In terms of historical and literary precursors here, EarthBound’s Lost Underworld clearly owes something to conventions established in the Hollow Earth sci-fi subgenre, starting back with Jules Verne again, his Journey to the Center of the Earth, and to Arthur Conan Doyle, with his Up-esque plateau of un-extinct dinosaurs in The Lost World.
Month: June 2019
At first glance, the participants in today’s struggle for digital dominance couldn’t be more different. In one corner, you have a Gothic-themed horror game and in other, a high flying ninja revenge quest. But a deep dive into these 8-bit classics reveal eerie similarities in design, control, and difficulty. How do these titles stack up in the crucible of Thunderdome examination?
“Like” if you remember Nintendo Power. Yeah the magazine.
Alyse Knorr opens her delightful Super Mario Bros. 3 by posing three interrelated questions: “Why does everyone love this game so much? Why do I love it so much? Why was it so incredibly successful?”
Like a great tapestry, vertical and horizontal threads have met and become intertwined, creating a huge, beautiful image.
Chrono Trigger, by Michael P. Williams, opens brilliantly.
I got to chat with my dad, the 16-bit one (@16bitdadblog), about Parasite Eve! We get into the differences in horror between the West and East and how Parasite Eve blends the two, how the story connects to the incident in Japan in the novel…
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.”
-Diogenes
That’s pretty germane to where I’m at right now with EarthBound, actually. Because Ness, where we left off, he’s about to be in a world of his mind’s creation. It’s sort of his dream or his imagination, and we’re going to see how he returns to the waking world, to real life, at the end of that.
In the name of Loric, King of the Elves, Demon begone!
-A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Octopath Traveler is about convictions and traditionalism painted with heavy strokes and a new coat of paint.
Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Overcoming Shyness, and EarthBound.
