Themed around an idiosyncratic portrayal of Americana and Western culture, EarthBound subverted popular role-playing game traditions by featuring a modern setting while parodying numerous staples of the genre. Originally scheduled for release in January 1993, the game was completed around May 1994.

Most of the other staff members had not worked on the original Mother, and the game came under repeated threats of cancellation until Iwata joined the team. Its returning staff from Mother (1989) included writer/director Shigesato Itoi and lead programmer Satoru Iwata, as well as composers Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka, who incorporated a diverse range of styles into the soundtrack, including salsa, reggae, and dub. As Ness and his party of Paula, Jeff and Poo, the player travels the world to collect melodies from eight Sanctuaries in order to defeat the universal cosmic destroyer Giygas.ĮarthBound had a lengthy development period that spanned five years. The second entry in the Mother series, it was first released in Japan in August 1994, and in North America in June 1995. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. English comparison, see my 430 page Legends of Localization book about EarthBound.EarthBound, released in Japan as Mother 2: Gīgu no Gyakushū, is a role-playing video game developed by Ape Inc. This includes unused content, rarely-seen content, and other topics of interest outside the normal game.įor a very meticulously organized, curated, and commentated Japanese vs.

I’ve also included many of the screenshots I took while doing research for my big book about EarthBound’s localization. This archive contains a motherlode of screenshots and save-states for MOTHER 2 and EarthBound. For convenient viewing, most of the images I’ve gathered can be seen on the following 3 pages.

I’m sharing these resources with the public, as I’m sure others will find them useful in someway, sometime.

This page features some of the raw, uncurated data and files I’ve assembled for Legends of Localization purposes.

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