Earthbound is more than just a game, though. I’m still not sure whether I should view it as being wonderful or pretentious or wonderfully pretentious, though.

It’s been mentioned many times how much commentary the developers put into the game about their lives and the way they view games.

One example, apparently the dialogue during the final battle is based on a traumatic childhood experience when one of the developers walked into the wrong movie theatre and saw a part of some tentacle-enjoy hentai movie.