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In an Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto about Mother 2 (known as EarthBound in America), he admitted that Mother 2 was the first RPG he beat:
Interviewer: "We heard from Mr. Itoi about this, but is it true that MOTHER 2 was the first RPG you ever beat?"
Miyamoto: "I've finished MOTHER 1, too. Though I had to use the debug mode. (laugh) But this is the first one I ever finished on my own. I even restarted from the very beginning when I lost my save file. I was pretty impressed with myself, to be honest. (laugh)"
Miyamoto: "I've finished MOTHER 1, too. Though I had to use the debug mode. (laugh) But this is the first one I ever finished on my own. I even restarted from the very beginning when I lost my save file. I was pretty impressed with myself, to be honest. (laugh)"
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In Mother 2 (the Japanese version of EarthBound), the cultists of Happy Happyism appear with the letters HH on their forehead (for Happy Happyism). In EarthBound, a pom pom was added and the HH was removed, presumably to try to make the cultists look less like members of the Klu Klux Klan. Also, possibly because HH on an already Klan-like sprite could be construed to mean "Heil Hitler". The city "Threek" was renamed "Threed" in EarthBound. Like the cultists, this may also be to avoid any link to the Klan, as Threek could be seen as Three K's, or KKK.
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The main antagonist of EarthBound, an alien known as "Giygas", was made by Shigesato Itoi and described as "a living being that deserves love." While the character first debuted with a different design as the final boss of Mother, Giygas' appearance in EarthBound was inspired by a childhood incident where Itoi accidentally walked into the wrong movie at a theatre and watched the 1957 Japanese horror film "Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin". Itoi was traumatized by the film, where he confused a lovemaking scene that ends in murder as a rape scene. He says it had a "sense of terror having atrocity and eroticism side-by-side, and that's what Giygas's lines at the end are":
Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness Ness, Ness...
I...feel..g..o..o..d...
It hurts... It hurts...
I'm so sad, Ness...
Friends...
You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!
Go b..a..c..k
I am...H...a...p...p...y...
It's not right, not right...
Ness!
I...feel..g..o..o..d...
It hurts... It hurts...
I'm so sad, Ness...
Friends...
You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!
Go b..a..c..k
I am...H...a...p...p...y...
It's not right, not right...
Ness!
April 18, 2003 interview with Shigesato Itoi:
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/03.html
April 24, 2003 interview with Shigesato Itoi:
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/07.html
DidYouKnowGaming blog post:
http://didyouknowgaming.com/post/35853816334/earthbound-mother-2
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/03.html
April 24, 2003 interview with Shigesato Itoi:
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/07.html
DidYouKnowGaming blog post:
http://didyouknowgaming.com/post/35853816334/earthbound-mother-2
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