/vr/ - Retro Games

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Interesting, I hadn't heard of FLCL but looking it up not surprised you like it if you like the MOTHER series. I was also thinking, I feel like the reason you respond to Earthbound, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Apocalypse Now, as you put it evoking "weird emotions in a really similar way" might be because they all concern the 70's. Even though Hitchhiker's (the novel) and Apocalypse Now were both 1979, they both came out of the 70's, and the creator and writer of Earthbound Shigesato Itoi was born in 1948 so America in the 70's was his most profound influence for the way the worlds are in the first two MOTHER games. Give or take some years are parents generation is the 70's. Mine met in 1983, so the 70's most profoundly influenced who they were before they had me. Perhaps those lost, sentimental feelings you have are connected to that. Personally the end of Earthbound where you have to leave your bodies for robots and Paula prays to people to defeat Giygas when all hope seems lost was among the most intriguing moments ever in a game. Also, the entire Magicant sequence and talking to your past self. It's too pervasive for its own good. I think you'd like Persona 3. (yeah, not retro. 1 and both parts of 2 are good also) A lot of the themes and vibes are similar to Earthbound and the final boss and ending has major parallels to the prayer sequence I mentioned of Earthbound.

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Final Fantasy VI. (Initial North American release called it III)