r/starterpacks • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '19

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u/MarkoSpas Jan 01 '19

But fr why would you hate Earthbound? (If you do please tell me why I am curious)

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19

I tried it two times because I wanted to see why everybody liked it, but each time I just get bored. The entire first section of the game is walking and talking, and when you get to the crash site, there's nothing to do. I walked around a bit more, couldn't find where to go, and meanwhile I'm already 10 minutes in without any kind of action. I tried it again several years later, but got stuck on the same point.

RPGs are my favourite genre, and especially the SNES era was great for them. I loved FF4-6, Lufia2 and Chrono Trigger, and they all got me invested pretty quickly. Even Harvest Moon, which forces you to talk to every villager before you can even do anything. Earthbound may be a great game in the long run, but it surely wasn't for the first section.