EarthBound and ROID

Well, maybe they did the style EarthBound because Miyazaki and Itoi are best buddies or something :V

Seriously, it’s probably just a kind of hommage to the series, and maybe Level 5 or Studio GHibli is wanting the graphic style to deserve a little more love or something.

Either way it looks like a nice game. We’ll have to wait to see if the gameplay and scenario follows…

aww. this is sad, but nice at the same time….

Yar har, called it. It’s still really awesome to see a tribute like this!

Looks spooky.

I still can not get over how Earthbound-y it looks.

i’ve been waiting for someone to pick up the earthbound style forever. :>

I’d like it if you kept us posted on this one, too.

Thanks!

It’s real?

I thought the last was a teaser. O_o

Fuck it , that looks WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much like Earthbound. Something’s going on and we’re not getting any info >,>

ew ew it looks all too similar >.>

As cool as this looks, there will only ever be one Roid I associate with MOTHER.

Stylistically similar. Moving on…

Why make a game that has nothing to do with EarthBound or MOTHER 3, but use the exact same graphics? This is like the 100th middle finger to MOTHER fans.

YAAAAY! This looks like a fun game! And if it really is an EarthBound tribute, then you can expect it to be awesome!

I don’t care if it’s not EarthBound. It’s EarthBound-y, and that’s good enough for me.

Dear Lord, I hope this ROID thing is emulatable.. oh… hold it.. I don’t think it’ll even get translated…

The only thing about this whole deal that gets me is, they didn’t just use earthboundy graphics, some of them are direct recolors, like something out of a fangame or something.

I don’t see how this doesn’t run into any kind of issues at all, a single look at the main character of this ROID game makes it obvious that it’s a Mother 3 recoloration 😐

I thought Miyazaki hated video games. Maybe when it says Studio Ghibli it doesn’t mean Miyazaki.

But regardless, this definitely counts as a double deuce to Mother fans.

Well, reading about the story of the game, it sorta gives you a MOTHER vibe (think of the other world as Magicant) Still, the Gibli version its probably comming to the states, Tomato, try to get into the translation team and drop tons of MOTHER references.

P.D. I would had prefered the DS version to be this, instead of the Gibli one.

Either way, I’m still playing it.

I guess I don’t care if it’s mother related or not. It still looks cool.

I remeber someone saying (probably rumours though) that the game was like retro game challange in that incorperated a bunch of refrences to old games these screenshot were from the mother reference part

This is not a mother game but the art style looks like a mother game lol.

I like how the art style in this looks. It’s like, it’s not just the style of the MOTHER games, but it’s sort of… upgraded. It’s more detailed, and all. Sort of like taking the graphics from EarthBound and giving them Chrono Trigger-style details and shading.

whats a roid?

It looks like it uses the Mother 3 engine (the projection and sprite style are a complete give-away). I wonder how Itoi would react to this game?

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/06/01/roid_service_preview/
“Revolutionary Original Ideas Discovery” system for hte “iMode”– whatever that is. (Iphone?)

the furniture thoa looks a tad diffrent from earthbound 2….actually the furniture looks very diffrent from earthbound style

Well Mato… If you think this is a great idea then response me in a Mother 3 article or this one. The idea is… How about if we convince NOA to release Mother 3 for the Wii Ware? Great idea?

Interesting abbreviation. 😛

Looks like the guy from Secret of Mana.

Wow! Level 5 sure does LOVE the Earthbound style…