smoothly was realizing the Casey Bat has shit accuracy. When I switched to the Magicant Bat, it made a world of difference.
Actually, that's something I'd like to point out to new players: If your weapon isn't hitting consistently, it probably has poor accuracy. Might be stronger than another weapon, but it'll hit less often!
Not a slingshot I was using a bat. The main challenge was the Loaded Dice and the Care Free Bombs they kept summoning. They chewed through my Flying Men like nothing!Haha, I was wondering why your write up described Magicant as being difficult. Personally, I don't even really use any of the slingshots because their poor accuracy bums me out.
So happy to hear there's a bestiary! Model/sprite viewers with flavor text are the best.
Question: How do rhythm attacks work in a turn-based game??
Not a slingshot I was using a bat. The main challenge was the Loaded Dice and the Care Free Bombs they kept summoning. They chewed through my Flying Men like nothing!
Not a slingshot I was using a bat. The main challenge was the Loaded Dice and the Care Free Bombs they kept summoning. They chewed through my Flying Men like nothing!
Man Loaded Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!
What made matters worse is I couldn't run away from them most of the time, so they'd summon a CFB on the turn I tried to run and It'd just go downhill from there
Yep. Loaded Dice are the Anor Londo archers of EarthBound, if you ask me.Man Loaded Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!
What made matters worse is I couldn't run away from them most of the time, so they'd summon a CFB on the turn I tried to run and It'd just go downhill from there
Another instance of the game being self aware! Not long after this the cops will want to kick your butt... It's actually a pretty hard boss battle for newcomers.
This is actually one of the last screenshots I took. I never could figure out what triggered that message haha. There's clearly no one on the street!
Speaking of irritating enemies...
Which was worse trio to run into in their respective levels?
Final Starman, Nuclear Reactor Robot and Ghost of Starman
or
Musica, Mystical Record and Scalding Coffee Cup?
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why the hippy is there and whether I can reach himMy favorite Miiverse shot that I took.
lord of da hippies
Speaking of unreliable attacks, the thing that made Magicant go much more smoothly was realizing the Casey Bat has shit accuracy. When I switched to the Magicant Bat, it made a world of difference.
Actually, that's something I'd like to point out to new players: If your weapon isn't hitting consistently, it probably has poor accuracy. Might be stronger than another weapon, but it'll hit less often!
Speaking of irritating enemies...
Which was worse trio to run into in their respective levels?
Final Starman, Nuclear Reactor Robot and Ghost of Starman
or
Musica, Mystical Record and Scalding Coffee Cup?
Yep. Loaded Dice are the Anor Londo archers of EarthBound, if you ask me.
(They didn't give me trouble either — I just ran past the one archer and shielded against the other with my back against the wall, until it knocked itself off its perch. But I still referenced it because of DAT INFAMY.)Anor Londo archers interestingly never gave me an issue. I could be misremembering but I would slowly approach with my shield and took them down one by one.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why the hippy is there and whether I can reach him
In fact, I'm suspicious of that whole area between the tunnels. It's just... there!
Some of my favorite EarthBound moments are just the odd bits of dialog you find here and there. It makes it really satisfying to explore every nook and cranny to experience just how thoroughly kooky this world is.
Good. You wouldn't want to accidentally kidnap someone. That would be embarrassing.
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The text pausing for a beat between "There is a Bomb inside!" and "[Ness] takes it." really sells it.
Also, some unique dialog if Paula is KO'ed when you return her to Twoson.
At this rate poor old Neiteio is gonna crack way before E3 lol.
This is actually one of the last screenshots I took. I never could figure out what triggered that message haha. There's clearly no one on the street!
For some reason I didn't take many screenshots after this. Ah well, whenever I replay it again I'm sure I will.
I actually looked up a longplay of Mother 1 on YouTube, one with no commentary, just to get a feel for the game. And it's pretty neat. Game opens with an unsettling description of an incident in the early 1900s where a man and his wife disappeared, and then a couple years later the man came back but not the wife, and the man began working on something in private. Then it fast-forwards to the '80s/'90s, and like Mother 2, you start in the hero's bedroom. Only this time, the lamps come to life in your house and start attacking your family!He could always play Earthbound Beginnings to scratch that itch.
I actually looked up a longplay of Mother 1 on YouTube, one with no commentary, just to get a feel for the game. And it's pretty neat. Game opens with an unsettling description of an incident in the early 1900s where a man and his wife disappeared, and then a couple years later the man came back but not the wife, and the man began working on something in private. Then it fast-forwards to the '80s/'90s, and like Mother 2, you start in the hero's bedroom. Only this time, the lamps come to life in your house and start attacking your family!
Your dad on the phone speculates it was a poltergeist (and does so very matter-of-factly). You can talk to you sister repeatedly to stock up on orange juice, and then go outside to retrieve a key from the collar on the dog in the front yard. You use this key to open the basement door. The basement is pitch black and has several chests containing useful gear, but you're attacked by mice!
...and that's all I saw of Mother 1. It definitely has an intriguing vibe to it. I'm thinking I'll download it this weekend. I won't expect it to be as "fun" or as "smooth" as Mother 2, but I'll take it as a "rough draft" of storytelling and gameplay that was later evolved and refined in the sequel. I'm already curious about the man and his wife mentioned in the beginning, and indeed the atmosphere and music seems great in Mother 1.
But what I -really- want is Mother 3.
police roadblocks (that you can comically walk around while a cop actor tells you to stop)
Haha, I think it would be fun for the actor, finding creative ways to screw with guests and relocating their roadblock to do so. The actors at these parks tend to have a blast even with the most "bit" of roles!
Random encounters, eh?If you do play Earthbound Beginnings, please make liberal use of the Starmen.net Walkthrough. Getting stuck in EBB is really easy since the world is huge and lot of the time nothing is communicated about your next stop. With the high level of random encounters, I would have gone insane without a guide. The guide even provides level suggestions so you know when you should grind (there were maybe two or three spots in the game where I grinded significantly, but otherwise it felt pretty natural).
And Mother 3 will hopefully be announced and released soon! But if we don't hear about it at or before E3, then all bets are off.
Wait, is this true?? I never removed the Franklin Badge from Ness, and it did seem like Paula never hit anyone with PK Thunder... although I think she hit every now and then.
Well, sorry about that, been something that thought for like 20 years now, want to say my friend told me that when we were going through the game the first time and I just took it as fact. Guess I'll get it back from Escargo Express.It's not true. The Franklin badge deflects thunder attacks off of whoever holds it, but it doesn't affect Paula's casting of it. It's just kind of a crummy, unreliable attack.
Nobody ever talks about my favorite battle theme in Mother 3, Dry Guys.
Has anyone else read the trilogy that inspired the main plotline of Mother 3? I have, and it's dark AF. Like not even the darkest moments of the Mother trilogy come close.
I thought they were really good, and I'm kind of a literature snob FWIW. Didn't seem to bolster my understanding of the Mother series much necessarily though.
IT BEGINS
Beginnings is probably one of the better NES RPGs, but it's still an NES RPG in every sense of the term.
Not sure how to interpret this. Are you lamenting how long this thread is? If so, how would going an extra week have made it easier to catch up on your reading??Great, so I should've waited an extra week until the Neiteio thread to finish Earthbound apparently. 6 pages...
Who is Pippi? I thought the party members were Ninten, Ana, Lloyd and Teddy?
And L Thammy, you're creepin' me out with this "inner Master Belch" talk!
*farts* *burps*
Who is Pippi? I thought the party members were Ninten, Ana, Lloyd and Teddy?
Pippi is basically Pippi Longstocking. Fittingly, she's ridiculously strong.
Actually, I think she has the same stat growths as Teddy.
Because of this thread I decided to try the game again on my 3DS and I was doing okay but I'm at the fight with the 5 cops to get to Twoson and I'm getting fucking wrecked. I beat Titanic Ant with little difficulty but by the time I get to the 3rd cop I can't heal and don't have enough HP to do anything. Should I just go grind or what?
Because of this thread I decided to try the game again on my 3DS and I was doing okay but I'm at the fight with the 5 cops to get to Twoson and I'm getting fucking wrecked. I beat Titanic Ant with little difficulty but by the time I get to the 3rd cop I can't heal and don't have enough HP to do anything. Should I just go grind or what?
Grinding shouldn't be necessary. Stock up on food from the drugstore and make sure you're using the best equipment!Because of this thread I decided to try the game again on my 3DS and I was doing okay but I'm at the fight with the 5 cops to get to Twoson and I'm getting fucking wrecked. I beat Titanic Ant with little difficulty but by the time I get to the 3rd cop I can't heal and don't have enough HP to do anything. Should I just go grind or what?