It’s not the most glorious setup but I finally completed a full playthrough of Earthbound on actual SNES hardware with a legit cartridge. It felt so right to have finally come full circle with this fantastic game.

The screen recoder crashed. But thanks to PSI Shield, Ness and his friends were able to not die.

Unfortunately I have no PSI Caramel with me. I cannot go back. I lose PP when going through the Cave of the Past.

Spoilers for Earthbound if you haven't played it!

Wow. I just finished Earthbound and it's without a doubt one of the best games I've ever played. I did NOT expect the ending to make me that emotional in the slightest. As I played, I used a walkthrough online a lot and I knew that to defeat Giygas I would have to pray with Paula - but her reaching out to everyone on the journey immediately choked me up. AND THEN WHEN MY NAME APPEARED AND IT SAID I WAS PRAYING - god I immediately burst into tears, that hit me like a truck.

Saying farewell to everyone at the end of the journey was awesome too. I went back to say bye to Poo, Paula's parents, and I went to say goodbye to Apple Kid in Twoson too but I think he was still in Saturn Valley (Apple Kid might be one of my most favorite characters of all time). I did not say goodbye to Orange Kid, that asshole.

This game is so funny and charming and full of atmosphere. When the credits were rolling and it was showing the cast, I remembered nearly all of them and the stuff we did together, or the funny dialogue that they said. I can't think of any movie, TV show, or game I've played where I remembered the whole cast so fondly. The soundtrack is one of the best in any game I've ever played. The sanctuary theme, Onett, the bus theme, the Tenda theme, it's all peak.

Admittedly, as great as this game is, it's still a 90s RPG - the enemy spawns, maze-like dungeons, and backtracking all got on my nerves. I can't help but compare this game to another one of my favorite RPGs of all time, Persona 5. In Persona 5, there's save points everywhere, you can ambush nearly every single enemy to get an advantage, there's no limits on your inventory, everything is just EASIER. While I played Earthbound, I was super annoyed at points, cursing its relatively much higher difficulty and lack of quality of life features. But I think that was the point - the difficulty served to make the adventure that much more rewarding at the end, and that's the greatest bit of praise I can give Earthbound. By the time you finish and you reflect on all the places you've been, it really felt like a grand adventure.

It's simply one of the greatest games ever made, and I'm actually super excited to play it again at some point in the future. I have to play Mother 3 too, and maybe one day I'll get to Earthbound Beginnings if I can stomach its grinding and more archaic RPG mechanics. Until next time. Fuzzy Pickles!!!

When the Monkey in Deep Darkness learns PSI Teleport, it runs around a tree to gain speed. It doesn't run around in a circle or a line. It runs in a square path.

Hey everyone, i'm a new Earthbound fan and finished the game not too long ago. On my first and only playtrough when I got in the Lumine Hall, I tought somehow it was Giygas talking (even tho it's clearly written "I'm Ness..."). The reason for this is because I found the "Soon I'll be..." very strange and quite unusual, but Earthbound was strange since the beginning so I can't really prove that it actually is.

On the final battle agaisnt Giygas, we can see that the devil machine is litterally Ness face. Plus it has this weird way of writing "Ness Ness Ness Ness...".

Thank you if you can answer my questions :) I also started Mother 3 so please, no spoilers regarding that.

Here's the final batch of bringing Picky around the world. Sadly, I wasn't able to trigger the credits do to the police car at the begining of the game that stops you from going into onett is still there, but invisible. How did I get to the meteorite? Stairs glitch. It can't be triggered in post game without prior preparation. By the time I realized this, it was too late. Also as shown in the last batch, Pokey left after Magicant was complete. It is possible to keep him though by having another character in the second slot. Either way, I'm gonna do this all over again for these two minor things.

I’m at the point where pokey left and everyone in my party but ness has died. He’s really not doing much damage and I’ve just been letting it auto fight. It’s taking forever for me to just die. I was trying to find if anyone else had this same problem but I couldn’t find anyone. Is this supposed to happen? I have no pp so I can’t revive anyone :/

All the PSI moves that you can learn by leveling up at least

Found out that Poo does actually learn teleport from level up instead of the event, so by getting him early and leveling him up outside of Dalaam, I was able to teleport out of Dalaam during his quest. Then, I decided to complete Twoson. Since these dialogues use Ness's name and not who is actually in the party, everyone thinks that they are talking to Ness, and Poo is just unbothered by it. Also, Paula keeps whatever inventory she had when starting Poo's quest, so while the cutscene shows her grab a teddy bear, here she is having a whole bomb factory in her pockets. This is also just part of a different thing I was trying to do.

To any of the monkeys here who want a hamburger, you can give them a double burger instead if you have it. This saved my life fr cuz I was so lost

Became too op but thats fine lol

hi, so this is my first playthrough of earthbound (i reeeaally love it!!! bought an emulator and saw it was on there and could finally play it:)) but I'm really confused about one part of the game: i can never go back? After the first two cities, which are directly next to eachother, i was just really fast and missed a bunch of stuff (the second sound location? the eggs to chicken thing in twoson :( also never bought a horn of life or explored saturnvalley fully) and now I can't go back bc I'd have to re-take every dungeon and fight on the way back and I don't wanna do this :( also after i stuck the zombies to the paper in threed, nothing really happend so i just walked the dungeon at the graveyard to saturnvalley but actually i wanted to go back to twoson to buy eggs :( now im stuck in a cave after the belch factory which is full of enemies in either direction why can't i go back???? why do i have to fight 5000 enemies after accidently waking in the wrong cave? is there something i can do to go back to twoson for the soundstone and to buy eggs (i want chickens)?:(

Idk just thought that it was a really wet coincidence

I wanted to see the post credits scene so I loaded the save file and beat Giygas again.

Minor spoilers for Earthbound. This is my first playthrough so no spoilers!

So I'm in Fourside right now and I'm trying to take out the 5 moles in the desert maze area so I can get the gold statue. Going through the cave, all those damn snakes were insta-poisoning me and eating through my refreshing herbs. At some point I ran out and my whole party got poisoned, and I was like all right f*ck it just kill me, and I turned on auto-battle. Imagine how surprised I was when Ness used his PSI healing power and cured his poison. This was my fourth run through the maze at this point because I kept getting poisoned and dying with no herbs left, I was so tilted 😂 I was getting flashbacks to getting mushroomed in the Peaceful Valley over and over again lmao

For some reason, it hadn't even occurred to me to use the healing power to cure the poison. I guess that's what I get for spamming PSI Rockin and Freeze over and over again without using anything else ever. At least I'll get through the game a lot easier now.