But now that Nintendo has just made it free online, anyone can follow along on their computer, tablet, or even printing it out and binding it together! Up until now the guide has been prohibitively expensive for anyone wanting a hard copy, sometimes running over US$100 online. All of the other SNES Classic games just have their instruction manuals uploaded, but since EarthBound never came with an instruction manual - it only ever came bundled with the strategy guide - we get the whole thing instead. It seems like the guide was uploaded by Nintendo due to a happy accident.
Plus postcards from around the world somehow sums up the game perfectly. A 90s Nickelodeon-esque green splat with a badass alien, It really is a different experience, kind of like watching a great movie then reading the great book it was based off.īut now, to go along with the recent release of the Super Nintendo Classic Edition (which has EarthBound as a playable game), Nintendo has officially put up a free PDF of the player’s guide for anyone to enjoy. Unfortunately many people who have only been introduced to EarthBound recently via virtual console have never been able to play through the game alongside the guide. It doesn’t just give the story, but conveys the tone perfectly too. ▼ Here’s the fake newspaper for Onett, the first town. It has gorgeous visuals, 3D clay models of almost every enemy, made-up newspapers and stories for each location, not to mention the hilariously-infamous scratch and sniff cards, great information, secrets, and inside jokes. The guide for EarthBound is nothing less than a masterpiece, which may sound strange to say about a player’s guide, but it’s earned the accolade. Unlike other guides, this one wasn’t just a bunch of terrible “pro tips” mixed with grainy screenshots.
So yeah, I was a bit of a lonely child with a lot of free time, but I did fill up that chart eventually, just like EarthBound filled up my heart.Īnd honestly one of the reasons that I loved the game so much was because of the player’s guide that came bundled with it. It was the first RPG I played as a kid, and I vividly remember making a giant chart with a hundred empty boxes that I’d fill in each time I beat it. While you’re waiting for a SNES Classic, take a look at one of the best player’s guides of all time.ĮarthBound is my favorite game.
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