Comments on: Gamasutra and EarthBound

By: Mr.T

Mr.T — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:38:52 +0000

That HP Scrolling helps badly!!!!! I was at almost death with chapter 1 and Final boss it was scrolling 2 0 when the battle ended thanks SCROLLING HP THINGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Elobo

Elobo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:53:04 +0000

“reviewers tend to half-ass – intentionally or not – their reviews about EarthBound”

I’d say it’s a function -now- of the game being aged. The retrospect some games receive is completely in contrast in their reception at the time. You can look at a lot of titles on say, the NES, and see that their reputations are either really inflated or unfairly maligned. How many games now are instantly-referenced pariahs by folks who have never played the game in any capacity let alone on the intended hardware?

It’s hard to straight up point fingers, but you can tell when there is only limited familiarity or the words in the review are almost completely based on hearsay. I’d say any inkling that the author played the game enough to write coherently about it is a good sign – whether the opinion is negative or positive .

By: rawpower

rawpower — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:04:24 +0000

GameInformer did something similar called “Ideal RPG” or something along the lines of that. But they didn’t mention EarthBound. Just a bunch of final fantasys and some Crono games.

By: santiagoff

santiagoff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:51:20 +0000

@Q: well then, excellent read ;o

By: Q

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:58:44 +0000

I wouldn’t call it a `review`, per se; it’s part of a larger discussion of the games that shaped the genre.

Still an interesting read, though.

By: Deraj626

Deraj626 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:53:47 +0000

RPGs, JRPGs, CRPGs, what’s the diffrence? Good article by the way, gotta find time to read the rest.

By: santiagoff

santiagoff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:22:35 +0000

Excellent review ;o

By: Ice Sage

Ice Sage — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:03 +0000

That was a pretty good review. Now if only it could have been treated like this when it came out…

By: Wordsgohere

Wordsgohere — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:43 +0000

Always good to see the Mother series get a mention somewhere.

Be it like this on Gamasutra, or Vinny Caravella saying “Oh look, it’s Earthbound.” when they fought the fetus boss on the endurance run on Giantbomb.

By: Mato

Mato — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:34:56 +0000

Definitely agree. That top 10 RPGs video from the other day goes to show that even 15 year after EB’s release, reviewers tend to half-ass – intentionally or not – their reviews about EarthBound (or is that the norm for most games?). So seeing stuff like this from such reputable places is a breath of fresh air.