Tool-assisted movies
| SNES Earthbound (USA) in 3:26:09.18 by Olivier Bellemare (aka. Halamantariel) & Jason Schoenfelder (aka. Nitrodon). |
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AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 454.39 MB, length: 3:27:00) snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-07-23) Submission #1130 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (34 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving death - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG
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This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie. Earthbound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995,
and is also known by the name Mother 2.
It is best described as "random", in a good way.
The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things
in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters.
It also has a versatile soundtrack.
Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the
plot of the game is intact, making this movie very entertaining to
watch even as a TAS.
Details about each scene and decision in this movie can be read
in the authors' comments.
This movie does not use a death as a shortcut. Although that was a conscious
decision by the authors, what it actually means was bent to the extreme.
- The main protagonist, Ness, suffers a mortal blow once. Due to how the game works, he did not die.
- A teddy bear was disintegrated in a battle. Although a party member, it was an inanimate object, and cannot be counted as "death".
- Near the end of the movie, a death-like event is part of the game plot.
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