Earthbound Review

Wikipedia said:

In Japan Earthbound is known as Mother 2 and it was co-developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or The SNES

As Ness and his Party of four travels the world to collect the 8 melodies of the Sound Stone in order to defeat the evil alien force Giygas

The game had a lengthy development period that spanned five years.

Suzuki and Tanaka incorporated a diverse range of popular and exotic styles into the soundtrack, including salsa, reggae, and dub music, and wrote enough music as to fill two compact discs.

Most of the other staff members had not worked on the original Mother, and the game came under repeated threats of cancellation until Iwata joined the team.

Itoi wanted it to reach non-gamers with its intentionally goofy tone; for example, the player uses items such as the Pencil Eraser to remove pencil statues, experiences in-game hallucinations, and battles piles of vomit, taxi cabs, and walking nooses.

Upon release, it was marketed with a $2 million promotional campaign that sardonically proclaimed "this game stinks"

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