Earthbound stood out a mile from its contemporaries, but for all of the wrong reasons, and sold poorly. In retrospect, though, its hard to blame Nintendo for its wariness someone had made the questionable decision to over-exaggerate the cruder aspects of the games humour as part of Earthbounds marketing campaign, leaving reviewers and gamers alone baffled by NES-quality visuals and vomit gags in an RPG landscape that had just seen the release of beautiful, sophisticated Chrono Trigger.
The novelty, that is, of being able to legitimately sample a title that Americans were able to physically unwrap way back in 1995 thats a localisation delay of eighteen years, which is a leisurely amble even by Nintendos standards. Its been slightly over a year now since Earthbound finally found its way to European shores, albeit as a download for the Wii Us Virtual Console, and thats enough time for the novelty to have worn away.
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