Tribute to the EarthBound Player's Guide (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2022
- Observing some of the details (as well as some missteps) in the EarthBound Strategy Guide.
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That’s cool and all but where is Teddy?
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Fun fact: on the box art, Ness isn't inside the Starman, but is in fact Ness' reflection on the Starman's lens, implying that you the player are an extention of Ness
It always looked like Ness was piloting a giant Starman Mech.
the only thing is, that's an endgame enemy you encounter in the cave of the past, in which Ness and his friends are in robot bodies, so technically there's no way Ness's face could ever be reflected in the visor in-universe
@@TsukiStuffs what about starman jr
@@Taypokemon that isnt a starman jr though, its very clearly a final starman
@@TsukiStuffs Could've been the Starman Deluxe but it was exposed to UV lights too much
1:37 The most likely reason your brain smoothed over the pointed feet, is that only the "prickly" Starman sprite has them, with the normal Starman Sprite having the round feet you remember. This leads to a massive imbalance with the Starman Junior, Starman, Starman Super, and Ghost of Starman all having round feet, while only the Starman Deluxe and Final Starman have the pointy ones. The only other differences are minor changes to the visor (which was probably a mistake, the spikey parts on their shoulders and head, and their badges are a different color being red instead of black (with the exception of the Ghost of Starman but that's because of the non-standard palette it uses), although you probably already knew those.
When it comes to the police-men seen within the stock photos at 12:46, you are 100% correct with them not being American. Based on their uniform, and the striking headwear, they couldn't be misconstrued as anything other than British officers. The pith helmet they wear with the officers mark on gives it one of the most defined looks for any police officer, so much it is equally known as a bobby helmet.
If I were to guess the nationality of the horse mounted police-men I would gander that they were German, or French. I reason this based off the smooth rimed officers cap which is used in some areas, along with the button up jacket and under shirt which both used in areas. Though they are harder to get a definitive statement on.
Either way thanks for the rad video, while I never owned a copy of it I've read through it via the power of digital archives, tons of cool stuff in there. Keep up the good work, and have a nice day.
I would love to have a part 2, I especially would like to know what you thought of the scratch and sniff cards.
I'd watch an entire video of you going page-by-page analyzing the Player's Guide, even if it were an hour long.
Love the dedication that fans have to this game years later. So lovely to see this being covered! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My favorite part about this strategy was how it was also written like a travel guide to all the places you'd go. I really wish more strategy guides were written like this, especially most guides at this point are collectors' items. It would actually incentive me to start collecting strategy guides again, which is a hobby I sort of miss. They just don't make them like they used to anymore
I just wish they were more stylized overall. I don’t think every one should look like EarthBound’s, as its stylization is tailored to its modern-day setting. I do agree with you that many could benefit from more artistic expression within them. :)
@MonkeyNess From my experience, it was usually the ones published by Nintendo Power that had the more stylized writing, while third-party guides were usually a lot more bland and boring.
Glad to see the guide get some love, it really is such a fun, thoughtful addition to the game and I love how much care they put into it. Also love how they published the pdf online for anyone to access, that was really cool of them
I've only ever flipped through the official strategy guide--I've never actually played through the game with it so this was a really cool look at a classic companion piece to EarthBound (or apparently Earthbound if you prefer, lol).
I love the details you chose to elaborate on, like the "Pak of bubble gum" likely being a reference to Nintendo's Game Paks, and the choice to display Poo's name in a brown font lmao.
Hearing about all the inconsistencies is great too, it's neat to see screenshots with beta elements not present in the final version. Despite the book's mistakes, I'm glad there is still valuable information to be found here; I did not know that the Happy Happy Cultists you can interact with move slightly quicker on the overworld than the others either!
My favorite funny thing about this guide is the fact that the Happy Happyist Japanese design is shown instead of the American redesign like you said, but for whatever reason they chose to use a white dot to censor the "HH" on its forehead instead of a dot that matched the color of its robe...
I would absolutely watch a second part to this, keep up the fantastic work!
Would love a Part 2, I've got to see how the translators described the zombie woman
Already started on part 2, it's great.
Model Tracy looks like she'd stand at the foot of your bed and say "mom i frew up"
---- the one thing that stuck with me is the most important advice ever
Deep Darkness - NO HUNTING, THE WILDLIFE HUNTS YOU
I really enjoyed this video! I hope you do a part 2
Yes, I'd love to see more of this! One of my favorite games of all time!
Another great video! This is the best video game guide book to ever release and this was a great in-depth video on all its contents. Keep it up!
Here criminally early. Love my strategy guide its so minty that when it is opened the scratch and sniff cards stand straight up.
Love that Nintendo provides the scans online for free and viewing it on the wii u tablet is awesome.
I actually used the player's guide when I got lost. It provided a lot of information on the game and got the job done
Idk why but this was just really fun to watch, also I’m pretty sure the happy happists are meant to use their American design… but the Pom Pom was misplaced
"When the two young heroes returned to Twoson, there was great rejoicing." feels like a nod to Monty Python. The usage of British / European looking police officers might also be a nod to Monty Python, as they frequently used similar looking police officers in various sketches.
All in all, the book is fantastic. For the longest time, I just assumed that the book was just a ploy to justify the consumer paying more for the game, but as it turns out, it actually seems to be genuinely geally great supplement to the game and its lore.
Like you, I really like that they flesh out Ness's personality a bit, as - quite frankly - he doesn't have much of one in the game.
The newspaper articles and tour guide descriptions of the towns and other locations add so many new layers of the charm to an already charming world / setting.
And you can just tell from reading it that the persons tasked with writing it weren't just corporate hacks who never actually played the game and who were forced to write quick and dirty cash grab game guide at the request of Nintendo - the authors clearly played the game quite a bit and seemed to be genuinely into the game. It feels like a labor of love.
It's also interesting because it's obvious that the people who came up with the guide were given unfinished versions of the game - presumably so that the guide could be finished in time to be packaged in with the game, as intended. The fact that they were likely playing the game at different stages of development / localization would probably account for some of the odd names / descriptions (eg Jail Key, [The] Starman Jr, Butterflies healing all PP, etc) and the various screenshots which appear to be closer in appearance to that of Japanese build of the game (eg the in-game red cross symbol on the nurse).
I mean, they almost assuredly had very little time to address any changes in a localization effort that I imagine was in a state of near constant flux, and was therefore being adjusted and tweaked right up to when the game was ready to go to production. These snapshots into the game and its state at thr time of any given section's descriptions and screen shots are quite fascinating, I think.
Looking back on it now, the guide almost seems like a proto-"special collector's edition" type of gift to fans who pre-order a game, long before that was a thing - with the only difference being that with EarthBound, everyone had no choice but to get the more expensive special edition. Probably not the best move in retrospect, but having different tiers of games with officially sanctioned pre-order bonuses were pretty rare or even largely unheard of at the time, so perhaps this one time, it can be excused. And with the guide being so well written and everything, it's hard to even be mad about it.
And you should definitely do a part two. I won't even read the rest of the book so that I can be more surprised by its revelations should you ever do follow up haha.
Happy to let you know Part 2 is coming soon. :)
It could very well be a Monty Python reference, as if you listen closely to the beginning of Your Name Please you can hear a compressed version of The Liberty Bell, which is the theme song of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Jesus Christ this channel keeps pumping out bangers
This was a very good video man, can’t believe you’re only a couple thousand subs. Keep it up!
As someone who is playing Earthbound for the first time this guide is helping me a lot
Yay i'd love to see more of this!
Part 2 is out, and Part 3 is on its way soon :)
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ayyyyyyyyy i get that reference :3
that made me smile. im glad to see GITCY get some recgonition.
at 14:33 I believe that the white dot on its forehead was actually supposed to be at the end of the hood but it was unnoticed and misprinted in the final manual
I think it may be a way to cover the "HH" on the figure's forehead, and is meant to imply a sort of reflective shine in the print.
Poo's name in brown font killed me im literally dead rn yall
God this is such a cool guide
Part 2 would be nice.
that fucking picture of xfis dressed as an earthbound cart activated a long dormant synapse in my brain
i know damn well youve been a fan for a while just for the fact that you call him xfis
They’re British bobbies 🚓 I just started earthbound today. So much fun! I’m glad they included it on the NSO. I never saw it in the U.K. until now.
I bought the game and guide used, so I missed out on the scratch and sniff.
Overall, this is one of my all time favorite games. I even ripped the chicken hatching sound effect and use it as my text message alert sound. Nostalgia to the max!
One interesting thing I found is that on pg. 34 there is a screenshot of ness fighting an insane cultist that still has it's Japanese sprite, with the rom being in English. I think the battle intro text is different as well but I'm not completely sure.
I think them saying that Ness was dreaming about cookies and birthday presents at the beginning of the game is a nod to Ness’s birthday coming up after the events of the game, since at the end of the game Ness’s dad mentions him trying to come home before his birthday. I think that was pretty neat thing they added in if that was intentional.
14:35 i remember someone theorising that the white dot on their forehead was a missprint and is supposed to be on the tip of the cap to have the western design
Might be!
The manual is also supposed to tell you about the rock candy/condiment trick. Please look for it!
I gotta say the localizers are VERY lucky that some of the red crosses they forgot to remove were never noticed by the organization.
(12:50) those police officers are definitely british, or they look very close to it
I think the reason the starman is everywhere, is because they are Giygas’ chief henchmen, and they can’t just put Giygas on everything, so it falls to the starman to be an icon
13:44 in my experience, it’ll stop at some point. When I first got the game I would get at really low health at the start of Peaceful Rest Valley and go back to the hotel to sleep.
11:50 i’m guessing the dogs of Onett are King and the white dog in Onett Town.
7:40 I think this was because of how obsessed Nintendo was about the snes playing with power thing
How did I know you were going to use the Stephen Georg picture when reading "When you're Earthbound"
Great minds think alike!
See, this is why i always preferred the official Nintendo guides over any third party ones. They were so much more creative in their writing and presentation.
I find it cool that because IQ increases max PP on level up for every character EXCEPT Jeff, he instead uses that stat to determine the chance of repairing items that can be at times just as powerful as a PSI attack (Big Bottle Rocket). I think it's a great design choice that fits the character since he is in universe a very intelligent kid, as is reflected in his IQ stat.
The main reason why "the" is in parenthesis is probably to test out "the" flag on enemies. Some enemies need "the" while others don't.
also the PSI is called PK in the titanic ant screenshot
The guide helped make the game more biblical for me as a kid.
This guy is the cybershell of the Mother Series
I bet the Favorite Thing is probably “POWER” because the guide was put together by Nintendo Power staff or by some affiliate.
Still strikes me as odd because they used the first default names for everything else.
I didn't know Ness was chubby huh.. cool like I watched a va let's play of Earthbound and didn't hear this even in the comantary for Earthbound I watched
The slime on the cover is most likely left from Master Belch. (I know this is very obvious, I don't mean to be a snob)
I wonder if there's a proto type of the English translation that exists, because from the looks of it this guide uses a copy of the game with English text but with the Japanese sprites for the most part, and a lot of the wrong names for things in this guide book could be explained by an earlier translation that was changed here and there before the game was put on shelves.
I’ve always heard that Poo’s canon age is 16. I’ve always like that, it makes him feel like the experienced older brother. Which makes sense, since he has the most powerful PSI in the game, and he literally runs a country.
Interesting. Do you happen to have any sources on that? If it's canon, I'd like to mention this in part 2.
@@MonkeyNess I guess I was wrong, cause all I’m finding is info saying he’s 12-13. Maybe I saw it in a wiki that wasn’t edited properly or something? I just always imagined him as being a few years older. Either way, I still like him being the oldest of the group, even if it’s only by 6 months to a year.
Part two pls.
PART TWOPOOO
Part 2 pls?
You are the CYBERSHELL of EARTHBOUND RUclipsRS!!!
Very flattered. :)
Just wait until tomorrow.
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12:30 That screenshot says PK instead of PSI.
Oh I love the strategy guide. I actually paid like...$500 for a real version of it
And the Scratch and Sniff cards are great and when I heard they existed they made me want to play it. Smelly cards made me play my favorite game of all time
Back in 2000 or 2001, I just ordered one off of Nintendo's website for something like $15. I still have it, though it's a bit beat up, and I lost the scratch-n-sniff cards a long time ago.
Part 2 plz
I think that you have a video before pt2 to make suspense
I don't like Earthbound at all but man I love its artstyle and setting. though I do respect it for what it did and the sub genre it started also. Mother 3 is one of my favorite games of all time and inwpuldnt have gotten it I not for Earthbound. *salute*
Am I the only one who gets creeped out during the Mu Training segment, or is that just me?
the whole mu training segment feels surreal and eerie. I don't think you're the only one who is creeped out by it, earthbound can fulfill many moods.
I saw the cooki typo! Whoops, cookie. I MEAN COOKIE BUT ITS SAYING COOKI
1:10 That’s not A Starman Deluxe, that’s a Finale Starman
Yup, my mistake.
How much is your video style inspired by sonic youtuber Cybershell?
Could you be more specific with what you mean by “video style”? Because it honestly depends on the aspect of the videomaking.
@@MonkeyNess The way you talk reminds me of him (except with no swearing)
@@prywatne4733 Definitely had an influence on this (and tomorrow’s) video specifically. Depends on the topic, I try on different types of voices for certain kinds of subject matter.
OFF TOPIC BUT
TODAY I FOUND SOMEONE IN MY SCHOOL WHO LIKES EARTHBOUND TOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I think the writers mistaken eagleland for England
Wow, this would make so much sense actually.
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How much do those cost these days?
I’ve seen prices range anywhere from $100-1,200
@@MonkeyNess damn
11:43 WHAT!?
Muffin?
Please... we do not have such trash on our menu.
Third 🥉!
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@@definitelynotascammer Thanks for all of your support 🥰!
So random question since I don't feel like watching it
*Does it include on how to get Jeff's best weapon from the Monkeys?*
How tf are you uploading a full new video everyday for this long?
Hard HARD work. It had started to really wear on me the last few days though.
@@MonkeyNess i respect it, just flabbergasted once i saw the video upload dates.
Fun fact after so many stays it won’t show Paula’s message if you haven’t rescued her, either that or their was a glitch in my 1st playthrough
I really like Earthbound but Mother 3 is in a whole different level than this
This game stinks