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EarthBound

Released

  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Wii U
  • New Nintendo 3DS
  • Game Boy Advance
  • Super Famicom

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About

A turn-based JRPG and sequel to the then-Japan-only Earthbound Beginnings (1989) in which Ness, a young boy living in a land based on the USA, leaves home to go on an adventure through strange locations, get to know quirky characters, and defeat an unknowable alien threat called Giygas while facing up to the realities of growing up and becoming familiar with the real world.

Developer
HAL Laboratory, Ape
Publisher
Nintendo
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Science fiction, Drama
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person, Bird view / Isometric
Age ratings
PEGI 12, CERO A, CLASSIND L, ESRB T
Time to beat
25 h normally
IGDB rating
91 / 100 (577 ratings)
Also known as
Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushuu, Mother 2, Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back, マザー2, MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲, 어스바운드

Release dates

PlatformRelease
Game Boy Advance
New Nintendo 3DS · Europe · Japan · North America
Super Famicom
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Wii U · Japan · North America · Europe

Screenshots

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