Marcus hails from Pender Island. He enjoys writing about the lore surrounding the Warhammer 40K universe. He has an affinity for chocolate and manga. Earthbound is a goofy JRPG that casts us as Ness, ...

In 1995, I clutched an abnormally large box in my hands, wondering at the images and text on its back. I crinkled up my nose at the Master Belch scratch and sniff, unable to fathom what hellish ...

Cult classic RPG EarthBound boasts one of the most WTF video game fan theories you're ever likely to come across, that when players arrive at the Cave of the Past to do battle with final boss Giygas, ...

Ness will begin to wake up from his dream, the Sound Stone he once had is now gone, and his friends will be standing over him tying to get him up. Saturn Valley is where you need to go, Ness and his ...

Earthbound is relentlessly cute, charming, and silly. You battle against a cult built around painting things blue. Defeat zombies by laying sticky paper in a circus tent. Deal with a crew of moles who ...

Let it never be said that boss designs couldn’t be scary in the SNES era. In 1989 the EarthBound series (known as Mother in Japan) introduced the game’s main antagonist Giygas, who intended to wipe ...