/r/earthbound

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/r/EarthBound is a subreddit dedicated to Shigesato Itoi's cult classic JRPG series, EarthBound / MOTHER!

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What is /r/EarthBound?

/r/EarthBound is a subreddit dedicated to Shigesato Itoi's cult classic JRPG series, EarthBound / MOTHER.


Rules

1. All posts MUST relate to the MOTHER series

2. Do not post links to ROMs or ROM sites

3. Do not put any spoilers in your post title

4. Do not post Let's Plays

5. Follow the reddiquette

6. No posts about rare item drops (e.g. Sword of Kings) or favorite food/PSI name jokes.

7. If it's not your art/OC, credit the creator of it

8. Low effort memes/edits belong in /r/shitpostbound

9. No NSFW/NSFL content. If it could get you in trouble at work or at school, it does not belong here.


Spoilers

  • Any spoilers in comments should be hidden by writing something like this:

  • [Mother 3 Spoilers](#s "Lucas Exists")

  • Which shows up as:

  • Mother 3 Spoilers


Links

Starmen.net

EarthBound Central

WikiBound

/r/earthbound

84,995 Subscribers

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schleepy time

they are so adorable

3 Comments
2024/10/26
03:13 UTC

51

This guy is an asshole. I love him!

10 Comments
2024/10/25
19:03 UTC

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Ness became a T.V

4 Comments
2024/10/25
18:45 UTC

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so what if the chosen four went to early back in time to 1988XX

2 Comments
2024/10/25
18:29 UTC

286

Even the game knows bruh 💀

4 Comments
2024/10/25
15:51 UTC

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This Giygas drawing possibly gave me arthritis. No, seriously, my pinkie finger is crooked now-

5 Comments
2024/10/25
11:24 UTC

20

kung fu kick >:D

0 Comments
2024/10/25
04:56 UTC

14

A lot of people compare Porky to Eric Cartman, but who really is the worst?

17 Comments
2024/10/25
04:09 UTC

222

This reminded me of slimy little pile

9 Comments
2024/10/25
03:01 UTC

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Dragonball x Earthbound sketch

I wont finish it but i thought id post it here

7 Comments
2024/10/25
00:22 UTC

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Starman DX drawing that my sister made for a request of me

0 Comments
2024/10/24
22:20 UTC

4

Y'all know the Magicant Smash bros Stage? What's the giant walking thing on the bottom that comes occasionally looks like a stone man

12 Comments
2024/10/24
22:09 UTC

535

My Prince Poo ramen bowl arrived today!

Hobonichi continues to crush it with this collab

17 Comments
2024/10/24
21:50 UTC

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who would've thought

2 Comments
2024/10/24
19:51 UTC

6

I Believe in You (Pollyanna) - MOTHER Encore OST

0 Comments
2024/10/24
19:10 UTC

187

Rate my Ness Avatar

:)

19 Comments
2024/10/24
16:58 UTC

27

Fassad sketchpage because I had a bad dream and was like "Why not?"

0 Comments
2024/10/24
15:17 UTC

0

My very, very dark headcanon of Mother 3

Remember the >!ending?!< Ya'know, where everybody's alive? I find it too cheesy to be real. Well, in my opinion, Lucas escaped from reality into his fantasies, just to never have the painful truth.

11 Comments
2024/10/24
12:59 UTC

0

Help with save states Mother 3

Does anyone have save states from the beginning of chapter 7, or from the beginning of 4? I know about a bunch of saves on the forum, but I'm on my phone

0 Comments
2024/10/24
09:32 UTC

209

I’m so glad this magazine was wrong on their “too weird for the west” prediction.

(Superplay issue 25 Nov 94).

28 Comments
2024/10/24
08:01 UTC

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Anyone Here Played or Even Heard About Limbo, the 2010 Game? What Do You Think of it?

https://preview.redd.it/zh3bbupzcnwd1.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=defc253c4a0200ba9ca2e5d25bc074b0553df796

Limbo was considered the one of the best indie games of its time and one of the pinnacle examples of "video games as an art." It was released back in 2010, a time when indie games weren't that much relevant like they are nowadays. I played Limbo back in 2015, it was one of the very, very few games that I played and finished in just one sit (and I rarely, if ever, finish a game in just one sit), it's a short and sweet game, it's an atmospherical masterpiece in my opinion.

What do you think of it (and since this is a sub about a Nintendo game, it's worth mentioning that Limbo was ported to the Switch many years ago in case any of you here may be interested in experiencing it)? While the game itself isn't story-heavy like the Mother games, doesn't have even a single dialogue and the whole "story" is up to the player's interpretation, what mostly made me ask this sub about this game is that it does have some elements that may resonate with the Mother fandom:

I like the design of the boy main character so much (he officially has no name), in fact, his design reminds me a lot of the Mother character designs (though this is mostly just a personal opinion), whom the Mother characters have my absolute favorite character designs in any other game even to this very day, it's so elegant that I just can't ever get enough of it. I can only imagine that the boy would look pretty good if he was fully modeled had it not been entirely monochromatic.

It does have some scary moments, like the spider shown above (nothing extremely scary though as it's not meant to be a horror game. The spider shown in the picture is not a spoiler as that's how the game was heavily advertised even back in the day). And as a diehard lover of the "placing innocent-looking young characters in disturbing, dire, violent situations or anything that is not so child-friendly" trope just like what Ness and his friends went through when they fought Giygas, it makes the game shine even more in my eyes.*

*The primary reason on what made me ask about this game in particular and to amplify on the trope that I just mentioned, is that it has some "death animations" that are just extremely disturbing to see. You can check them out in the linked video below (I would personally recommend not going past minute 5 to avoid spoilers despite the game not having a traditional story as the death animations shown in the video are sorted just like how you progress the game and contain late game levels, even if the game itself is short and most full walkthrough videos of it are about just exactly 1 hour long).

The deaths in the video start out mostly tame (mostly, with some intervals between how brutal each death is over the other), then at 0:33 is when you are probably gonna get shocked, as some of these deaths are just extremely brutal and over a game where the MC is a young boy just like the main Mother characters, and do keep in mind that all of these death animations are in a T-rated game just like EarthBound:

https://youtu.be/Lq_tLQoDSSI?feature=shared

!How devastated and heartbroken would you be if you saw Ness and Lucas getting impaled right in the head, sliced, chopped, ripped and torn to pieces like that? Although the game is merely black and white and the character models aren't that detailed because of it, I felt so bad for that poor boy 😰!<

5 Comments
2024/10/24
06:21 UTC

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Earthbound copy signed by starmen.net Reidman floating around...

I bought Earthbound off ebay 10+ years ago. At some PAX West, some of the starmen.net gang met up. I cosplayed Ness and brought my copy of Earthbound to ask Reidman for a signature because I knew he'd be there, and he (being a cool guy) did!

He apologized for not having a good signature and scribbled on the cart with a sharpie.

Fast forward a few years later, I leave some of my stuff in my mom's basement when I go off to university and she decides to sell some of it without consulting me at a yard sale. The Earthbound cart went pretty fast -- she sold it for $0.75 because it was "just an old game".

So if you ever own or find an Earthbound cart with a mysterious scribble on it -- that's what the story is behind it! But there's a good chance too some reseller/collector already erased it LOL

I'm not looking to get it back and I'm not bitter about what happened. But I've been streaming mothers 1-3 for some of my friends and that memory just popped into my head. Sorry if this post doesn't belong here...

3 Comments
2024/10/24
06:03 UTC

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Lardna as a secret final boss dialogue

It's a reply to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/earthbound/comments/t4tcwz/shower_thought_lardna_killed_buzz_buzz_in_one_hit/

"You... Did you just DARE to hurt MY son?!"

"You'll get a suitable punishment!"

3 Comments
2024/10/24
04:33 UTC

11

I need help translate this from the Pollyanna comic

I am struggling with this since my translation app doesn't detect it

[UPDATE] I've asked in another subreddit and they told me that it's not really meant to be translated but it's like sound effects written in funky in hiragana

https://preview.redd.it/prdy9z8wwlwd1.png?width=840&format=png&auto=webp&s=c15f628f48eeb5640c9c0d3161a997008777ee56

3 Comments
2024/10/24
01:28 UTC

299

V:

47 Comments
2024/10/23
21:40 UTC

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