February 9th, 2009 | EarthBound

According to this review :P

Not everyone likes EarthBound, and that’s cool, everyone’s got their own opinions. The game’s definitely not for everyone and there are plenty of things about the game that deserve criticism. So if I come across a bad review of the game, I don’t give it a second thought.

But sometimes, just sometimes, you come across gems like this review. It made me laugh until my eyes started to water. I can’t tell if this is real or fake, that’s how bad it is. Here, read it for yourself:

Also reminds me of this classic GameFAQs review that everyone seems to dig up every 2 or 3 months. I guess I’m adding to that cycle though, whoops :P


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182 Comments to EarthBound Sucks


a said on Feb. 9, 2009

I think it’s a joke

Deiphobus said on Feb. 9, 2009

snipe him!

Darien said on Feb. 9, 2009

I’m fair sure it’s a joke. The bit about Sonic the Hedgehog kind of tips it.

Mato said on Feb. 9, 2009

Possibly, but it’s hard to say judging from his other reviews. His other ones seem similar but authentic.

Tonchiki said on Feb. 9, 2009

I say he’s bashing it simply because it has a cult following.

But honestly, and I might get attacked for this, I don’t think EarthBound’s gameplay is all that great.

Regardless, though,I am a huge fan of the series, because as a whole (taking into acount the personality, story, music, et cetera) the games are awesome. I don’t see how that guy can possibly be serious with that review. (Plus, Mother 3 improved the gameplay a lot.)

Mato said on Feb. 9, 2009

Actually, I think you’ll probably find that you won’t get attacked for saying that. In all honesty, I agree and probably most people will agree too.

I do like the simplicity of it, though. I also like that it’s a little more complex than something like Dragon Warrior but not bogged down by some complicated character improvement system.

I can also understand why people don’t find the battles very exciting, especially people just playing the game now. But back then, enemies with super long names doing all kinds of crazy stuff was pure awesome. Before then, Nintendo RPGs were limited, enemies had like 7 letter names, spells lacked vowels, text read like fish poo.

Smash Bass said on Feb. 9, 2009

I don’t know if I should laugh or laugh harder.

I’m not saying that Earthbound is perfect, but I would give it 5 stars. In a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a 9.5.

captain_falcon said on Feb. 9, 2009

That review is he-haw larious.

I wonder who the one person is who found it helpful.

Really… how old was that kid anyways?

It reminds me of the letters sent in by some teachers classrooms to get beavis and butthead canceled.

Old West said on Feb. 10, 2009

“You will be affected by the EB disease, your mind might reject this kind of disease.”

Sounds serious to me

Darien said on Feb. 10, 2009

Tonchiki: I’m certainly not planning to attack you. Earthbound’s gameplay was very basic even for 1995; what made the game special was its ambience and style, and the care taken with its tiny details.

rayefrenzy said on Feb. 10, 2009

I lol’d so hard at the sonic/secretaries bit.

AbstractedThought said on Feb. 10, 2009

My sister tried to play EarthBound a few times when we first bought it, but she lost interest due to the battle interface.

About the review: Ouch, but whatever. The right people will get it.

DragonKazooie89 said on Feb. 10, 2009

What a mediocre review! I personally would give EarthBound four stars because the battle interface could have been better and with more battle animations. Everything else in the game was great :)

EBM said on Feb. 10, 2009

EBM typed a WHOLE rant… but something was wrong with his computer.
EBM shall not retype it, but know it had to do with iTunes, Dragon Quest, The World Ends With You, Brawl, MOTHER, cats, shrimp puffs, sandwiches, and directions.
I’m not even lying.
But for your convenience, EBM will give a summary-
Reviewer is stupid, ignore it and it shall go away.

madammina said on Feb. 10, 2009

1) with the secretaries, I wonder if he played it.

2) It’s kinda hard to read…

somaticdefilement said on Feb. 10, 2009

What makes this a bad review is not the fact that he dislikes Earthbound, but rather the fact that his argument is so weak.

Darien said on Feb. 10, 2009

No, what makes this a bad review is that his writing is nonsensical and most of what he says isn’t even true. ;-)

Clockerstance said on Feb. 10, 2009

Most of the music is not original work? What?
Uh… How far did this guy get? The first dog?

ZEROGRAVITY-A01! said on Feb. 10, 2009

What a wuss! The guy who wrote this review obviously never played the game completely!

I mean… come on! 7 “secretaries”? There were 8 Sanctuaries! There are remixes of BGM from EarthBound Zero and what proof did he had to say this game’s BGM is no original?

That guy is a loser.

How dare he called Starmen.Net suck! Did he had any idea how we had worked on to make sure the Earthbound series had his own fanbase?!

Blueman said on Feb. 10, 2009

“CursedBound” eh? And wait, secretaries? What, does he think EarthBound is a patent office?

*sigh* this reminds me of my friend, who has the exact same opinion and worse.

Jimi said on Feb. 10, 2009

7 Secretaries?

I like where this is going.

PK Soap said on Feb. 10, 2009

Uh-oh. Looks like I’m from the dark ages. D:

Get The Cheese said on Feb. 10, 2009

In my opinion he’s kind of right, and just enunciated what he thought badly.

Compared to other RPGs of the time, especially ones like FF3 that had engaging, funny translations that easily match EarthBound’s, the game doesn’t have a lot to offer beyond silly charm.

The graphics are simplistic and kinda gross. Nowhere in EarthBound is really beautiful, while there are beautiful places and scenes abound in other games of the time, excuse my pun.

I’m not sure I agree about the music being bad though; it certainly isn’t as epic in the vein of Nobuo Uematsu’s work in the Final Fantasy series, but it has an original and captivating style that speaks to the heart. If I may say so, I think most of the game’s appeal comes from the music and the written dialogue…

But it also comes from the appeal of being “different” than the generic rpg player. Most people still haven’t heard of EarthBound, yet if you mention Final Fantasy there’s a very good chance they’ll have played at least one game in that series. It’s easy to see the interest a fully fleshed out, unique yet “ignored” game might have on someone with a distaste for popular fandom.

Other than the music and some other funny bits of dialogue, I don’t think the game is that special… it’s definitely not something I could play 2 times every year for over 10 years, like some people. It’s not bad, but it’s not amazing or revolutionary either: it’s just a videogame, and one of those things people take to pretending they love more than the sun and stars because it gives them some sense of purpose and meaning.

Thanks and as always,
Semper Games.

Get The Cheese said on Feb. 10, 2009

*Uematsu Nobuo

ark?? said on Feb. 10, 2009

obviously this guy is insane because anyone who disagrees with popular (erm, “underground”) opinion should be shot and hung and possibly raped too

not like eb? unheard of, help us all

Mato said on Feb. 10, 2009

Dang, sounds like you got the EB disease he was talking about

Dr Shlub said on Feb. 10, 2009

Call me when the review makes sense…

XX Stone said on Feb. 10, 2009

My father won’t play EarthBound, he tried it before, but I can’t get him to go through it. My brother almost finished it (you’ve gotta give him credit… he’s 9, and he finished EB0 first :P ) but he gave up right at the end. EarthBound can only be enjoyed by a chosen few.

Feykie said on Feb. 10, 2009

I bought the game because of this review and was disappoitned at the lack of secretaries.

TheJorsh said on Feb. 10, 2009

Nice.
I think this was my favorite review of EB. XD

Covarr said on Feb. 10, 2009

He probably didn’t like it when the 1960s Batman used comic book style BAMs, either.

Q said on Feb. 10, 2009

Also.

Earthbound has that silly charm, it’s got more “complete” worldbuilding in an unusual setting, the battle features are cool… but it still sorta follows the Dragon Warrior path of the formulaic “eight plot coupons for the Chosen One” JRPG.

But anyone who only sees this hasn’t played it to the end.

Itoi talked about this in interviews, about how you use a game to do the kind of art that would only work for a game. It’s the same thing that Alan Moore tried to do with Watchmen.

And if you’re one of the people who can enjoy the game enough to get to the ending – one of the people who the writing has succeeded in giving an emotional attachment to the characters – the game finally lands the sucker punch that it’s been setting up since the meteor in Onett.

That’s art at work, people. And that’s why EB is more than what it looks like to a person who just sees the JRPG formula in a “wacky” setting.

No crying until the ending.

Q said on Feb. 10, 2009

Also also: does this blog software support an edit or delete button? Seeing something in a previous post that I wish I could change but can’t is like an unscratchable itch.

IWontGetOvertheDam said on Feb. 10, 2009

I can’t see a way this wouldn’t be a joke.

22hunter said on Feb. 10, 2009

I am going to gouge this guy’s eyeballs out and replace them with life noodles.

Satsy said on Feb. 10, 2009

*checks*

Ohh, this was the secretaries review! ;) I did wonder.

Also, yeah, we’ve been lucky that the GameFAQs one hasn’t been around a while (I’ll politely request people don’t take it there TO bring it up, thanks), but I didn’t mind the review. I minded that he hadn’t played it through fully, and he did have an attitude problem at the time.

I mean I’ll give this guy credit — he seems to have reached the end at least. :p Could be worse.

Pishi said on Feb. 10, 2009

Wheee, lots of replies!

Addressing the more obvious issue: I think there’s a little more than seven secretaries in Onett’s City Hall. (There really are secretaries in Onett – and Earthbound would have sold millions, MILLIONS!!!, if the marketing campaign focused on that: “A RPG with secretaries! And bureaucracy! And a city hall.”)

And I guess I’m the first one to comment on how when Peach kisses Mario, she really kisses him – not just “smooch”. I actually checked a screenshot (it’s here: http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes/a/supmaworld-2.gif).
I’ll let someone else make a comment that doesn’t sound indecent. (Good luck.)

HossTehMaster said on Feb. 10, 2009

HOLY SHIT HES RIGHT. DONT YOU REMEBER WHEN SONIC TALKED TO 7 DIFFERENT SECRETARIES THEN DEFEATED GIYGAS AND HEAVILY ARMED ROBOTNIK?! Well I don’t…and I grew up playing sonic. As EB goes it’s a fun game, sure it has its faults but at least put up a good argument like “Some of the best items in the game are left up to chance to get” I dunno something like that.

MotherFTW said on Feb. 10, 2009

I would rate EB 8.4/10.

THIS IS STILL GOOD

Covarr said on Feb. 10, 2009

If it had been eight, he’d have claimed it was ripping off Zelda.

Bigot said on Feb. 10, 2009

Who the heck is “Halken?”

Vakama3 said on Feb. 10, 2009

How is Earthbound a ripoff of Sonic? Is Poo’s Ruby simmilar to an emerald? Is Ness a werehog? No.

And I don’t remember any secretaries. Let alone 7 of them.

I wonder if I should write an anti-Halo review…

Deiphobus said on Feb. 10, 2009

If you hate Halken, you hate a good deal of nintendo’s better games, i.e., nearly all the kirby games, the mother series, and the three super smash bros games

Leirin said on Feb. 10, 2009

Halken is the former name of HAL.

That, along with the GameFAQs one (which I dug up a little while ago to go read and make fun of), are some of the most inaccurate reviews ever. Rip off of Sonic? Earthbound owns Sonic’s arse. And to top it all of, I HATEHATEHATE it when people compare the game to Chrono Trigger. My gosh, it’s two totally different games! Just ’cause Earthbound doesn’t have graphics that will make you so amazed you write a whole report on how good they are doesn’t mean they “suck”. Plus, the music is quite good. Everything just fits in with the location or situation. Whoever wrote either reviews, is a lame baby who doesn’t even know what a good game is, cause Earthbound, at the least, deserves four stars out of five or 8/10.

Maybe I’m just bitter…

Master Chicken said on Feb. 10, 2009

Fail troll is fail.

XX Stone said on Feb. 11, 2009

Halken… which is now HAL…
You mean… the evil robot that kills astronauts?!

Cafechan said on Feb. 11, 2009

I was too distracted by “Seven Secretaries” to be angry about this crappy review. -laugh-

Simpleton said on Feb. 11, 2009

This could not possibly be real.

Seven secretaries? It’s like a two-years-old boy made this.

It’s so horribly bad, even I get the punchline.

Kirby Phelps (PK) said on Feb. 11, 2009

I know this is a stupid and ignorant review and all, but it still made me angry. Earthbound is my favorite game ever, so whenever I hear the words “Earthbound” and “Suck” in the same sentence, I instantly get mad.

PSI Guy said on Feb. 12, 2009

OH GOD NOT THE 7 SECRETARIES

I HIRED THEM HOW DARE THEY TURN ON ME, OH JESUS

Thatguy said on Feb. 12, 2009

I think this person is just some kid who grew up on Halo and Final Fantasy X.

Although, really you never get to learn the characters personalities, and the graphics weren’t the best. Int the story’s defense, every JRPG at that time had the 7 ______’s to save the world.

Itoi Is Single, yet another way to relate? said on Feb. 12, 2009

I literally foam at the mouth when people offend my favorite video game which, by the way, is one of The Most !!!AWESOME!!! games of !!!ALL TIME!!!

IT’S AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME IS AWESOME, THE GRAPHICS ARE AWESOME, THE MUSIC IS AWESOME, !!!SHIGESATO ITOI IS AWESOME!!!

Kirby Phelps (PK) said on Feb. 12, 2009

Besides, wasn’t it 8 secretaries?

Hyperstar96 said on Feb. 12, 2009

SANCTUARIES. And yes.

Koji45 said on Feb. 13, 2009

This review make meh lol! x3

I’v only just started playing this game actually. Maybe only at the first boss….
I have to agree that the graphics arn’t the greatest, but then I don’t think graphics is what makes a good game.
Thanks to my brother, I already know most of the characters, and story, and I’ve seen the ending of the game. And just from that i’d very much like to continue playing it!
I can’t say i’m a major fan of the music though. Some of it is Really good! but a lot of it just doesn’t keep my interest.

So far I diffinently like Mother 3 Way better. <3
Already beat it once and am like half way threw it a second time!

(sorry for bad spelling) :3

GoldenEevee said on Feb. 13, 2009

This is just insulting, this guy has to die……..

22hunter said on Feb. 13, 2009

I’ll get my Deathnote out

CruxianAzelf said on Feb. 13, 2009

Secretaries.
Haha.

NessRules said on Feb. 13, 2009

Lol this review was so bad, my left sock got the punchline :(

Hyperstar96 said on Feb. 13, 2009

That review is NOTHING compared to this EB0 one:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/review/R27808.html

Steve said on Feb. 14, 2009

HAHAHA SEVEN SECRETARIES!?

omg this guy must be like 6! since when did the music suck?

i am as old as this game and honestly (by my age group) i should hate these types of games. but earthbound and the whole mother series is the one of my favorite games of all time. although this is my personal opinion and anyone is entitled to their own opinion but this guy needs to fuck off!

the game shouldn’t be based on graphics or wording… it’s not fair. you should base it off of the game play such as the EIGHT SANCTUARIES (not 7 secretaries lol) this guy pisses me off in every inch of my body even though its probably a joke i dont care it still makes me mad that he judged the game before he even tried to actually play it and shit…

so yeah, sorry about the long review it just pushed my buttons..

WOOTMAN said on Feb. 14, 2009

oh wow, that guy is a douche and dick

me. why are u asking my name!? said on Feb. 14, 2009

the guy on hyperstar’s link revew thing called ninten ness? thas wierd.

AndrewTaylors sucks said on Feb. 14, 2009

This bad review is not even funny. :/ FAIL

rawpower said on Feb. 14, 2009

Haha what a loser. He doens’t have a life.

Omnitarian said on Feb. 15, 2009
The retard of epic proportions said on Feb. 15, 2009

Uh… wow. The mother series has the best music in any video game I’ve ever played. this guy must really not have played the game.

The retard of epic proportions said on Feb. 15, 2009

By the way, the 6th Secretary is the hardest to get to.

JeebusMcChrist said on Feb. 15, 2009

People can hate the gameplay and graphics and story and whatever the hell they want, but don’t put down the soundtrack, which is quite honestly some of my favorite music ever written. I have it ripped and listen to it without ever even playing the game. Honestly, if Earthbound didn’t have the fantastic soundtrack it does, it would lose 3 or 4 points on a scale of 1 to 10.

The music makes this game for me. Fuck off if you don’t like it, you have no taste.

Liam said on Feb. 15, 2009

Talking of strange opinions of games, I know someone who had only these things to say about the game: “Not as good as Dragon Quest” but also “It’s just like Pokémon”. I think that was my favourite one.

Nintendofan4lyf said on Feb. 15, 2009

It looks like a Square Enix fanboy. :Y

Nobody said on Feb. 15, 2009

Square fanboys, ha

METC said on Feb. 16, 2009

What the heck!?!?!

1-star actually has 12% on a site like this!?!?!

Jimmy said on Feb. 16, 2009

hehe, some of your comments sorta remind me of how some ppl criticize the graphics of music games.

NessRules said on Feb. 16, 2009

All halken did was make the music for the game…

PKNESS said on Feb. 16, 2009

YOU MUST DIE!!!! PK GROUND OMEGA! WHAT THE

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* *mushroom cloud appears*

PKNESS said on Feb. 16, 2009

YOU MUST DIE!!!! PK GROUND OMEGA! WHAT THE
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM mushroom cloud appears

Aidan said on Feb. 17, 2009

Aidan thinks he does not mean it, maybe he is just not weawwy weady for Earthbound yet.

Steve said on Feb. 17, 2009

Liam… im trying to get people into this game and thats all i hear! ive been asking people if they knew it and they were like, “Ness? that guy from super smash bros?” and i hate it the most when they say, “Dude this is hella like pokemon. why not just play pokemon?” that pisses me off…

DarkLink9393 said on Feb. 18, 2009

Oh shit! I rated it one star because I thought you were talking about the review! Then I saw it was about Earthbound! Please, don’t count one of the votes for 1 star and add an extra for 5 stars. I really love Earthbound. And about this review, it’s really ridiculous. Now, I can understand if you don’t like Earthbound, but come on people. A ripoff of Sonic the Hedgehog? Wtf!? If collecting melodies was somehow a ripoff of Sonic (which it’s definitely not), then Sonic is a ripoff of the Earthbound series because last I checked, you had to do the same thing in Mother 1/Earthbound Zero, which came out in Japan before Sonic the Hedgehog existed. To the guy who made this review, before you go out to bash a game, then at least do some research about it and the entire series first.

Lol said on Feb. 18, 2009

Lol, he thinks that EarthBound and EB are two different games!

Loid said on Feb. 18, 2009

okay who made this review is pin headed idiot i wanna kill him and im going to put something nasty in his Ass!!!

NessRules said on Feb. 18, 2009

1 multimillion= -9999

Do the math:)

CaptainKirby said on Feb. 18, 2009

Guess what, I looked at his other reviews and people only agreed with ONE OF THEM!!! That 8-year-old’s a bunch of baloney.

Deiphobus said on Feb. 19, 2009

someone go use PK Fax Omega on him

The Alex said on Feb. 19, 2009

This game is like Godard; you either get it or you don’t.

wantslatioslots said on Feb. 19, 2009

Trolls are fun :D

Afen said on Feb. 19, 2009

How funny! Spelling mistakes, calling it a rip off oh and my favourite you have to go to the “7 sectuarys”

GB140 said on Feb. 20, 2009

Nuke time.

Iz_wantz_cheeseburger said on Feb. 20, 2009

500000000000000000000000000 stars

PK_Awesome said on Feb. 21, 2009

Can we kill this guy? Please >:(

IWontGetOvertheDam said on Feb. 22, 2009

Woah. Some pretty cool rebels voted “1 star.” Those rebels do what they want. They don’t have to follow the crowd. They must be pretty cool.

Arutoa said on Feb. 22, 2009

My review of that review was half-true, half-joke. I’m not a Square hater. Just responding to the people who posted in my thread. It was partially meant to be a gag-review. Again: It was a gag/joke. I was bored.

As for my serious review, I’m half-hating it, half-laughing at it.

And as for why I’m not registered on the site yet, it’s because the email is taking too long to send.

Itoi said on Feb. 27, 2009

To some people Mario is the greatest video game ever while to others Mario is a game that is all about jumping on enemies and saving the same princess over and over again. Mother is no different.

As stated many people are entitled to their opinions however from the poor grammer and punctuation of this review, I believe this was either a FSP fan who wrote this review or this is a hoax.

frogman said on Feb. 28, 2009

this is a damned fuckin 5 years old little worm
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU
ANDREW TAYLOR!!!!!

Ness and Sonic said on Mar. 1, 2009

I would not take this review too seriously. If you ask me, this punk does not know enough about Earthbound or Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). Sonic the Hedgehog (the Sega Genesis version) had only six chaos emeralds. (Six, not seven. The other games had seven, but Sonic 1 had only six.) This game had eight sanctuaries. (There might have been seven secretaries, but they had nothing to do with the plot.) In addition there was more to Earthbound than the eight sanctuaries and Giygas. As for the music remark, it had a wide variety. More songs than other SNES games that I have played. Some of those songs are pretty good. (Giygas Heavy Metal/Pokey Means Business! for example) He could have at least use the game’s slogan for his “waste of cyberspace” excuse of a review. (It would show he did some research.) Either this guy does not know a masterpiece when he sees one or Moonside “fried his brain”.

youarehacker said on Mar. 2, 2009

Lolz,7 secretaries…seem like Ness got a big company to manage.As for music….what if I say all Classical Music are composed of piano,violin…etc,not original work? What a joke.

BSX said on Mar. 2, 2009

It never came to Europe. ;_;

BSX said on Mar. 2, 2009

But really Earthbound stinks (no pun intended)

kever said on Mar. 2, 2009

do not judge a game by it ad

Loid said on Mar. 5, 2009

BSX kiss my ass
Cause Earthbound is a great game and you don’t have to shame it.

Sasuke_Uchihahaha said on Mar. 6, 2009

LEMME PK STARSTORM OMEGA HIM! NOW! STOP HOLDING ME DOWN!!!

Monkalrus said on Mar. 7, 2009

Funny. I recommend that everyone play it but MOTHER3 is much better. Still Earthbound doesn’t deserve this kind of response. For someone to make something like this, even if it isn’t serious, is a very dickish thing to do. The level of dickery here is that of superman. super dickery.

Master Blaster said on Mar. 8, 2009

What kind of mental disease do U have?I hope ness comes to your house a PK Rocken’s your ass to kingdom kong.Glad u have no life besides being a fag.

Master Blaster said on Mar. 8, 2009

That was 2 the fag who wrote this review.

CruxianAzelf said on Mar. 8, 2009

7 secretaries.
Hurhurhur.

Anyways, the people wigging out over this are being stupid.
Sure, it’s a wonderful game, but some people just can’t come to grasp the awesome that EarthBound is, and that’s that.
They’ll suffer from their review being laughed at and not taken seriously — isn’t that bad enough? ;)


Why yes, I did make an EB reference in that paragraph, it’s obligitory.

neonix said on Mar. 9, 2009

You know it’s a joke from how poorly informed the reviewer is. Call me the victim of trolling, but it almost pissed me off.

Claus said on Mar. 10, 2009

Thts guy sucks balls !!!!!!

Claus said on Mar. 10, 2009

Sorry, I meant to say this.

Clayman said on Mar. 10, 2009

I’d have to go with it being real, not a joke. It was actually hard for mew to read, but he can have his opinions. In the end, i bet he was a stupid 12 year old that didn’t like games without gones. :)

Claus said on Mar. 11, 2009

It was dumb of him to compare EB to Sonic.

someone said on Mar. 13, 2009

he’s making crap up for attention. I’m sorry that most of you can’t see that he’s BSing. Earthbound’s an average game and he knows it. He just… is not saying it. cause that doesn’t get the attention of rabid fanboys like you people. He’s probably read this stuff already and kicked back to enjoy it.

MrSaturn33 of www.gamespot.com said on Mar. 15, 2009

I should take it from him for free then ;)

KingMike said on Mar. 16, 2009

But this one was also pretty good:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/review/R125107.html
Heh, his gameplay arguments. He probably didn’t play that much. Paula can catch up pretty quickly, Jeff is a bit annoying to level-up, and Poo doesn’t start at level 1. I do agree that the all-red window is an eyesore (though I guess that was copied from Dragon Quest).
I can only remember one point you have to spend $180 to rest at a hotel to advance the story, and that isn’t much money at that point in the game.

PSI Omega said on Mar. 17, 2009

Dang, according to this kid, I’ve had the EB disease for ten years now XD.

This kid is just a dope, probably saying all of this for shits and giggles. Or he was just bored out of his mind. Or even a mixture of both.

A person said on Mar. 21, 2009

I did have the game on a ROM because of the non VC release. But then my computer got malware which, sadly, ended up in a format of the C drive. I lost the game and I was almost done(I was fighting Giygas). Although I did not get to complete the game, I loved it. Though I did get as far as that and when I get that far, I don’t like to play the game again. That’s just how I roll.

??? said on Mar. 24, 2009

if you think earthbound sucks, then you suck even more

Koyuki said on Apr. 8, 2009

The kid is a jealous Square fanboy. Why is he jealous? Because Nintendo made better games than Square and is generally more popular than Square. So the boy took his fantard rage on Earthbound.

It’s the evil Fanboy Disease. This disease will cause redardedness, hentai, bad spelling, and a lack of an open mind. Usually spreads through preteens and Spax3 clones. The only cure is time. This disease may go away by luck, but rarely does so. See also, Weeaboo and Anime fangirls.

Batandy said on Apr. 9, 2009

I give 5 stars to Earthbound.Because it has a simple gameplay and a great story.

I love Earthbound.
But mother 3 isn’t wacky as this game… *sigh*You can’t fight hippies*

PK Scatman said on Apr. 16, 2009

i gave it a 4 becuase im currentky stuck on the 5 moles

MegazeroX said on May. 5, 2009

7 secrataries? Hah the number wasn’t even right let alone “secrataries”. BTW That rating at the top left….is it what he gave the game or what people gave him?

Heavily_Armed_Fobby said on May. 11, 2009

Wow. That guy must have issues

SeanPeden said on May. 17, 2009

Lol. This guy is a troll.

I’ve read reviews about this bad before (look up debbie schlussel’s review of Watchmen), but the Sonic the Hedgehog thing, and the 7 secretaries….I lol’d.

xbrinkx said on May. 24, 2009

OMG GUYZ! I just realized he’s RIGHT!!!! SONIC DID HAVE SEVEN SECRETARIES!

Unhater said on Jun. 7, 2009

Fuck all of you that hate earthbound I think it’s a bad ass game and should be on the ds and virtual console

PKSTARMAN said on Jul. 14, 2009

… you are kidding right? This is a great game and! Those who hate Earthbound fuck yourself right at their asses! PKSTARMAN out.

Caligo said on Jul. 23, 2009

I don’t think he was joking when he wrote this review. I looked at his other reviews. He was also bashing Harvest Moon for SNES. Basically he seems like a “it sucks because I said so” kind of guy. But if he likes it, then it’s an almighty game. Nonetheless, this review was definitely good for a laugh. “Go see the seven secretaries!”

Jeagle101 said on Jul. 29, 2009

I was laughing in tears when it said it was ripping off Sonic The Hedgehog XD

Anonymous said on Aug. 2, 2009

This review is so bad
I like it XD

PSI Poker € said on Aug. 8, 2009

LOL’d at the review. I mean, he wasn’t very subtle at his trolling.
I love Earthbound. Some days ago, i finished it. And it really left a huge mark on my mind. Heck, when i first saw Giygas battling, i had a nightmare that day (mind makes it worse).

TL;DR: Cool story troll

DrPepper42 said on Aug. 25, 2009

This guy seems to be obsessed with Square. Seems like a fanboy.

Still so bad its good.

TellyPhone said on Aug. 25, 2009

If there is such a “EB disease”, it made my life much better than before. And it is highly contagious.

Things like these make me angry. It also saddens me to know that people like this roam the internet.

Lost Hero said on Oct. 1, 2009

Seems to be a prank. No professional review would throw around such ridiculous accusations.

With that said, this is the best review ever written. XD

Kirby Chimera said on Oct. 14, 2009

I really hope this guy isn’t this stupid. Otherwise my assault rifle will get angry.

NOT IMPORTANT said on Oct. 28, 2009

The funniest thing is, I grew up on PS2 games and thought for the life of me Nintendo was my cousin’s N64 Super Smash Bros and Maro games(which I hated) yet despte this I became a fan of a game most Nintendo Fans have trouble fully understandng and appreciating (sorry if misspell).

If the guy doesnt like Earthbound I can understand, I hate caviar, many people have trouble seeing things from differant viewpoints wthout thinking about it.

anonymous said on Nov. 4, 2009

2 things:
1. if you rate it 3 or lower, get out of here.
2. remember tht old saying, “if you have something bad to say, say nothing at all”?
Nuff said

Smashcooper said on Nov. 8, 2009

I feel like stabbing this!
HOW DARE HE SAY EARTHBOUND SUCKS!!!!!!

Captain Cook said on Nov. 13, 2009

Whoa, calm down there, guys. People are allowed to have their own opinions.

Also, stop feeding the trolls. *facepalm*

Ninji said on Nov. 20, 2009

What a f***ing loser,I don’t even think this guy ever played EarthBound, it has got to be one of the best games ever, and this coming from a guy who hated RPGs until I played EarthBound (and Chrono Trigger as well…) And here’s my bottom line, this guy totally needs to get laid LOL :D Also,Starmen.net a “sucky” sit PUH-LEASE, and what kind of insult is “CursedBound?”

PKFighter201 said on Nov. 20, 2009

And just like that, his intternet rep just went to -21.

Why did he do this again? And only good music? EARGH! I’m so mad at this. Chrono isn’t better than EB.

Oh well, it’s not me atleast :P

BB said on Nov. 27, 2009

The seven secerataries?Wow…

JudgeDeadd said on Dec. 1, 2009

I’m tempted to vote for “2 stars”, simply because it’s the least voted option in the poll. I like to stand up for the oppressed minorities in polls of all kinds :(

MarkNES said on Dec. 1, 2009

Earthbound for Virtual Console will be almost impossible! Just get the cartridge or rom and emulator required. It’s that easy! About Earthbound 64: That should be on Virtual Console!

MalixDexide said on Dec. 1, 2009

That review makes me wonder if that guy actually PLAYED the game.

Marc said on Dec. 11, 2009

I think this guy is just joking

Ness Hero said on Dec. 15, 2009

He a freaking moron. know how to say oron in japanese?

BAKA!!!

Ness Hero said on Dec. 15, 2009

He is a FREAKING MORON. KNOW HOW TO SAY MORON IN JAPANESE? it is BAKA!!!

VSVoidSpartan said on Dec. 20, 2009

Please someone snipe this Moron!!
誰かを喜ばせてくださいこのばかを狙撃してください!!

Ninji said on Dec. 26, 2009

I read his other reviews, this guy is a FREAKIN’ JOKE, he thinks that (crappy) racing games are good, but he considers (even better) games like Harvest Moon and EarthBound BAD!! Somebody give me a knife, I need to rid the world of an amateur clown… Also, I think that either a) this guy was paid to do his reviews or b) he’s never played EB and just made this up. P.S. This guy’s a pervert, he thinks the bar-girl in Harvest Moon is “sexy”

Wafffo! said on Dec. 31, 2009

good thing i have the yo yo from the AwesomeNess combo pack thing…

Jobolo said on Dec. 31, 2009

how to say dumbass/asshole/asshead in Japanese? BAKAYARO! BAKABAKABKAKBAKAYAAROOOO!

piggyjelly said on Dec. 31, 2009

whoever voted one star needs punched in the face >_< Just like the guy who made this review, although it was funny.

Not Giygas but still Destructive said on Dec. 31, 2009

*Gets Nuke Launcher ready* I’ll give you the count of three to change your mind, Andrew Taylor.

One… Two… Two point nine…

Ninji said on Dec. 31, 2009

EarthBound doesn’t suck, but Andrew Taylor does…

Wafffo! said on Dec. 31, 2009

gunna tame this freak with my Earth Bounder yo yo as id he was a Skate Punk

Karma said on Dec. 31, 2009

Guys, if you think this review was bad, you should have seen this one online review of Super Smash Bros that accused the entire game of being made by “a bunch of chinks” designed to brainwash American children into being Chinese.

Y’know, despite the game being from Japan. …And the reviewer being a ridiculous racist who said nothing about the game itself.

If you want a HILARIOUS review, go find that one.

Matoking said on Jan. 2, 2010

A similar thing happened during an IRC chat a few minutes ago. I had to disconnect to prevent my brain from melting.

Rombold said on Jan. 2, 2010

hes just mad because he couldnt beat the first ‘’secretarie’s” boss

FinalstarmanDX said on Jan. 2, 2010

this is hilarious… I wonder if he hates the super smash bros. games since he think halken doesn’t make good games.

Steve! said on Jan. 2, 2010

Who writes a review like that. I mean everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the review was so poorly written I couldn’t take it seriously.

ghostgirl21696 said on Jan. 4, 2010

what the heck is his issue with the game? is he like my sister, who hates it because I like it?

???? said on Jan. 6, 2010

seven secretaries?
I raged.

MG said on Jan. 10, 2010

This guy obviously doesn’t have good taste in videogames.

Ser said on Jan. 12, 2010

^ Agreed 1000%

I don’t know how some persons just can’t understand the beauty of MOTHER series. *-*

pk starstorm said on Feb. 6, 2010

i grew up playing sonic (one of my favorite video games) but earthbound reallly caught my eye but that taylor guy has to go i bet he hasnt even played the game

pk starstorm said on Feb. 6, 2010

but i actually love earthbound

Shann said on Feb. 8, 2010

lol’d SO HARD at “seven secretaries”. since when was giygas a businessman? and how they say the only good things are the music and the graphics, and then say they suck.

Tetra said on Feb. 9, 2010

HA!
secrataries?

sdrawkcab si eman siht said on Feb. 11, 2010

first off the original sonic had only six chaos emeralds not seven and there eight sanctuaries any way !
second its not secrataries it’s sanctuaries .
third I don’t think Earthbound has anything to to with a fat guy taking animals and putting them into Badniks as batteries does it ?

Anonymous said on Feb. 14, 2010

this game sucks -.- go to play Chrono Trigger (my first rpg) robotrek, bahamut lagoon (only in japanese, but there is a english translation rom in the internet) zelda (I did not liked that much zelda from SNES through) terranigma, illusion of gaia, soul blazer, lufia II (lufia I sucks -.-) secret of mana II (secret of mana 1 is not that bad, but I dont recommend it) super mario rpg, paper mario, every pokemon game XD, tenchi muyou! game hen, etc

Ninji said on Feb. 14, 2010

@Anonymous GET…OFF…THIS…SITE…NOW!!!!!!! >:(

Poe said on Feb. 14, 2010

ninji why don’t you use your nerd rage to do something productive? like an art project or something.

Mato said on Feb. 14, 2010

Seriously, I think that’s probably why your comments always had to be moderated before, Ninji.

Nintendavin said on Feb. 17, 2010

Internet trolls are annoying, but some of them are funny at best.

No name said on Feb. 18, 2010

Really.
Most of the resons are just nit pickey.
When he says it rips off Sonic I just geet the feeling that he knows nothing about the game that came before it.
My last remark is that he hates Halken/HAL Labs.
HAL made the whole smash bros series Kirby Starfy and many other great games. This is so fake

MoonSide said on Feb. 21, 2010

Earthbound is like a cup of Starbucks coffee, some people like it and some don’t. I don’t like to compare games to other games because they are all different and not alike in anyway. Comparing sonic to Earthbound is comparing pickles to turnips. It’s completely useless. I believe that this person never saw the deeper meaning in the game, the moral.
Wait a second……

HOW DARE HE INSULT TANAKA-SAN, SUZUKI-SAN, and ITOI-SAN!!!!!! >,< PK STARSTORM!!!

My hypothesis is that this man had too much Magic Cake.

user 128 said on Feb. 24, 2010

its a troll, trust me,

the dude was talking about it on some site named 4chan, Most people do not go there, unless you are liking strange shit

magic pie said on Mar. 4, 2010

*ka-chack* bambambambambam

ghostgirl21696 said on Mar. 9, 2010

If this was real, not a joke, he obviously never actually played the game, by the way he described it. If it is a joke, why exactly would he go through the trouble?

Kyoo said on Mar. 9, 2010

I know it’s been said before. but I feel nobody deserves the right to rate earthbound till they’ve seen everything from Ness waking up in his bed, to reading the letter that picky gives you at the end.

Wafffo! said on Mar. 9, 2010

i can has kill him?


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