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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.
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.
NapstrPSX made an audio commentary for this TAS.