Its staff contained involvement from a number of Japanese luminaries including writer Shigesato Itoi, songwriter Keiichi Suzuki, sound designer Hirokazu Tanaka, and future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The game faced a lengthy development time spanning five years. EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and in North America on June 5, 1995.

It is the second game of the Mother series, and the only one to be released in the English language. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. Being stashed away in the download store of the Wii U a console thats reached barely a fraction of its predecessors audience isnt exactly a second lease of life for Earthbound, but with sales figures slowly on the uptake thanks to Mario Kart, its finally possible for Europeans to see what all of the fuss is about.EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, is a 1994 Japanese role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.

Earthbound stood out a mile from its contemporaries, but for all of the wrong reasons, and sold poorly. In retrospect, though, its hard to blame Nintendo for its wariness someone had made the questionable decision to over-exaggerate the cruder aspects of the games humour as part of Earthbounds marketing campaign, leaving reviewers and gamers alone baffled by NES-quality visuals and vomit gags in an RPG landscape that had just seen the release of beautiful, sophisticated Chrono Trigger. The novelty, that is, of being able to legitimately sample a title that Americans were able to physically unwrap way back in 1995 thats a localisation delay of eighteen years, which is a leisurely amble even by Nintendos standards.

Its been slightly over a year now since Earthbound finally found its way to European shores, albeit as a download for the Wii Us Virtual Console, and thats enough time for the novelty to have worn away.

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