Earth. Bound Wikipedia. Earth. Bound, known as Mother 2 in Japan,nb 1 is a 1. Japanese role playing video game co developed by Ape Inc. Idpa Scoring Program. HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. It is the second game of the Mother series, and the only one to be released in the English language until its predecessor was released under the name Earth. Bound Beginnings in 2. Wii Us Virtual Console. Earth. Bound was released in Japan in August 1. North America the next June. The game had a lengthy development period that spanned five years. Its making involved a number of Japanese luminaries, including writer Shigesato Itoi, musiciansongwriter Keiichi Suzuki, sound designer Hirokazu Tanaka, and future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Silly Telephone Game Phrases' title='Silly Telephone Game Phrases' />Themed around an idiosyncratic portrayal of Americana and Western culture, it subverted popular role playing game traditions by featuring a real world setting while parodying numerous staples of the genre. Itoi, who directed the game, wanted it to reach non gamers with its intentionally goofy tone. Upon release, it was heavily marketed with a promotional campaign that sardonically proclaimed this game stinks. Initial reviewers had little praise for Earth. Bound in the United States, where it sold half as many copies as in Japan. Critics attribute this to a combination of the games simple graphics, the satirical marketing campaign, and a lack of market interest in the genre. In the ensuing years, a dedicated fan community spawned which advocated for the series. Starting in 1. 99. Ness became a featured character in each of the Super Smash Bros. Earth. Bound. Eventually, the game received wide critical acclaim. 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Bound was reissued and given a worldwide release for the Wii UVirtual Console following many years of fan lobbying, marking its debut in many territories including Europe. Gameplayedit. Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo right to left walking the Summers beachfront. Earth. Bound features many traditional role playing game elements the player controls a party of characters who travel through the games two dimensionalworld composed of villages, cities, caves, and dungeons. Along the way, the player fights battles against enemies and the party receives experience points for victories. If enough experience points are acquired, a characters level will increase. This pseudo randomly increases the characters attributes, such as offense, defense, and the maximum hit points HP and psychic points PP of each character. Rather than using an overworld map screen like most console RPGs of its era, the world is entirely seamless, with no differentiation between towns and the outside world. Another non traditional element is the perspective used for the world. The game uses oblique projection, while most 2. D RPGs use a top down view on a grid or an isometric perspective. Unlike its predecessor, Earth. Bound does not use random encounters. When physical contact occurs between a character and an enemy, the screen dissolves into battle mode. In combat, characters and enemies possess a certain amount of HP. Blows to an enemy reduce the amount of HP. Once an enemys HP reach zero, that enemy is defeated. If a specific type of enemy is defeated, there is a chance that the character will receive an item after the battle. In battle, the player is allowed to choose specific actions for their characters. These actions can include attacking, healing, spying reveals enemy weaknessstrengths, mirroring emulate a specific enemy, and running away. Characters can also use special PSI attacks that require PP. Once each character is assigned a command, the characters and enemies perform their actions in a set order, determined by character speed. Whenever a character receives damage, the HP box gradually rolls down, similar to an odometer. This allows players an opportunity to heal the character or win the battle before the counter hits zero, after which the character is knocked unconscious. If all characters are rendered unconscious, the game transitions to an endgame screen, asking if the player wants to continue. An affirmative response brings Ness, conscious, back to the last telephone he saved from, with half the money on his person at the time of his defeat, and with other party members showing as still unconscious. Because battles are not random, tactical advantages can be gained. If the player physically contacts an enemy from behind indicated by a translucent green swirl which fills the screen, the player is given a first strike priority. However, this also applies to enemies, who can also engage the party from behind in this case, the swirl is red. Neutral priority is indicated by a blue swirl. Additionally, as Ness and his friends become stronger, battles with weaker enemies are eventually won automatically, forgoing the battle sequence, and weaker monsters will begin to flee from Ness and his friends rather than chase them. Currency is indirectly received from Ness father, who can also save the games progress. Each time the party wins a battle, Ness father deposits money in an account that can be withdrawn at ATMs. In towns, players can visit various stores where weapons, armor, and items can be bought. Weapons and armor can be equipped to increase character strength and defense, respectively. In addition, items can be used for a number of purposes, such as healing. Towns also contain several other useful facilities such as hospitals where players can be healed for a fee. Earth. Bound takes place several years after the events of Mother. The player starts as a young boy named Nessnb 3 as he investigates a nearby meteorite crash9 with his neighbor, Pokey. He finds that an alien force, Giygas, has enveloped and consumed the world in hatred and consequently turned animals, humans, and objects into malicious creatures. A small, bee like creature from the future instructs Ness to collect melodies in a Sound Stone to preemptively stop the force,1. Pokey and Pickys mother mistakes him for a pest. While visiting these eight Sanctuaries,1. Ness meets three other kids named Paula, Jeff, and Pooa psychic girl, an eccentric inventor, and a ponytailed martial artist, respectively1. Along the way, Ness visits the cultists of Happy Happy Village, where he saves Paula, and the zombie infested Threed, where the two of them fall prey to a trap. After Paula telepathically instructs Jeff in a Winters boarding school to rescue them, they continue to the city of Fourside and the seaside resort Summers. Meanwhile, Poo, the prince of Dalaam, partakes in a seemingly violent meditation called Mu Training before joining the party as well. The party continues to travel to the Scaraba desert, the Deep Darkness swamp and a forgotten underworld where dinosaurs live. When the Sound Stone is eventually filled,1. Ness visits Magicant, a surreal location in his mind where he fights his personal dark side. Upon returning to Eagleland, Ness and his party use the Phase Distorter to travel back in time to fight Giygas, transferring their souls into robots. The group discovers a device that contains the alien, but it is being guarded by Pokey, who is revealed to have been helping Giygas all along. Collection of Ambiguous or InconsistentIncomplete Statements. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the 5. 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