It would be cool if we could either debunk or confirm the theory, but sadly I don't see that happening. This is the tale of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo: a bizarre, young group of children on a quest to defeat Giygas and his army and avert the dark future of destruction. I personally don't see it being a spelling mistake. Years after the War Against Giygas, many remember the tale of the Chosen Four - a story of optimism and adventure against a force of incomprehensible evil. In every other acknowledgement of the SNES version AFAIK, including magazines, trademark documents, the logo and even in-game text (the 'Meeting for EarthBound 2' dialog) uses the spelling 'EarthBound'. Second, the stylization of the game's title is the one used for the NES version. My assumption/theory is that instead of referring to a return of the villain, they took the oppurtunity to refer to the cancelled NES localization because of how the text refers to a war actually started/started, now a second return of Giygas. The Apple's War Against Giygas: War Against Giygas by The Apple - A comic re-telling EarthBound in its own creative loose sketchy stylistic way. I believe that Itoi was trying to make players look beyond the 'War Against Giygas' slogan, and truly look at what it was a 'war' against. Inside joke with my people) would survive in the end. MOTHER 2 displays MOTHER 2, but the localized version known as EarthBound (stylized this way) displays 'Earth Bound' instead, also removing the mention of a 'return' of Giygas. Afterwards, he left the dying Giygas to flail around, and probably had a good feeling that Ness, Paula, Jeff, and P-man (Poo. The game title is displayed at the title screen. Later on we found prototypes of the (supposedly?) final version of the localization and even Nintendo re-released it through their Virtual Console service on the Wii U (rebranded as EarthBound Beginnings, while remaining the 'Earth Bound' logo in the game itself). Novelization of Earthbound with multiple creative liberties. Then it hit me.Īs we all know, the first MOTHER game got localized as 'Earth Bound' for the United States, yet got cancelled in favour of focusing on the upcoming Super Nintendo system. This is the tale of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo: a bizarre, young group of children on a quest to defeat Giygas and avert the dark future of destruction. What I just noticed in the title screen ( ) it says 'Earth Bound' instead of 'EarthBound'.
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