EarthBound (1995), Part 2 - Earthbound Is Other Games Minus Time

Welcome to Season 2 of Super Smash Echoes, in which we explore franchises introduced to the series during Super Smash Bros. Melee. If you like talking about climbing, and ice, and the computer lab games that live in our heads rent free, this is the episode for you!

0:02:45 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:10:45 for our discussion of Ice Climber.
0:44:00 for our discussion of Journey.

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Our special guest, Allen from Chatz: A Television Podcast, joins us to discuss evil Captain Falcons and very fast vehicles. 

0:02:50 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:13:00 for our post-play reflections.

Here's an example of a pretty funny post-race interview from the Grand Prix mode.

And here's an example of a short movie you can get by fulfilling specific conditions with the racer in question.

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Your friends at Super Smash Echoes put our Earthbound coverage on hold with this delightful trip through the wonderful indie RPG-seeming Franken. Join us as we discuss what it means to play a game and why we do it, the difference between labyrinths and mazes, whether there is such thing as strategy for puzzles, and how evil characters can redeem themselves by killing even more evil characters.

You can access the game and associated media here: https://splendidland.itch.io/franken

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Justin and Magellan check in to discuss their progress on Earthbound, which ends up being in large part a discussion of what else they've been playing (Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Elden Ring, respectively) and how those games relate to Earthbound. They also discuss the newest member to their Earthbound parties, Jeff Who No Longer Lives At Home.

0:00:00 for our discussion of other games (potential light spoilers for Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Elden Ring)
0:41:30 for our reflection on this month's chunk of Earthbound

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It's time for our favorite thing, podcasting! We take our first crack at the journey that is EarthBound, discussing BLTs, cults, and the doo-doo-doo-doo-doo from the memes. Please note that this podcast spoils EarthBound up until the big story thing that happens early on in the third town. If you know what that means, then you know what that means!

0:01:30 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:05:30 for our post-play reflections.

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In this special bonus episode nestled between two classic Nintendo JRPGs, we play Undertale - a game that breaks down and rebuilds that genre just as it breaks down and rebuilds us (emotionally).

0:01:30 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:05:30 for our post-play reflections.

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Further Reading

• How Undertale Was Made and Why its Success Scared The Creator
• What The Internet did To Undertale

In this episode, we live the millennial dream of partying like it's 1999 and protecting our very own Pikachu with our lives.

0:01:45 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:12:00 for our post-play reflections.

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Happy Halloween! In the time between our regular episodes (in which we explore how our understandings of the echoes of Smash franchise games compare to the games themselves), we're doing our first bonus episode on a game that is itself an echo of a Smash franchise game. Join us as we discuss Spookware (and WarioWare: Get It Together! as well)!

Coming this summer, Fox McLeod in A New Hope - uh, I mean, Star Fox 64!

0:02:50 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:11:00 for our post-play reflections.

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Further Reading

• The Geek Critique's Review of Shadow The Hedgehog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0ts1csSVs 

If Kirby swallowed this podcast he would get the good takes power.

0:02:15 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:10:45 for our post-play reflections.

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