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Author Topic: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!  (Read 25057 times)

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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #180 on: September 24, 2012, 10:02:25 PM »

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I dunno, I saw a giant fucking dinosaur charging at me a minute ago, you can be damn sure I evacuated right there and then.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #181 on: September 25, 2012, 01:32:57 PM »

Welcome Home: Earthbound Music


It's kind of well-known at this point, but in the Japanese version, Snes walks around this area of the game stark nakers. In Japan, child nudity is considered an example of innocence, since they don't know enough shame yet to cover up. Since that kind of thing would not fly in America, Snes explores the next section of the game in his jammies.


From these, you created Magicant, the realm of your mind. In Magicant, there's beauty, kindness, sorrow, and hatred. Of course, there's an evil and violent side of you. The Sea of Eden sits at the center of those feelings. It takes you to the truth about yourself.


...whoa.

In Magicant, whenever you talk to someone, the background often changes color to reflect how what they said makes Snes feel. I guess.


Why don't you explore your mind. Take your time, Snes.


Granted, sometimes it's tough to tell what kind of emotion the color change is supposed to result from.




Other people can't get close to it. It's a strange place.

Tracy then offers her usual storage services. The only thing I really need here is the Franklin Badge, but Gufin was wearing that when I got the last melody -- it's not in storage, so Snes can't take it.


Not for long, though. I saw that little puppy in my flashback.




Mom, as usual, is a free inn.




Maybe I could explain more if I knew more about Japanese cultural color perception, but I don't.


but you remind me of myself when I was young. I can't do anything more for you. Good luck, Snes!


Everdred then vanishes. He's the only person in Magicant who does that, but I don't have any idea what that might mean.


Magic Puddings and Earth Pendants, specifically. Magic Puddings restore about 40 PP when eaten -- twice that of a PSI Caramel -- and Earth Pendants are equippable items that protect against Fire, Freeze, and Flash attacks (sometimes).




But you've heard my song in the back of your mind.)


The line-art machines on the wall are a functioning ATM and telephone. Snes buys Earth Pendants for Gufin and 007 and stashes them with Tracy.








Do you prefer reading comics or playing games? What? You're busy?...




It's kind of melancholy for your own memories to thank you that they exist, if you think about it.


There's another free inn.










In Japanese she calls you a pervert; justified in that, again, your little ten-year-old donger is just hanging out.




Well, this whole lineup was pretty dull and uninteresting...


:oh:










Telling in that this is how Snes thinks of Porky.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #182 on: September 25, 2012, 01:38:14 PM »


A tombstone with a cross. Don't see that much in a Nintendo game.


He appeared earlier in the game and gave up the ghost before he achieved his goal.




You can't go there unless you're truly ready. It's a place where you can touch the truth of the universe. Going there may bring sorrow.

Sounds rough. We still haven't looked in that house with Buzz Buzz's tombstone out front, though.

146- Earthbound - The Jolly Flying Man HQ








While Flying Man is with you, the "Welcome Home" track that has been playing so far in Magicant is replaced with the Flying Man theme music I just linked.


All of the others say this.

Right. On to the Sea of Eden.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #183 on: September 25, 2012, 01:49:15 PM »

Earthbound-Deeper Into Ness-Subconscious


Snes soon runs into... himself. And gets a baseball cap for it.


It's just a plain baseball cap, the same we could buy in Onett. But it has sentimental value, I guess.


This section of Magicant is made of twisting passages full of enemies. Flying Man helps in battle as an NPC, punching and charging at foes on your behalf.

Loaded Dice do nothing in battle but call for help. The enemies that answer are High-Class UFOs, Beautiful UFOs, Fobbies, Uncontrollable Spheres, Electro Swooshes, and Care Free Bombs.


Care Free Bombs do nothing in battle but throw Bombs and Super Bombs at you. Snes and the Flying Man aren't considered to be adjacent in battle, so there's no splash damage, but...


One Super Bomb is enough to kill a Flying Man.


how did he even


:;_;:


Call me Flying Man 2.


Equipment upgrade.




He damaged evil terribly, and finally died.

:;_;: :;_;:




Equipment upgrade.


The Electro Swoosh likes to use electric attacks. Bet you didn't see that one coming. The French Kiss of Death uses only poison attacks against one target -- Flying Man, being an NPC, is immune to status ailments, so it often wastes its turn targeting him. Enemies in Magicant are hard, but they're predictable.


Mr. Molecules can use Fire, Freeze, Thunder, and Flash alpha, but start with Can't Concentrate. You have several turns to defeat them before it wears off, so even if they attack in large groups -- up to four -- they're easily defeated.


...hmm...

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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #184 on: September 25, 2012, 01:53:27 PM »




WHAT




...not unexpected, but still. Dammit.


:;_;: :;_;: :;_;:




I... I...


DAMMIT!!


:;_;: :;_;: :;_;: :;_;:











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...






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I'M SO SORRY
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #185 on: September 25, 2012, 02:02:11 PM »

You are very bad.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #186 on: September 25, 2012, 02:33:21 PM »

When I first played the game, I was so sad and shocked when flying man died and became tombstone that I couldn't hire on another one.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #187 on: September 25, 2012, 05:01:42 PM »

Aw, you missed the thoroughly-deserved guilt trip from Final Flying Man!
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #188 on: September 26, 2012, 07:44:04 AM »

There are three Krakens swimming around in the Sea of Eden. It's possible to avoid maybe one of them, but I don't. I crush them all!

And then...






The evil and violent side of Snes's heart is represented by the statue Giygas uses to focus his influence into the world. Seems legit.

Earthbound- Otherworldly Foe


As you might expect, Snes's Nightmare is particularly hard. He attacks with :fuckyou: alpha and omega, can restore his HP with Lifeup beta, and often protects himself with a power shield that Snes can't do anything about. He can also emit "Glorious Light", which is the same as Flash omega -- including the 3/8 chance for an instakill.

For whatever reason I didn't screencap it, but the last equipment upgrade in Magicant is a Sea Pendant, which protects against Flash attacks. So that's good.

It's still tough, especially since this fight went on for so long that Snes ran out of PP and had to resort to smacking the Nightmare around, through its power shield. Nightmare then responded with :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou:, for mortal damage!

So with his HP meter rolling down to 0, Snes dumped a bag of dragonite on his head.



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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #189 on: September 26, 2012, 07:56:10 AM »



Giygas's goal is to destroy you. Listen carefully!

Everything in the universe could be destroyed at the hands of Giygas. But he and his followers are also in trouble.

The Apple of Enlightenment has foretold that Giygas's attempt will fail. It is because of the existence of a boy named Snes. ...That's me!

Listen. Free your mind and KNOW what you must do! Your destiny has already been decided. You... I... where should we go? You know deep within the reaches of your mind.

...S ...Sat...

...Saturn

.....

Saturn Valley... yes...

Go to the valley where the Mr. Saturn live. ...You'll get something new there.

Soon, Magicant will be no more. We must be quick!








But first, we take a level in Badass.

EarthBound - The Power [HQ]

































That's a lot of stat boosts! Shame they won't reflect in my HP and PP until I level up.










... :8D:

Given the boost to Guts, Snes's HP boost is substantial. But his boost to PP is even better -- finishing Magicant sets Snes's PP growth to double what it was before, and it adjusts upward to that amount at level-up. So he ended up getting about 400 PP from one level alone.









[Music] EarthBound - Ness Awakens from the Nightmare








Pretty sure the graphics at Magnet Hill aren't supposed to do that.








Snes begins to spin in place as he wakes up, as the eight Sanctuaries flash by faster and faster in the background. Until...

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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #190 on: September 26, 2012, 08:00:08 AM »














So we do. It's automatic and not blocked by nearby obstacles, like when Shit first joined us by teleporting out of Dalaam.

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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #191 on: September 26, 2012, 08:14:21 AM »

What? You didn't savescumm for the Gutsy Bat?
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #192 on: September 26, 2012, 08:35:40 AM »

Krakens in the Sea of Eden don't drop the Gutsy Bat. Only their superpowered palette-swap in the last dungeon do that.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #193 on: September 26, 2012, 09:00:11 AM »

The EarthBound player's guide and, iirc, a save file I may still actually have disagree with you.

EDIT:
But basically the whole of the internet says that was a typo?
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #194 on: September 26, 2012, 09:07:07 AM »

The crazy kids at starmen.net made a data mining program called PK Hack that lets you screw around with lots of things in the Earthbound ROM.  I think it was proven that it is he palette swaps in the final 'dungeon'.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #195 on: September 27, 2012, 05:25:37 PM »


Increases everyone's Defense. :shrug:






Before we plottinue, we have some stuff to do.


With Magicant completed, the Your Sanctuary locations no longer provide a full heal.


I'll skip most of the grindy setup, but now that we've finished Fire Spring, all of the enemies here flee from us. It's easy to approach them from behind and get greenswirls. 007 spends his first turn Spying to see if anyone has a present to steal, then we flee. Star Pendant #1.


Problem is, Major Psychic Psychoes are almost impossible to find by themselves. There's usually a Soul Consuming Flame or minor Psychic Psycho nearby to join the fray -- meaning that for half of these battles, the computer isn't even looking to see if I'd earn a Star Pendant. It's looking for a damn-near-worthless PSI Caramel instead.


Eventually I realize it's faster to just hit Auto-Battle for every fight and sweep the enemies out than it is to carefully spy and run away, in no small part because I can jam down the fast-forward button on my emulator and only need to slow it down once the battle is over. Star Pendant #2.






Hard to believe these are still supposed to be "rare" drops (at 4/128), but I'm churning through a lot of enemies here.


A couple of things happened. First, Snes hit level 98 (I'm churning through a lot of enemies here), so I took a break from farming Star Pendants.

Then I got called away to run some IRL errands at this point.

When I resumed my game, I went outside the Fire Spring and fought a few dozen Chomposaurs. Since Chomposaurs start with power shields, I went back to Spy-and-run tactics, which eventually netted me the Chomposaur's 1/128 drop: the Magic Fry Pan, for Gufin.

Of course, I didn't have my screencap software running from the break I took before, so I didn't get the 007-steals-a-rare-item shot. :shrug:

Anyway, the Magic Fry Pan has lower attack power than the Holy Fry Pan, but gives a substantial boost to Gufin's Guts. Since it's an equipment-modified boost it doesn't effect her maximum HP, but it does help her hang on with 1 HP if she takes mortal damage.


Then we stuff Snes full of Rock Candy dipped in sugar again. Here's a before shot...




And an after. The whole point was to get his HP and PP up into the four-digit numbers; check the graphic glitch on his meter in the lower-left. The game tracks the totals correctly, they just don't show up on the meters like they should until his HP or PP drop into the triple digits.


:disapprove:


:negative:


Gufin catches up. See how huge those Guts are?


:nosir:


007 got the least boosts from Rock Candy because, well, he needs it least. His Speed is back down to "mediocre" because I replaced his Rabbit's Foot with a Star Pendant.


Shit, of course, was only level 95 when everyone else was 99, and took a while to catch up the rest of the way. His stats may look pretty good, but remember he's eaten almost as much Rock Candy as Snes at this point, and all of his RARE L@@K!!! equipment gives some boost or another.


 :wrong:


OH THANK CHRIST




Right, where were we?


...oh. This is new.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #196 on: September 28, 2012, 07:58:19 AM »

I like how you have all these men of science...and some roughneck blue-collar laborer.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #197 on: September 28, 2012, 08:15:36 AM »

Someone has to do the lifting.

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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #198 on: September 28, 2012, 08:29:59 AM »

It's also probably time to try and decide which of the INFINITE possible endings you're going to go for.
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Re: Looking at chicks makes you happy. Let's Play Earthbound!
« Reply #199 on: October 09, 2012, 02:32:15 PM »

Now that my Internet is back up, I'll be updating my LP again. I know you've all been waiting for the GRANDE FINALE
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