Child's Eyeview
This article is my tenth and reties me for 2nd place in quantity with EBFAN2000. I would like to thank everyone who responded, especially they who sent me constructive criticism. I feel that it has improved my writing style. I am interested to know what people think of my work so far; mail me.
It is obvious that the world of Earthbound, while strange and psychedelic, is much more similar to our world than most RPGs. I use Final Fantasy 3 as an example. "Let's climb onto our airship and stop a madman who is turning weird monsters into crystal to make himself more powerful" (No offense to FF3, it is a great game, and the plot is actually very cool. It is the best RPG in the FF series, maybe the best ever). EB looks and feels similar to the USA in the 90's.
With that in mind, I point out that the children of EB are similar to children of the 90's. Some are gang members with tough attitudes, others have their secret hideouts and baseball caps. They act in similar manners. Because of this, I am going to assume that they think similarly.
Remember what life was like as a young child? Monsters were everywhere, and you were the hero who was going to stop them. The big dog who growled at you, the strange old hermit, young minds can blow such events out of proportion. Also, the mother was a loving figure who a child could fall back to for protection.
So it is therefore possible that Earthbound is a day in the life of the imaginative child Ness. The perfect mother, the everyday enemies from backyard snakes to aliens dreamed up by the child, all seem to hint that this is the possibility. And if this is true, I applaud the person at APE who came up with such a novel idea.
This article is my tenth and reties me for 2nd place in quantity with EBFAN2000. I would like to thank everyone who responded, especially they who sent me constructive criticism. I feel that it has improved my writing style. I am interested to know what people think of my work so far; mail me.
It is obvious that the world of Earthbound, while strange and psychedelic, is much more similar to our world than most RPGs. I use Final Fantasy 3 as an example. "Let's climb onto our airship and stop a madman who is turning weird monsters into crystal to make himself more powerful" (No offense to FF3, it is a great game, and the plot is actually very cool. It is the best RPG in the FF series, maybe the best ever). EB looks and feels similar to the USA in the 90's.
With that in mind, I point out that the children of EB are similar to children of the 90's. Some are gang members with tough attitudes, others have their secret hideouts and baseball caps. They act in similar manners. Because of this, I am going to assume that they think similarly.
Remember what life was like as a young child? Monsters were everywhere, and you were the hero who was going to stop them. The big dog who growled at you, the strange old hermit, young minds can blow such events out of proportion. Also, the mother was a loving figure who a child could fall back to for protection.
So it is therefore possible that Earthbound is a day in the life of the imaginative child Ness. The perfect mother, the everyday enemies from backyard snakes to aliens dreamed up by the child, all seem to hint that this is the possibility. And if this is true, I applaud the person at APE who came up with such a novel idea.
