/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4352564
Continued.

A few plot holes?
Why wouldn't anyone else of Giegue's race stop him? Why wouldn't, after Giegue's first failure, one other member of his race step in? One could say Giegue maybe didn't report the failure out of embarrassment, but the Geegs were pretty observant in Giegue's memory of Maria. Maybe Cerue was assigned to observe that area, but she checked out and held up in Mercury base.

I think the above is resolved in the mother series by the notion that Geigue was one of a kind, but whatever. It's not that big a deal.

I was gonna question how in Earthbound, all those alien races are now servants of Giygas, but you could say that they were mind controlled. That doesn't explain why Mooks were in Giegue's army in Mother 1 though.

I guess some highlights
Larice showing up in his deluxe ghost armor to help fight Porky
The entire raising Giegue montage breaks your heart.
Giegue catching Niiue's hat as they fly off
Larice's escape. In general every use of Megalovania was appropriate.
First band showing was pretty cool

Even now I think of more pros
Alien race origins. UFOs and Starmen in particular are clever.
Gargiathan was a cool idea.
The sheer amount of things you can do before the final fight. It's Chrono Trigger tier with all the collectables and character upgrades you can search for.

At Mercury is Cerue even good? She kind of keeps all those sentient species locked up. There's some non-sentient ones but whatever. Also if she's supposed to observe, but isn't reporting Giegue's madness back to home planet, that's very negligent.

Overall I'd say it's the best Earthbound/Mother fan game..

>>4352520
Were Ness and Paula the same age in Earthbound? I forget.