kirby1781 honestly I'm more impressed that they sent a response letter and as for advertising their podcast, I honestly don't blame them for doing so. Emile is a random fan with a copy of Nintendo power so why not tell them their is a podcast of the same name done by Nintendo, it just makes sense to do to be honest.
How I imagined it went down: *Ness gets letter from Porky at the end of the game* Ness: I wonder where Porky went... Paula: Maybe we should have stopped him from running away... Ness: Maybe. But I’m sure it’s fine. He can’t do any harm as he is right now... Paula: Okay, you sure? Ness: Yeah. I mean, how much damage could he actually do? It’s just Porky we’re talking about. *Later, in Smash* Lucas: Yeah so it turns out this guy Porky was behind all this and...Ness, are you okay? You’ve gone pale. Ness: ...I have made a horrible mistake.
I can’t believe that one single tweet asking for more information for the bonus video nearly doubled the video’s original length. That just shows the dedication of Chugga’s fans!
Partners in Time's bonus video got even more length due to the same reason lol. IIRC it was originally a 9 minutes video, but fans suggestion extended the video's production by two weeks, and ended up being a half-hour video as a result.
Chugga, I'm not sure if you will see this here considering that this is relatively old now, but I will say it anyway. It has been quite a long time since I have watched your videos, everynow and then I come back and I binge a series etc.. but I wanted to say thank you for all of the videos that you have put out. They have gotten me through some rough times, and they have been a constant in my life up to this point. I have been watching your videos since I was pretty young about 10 years ago, around the time you were putting out Paper Mario, and of course not long before that Earthbound. I remember being young and binge-watching your old Earthbound lets play. Keep in mind that I am 18 now. You have been a part of my life for quite a long time, and have been a constant. I can always go back to your channel and see a new series, or a series that I missed etc, there will always be Chugga there for me to watch. They don't fail to bring me joy when I watch them. Sometimes I go back and watch some of your old series as well just for the memories because it has been so very long and so much has changed in my life since then. This time it has been quite awhile since I have checked in, have a lot of videos to catch up on. Just thank you, Chugga. Continue doing what you have been doing. (oh and obligatory Okami bonus) I just hope you see this, maybe at some point will make a Twitter and tweet it I don't know. I just want you to know that you are appreciated and have helped me be me.
Technically he revealed his face in a photo in one frame during his Kid Icarus: Uprising Let’s play. But this is the first time, on his channel, he has recorded his face on video.
Poor Emile and the never ending gag of his name being misread. Funny, there's an antagonist in Dragalia Lost also named Emile, but no one in the game ever misgenders him...
@@pokedude720 Thing is there’s been MANY instances where his name’s been spoken in voice clips. It’d have to be a fancy way to pronounce it that only HE would think is cool. (“Behold! Tremble in fear before the great EMILÉ!” “Uh, Emilay? Really”)
Am I the only one who found the letter surprisingly heartwarming? This game is all about childhood, and by sending in that postcard, Emile made somebody remember theirs.
I’ll admit, at first I didn’t really care about this game as much. But recently, I’ve been doing some stuff with online emulators recently and managed to get Earthbound on my chrome book for school! (profile pic is of my dad, I’m really just a freshman in high school) I’ve just recently managed to get to Fourside as of this comment being posted. I truly understand that this game was a timeless classic and will always be one of the best games I’ve ever played other than Pokémon and super Smash Bros. The only thing that sucks about this is that my chrome book is linked to my school website, so most of the games are blocked, meaning that the school tech staff can basically wipe my save data at any point in time (thankfully they haven’t), another thing is that they’ve blocked most of your TH-cam videos on the school internet. All I want to say, is thanks. I especially love how it’s nice to hear that I’m not alone on the autism spectrum (I’m aspergers (or as I like to call it, Ass Burgers.)) I know I’ve been going on and on in this comment, but all I want to say, is thanks for driving me through this journey. I’ll never forget the amount of fun I’ve had playing this game. Also, if you’re wondering what I named my heroes, I named Ness Flonp, I named Paula R-un, I named Jeff Madiq, And I named Poo Kito. Farewell Emile -Another fan.
You can't actually get there since you can't teleport while dead, and the only way to get to Threed from Summers is teleportation. It probably wouldn't do anything different, though.
Now I’m imaging Ness floating along with the party (after dying) watching them and hoping they make it to a healer. Then all of a sudden he hears “say fuzzy pickles!” and his joy is so great that he wills himself back to the mortal plane long enough to throw up a peace sign before dying again.
Thank you for all the work you do. When I saw the first couple episodes, I thought this would have been a much less content-packed series than the Pokémon Black/White series you just concluded, but it's been by far one of the most in-depth, comprehensive series on Earthbound I've seen, and being around for the ride has been amazing. I'm so glad you went back and turned what was a rather rough series into a very expansive love letter to what I and so many others consider one of the most timeless games of all time. Cheers. Also that is definitely Mario Party 8/9 at the latest Peach on that Bookmark, mid/late 2000s. Around Mario Party 10's release, Nintendo switched off of shading the Mario models with shades of black to using lower value shades of the model's colors (likely via a more complex shader) and they've looked a lot more vibrant since! A shame that Nintendo seemingly included a form letter and completely brushed past the name, I'm sure a few people at NoA have some sort of working relationship with you, but still finally great to have some closure. Are the bookmarks going on the Mother shelves despite being definitely the wrong series? I know I'd put them there, just for laughs and to tell the story.
8:43 "sadly New Game + wouldn't be invented for...urmm...a few months after its release." Oh Emile. You predicted Chrono Trigger so many times in this LP, and this foreshadowing moment is one i never gotten until now. Haha
You forgot to mention the most important aspect of Mother 1 + 2- you can defeat Giygas by poisoning him instead of praying. It’s essentially the atheist way of finishing EarthBound.
He actually mentioned that at some point! It's either during after the Giygas was defeated, or it was in the near-finished version of this video. Which he let the fans see for comment or suggestions for about a day.
I considered including this, but you have to survive for hours against him. To my knowledge, all recorded attempts of it use hacking in order to last that long, so it isn't something a player could actually do.
chuggaaconroy I actually attempted it myself, and it only took a couple minutes. As long as you whittle Giygas down after using the Viper in the second phase and make sure his HP is low enough so you don’t activate the third phase, he’ll die from poison damage pretty fast.
This LP...I think this is the one that I would recommend to people who are interested in looking at Emile’s content but have not before honestly. This demonstrates how informative and simultaneously entertaining he can be. I don’t think after all this time watching him that he’s nearly as positive as people make him out to be, especially after watching PiT, but this LP, it never felt like he was being overly negative about any one thing, or if he was like with the Monkey Caves I felt it was coming from a genuine place, and that’s pretty much how I’d sum this LP up in one word: genuine. You can tell how passionate he is about this game, how even though he’s so experienced with this to the point of mastery he hits the same stumbling blocks some of us do, how much he genuinely did not know about this and was surprised by his own discoveries and that of his fans and supporters. I’m honestly surprised at how much I learned from this LP. Every episode, there was at least something new about Earthbound I took away from this. The lack of forced deliveries or even puns, while maybe a detriment to some of his viewers, just shows how invested he was in this LP and its commentary that he didn’t have to resort to them as filler. About the only negative point I could see is that Emile didn’t continue with showing off the travel guide sections of the Player’s Guide as he said he would when leaving Giant Step, but I imagine that maybe Devin and Shauntelle thought that it detracted from the visual aspect of the LP or something, and it’s not like there were a lot of uneventful opportunities presented where Emile could get away with showing that off again. I do wish the Guide was shown off more as it’s kind of a piece of art in its own right, but I guess that’s all the more reason to look it up online. I daresay that this is probably going to be my top LP from Emile for a long time to come. I would happily rewatch this and share it with friends who are and are not Earthbound enthusiasts alike if only to see what they take away from this. Thank you, and until the next time I drop by this channel.
Rexaura888 Make a good point, but I’d recommend the Black and White LP rather that this one, then see this one next I really do love this LP, but it can get slow sometimes.
Can’t say for sure since I’m not there, but that stock photo looks a lot like Roswell especially with the short buildings and UFO theme. I’ll be sure to check next time I go there if no one else is able to, but if anyone is there right now I’d check the area around the UFO museum.
That live action picture looks like Amory MS. My grandparents live there and we usually get burgers by a place known as Bill's Hamburgers. That's just a guess, theres probably a lot of places that look like that.
36:29 Haha! I love that ending! The whole facecam thing coupled with an Earl Hindman style camera angle! Thank you for that, Emile! Thank you! I have to admit that I was expecting something after that fade-to-black 30 seconds prior to the end, but that was just FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!
Hey I have a little story about something that happened to me while playing earthbound. On my first play through of the game ness's HP was way higher that it was suppose to be and by the time I was in the Deep Darkness I had over 800 HP, and after I went through magicant where ness gains incredible power my HP counter went over 1000 to be more specific 1120 but when displayed in the game it would only say I had 20 HP and when viewed from the stat menu it would say that I had 120/1120 HP. In battle when ness got damaged the counter would snap to the number it was suppose to be at after receiving damage without scrolling. I thinks it was a glitch as it stayed that way for the rest of the game but I thought it was an interesting story to tell so I thought I'd tell everyone.
For the photo at 1:45: I'm no good with photos, but a year might be an important place to start. Cars are always the best way to tell when a film takes place or when a picture was taken. That white car looks like some sort of really old muscle car, but I have no idea of any possible models/makers. And those are some archaic-looking streetlights and architecture. It's definitely an old photo, but that's all I got ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I did a little digging and this image from JP Wikipedia looks pretty similar. ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Castro_street_theatre.JPG All I did was google image search “アメリカの通り 1980” scrolled a little
So something i found out recently about gygas that is interesting, if you take gygas's form in his final phase, flip it upside down, you can somewhat see the original form of what gygas looked like in mother 1.
Wow, was it just me or did this series just fly by! I can't wait to find out the next game that Emile will cover and I love not knowing what's up next and when he announced this project I was about to start playing Earthbound and try to beat it for the first time after finishing Mother 1!
I know so much more about EarthBound than I ever thought possible. As always, thanks for all of the hard work on this series and helping to bring people a new appreciation to this game. i know the meme has been run into the ground so much by this point, but I have to wonder what Emile's response would've been if Nintendo had sent a Princess Daisy bookmark.
This LP is 3 years old now, but man I love coming back to this. I originally started watching your channel when I was in middle school; a friend recommended it to me during our lunch period. I remember being in 8th grade and binging a ton of your LP’s during the summer, I remember the most fondly your Earthbound and your Mother 3 Let’s play. Being able to see this game with your current Let’s play style is so magical and it really shows not just how much you have grown since I first started watching your content but how much I’ve grown since being in middle school. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this channel; thank you for being you!
12:12 You actually can get a powerful weapon (indirectly) from Frank... ...in _CogDis_ (warning: spoilers): In the postapocalyptic Onett, check Frankystein Mk II to get the Robo-Punch, which gives Zarbol a new skill.
It would be so awesome if Chugga did a let's play of Earthbound Zero now that there's an official release. It may be out of order but it would be nice to see a more updated, higher quality let's play where he has time to discuss random trivia every so often
Does this mean that this is the first time that Emile has completely shown his face on his own channel? (Not counting the hiker dance as that was only part of his face)
No, he actually did it before in his Kid Icarus LP(I believe episode 18). The photo of his face was on screen for a split second though, so you could for sure call this the longest it's been revealed.
I believe what happened to Giygas is that after he was defeated in Mother 1/Earthbound Beginnings, he went insane, and eventually fused with the Apple of Enlightenment. I believe after Pokey turned off the Devil's Machine, Giygas's corrupt form was revealed.
you're the first person to introduce me to this series emile, not countin' brawl which i never thought about as much. thanks for all the good times there, here, inbetween, and in the future.
I'm not sure how legitamate the information is, but I've heard that in promotional material in Japan the game has been titled "Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back".
There's actually another effect of homesickness. If one were to get homesick on a long run without calling Ness' mother, provided that Ness does not die himself (which WILL remedy this), the player would get a call from said mother as a reminder to call, though the homesickness is not cured of. I've gone a while being in said condition in one of my playthroughs, and never got this call, albeit heard of it. There were also two more "in Japan" instances you (quite literally) left out: Porky's dialogue following Carpainter's defeat, and the Japanese version's "Don't Care" names!
Poo in general is unnecessary. I get he's a hybrid character, and normally I like me a Red mage, but Poo just sucks. He's only really useful in those small windows where he will know something that Ness or Paula doesn't yet, but other then that? He's a 1/4 teddy bear for the party, that will just spam Freeze beta until he's out of PP(witch doesn't take long) then he just does nothing. Unless you carry so much water for him that you could likely swim in your backpack. If you ever want to use healing items on him you need to take a side trip to Dalaam just to buy him some, and then have them take up your inventory slots, all because he's to good to just get healed from a large pizza. I swear more often then not, the only use I had for him was inventory space, because that's his only "upside" but that 'upside' comes at the massive downside of he can't just use normal equips, and the equips he does get are for the most part not great and you are just as well off not having them. Looking at you Sword of Kings. By end game it doesn't matter because he will only deal 1 damage per hit anyway. Sure Starstorm Alpha can be neat but not when he only gets like 4 uses of it before he's out of PP and needs more water or a PP item that would be better used to recover Paula's PP for damage, or Ness's PP for healing. And as Chugga brings op, not even Starstorm Omega redeems him because you get it to late in the game for it to be useful, and even if it was it's 42PP meaning Poo will only get around 4-5 casts of it, at end game levels so if you got it any sooner you would never get the chance to use it because Poo would never have the PP come a boss fight, if you were using him in battles anyway. Okay.. rant over now. I'll finish this comment by saying the character of Poo is nice, just his design as a battle character sucks.
That ending part was pretty funny. Just, Emile: so now that there’s a facecam, does it make this a live action reboot? Jon(or I’m assuming is Jon): no.
@@matchumadori5291 actually, if you go back through Stephens videos, he WAS at Emile's around the time that this episode came out (or Emile was recording it) so it probably was Stephen
conniefunny2012 they may not have had anything laying around that was mother related. It's not like this series did well in America and you could argue that earthbound got it's popularity from smash Bros. I doubt they have much easy to send merch for earthbound.
They shoulda atleast done that. I would totally spend an absolute fortune if Nintendo still sold Earthbound Merch. I'm so sad that I wasn't even born when the game came out, thus missing my chance. The Mother series are some of my favorite games.
One the things to truly appreciate about this LP is how far come as communicator... even if sometimes you may struggle with meaning of some words. Good Job, Emile.
Emile going to the length of sending the post card away to NOA for the sake of the series is what makes him one of the most dedicated gaming channels out here, if not the _most_ dedicated gaming channel. I've been watching since 2010 and am continually floored by the amount of work and detail that he puts into these.
Wow the reply letter was written really personally. I'm sad it doesn't have a personal signature as well. : ( It would be cool to know who it was that responded to Emile's contest entry.
I imagine that in EarthBound, there’s two versions of the player characters programmed in; one that’s playable, one that’s an NPC. The game switches between them as necessary, as is the case with Paula in the ending. Playable Paula in the footage in the video is dead and is despawned and replaced with NPC Paula, who is alive, and walks into Polestar Preschool and behaves as an NPC for the rest of the game.
Also, I'll admit, watching this, I actually got really into earthbound, I bought it on the eshop, and I just rescued paula, and I'm in threed, and i have to say, thank you chuggaa for opening my eyes to a new favorite of mine, hopefully, soon, I may get pikmin 2, another one of my favorite let's plays you've done
The Terrarian Hero I honestly suggest getting the GameCube version as I don't care for motion controls that much but Pikmin 2 on the Wii uses the pointer which can help with being more accurate with throwing your tiny army at creatures. I guess it's up to your preference.
As someone who did not grow up with EarthBound or a NES of the super or regular variety, I enjoy the story of it. I watched the original playthrough that Chugga did, years after the first video was published, and having seen the current version in full I can say that each have their own personality and are worth watching. I have also watched the Mother 3 let's play and I wish it were possible for Nintendo to publish it in America. I like the 3rd installment of the mother series better out of the 2 games I know the story of. I might change my mind when I watch Mother 1. About the opening picture, it looks like a place I've seen before, maybe somewhere in Arizona. My thoughts on Gigyas as a villain, I found it clever that they represent the ultimate evil as something no one can fully grasp the image or nature of, and the fact that even after the defeat of his master, Pokey still is loyal. A question I have about Pokey is that how did he get involved with Gigyas? I know that he was there when they saw Buzzbuzz but was it that Gigyas was able to take over his mind because it was considerably weaker and more insecure compared to his brother Picky, or did he choose that path for himself to ultimately surrender himself to an unspeakable evil just to further bully Ness, someone who didn't deserve it.
I just finished this series as I was playing through the game myself and enjoyed every minute of it 🙂 can’t wait to do it again sometime in the future!
Also, Earthbound was the first non-Mario game I ever beat. I was a kid and didn't know piracy was bad, so when I found an emulator with lots of SNES roms I tested a lot of them, Earthbound was the only one to keep my interest and the stuff this game showed went over my head as a child. Imagine years later learning about Smash and not only learning Ness was a fighter there, but Earhtbound is a Nintendo game, much like Mario, Zelda and Metroid. So when I finally got old enough to buy games, Earthbound on the Virtual Console was one of them.
"It occurs to me that it's a distinct possibility that they chose Peach and Zelda because they thought my name was Emily." I suspect you may be right there...
Well in his Kid Icarus Uprising let's play he talked about the AR Cards and showed a picture of him holding a AR card in a comedic way for a split second
Growing up, I never got to play Earthbound and before this lp I barely knew or cared about it, but now I am determined to play it. I’m getting my childhood back!
Thank you for this lets play Emile I've had a blast watching it. It has gotten me through some dark times of my life. My all time favourite lets play play list.
Hello, ice cream. Let me lick you up. Note: The Game Over Glitch isn't actually caused by there being no enemy encounters. Look up "the mystery of the mole playing rough" if you wanna find out what I mean.
13:16 "Exactly one battle before you learn it, that's when!" is text that appears on screen for a short amount of time (even at 0.25 times speed it's very hard to see the text).
And with 36:32, I believe that is the first time ever Emile has appeared in person on his channel (yes, I am aware he's been featured on StephenVlog and TheRunawayGuys in person).
Let's be honest, if he got a Daisy bookmark, he would never recover from that.
mariolucario493 yeah
D A I S Y O N H A R D
Daisy's heart shaped box still haunts him
Lumario the 493rd
There's your new name.
That response letter was actually pretty wholesome...even if it ended in an advertisement for a podcast.
kirby1781 honestly I'm more impressed that they sent a response letter and as for advertising their podcast, I honestly don't blame them for doing so. Emile is a random fan with a copy of Nintendo power so why not tell them their is a podcast of the same name done by Nintendo, it just makes sense to do to be honest.
@@joshuawilloughby2696 Yeah the podcast wasnt a random plug its not like you should check out some random new game on Switch
How I imagined it went down:
*Ness gets letter from Porky at the end of the game*
Ness: I wonder where Porky went...
Paula: Maybe we should have stopped him from running away...
Ness: Maybe. But I’m sure it’s fine. He can’t do any harm as he is right now...
Paula: Okay, you sure?
Ness: Yeah. I mean, how much damage could he actually do? It’s just Porky we’re talking about.
*Later, in Smash*
Lucas: Yeah so it turns out this guy Porky was behind all this and...Ness, are you okay? You’ve gone pale.
Ness: ...I have made a horrible mistake.
Wow
Nintendo, make ness’s final smash PSI Rockin’, starstorm is poo’s thing
@@jackmoseley4959 Make Lucas' PSI Love while you're at it.
@@jackmoseley4959 They did one better. Now Poo and Paula show up to help Ness use PK Starstorm.
Make ness’ final smash darude sandstorm
18:35
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths are a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin
@TurkeySammich33 Spiels burguesa Spielberg schindler's list joke
"That Tony has a heart of gold."
dangit... there are invisible people chopping up onions in my house again... maybe...
So fucking precious...!
Hey, who left this bowl of onions here?
27:00
Shattered Man: *OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU.*
Ness: Nani!?
Top 10 anime battles. This is easily at number one.
I have to make this into an actual video...
@@nebulousboops4985 Ken was covered in bandages at one point.
"Boney"
"Omelette"
"Love"
Emile, you sneaky scoundrel.
I loved the little reference.
Cedrata Tassoni Official Channel what is this a reference to?
@@miiyv3940 mother 3, those are the default names for your dog, favorite food, and favorite thing in that game
Mother 3 replay plz
I never played mother 3, but I get the reference
Holy crap a bonus video that didn’t come out after 2 years! Lol
Snivytep1 Roth more like holy crap a bonus that hasn’t been delayed 6 years. Okami’s still waiting lmao
TH-cam Account I’m gonna tell you now: it won’t
@@Aphyphy I think he already confirmed that he's never gonna do that bonus video on Twitter
@@StardustRains No. He was about to post one a little while ago though he didn't because Okami HD was coming out.
Or never
they definitely thought his name was emily
Or, my thought before he said that was they sent that in thoughts of Paula's character. Guess it's most likely the former!
What a great episode, really great LP too 👌
Hello there
Hi protomario
Oh
But Proto!!!!
Protegent
Chugga: *puts out bonus episode only a week after series ends*
Also Chugga: *hasn’t finished okami bonus videos 73 years after the series ends*
I smell a dead horse being beaten.
I wanna eat this horse.
He also hasn’t finished putting out the final bonus episodes for Pokémon platinum and that ended two years ago
*insert joke about a bonus episode actually being on time*
Not just on time, but on Reyn Time.
Oh hey PK! :P
A bonus video. WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?!?!?!?
OKAMI!!
*cough* *cough* okami *cough* *cough*
I can’t believe that one single tweet asking for more information for the bonus video nearly doubled the video’s original length. That just shows the dedication of Chugga’s fans!
Partners in Time's bonus video got even more length due to the same reason lol. IIRC it was originally a 9 minutes video, but fans suggestion extended the video's production by two weeks, and ended up being a half-hour video as a result.
@@PScoopYT that Partners In Time bonus video was one of my favorite of Chugga's videos.
I am so thankful it turna out the way it is.
Chugga, I'm not sure if you will see this here considering that this is relatively old now, but I will say it anyway. It has been quite a long time since I have watched your videos, everynow and then I come back and I binge a series etc.. but I wanted to say thank you for all of the videos that you have put out. They have gotten me through some rough times, and they have been a constant in my life up to this point. I have been watching your videos since I was pretty young about 10 years ago, around the time you were putting out Paper Mario, and of course not long before that Earthbound. I remember being young and binge-watching your old Earthbound lets play. Keep in mind that I am 18 now. You have been a part of my life for quite a long time, and have been a constant. I can always go back to your channel and see a new series, or a series that I missed etc, there will always be Chugga there for me to watch. They don't fail to bring me joy when I watch them. Sometimes I go back and watch some of your old series as well just for the memories because it has been so very long and so much has changed in my life since then. This time it has been quite awhile since I have checked in, have a lot of videos to catch up on. Just thank you, Chugga. Continue doing what you have been doing. (oh and obligatory Okami bonus) I just hope you see this, maybe at some point will make a Twitter and tweet it I don't know. I just want you to know that you are appreciated and have helped me be me.
Did you ever get that twitter account set up?
Missed opportunity: Nintendo should've sent Emile a Daisy bookmark instead of a Peach one.
Nier bookmark
36:32
Oh Emile
You always know how to make us laugh
Does this count as a face reveal?
I love Stephen's response. Also, HOLY HELL FACE REVEAL??
He’s in stephenvlog videos too
Buzz Lightyear it’s the first official face reveal on his own channel to be fair
Technically he revealed his face in a photo in one frame during his Kid Icarus: Uprising Let’s play. But this is the first time, on his channel, he has recorded his face on video.
It was bound to end at some point...
Don’t you mean it was BOUND to return to the dust of the EARTH?
Your not funny only I can make my awfully PUNishing jokes or you know I don't care
Tobbysas I’m glad someone’s being down to earth with this ending
There's bound to be puns to go along with this.
I make the puns here or else your going to be PUNised by me giving you a B A D T I M E
Plot twist: it's Earthßound and the developers dont realise it's a double s
That would make the 8 melodies the Earth's Sounds.
This changes everything
or, it's a v, because of the Greek letter themes. that's right, beta is V
@@DracoRoma *Earthvound*
Ja, es ist now, dass denke Ich von es (I am only learning german, I don't speak it yet.)
Poor Emile and the never ending gag of his name being misread.
Funny, there's an antagonist in Dragalia Lost also named Emile, but no one in the game ever misgenders him...
Yes but they know who he is.
That games fun. No lie
Tbf, the characters don't have Voice lines in regards to his name, so Cygames may reveal him to be pronounced "Emily" when he gets his Gala.
@@pokedude720 Thing is there’s been MANY instances where his name’s been spoken in voice clips. It’d have to be a fancy way to pronounce it that only HE would think is cool. (“Behold! Tremble in fear before the great EMILÉ!” “Uh, Emilay? Really”)
Clearly they named him after ChuggaConroy, but they sunset the game to avoid potential lawsuits by said youtuber!
Am I the only one who found the letter surprisingly heartwarming? This game is all about childhood, and by sending in that postcard, Emile made somebody remember theirs.
I’ll admit, at first I didn’t really care about this game as much. But recently, I’ve been doing some stuff with online emulators recently and managed to get Earthbound on my chrome book for school! (profile pic is of my dad, I’m really just a freshman in high school) I’ve just recently managed to get to Fourside as of this comment being posted. I truly understand that this game was a timeless classic and will always be one of the best games I’ve ever played other than Pokémon and super Smash Bros. The only thing that sucks about this is that my chrome book is linked to my school website, so most of the games are blocked, meaning that the school tech staff can basically wipe my save data at any point in time (thankfully they haven’t), another thing is that they’ve blocked most of your TH-cam videos on the school internet. All I want to say, is thanks. I especially love how it’s nice to hear that I’m not alone on the autism spectrum (I’m aspergers (or as I like to call it, Ass Burgers.)) I know I’ve been going on and on in this comment, but all I want to say, is thanks for driving me through this journey. I’ll never forget the amount of fun I’ve had playing this game. Also, if you’re wondering what I named my heroes, I named Ness Flonp, I named Paula R-un, I named Jeff Madiq, And I named Poo Kito. Farewell Emile
-Another fan.
Hey, what's your favorite Nintendo game?
MOTHER 2
hey, ya don't need to yell
BUT THAT'S HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY IT
It makes me mad whenever people call it Mother 2 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaaAa
@@cggcgg4612 1. It's a reference to the video
2. It's called Mother 2 in Japan, it's a japanese game, so it's valid
27:50 so he basically just took two corpses with him on a boat ride because they were the corpses of the people who defeated the kraken.
However, do you know the answer to the Ultimate question?
What will the tent glitch do, if you and Paula are both dead?
what would be funny is if it just brought them back to life
@@LinkTahuterasuSpirit totes!
ill test it (maybe...)
You can't actually get there since you can't teleport while dead, and the only way to get to Threed from Summers is teleportation. It probably wouldn't do anything different, though.
@@glassjoe1677 sad...
Now I’m imaging Ness floating along with the party (after dying) watching them and hoping they make it to a healer. Then all of a sudden he hears “say fuzzy pickles!” and his joy is so great that he wills himself back to the mortal plane long enough to throw up a peace sign before dying again.
Thank you for all the work you do. When I saw the first couple episodes, I thought this would have been a much less content-packed series than the Pokémon Black/White series you just concluded, but it's been by far one of the most in-depth, comprehensive series on Earthbound I've seen, and being around for the ride has been amazing. I'm so glad you went back and turned what was a rather rough series into a very expansive love letter to what I and so many others consider one of the most timeless games of all time. Cheers.
Also that is definitely Mario Party 8/9 at the latest Peach on that Bookmark, mid/late 2000s. Around Mario Party 10's release, Nintendo switched off of shading the Mario models with shades of black to using lower value shades of the model's colors (likely via a more complex shader) and they've looked a lot more vibrant since! A shame that Nintendo seemingly included a form letter and completely brushed past the name, I'm sure a few people at NoA have some sort of working relationship with you, but still finally great to have some closure. Are the bookmarks going on the Mother shelves despite being definitely the wrong series? I know I'd put them there, just for laughs and to tell the story.
For those who are having trouble the text at 13:17 Is "Exactly one battle before you learn it, thats when!"
Thank you! I was searching in the comments for this
A little tip for everyone. You can look at a paused video frame by frame by pressing the comma and period keys to go back and advance respectively.
Or you can set the video speed to half and watching so you can pause easier
The series is over?
NNNNNO!
(That was an epic no)
I get it!
SilverAshes001 Cool
Anyways thanks for likes
OMG 68 LIKES NEXT PERSON TO LIKE GO hehehehehhe nice PLS
Sorry for the dislike, I misclicked.
8:43 "sadly New Game + wouldn't be invented for...urmm...a few months after its release."
Oh Emile. You predicted Chrono Trigger so many times in this LP, and this foreshadowing moment is one i never gotten until now. Haha
He probably was already planning and making preparations by the time this came out
Frasier is actually one of my favorite sitcoms so having Earthbound be in an episode in the background is actually funny to me.
You forgot to mention the most important aspect of Mother 1 + 2- you can defeat Giygas by poisoning him instead of praying. It’s essentially the atheist way of finishing EarthBound.
He actually mentioned that at some point! It's either during after the Giygas was defeated, or it was in the near-finished version of this video. Which he let the fans see for comment or suggestions for about a day.
Truly the most euphoric ending of earthbound
I considered including this, but you have to survive for hours against him. To my knowledge, all recorded attempts of it use hacking in order to last that long, so it isn't something a player could actually do.
BlueNinten interesting
chuggaaconroy I actually attempted it myself, and it only took a couple minutes. As long as you whittle Giygas down after using the Viper in the second phase and make sure his HP is low enough so you don’t activate the third phase, he’ll die from poison damage pretty fast.
This LP...I think this is the one that I would recommend to people who are interested in looking at Emile’s content but have not before honestly. This demonstrates how informative and simultaneously entertaining he can be. I don’t think after all this time watching him that he’s nearly as positive as people make him out to be, especially after watching PiT, but this LP, it never felt like he was being overly negative about any one thing, or if he was like with the Monkey Caves I felt it was coming from a genuine place, and that’s pretty much how I’d sum this LP up in one word: genuine.
You can tell how passionate he is about this game, how even though he’s so experienced with this to the point of mastery he hits the same stumbling blocks some of us do, how much he genuinely did not know about this and was surprised by his own discoveries and that of his fans and supporters. I’m honestly surprised at how much I learned from this LP. Every episode, there was at least something new about Earthbound I took away from this. The lack of forced deliveries or even puns, while maybe a detriment to some of his viewers, just shows how invested he was in this LP and its commentary that he didn’t have to resort to them as filler.
About the only negative point I could see is that Emile didn’t continue with showing off the travel guide sections of the Player’s Guide as he said he would when leaving Giant Step, but I imagine that maybe Devin and Shauntelle thought that it detracted from the visual aspect of the LP or something, and it’s not like there were a lot of uneventful opportunities presented where Emile could get away with showing that off again. I do wish the Guide was shown off more as it’s kind of a piece of art in its own right, but I guess that’s all the more reason to look it up online.
I daresay that this is probably going to be my top LP from Emile for a long time to come. I would happily rewatch this and share it with friends who are and are not Earthbound enthusiasts alike if only to see what they take away from this. Thank you, and until the next time I drop by this channel.
Wait who's Devin? I know that "Shauntelle" is Masae, but I don't remember anyone named Devin.
game4brains 123 Marilland
Ah, thanks for clarifying.
Marilland who?
Rexaura888
Make a good point, but I’d recommend the Black and White LP rather that this one, then see this one next
I really do love this LP, but it can get slow sometimes.
Can’t say for sure since I’m not there, but that stock photo looks a lot like Roswell especially with the short buildings and UFO theme. I’ll be sure to check next time I go there if no one else is able to, but if anyone is there right now I’d check the area around the UFO museum.
I think it is because I've found a picture that looks like it could be the image but from a different angle?
Roswell, New Jersey? I don't know geography.
@@floormatt8 Roswell new Mexico
@@onigarbage9143 okay, cause I remember hearing it with New something. Thank s
@@inter_707 that high key looks like it. I might dig deeper into the address
13:16 too fast message reads "Exactly one battle before you learn it, that's when!"
That live action picture looks like Amory MS. My grandparents live there and we usually get burgers by a place known as Bill's Hamburgers. That's just a guess, theres probably a lot of places that look like that.
YES! You did the “IN JAPAN...” on the “the end...?” screen!
Didn't the appearance of Giygas from Earthbound Beginnings inspire Mewtwo's design?
Yeah, I'm certain it did
I mean, they're pretty much the same thing
@DerpyMarioBros. that's the point
@@The_Watcher_Of_Videos many of the people who worked on mother would later work on the Pokémon series
36:29 Haha! I love that ending! The whole facecam thing coupled with an Earl Hindman style camera angle! Thank you for that, Emile! Thank you! I have to admit that I was expecting something after that fade-to-black 30 seconds prior to the end, but that was just FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!
By the way who did that "no" come from?
Ultimate Shadow Probably ProtonJon, if I had to guess. At the time this video was released, TRG was having a recording session.
@@cartooncritic7045 it was from Stephen
@@provervio1 sounds more like Tom Fawkes to me.
Jeff's reaction to Tony's letter made my heart melt awww
I saw those Mother 3 references Chugga, we're onto you.
Hey I have a little story about something that happened to me while playing earthbound. On my first play through of the game ness's HP was way higher that it was suppose to be and by the time I was in the Deep Darkness I had over 800 HP, and after I went through magicant where ness gains incredible power my HP counter went over 1000 to be more specific 1120 but when displayed in the game it would only say I had 20 HP and when viewed from the stat menu it would say that I had 120/1120 HP. In battle when ness got damaged the counter would snap to the number it was suppose to be at after receiving damage without scrolling. I thinks it was a glitch as it stayed that way for the rest of the game but I thought it was an interesting story to tell so I thought I'd tell everyone.
Deep wood? Dont you mean deep darkness?
@@fimtendo654 sorry yeah I haven't played earthbound in a while and was to lazy to check... should I change it?
@@HazelnutButtercup probably.
All done!
Thank you for evrey thing emile.
For the photo at 1:45:
I'm no good with photos, but a year might be an important place to start. Cars are always the best way to tell when a film takes place or when a picture was taken. That white car looks like some sort of really old muscle car, but I have no idea of any possible models/makers. And those are some archaic-looking streetlights and architecture. It's definitely an old photo, but that's all I got ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I did a little digging and this image from JP Wikipedia looks pretty similar. ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Castro_street_theatre.JPG
All I did was google image search “アメリカの通り 1980” scrolled a little
It does look really similar but I don’t think it is.
So something i found out recently about gygas that is interesting, if you take gygas's form in his final phase, flip it upside down, you can somewhat see the original form of what gygas looked like in mother 1.
Wow, was it just me or did this series just fly by!
I can't wait to find out the next game that Emile will cover and I love not knowing what's up next and when he announced this project I was about to start playing Earthbound and try to beat it for the first time after finishing Mother 1!
13:13
"...when are you gonna get poisoned, when you don't already know Healing Beta?"
"Exactly one battle before you learn it, that's when!"
I know so much more about EarthBound than I ever thought possible. As always, thanks for all of the hard work on this series and helping to bring people a new appreciation to this game.
i know the meme has been run into the ground so much by this point, but I have to wonder what Emile's response would've been if Nintendo had sent a Princess Daisy bookmark.
36:30 Gotta love Jon's immediate 'No'
btw those were actually nice looking bookmarks.
That’s Stephen actually
This LP is 3 years old now, but man I love coming back to this. I originally started watching your channel when I was in middle school; a friend recommended it to me during our lunch period. I remember being in 8th grade and binging a ton of your LP’s during the summer, I remember the most fondly your Earthbound and your Mother 3 Let’s play. Being able to see this game with your current Let’s play style is so magical and it really shows not just how much you have grown since I first started watching your content but how much I’ve grown since being in middle school. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this channel; thank you for being you!
Been a rockin’ ride Chugga, can’t wait till next time!
Mango don’t you mean a Rollin’ ride? PK Rollin’?
FlameFreezer 765 I was going to say that :(
So, are those bookmarks going up on your EarthBound merch shelves?
12:12
You actually can get a powerful weapon (indirectly) from Frank...
...in _CogDis_ (warning: spoilers):
In the postapocalyptic Onett, check Frankystein Mk II to get the Robo-Punch, which gives Zarbol a new skill.
Hey, another cogdis fan!
It would be so awesome if Chugga did a let's play of Earthbound Zero now that there's an official release. It may be out of order but it would be nice to see a more updated, higher quality let's play where he has time to discuss random trivia every so often
Oh my god, I’ve seen the intro photo on a wall of a ben and jerry’s. It was in Denver CO!!!!
my god. WE HAVE SOLVED IT!!!!
I USED TO LIVE THERE
Does this mean that this is the first time that Emile has completely shown his face on his own channel? (Not counting the hiker dance as that was only part of his face)
No, he actually did it before in his Kid Icarus LP(I believe episode 18). The photo of his face was on screen for a split second though, so you could for sure call this the longest it's been revealed.
@@dandelion_16 I forgot about that lol
@RobbyLuigi8 : is fine :)
I wanna see someone speedrun earthbound while eating pizza and only use one hand.
Could we please call it pizza%?
And only heal through Mach Pizza
I believe what happened to Giygas is that after he was defeated in Mother 1/Earthbound Beginnings, he went insane, and eventually fused with the Apple of Enlightenment. I believe after Pokey turned off the Devil's Machine, Giygas's corrupt form was revealed.
Guys, we need to replace "oof" with "ouchies"
you're the first person to introduce me to this series emile, not countin' brawl which i never thought about as much. thanks for all the good times there, here, inbetween, and in the future.
Play while eating pizza. This game was super ahead of its time.
9:40
ohp? ges-kkah
Hyurno it’s what the dude says
Soudesuka
I honestly think it's pokiskan.
...it’s kinda weird seeing Chugga irl on the channel when it’s not a picture only shown for a split second. Weird in the good way, of course.
Ah, so you don't watch Thrown Controllers or StephenPlays' vlogs? :P
I said this channel specifically. I’ve seen his face plenty.
I'm not sure how legitamate the information is, but I've heard that in promotional material in Japan the game has been titled "Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back".
Kinda reminds me of the 2nd PSX Crash Bandicoot game, though the similar titles are probably just a coincidence.
@@Doyyumhwaji "x Strikes Back" seems to be a common sequel title.
8:19 That concept art’s honestly really cute
8:00 again, sister cities are not necessarily near each other. Sapporo, Hokkaido is a sister city of Portland, Oregon.
Pretty sure he meant that Winters isn't really a city because of the lack of buildings
Hey cybershell, when's that sonic 3 bonus vid-
I mean hey chuggaaconroy thanks for this bonus video.
WIIFIGHT! Speaking of Cybershell what the fuck happened to him
Cybershell is going to come back in 9 years again.
Hey, I get it.
Wow.
@@shrektheogre4349 he is going to make a comeback once Robo Blast 2 gets finished
Fucking cybershit took my MONEY!
There's actually another effect of homesickness. If one were to get homesick on a long run without calling Ness' mother, provided that Ness does not die himself (which WILL remedy this), the player would get a call from said mother as a reminder to call, though the homesickness is not cured of. I've gone a while being in said condition in one of my playthroughs, and never got this call, albeit heard of it.
There were also two more "in Japan" instances you (quite literally) left out: Porky's dialogue following Carpainter's defeat, and the Japanese version's "Don't Care" names!
I have been watching for a long time, oh steve YOU BRAVE SOLDIER
Poo in general is unnecessary. I get he's a hybrid character, and normally I like me a Red mage, but Poo just sucks. He's only really useful in those small windows where he will know something that Ness or Paula doesn't yet, but other then that? He's a 1/4 teddy bear for the party, that will just spam Freeze beta until he's out of PP(witch doesn't take long) then he just does nothing. Unless you carry so much water for him that you could likely swim in your backpack. If you ever want to use healing items on him you need to take a side trip to Dalaam just to buy him some, and then have them take up your inventory slots, all because he's to good to just get healed from a large pizza. I swear more often then not, the only use I had for him was inventory space, because that's his only "upside" but that 'upside' comes at the massive downside of he can't just use normal equips, and the equips he does get are for the most part not great and you are just as well off not having them. Looking at you Sword of Kings. By end game it doesn't matter because he will only deal 1 damage per hit anyway. Sure Starstorm Alpha can be neat but not when he only gets like 4 uses of it before he's out of PP and needs more water or a PP item that would be better used to recover Paula's PP for damage, or Ness's PP for healing. And as Chugga brings op, not even Starstorm Omega redeems him because you get it to late in the game for it to be useful, and even if it was it's 42PP meaning Poo will only get around 4-5 casts of it, at end game levels so if you got it any sooner you would never get the chance to use it because Poo would never have the PP come a boss fight, if you were using him in battles anyway.
Okay.. rant over now. I'll finish this comment by saying the character of Poo is nice, just his design as a battle character sucks.
Yeah, I liked Poo more for his character, he's just poo at battling.
Starstorm never misses.
Omg yes the bonus video is out
The final video to this amazing LP
That ending part was pretty funny. Just,
Emile: so now that there’s a facecam, does it make this a live action reboot?
Jon(or I’m assuming is Jon): no.
Magoo 21 might be Stephen
I think it’s StevenPlays/Vlog
@@matchumadori5291 actually, if you go back through Stephens videos, he WAS at Emile's around the time that this episode came out (or Emile was recording it) so it probably was Stephen
Pretty sure it was Stephen Georg
Thanks for all the fun in this whole LP and anything new you may teach us afterward in other words I guess we’re earthBOUND to find out right
Well, I wasn't expecting much from Nintendo's response but... why didn't they send something Earthbound related instead?
conniefunny2012 they may not have had anything laying around that was mother related. It's not like this series did well in America and you could argue that earthbound got it's popularity from smash Bros. I doubt they have much easy to send merch for earthbound.
@@joshuawilloughby2696 If nothing else they could've sent a Super Smash Bros. bookmark with Ness or Lucas on it, though?
They shoulda atleast done that. I would totally spend an absolute fortune if Nintendo still sold Earthbound Merch. I'm so sad that I wasn't even born when the game came out, thus missing my chance. The Mother series are some of my favorite games.
@@PrincessSakurasSideshow honestly same.
One the things to truly appreciate about this LP is how far come as communicator... even if sometimes you may struggle with meaning of some words. Good Job, Emile.
This really has been a fantastic journey, and I’m glad I got to experience it.
Also; a Princess Peach bookmark?
Daisy does not approve.
Emile going to the length of sending the post card away to NOA for the sake of the series is what makes him one of the most dedicated gaming channels out here, if not the _most_ dedicated gaming channel. I've been watching since 2010 and am continually floored by the amount of work and detail that he puts into these.
Wow the reply letter was written really personally. I'm sad it doesn't have a personal signature as well. : ( It would be cool to know who it was that responded to Emile's contest entry.
I imagine that in EarthBound, there’s two versions of the player characters programmed in; one that’s playable, one that’s an NPC. The game switches between them as necessary, as is the case with Paula in the ending. Playable Paula in the footage in the video is dead and is despawned and replaced with NPC Paula, who is alive, and walks into Polestar Preschool and behaves as an NPC for the rest of the game.
Still hoping for the Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story playthrough.
Sign me up for that playthrough if it comes out
TheRandomDude It won’t be next, it doesn’t match the hint
Hit me the FUCK up if that happens I am H Y P E D
Shrek The Ogre what’s the hint?
I'm sure he'll get to it at some point, we just gotta wait.After all, he did finish up with PiT a little while ago.
lmao when nintendo uses their response to push their soundcloud
Also, I'll admit, watching this, I actually got really into earthbound, I bought it on the eshop, and I just rescued paula, and I'm in threed, and i have to say, thank you chuggaa for opening my eyes to a new favorite of mine, hopefully, soon, I may get pikmin 2, another one of my favorite let's plays you've done
The Terrarian Hero I honestly suggest getting the GameCube version as I don't care for motion controls that much but Pikmin 2 on the Wii uses the pointer which can help with being more accurate with throwing your tiny army at creatures. I guess it's up to your preference.
Learning all this extra stuff and closing with reading an actual response to the Mach Pizza Postcard felt strong for closure.
As someone who did not grow up with EarthBound or a NES of the super or regular variety, I enjoy the story of it. I watched the original playthrough that Chugga did, years after the first video was published, and having seen the current version in full I can say that each have their own personality and are worth watching. I have also watched the Mother 3 let's play and I wish it were possible for Nintendo to publish it in America. I like the 3rd installment of the mother series better out of the 2 games I know the story of. I might change my mind when I watch Mother 1. About the opening picture, it looks like a place I've seen before, maybe somewhere in Arizona. My thoughts on Gigyas as a villain, I found it clever that they represent the ultimate evil as something no one can fully grasp the image or nature of, and the fact that even after the defeat of his master, Pokey still is loyal. A question I have about Pokey is that how did he get involved with Gigyas? I know that he was there when they saw Buzzbuzz but was it that Gigyas was able to take over his mind because it was considerably weaker and more insecure compared to his brother Picky, or did he choose that path for himself to ultimately surrender himself to an unspeakable evil just to further bully Ness, someone who didn't deserve it.
I just finished this series as I was playing through the game myself and enjoyed every minute of it 🙂 can’t wait to do it again sometime in the future!
That future may be a lot sooner than anticipated with the release of EarthBound on the Switch SNES online service!!
So you're telling me that Earthbound can be played with one hand? 🤔🤔🤔
Yes. So you can play while eating Pizza.
@@camwoodstock I think it's more so an accessibility feature for those who may only have one hand
Ew.
Are there one handed speedruns?
@@danielahn5140 - Oh, I know what you mean... Playing Earthbound and eating breadsticks!
HOLY HELL I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SERIES IS ALREADY COMPLETLY OVER!!!
Also, Earthbound was the first non-Mario game I ever beat. I was a kid and didn't know piracy was bad, so when I found an emulator with lots of SNES roms I tested a lot of them, Earthbound was the only one to keep my interest and the stuff this game showed went over my head as a child. Imagine years later learning about Smash and not only learning Ness was a fighter there, but Earhtbound is a Nintendo game, much like Mario, Zelda and Metroid. So when I finally got old enough to buy games, Earthbound on the Virtual Console was one of them.
"It occurs to me that it's a distinct possibility that they chose Peach and Zelda because they thought my name was Emily."
I suspect you may be right there...
I was just playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 when my Chugga Sense started tingling. Next thing I knew, the bonus episode of Earthbound was posted!
i want him to not do a anther rpg for awlay
Glunkbot [WUT] omg I was also playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 when I saw the notification on my phone for a new chuggaconroy video
I also call my phone my Chugga Sense.
i was playing super metroide and for some reason i knew he uploaded
Hey, me too!
Awww. Don’t worry, Emile, the reboot was live-action enough for me.
Emile officially showed his face. I know that we all know how he looks like thanks to his friend but this is basically official.
Well in his Kid Icarus Uprising let's play he talked about the AR Cards and showed a picture of him holding a AR card in a comedic way for a split second
StephenPlays' vlog channel, ProtonJon's emote, Thrown Controllers, etc. say hi.
His face has been known for like 8 years now.
Growing up, I never got to play Earthbound and before this lp I barely knew or cared about it, but now I am determined to play it. I’m getting my childhood back!
Thank you for this lets play Emile I've had a blast watching it. It has gotten me through some dark times of my life. My all time favourite lets play play list.
Hello, ice cream.
Let me lick you up.
Note: The Game Over Glitch isn't actually caused by there being no enemy encounters. Look up "the mystery of the mole playing rough" if you wanna find out what I mean.
Total missed opportunity to name it the earthbonus video
Thank God he missed that opportunity.
That sucks.
I, I can’t believed that actually worked
And people give Nintendo so much flack
Probably because Nintendo treats all their fans like raw decomposing turds!
13:16 "Exactly one battle before you learn it, that's when!" is text that appears on screen for a short amount of time (even at 0.25 times speed it's very hard to see the text).
GOT IT!!!
@@trainerlsw2444 finally.
Idk if this is a new addiction but on desktop youtube if you pause the video you can go frame by frame with , and .
Thank you
And with 36:32, I believe that is the first time ever Emile has appeared in person on his channel (yes, I am aware he's been featured on StephenVlog and TheRunawayGuys in person).
guess this means another month until a new series is announced
This makes me wonder is chuggaaconroy going to play splatoon 2
frozenfire wolf if it’s a thing then most likely lol
Do you mean splatoon 2???
He said it was a franchise he never played in the finale.
rjd1922 Yet still a ‘spiritual successor’ to something he’s already played...boggles the mind
Shrek The Ogre Maybe A Hat in Time?