Review: EarthBound – A Quirky, Cosmic Adventure Bound To Warm Your Heart

Mother!

This review originally went live in 2016, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of Earthbound in the Nintendo Switch Online Super NES library. Fuzzy pickles!

Back in 1995, this second instalment of Shigesato Itoi’s much-loved Mother series (as it’s known in Japan) only received a western release in North America, where it sold poorly. Buying a second-hand SNES copy for silly money was most people’s only option until the Wii U came to the rescue, providing a full worldwide Virtual Console release in 2013 that made it easily available to all. This was followed by a release on New 3DS and inclusion on the Super NES Classic Mini. Wherever you play it, this game is still absolutely worthy of your time, and then some.

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