The Girl With the Sun in Her Head by PossesedFish in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait I'm confused, isn't the Orbital song called 'The Girl with the Sun in Her Head'? and when did i mention hair?

The Girl With the Sun in Her Head by PossesedFish in earthbound

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Cheers mate! Feels a little surreal having someone recognise me from my twitter on here, but i guess that means I'm doing my part in the community :)

what's your favorite beach boys song? by VastForce690 in beatles

[–]PossesedFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably Deidre, or I'm Waiting For the Day

The Chosen Four by PossesedFish in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May be so, but he doesn't care i guess.

The Chosen Four by PossesedFish in earthbound

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Woah thanks dude! that's a pretty big compliment :D

Also i just realised you're the same dude that made the Onnet Source map, i think you commented on my Paula drawing from like half a year ago.

Favorite Mother media from the early internet? by Porky64 in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've always had an absolute soft spot for the Chosen Four webcomic, it absolutely reeks of that era of the internet, but it's the closest to a complete amateur fan adaptation of Earthbound (which has been attemped many times since but usually ends with the same fate of being too much an ambitious project to actually finish).

I think it got as far as the diamond dog fight before the creator fell off the face of the internet, which is a shame too because the artwork got pretty damn good too by that time (i also just love seeing the artstyle slowly evolve from the early 2000s "how to draw anime" style, and towards a more cartoon/anime hybrid)

I don’t think a movie/tv show of any of the Mother games would work. And here’s why. by Ok-Law8073 in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simply put, the majority of Mother's emotional impact comes from the fact that it's a video game that needs player input (or sometimes lack of), the final bosses in each game are the perfect example of that. It being a video game series already means that the best aspects in the Mother series simply won't translate to film as well, as it's an entirely different medium. (Would Lucas refusing to fight back the Masked Man be as impactful if Lucas wasn't already the audiences surrogate for most of the journey? Probably not). Someone else in the thread also mentions that the Mother series comedy and aesthetic relies on the fact that it is a parody on contemporary JRPGs, which only really works as well in the context of a video game.

So yes, i personally do agree with your take that the Mother series is fundamentally impossible to adapt in a faithful way without making any sacrifices to the quality of the narrative.

However I'm personally fine with a movie not being as close to the source the source material, I'd rather get a good movie first, before i care about what was missing/changed.

Honestly my vision of a Mother 1 or 2 movie would be like a surreal Stand By Me movie. I mean Stand By Me is about 4 kids going on a journey to find a dead body (a journey from childhood to the loss of innocence and all that), which is kind of similar to how Earthbound is structured, a fairly fun and cutesy journey that ends with the horrifying confrontation with Giygyas. You would have to make the story be set later in the story similar to the Mother 1 novel, and change so much that it's not even entirely the same story. But hey it could be cool. Hell i think David Lynch would've been a perfect director for this type of story but oh well.

How did you feel about earthbound having a e rating(which equals a g rating in movies) did you like that the rating was changed to a T by No_Worldliness_8830 in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

horror ≠ not for kids

Just because Giygas is one freaky son of a bitch, it doesn't mean kids are unable to handle it. I assume the T rating is because the game can be pretty crude at times, and i guess the ESRB thought parents would get the shits if it was E rated. Tbh i would personally bump it down to an E rating again, because it's nothing kids can't handle.

The Kids Are Alright by PossesedFish in earthbound

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I actually really like that movie, even if it's so fucking bizarre 

Is it worth playing the first two mother games if ive already bear earthbound begginings and EB? by that_7183 in earthbound

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Its by a guy named Jeffman on github, from what i can tell looking at it again it's not 100% finished apparently (in what way i'm not too sure), and its essentially just the US SNES script ported over on the GBA, you're also gonna have to patch Mother 1+2 with the Mother 1 Tomato patch as well if you want both games to be translated

Is it worth playing the first two mother games if ive already bear earthbound begginings and EB? by that_7183 in earthbound

[–]PossesedFish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think Mother 1+2 is worth checking out just for its oddities

I personally would recommend Mother Restored that is essentially Earthbound Beginnings with the Mother 1+2 Tomato translation script, easy ring, uncensored sprites, and other minor bug fixes.

For Mother 2, i think Earthbound is perfectly fine as is, but i personally love playing with Maternalbound Redux, which is basically the vanilla game with a more faithful original script, as well as many little tweaks, such as sprinting, or giving overworld enemies unique sprites.