/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1539918
It was pretty bad, but it's hardly the worst thing ever. There's no need to get dramatic about it, OP.

Technically speaking, it holds up okay. There are no major bugs, everything works the way it's "supposed" to, and it's more or less a workable RPG. It's just an extremely uninspired, by the numbers plot with hard-as-balls design and shit art direction.
I can't help but think that it would have been remembered more fondly if it had come out for the NES, around the time of Dragon Warrior IV. That's about the level it's at. But it came out on the SNES, and, well, fuck that bullshit.

When I was a kid, my neighbor rented it from the video store and I would come over to watch him and his mom play it; this was a frequent way for me to pass the time, since they were both pretty big on console games at the time.
Anyway, they managed to get up to around two thirds through the game, around the time the B-Party becomes mandatory and you have to start taking them through their dungeons. It took them three rentals to make it that far, in part due to the ridiculous difficulty curve, along with its tendency to not tell you what you were supposed to be doing. Because of those factors, they finally hit a wall around that point, and finally returned it to the store, swearing to never rent it again. I didn't see the endgame until I found a Let's Play almost twenty years later.
It's pretty bad.

But still, there are worse games.

I should figure out how to make repros, and then make a ton of Earthbound carts.

Then sell them for five bucks a pop.

Maybe give them a big "REPRO" decal branded into one side.