True Art is Tragedy rears its ugly head.

.....I can go on a 30 minute rant on why it's aged horribly.....fuck it I'm going to do it anyway. I'm sorry Zaria I think Mother 3 is a fantastic game but earthbound......the game looks awful by even the standards at the time cause Final Fantasy Vi and Chrono Trigger came out at the same time, sound quality is just terrible. The game pretty much sucks Ness' dick and he goes through no hardships, he gets it easy, he doesn't really suffer any hardships aside from being homesick, the story yes it's silly and it's not taking it's self seriously but at the same time it doesn't do a good job at all, and overall while it is important and does set an important part in history, the game overall hasn't aged well at all. Games like Final Fantasy Vi, Chrono Trigger, and hell Super Mario RPG have aged better. I think Mother 3 is a better game cause it's soundtrack is much better, the character sprites are better, and the combing system is a well done mechanic that makes the game a blast to play. Also think Lucas is a better character cause of all the hardships he goes through but he still carries on....Ness gets it so easy it just makes me wanna kill the brat....which is why that's how my video game review of Earthbound is going to end like that and the Mother 3 review is going to end with me hugging Lucas as he fades away. But year Earthbound......overrated as fuck

I like Zar's response to this: "Are you secretly Pokey Minch? Cause wow you've got a major hate-on for Ness going on here." XD

Now time for me to give my two cents. No hardships? Really? 'Cause being a regular kid who holds the weight of responsibility to save the world from an alien eldritch abomination (and to prevent a shitty dystopia that happens only ten years into the future) totally isn't taxing at all. Nuh uh. Neither is being impeded by a sociopathic next-door neighbor (who may or may not have once been your friend) who exists to make your life hell and endangering everyone and everything you've ever cared about just because he could. Did Magicant mean absolutely nothing to you? How about the fact that his soul got transferred into a robot so he could go back to the past to defeat an incomprehensible evil with no guarantee of ever coming back? Don't you think that maybe those things would stick with Ness for the rest of his life?

Just because Ness doesn't "suffer" as much as Lucas doesn't mean that he's never endured hardships or that he's any less of a hero. Hell, one of the things that made Earthbound (and Earthbound 0, for that matter) refreshing was because the main protagonist was a normal suburban boy with a regular childhood as opposed to the angsty knight with the tragic and/or complicated past that is so common in RPGs. Are you saying you'd think Ness would be a better character if his dog was torn apart by Starmen, his mother turned into a brainwashed robot for Giygas, and his sister has been sold to slavery? Should Ness wear his black Mr. Saturn t-shirt and climb up to Mt. Ordeals to contemplate his navel? Seriously, I'll take Ness over the latest cynical Gackt-expy anyday.

I wonder how much Ness & Lucas fanfiction pisses him off. 'Cause there's no way Lucas would be best friends with such a brat, right?