You little podcasts are going to have your bodies ripped in half.

Welcome to our last episode of Mystery May this year, where the game we play is decided by dice roll. This time around, fate has deemed it necessary for us to play the Earthbound Halloween Hack, which is notorious for a few reasons, most notably being that it was created by Toby Fox who would later go on to develop Undertale. However, the games share little in common and even the writing doesn’t quite hit the same mark (and in some cases falls exceedingly short), but you can tell in the spirit of the whole thing as well as in the art and music, which were mostly also done by Fox where they weren’t borrowed from the original game. The game’s difficulty is also ramped up within the hack, requiring a truly awful amount of grinding for the average player, so I do think the audience for this is limited, though there is a creative idea here that is expanded on in a fairly interesting way. We’re going to be talking about the creative elements of this game and its novel setup, the nature of romhacking and how it even came to be, and then we went and drank some beer and banged some chicks. Hell yeah.

Thank you for joining us again this week! This whole month has been interesting game after interesting game and for very different reasons each time, so while maybe we didn’t play a whole lot that we outright loved, it sure sated our curiosity a good bit. How much did you know about this game on a scale of “this is the first time I’ve heard of Earthbound” up to “I edit the Toby Fox wikia”? Let us know over on our Discord or in the comments below! I fell probably somewhere around the high “knew Toby Fox used to go by Radiation online” range and still didn’t get exactly what I was expecting out of this. Next time, we’re going to finally do some regular episodes for the summertime and up first is Donkey Kong Bananza, so we hope you’ll join us then!