EarthBound 1994
Also known as Mother 2
- Released
- August 27, 1994
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure
- Platforms
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System · Wii U · New Nintendo 3DS · Game Boy Advance · Super Famicom
- Developers
- HAL Laboratory · Ape
- Publisher
- Nintendo
Where to buy
- Physical
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A 1994 role playing game for the Super Nintendo, the second in the Mother series. A meteorite crashes near Ness's neighborhood, and you lead a party of four, Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo, to collect eight melodies from sanctuaries around the world. There are no random encounters: enemy groups are visible on the map, and a green or red swirl tells you who strikes first. The world is seamless, with no separate overworld map. Battles are turn based, and a rolling HP counter lets you heal before a character falls unconscious. The soundtrack is by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. It still respects your time, with visible enemies and that slow HP drain, and its humour gets wackier as you go.
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