Day 28 of 100 Happy Gaming Days: EarthBound

When EarthBound was originally released on the SNES it never arrived in Europe. So unless you were prepared to pay £300 and upwards for a NTSC cart, or find a decent emulator, there was no way for us Brits to play the fabled RPG. That was until last year when Nintendo finally released the game on Wii U Virtual Console for the whole world to enjoy, and we finally got to see what all the fuss was about.

It's easy to see why the game has charmed so many with it's adorable characters, excellent Rock & Roll soundtrack, outlandish and occasionally racy humour, all set in a beautifully designed world. There really isn't another RPG like it, but all I knew about the game before the Wii U release was that it had a dedicated cult following and a profanity inducing difficulty level. 

The story follows a boy named Ness who late one night goes out to investigate a meteor that's crashed by his hometown of Onett. He then learns of an alien plot to take over the world and must embark on a grand adventure to save his planet from certain destruction.

I'm about an hour into the game now and although I have struggled with the games difficulty I'm still really enjoying it. Perhaps Nintendo might consider releasing Mother 1 and 3 fully translated for Europe, but if their Robot Chicken segment from E3 is anything to go by we might want to hold off as we risk getting fried by Reggie Fils-Aime.