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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
Eddv 02/14/21 5:17:28 PM #134:	16.) Earthbound (SNES, 1995) In the booming era of JRPGs there were a few games who walked off the standard beaten path of medieval fantasy or future space sci fi and earthbound was one of the better ones. This game took place in a supposedly modern setting in "Eagleland" but was a deeply weird and psychedelic take on our world with lots of bright colors and wild people who were just a bit odd and eccentric. Early on having to take on such foes as an angry hippy or to explore such random occult sites as a giant footprint. The game had some really cool innovations too, like the rolling HP bar which rewarded speed to sometimes cut off an otherwise sure death from high HP. The game is pretty basic but the replacement of magic with psionics and the use of things like baseball bats, frying pans and bottle rockets were all pretty cool ways of showing you could do a JRPG in 90s america with no real issues. The game is also a formative one for me because starmen.net was my first online community and thus talking about Earthbound and playing earthbound fan games was a big part of my internet childhood --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy <cite>Eddv posted [p:950638658] in The Board ... [t:79281225]...</cite> <quote>16.) Earthbound (SNES, 1995) In the booming era of JRPGs there were a few games who walked off the standard beaten path of medieval fantasy or future space sci fi and earthbound was one of the better ones. This game took place in a supposedly modern setting in "Eagleland" but was a deeply weird and psychedelic take on our world with lots of bright colors and wild people who were just a bit odd and eccentric. Early on having to take on such foes as an angry hippy or to explore such random occult sites as a giant footprint. The game had some really cool innovations too, like the rolling HP bar which rewarded speed to sometimes cut off an otherwise sure death from high HP. The game is pretty basic but the replacement of magic with psionics and the use of things like baseball bats, frying pans and bottle rockets were all pretty cool ways of showing you could do a JRPG in 90s america with no real issues. The game is also a formative one for me because starmen.net was my first online community and thus talking about Earthbound and playing earthbound fan games was a big part of my internet childhood --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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