EarthBound (1994)

Developer

HAL Laboratory, Ape

Publisher

Nintendo

Platforms

Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy Advance, Super Famicom

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure

Rating

4.5 of 5, 563 player ratings

Main story

about 25 hours

Where to get it

Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A quirky, emotionally resonant journey that mixes lighthearted humor with an underlying sense of growing up and facing the unknown.

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About

A turn-based JRPG and sequel to the then-Japan-only Earthbound Beginnings (1989) in which Ness, a young boy living in a land based on the USA, leaves home to go on an adventure through strange locations, get to know quirky characters, and defeat an unknowable alien threat called Giygas while facing up to the realities of growing up and becoming familiar with the real world.

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