Earthbound - Giygas battle (full)

Batalla contra Giygas.

[@dog4473]

Imagine walking into your childs room and seeing this on the screen

[@Sweetbutters160]

Are you winning son?

[@monoytnecoproductions1997]

@@Sweetbutters160 i dont know

[@ImCrowned76]

If the game was for switch, this would have happened.

[@liamsamples]

*Or in the family room.*

[@ARCHIVED9610]

family room eeee

[@amelienader7941]

ok but imagine encountering this as a kid free of all spoilers and playing for the first time ever lmaooo

[@alventuradelacruz522]

I did

[@Nick_sux]

I did too

[@MrChainChomp]

welcome to "how i got traumatized"

[@megamanx293]

I feel bad for Ness because he's have infinit nightmares after seen this monster or alien

[@brandonvestra]

@@deez5595 How did he turn into a distorted screaming face?

[@Sultan___]

" Poo could not turn into Giygas! " *years of academy training wasted*

[@ortherner]

damn imagine if poo did become giygas. The world would be truly fucked.

[@aryandey3012]

Things would get really complicated won't they. Poo: *what am I even* Giyas: *W h a t*

[@chillmanmax775]

@@aryandey3012 giygas can't think because of the power he holds, certainly poo wouldnt be able too. he would basically become a vegetable after that

[@neptardus6970]

@@thegoodguy2381 yeeaaaaah no the giygas that we see on the video isn't even what he truly looks like because reality itself can't comprehend his true power and form so i would say probably not an epic fight and more of creepiness

[@diningsock3316]

YES!!!

[@youraverageant7888]

4 children defeat an (almost) omnipotent being capable of ripping apart the universe (full)

[@kirbdabirb5627]

This follows the same example as Kirby

[@youraverageant7888]

@@kirbdabirb5627 lol

[@ahmadkazan7994]

I don't think giygas are omnipotent.

[@Mr.M2045]

Nintendo characters are known for being overpowered

[@teimporta4248]

Man, days of life

[@brawlerkoo2583]

Let's name our baby _Poo._

[@moodyowlproductions4287]

Turd

[@melissaardon2294]

@moody owl production's Lol

[@IcelandicIslander]

uh oh, stinKEE

[@jirbykid368]

@@IcelandicIslander Poo funny wooooooooooooooooo

[@IcelandicIslander]

Jirby kid HAHA YEAAA FOR POOPY GOOD POOPY POOPY FUNNY AHAHAH

[@sidviscus]

I think the reason the game says "you cannot comprehend Giygas' attack" but his attacks do little damage is because the damage is not physical, it's a different kind of damage. Kinda how you can be traumatized but not show signs of it on your body. That's what Giygas is doing, he's traumatizing you.

[@wonokairun69]

... Or Just Lazy To Do Anything LOL

[@_piranha]

Because that's exactly what Giygas represents. I think Itoi said that Giygas (his design, obviously he appeared sane in mother 1) is supposed to represent a childhood trauma he had after seeing a violent rape-murder scene in a movie as a child.

[@wonokairun69]

@@_piranha Okay, Helpful @Ralsei

[@MikaOfficial999]

I‘d actually say that they do so little damage is because reality itself doesn’t comprehend them so they can’t really do much

[@xxmodzhaxsxx7910]

"Earthbound is a fun rpg meant for children, rated E for everyone"

[@Yoruharu]

"...for the most part."

[@jirachi_the_nomai]

"Earthbound is a fun rpg meant for children" *"don't finish it"*

[@thatguy7155]

@@jirachi_the_nomai it's basically life At first you easly hide the pain but no matter what you do the next great depression will come

[@deidrecullum5754]

I'm 8 and I beat the game a lot

[@uncannydanny5682]

@Lavos Well, it's Re-rated T for Teen now.

[@Truescreen]

(A young woman in Dalaam woke from a dream in which Prince Poo died, and she began to pray for the well-being of Poo and his friends.) Poo: *fucking dies next turn*

[@yukomakesstuff3752]

Now that's an F

[@weegee42069]

LMAO

[@Merasus]

She predicted poo's death

[@Haxxorguyeditz]

The consequences of remembering your dream

[@tanzyvat5834]

And the fact it didn't affect any of the others makes this even more hilarious, Giygas was out for blood. 😂

[@zacharykenniston748]

The saddest part about this game is to me giygas’ agony. He’s the real victim. His death was necessary but tragic on an unimaginable level.

[@lextavactchi]

One of my favorite, if not the favorite, tragic villains of all. Also, more than likely, the most powerful. “It hurts” makes my heart ache bruh

[@sabrit0n35]

Not really, Giygas at this state is pure evil. In the beginning of the entire series, it's be sad, but when Mother 2 is happening Giygas is completely insane and an embodiment of pure evil and terror.

[@zacharykenniston748]

He still just wants his mom...

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@sabrit0n35 bro there are some characters going _insane_ if the thing they like, *gone*, like doom slayer But giygas is basically a villian here which is different from others

[@Lexxxxiii]

Its not tragic at all, what if satan dies? Would you feel sad because he felt pain?

[@gippzybtc2129]

We can all agree with something: Giygas is the most terrifying being that Nintendo has created. Edit: How the hell did I got so many likes?! o o

[@gayahhbihh]

@ÄByşş Brain Vs *Whatthefuckisthisshitjesuschristalmighty*

[@NemesisAthena]

Hell yes

[@ihatecartoonslloveanimemor7720]

Kirby super star ultra: Marx haha Marx Marx

[@randxm6122]

@@ihatecartoonslloveanimemor7720 what about scary faces from gameboy camera?

[@WolfyRed]

1345 likes mive

[@TGK825]

Imagine what this would be like and look like in real life....

[@jodiegallardo8668]

Oh no......

[@anotherordinaryguy4992]

@@Ganondorf98 sounds like a new scp.

[@hellothere8270]

Anotherordinaryguy 499 indeed it does

[@GoldNight_]

Trill • Force Hound of Predor Skal'Nas tbh I doubt if your body would feel ANYTHING because, well, yunno

[@thischannelwashackedbyoffi6175]

I think I’d have a long mental breakdown while giygas just feasts away at my sanity

[@dolphin0856]

“I’m h...a...p...p...y...” That phrase was changed when giygas looked at his reflection.

[@ortherner]

lol

[@Headless_Toil2418]

This made me make a honking noise lmao

[@fortranXVIII]

ls? damn i didn’t know you liked earthbound lmao

[@deadacc6338]

"Ness... Its not right... not right... not right... I'm sad... It's not right not right not right... I'm h...a...p...p...y... It hurts... it hurts... it hurts... ness... I'm so sad... ness... ness... ness... ness... Ness... ...friends... I'm so sad ness... Ness... ...it hurts... ...it hurts... ...ness... ...go b...a...c...k... Ness... ...I feel... g...o...o...d..." This was the first gaem I played where I felt sad for the enemy, even if he attaccs you immediately afterwards. The baccstory especially makes this moar saddening.

[@deadacc6338]

@Sans_Audio 3 actually

[@alventuradelacruz522]

I put my name into ness abd it was scary whatching gygas saying my name

[@TuberzTv]

Tactical Cringe lol

[@omoriperocondrip9130]

"Sad about an enemy* *laughts in Brad's battle, from LISA: The Joyful*

[@RetroVibing]

OH YEAH LIKE HE IS ACTUALLY FU--ING 2 ITS A JOKE

[@RapidPhantom293]

"2020 is the worst year ever!" 2021:

[@drybones3657]

Sans 2345 lol

[@WizzOfIzz]

NO STOP PLEASE

[@drybones3657]

Giygas the Virus

[@somerandomguyontheinternet7429]

Lol 2020 wasn't that bad

[@somerandomguyontheinternet7429]

@Risyad XMI yeah

[@ericandre5060]

“Caten kept praying” This is why Giygas is my favorite rpg boss of all time. The game really makes you feel like you’re actually helping Ness and his friends. As much as I really love Kefka, I don’t think his final boss battle will ever give the actual player real emotions of fear, confusion, and hopelessness, that Giygas can accomplish.

[@adaisychain4azathoth]

giygas is one of the only instances of cosmic horror in early gaming goddamn. imagine if this boss battle had a film adaptation. it'd be lovecraftian IT level mind-flaying shit.

[@squaggus]

WELL HOW ABOUT WE ASK NINTENDO TO MAKE AN EARTHBOUND MOVIE!!!!!!!!

[@bezoticallyyours83]

There was that thing Sinistar or something

[@matthewquach2705]

Giygas is pretty much similar to It in a lot of ways. One could even argue that the famous line " You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack." Is a direct homage to the deadlights.

[@shopkinspesky]

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

[@extrez]

NOOO! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!

[@craisert]

does it? does it compel me? it's not that compeling

[@AkabSucks]

Noo! You haven't seen the last of me

[@dedsec6072]

@@craisert "hey look at me, im e d g y"

[@lancecurry7538]

No...! Not into the pit! IT *_BUUUUUUUUUURNS!_*

[@BloomBlanche]

If anyone managed to beat this game when they were a kid... I am so, so sorry for you

[@krakentoast]

I was 9 back then haha

[@Alexhimself1337]

Well at least porky has an *_actual_* final boss theme, unlike giygas, who only has a recording of *_-hell itself-_*

[@tomatobees7858]

nah, Giygas’ theme is the latest 100 gecs track. I especially loved how it went ⚠︎︎꧁꧂⚠︎︎➪♪𒊹︎♔𓅓𖣘

[@ballisticboo7808]

@@tomatobees7858 nah bruh, I liked when he said ■₩¿》☆~[÷, really felt that.

[@neoagent3]

how did you- what

[@sarahbelle81]

@@neoagent3 SPIT IT OUT

[@minecratftnt]

@@sarahbelle81 I uhhhh uhmmmmm uhhh I--------- Uhmmmmm uhhhh??? uhmmm,,, uhhhhhhhh uhm... uhmmm????

[@washingtonirving72]

doing this fight as a kid in the 90s would be fucking insane.

[@Yelhsa0703]

It was!

[@sheekyking]

Found this in a Forum and I think it perfectly defines what the developers were trying to convey "Always felt it was an emotional driver for the final fight; the feeling of hope the player needed. I know my first play through (believe it or not, WAS in 1995, i was ten) the Giygas fight was TERRIBLE. I fought him for hours several times wondering why i couldn’t just win. BY ACCIDENT, i hit pray, and he took damage. I felt a tinge of hope, and kept hitting it. You can imagine how it played out from there."

[@1insane614]

“You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas’ attack!” Ness:🤕 Paula:🗿 Jeff:😭 Poo:💀

[@MasterStar_aa]

True

[@eyados-fo6sg]

this boss makes omega Flowey look like a background character in nursery rhymes 😭

[@Canada_ballyt]

btw earthbound was the first battle game or im wrong 6:52 was like alphys voice

[@emmamora7]

What do you guys think of the true form of Giygas’s attack? In my personal opinion, I think Giygas is attacking the mind itself. Remember, Giygas comes from the same species that created PSI so obviously, they have much more advanced PSI than Ness & co so it won’t come off as a surprise if they were able to attack the mind directly. That’s why you are unable to grasp it, you’re feeling pain without even being attacked externally by physical or PSI attacks.

[@lynx5327]

at this point, idek man. This shit is already hard to comprehend lmao

[@Tekkwin]

so essentially, giygas is inducing migraines

[@sabrit0n35]

@@Tekkwin yeah i'd say it probably feels like a migraine x100 maybe

[@sabrit0n35]

And to add to that, I'd like to think that that image in the background is not actually Giygas, but instead a image he's put into the mind of Ness and the gang, because there is a sprite that's supposed to be Giygas, but it's invisible.

[@Theunihornable]

I imagine it's more like being surrounded by a lotta red bloody gas and it's impossible to actually see the psy attack physically because you can see the psy attack animation on other bosses but because of giygas surrounding you it's all muffled by the mist. You can actually tell he uses psy flash, rockin, thunder, and freeze because of how it affects you however.

[@Vivrian]

First mission: find a bug. Final mission: defeat the embodiment of evil.

[@nevastewart6859]

Imagine seeing Giygas final form in real life

[@wonokairun69]

Nice

[@wonokairun69]

@spunch bob JK, That Would Be Terrifying

[@nurulazmi939]

No thanks, I would be traumatized

[@cardboardleaf7971]

"Giygas isn't real he... *it* can't hurt you." *GIYGAS:* woo woo spooky face

[@theveryhateableowl1991]

He's a red oval heading towards you at full speed

[@SkyeonTheDragon]

Note that this scary of a final boss is based on a traumatic experience Itoi himself experienced when he was a kid.

[@agenericguy1014]

Wait really?Can you expand more on that?I'm genuinely curious cuz what happened to him to the point where he made...this

[@illusionofguy]

​@@agenericguy1014 he saw a movie in the theaters, and there was a guy who killed his wife by strangling her and then he brought her body to a place, I think a hospital to chop her body up. He watched that movie by accident as a kid not knowing what the movie was about, and said he put that traumatic feeling into the final boss of this game because he never forgot it. The feeling he had was unfathimable to him to understand at the time as a child.

[@JillLulamoon]

I always liked to imagine that since Earthbound is so inspired by childhood, what Giygas represents the most is the loss of innocence. Giygas is the moment in childhood where you realize the world is not a kind place. It is not a good place. It is cruel, frightening, and often heartless. Good people are often abused, and terrible people often succeed. It's when you realize just how unimaginablely cruel humans can be. Yet, just like Ness and his friends learn, that moment doesn't destroy you. Humans can be capable of incredible kindness too. They defeat Giygas and save the world entirely thanks to thier friends and family on Earth who fervently pray for them to succeed because they care about them and want them to come home alive. And I think the reason the player's prayers are what destroy Giygas is because, the player is a just a stranger to these kids. They don't know you. But a stranger prays for them to win regardless. These random kids are in incredible danger and that's enough to pray for their safety and that kindness humans can show for each other is too much for Giygas to survive.

[@Univerzocker]

All the best to you for the future.

[@dripnx6381]

fun fact: itoi actually based giygas's design off of his own personal childhood trauma

[@Univerzocker]

@@dripnx6381 I know this.I wish you a great Weekend and all the best.

[@thomasstrasser7554]

If you cross your eyes a little then it looks like your playing on a 3ds

[@zutril]

B R U H

[@NO-pt7dz]

Woah

[@IgnatiaWildsmith1227]

Thomas Strasser *W O A H*

[@HavenMarches]

What the fuck make it stop

[@xxmodzhaxsxx7910]

Holy crap guys I see two giyagus, now the boss is harder to fight

[@thelastoofer2131]

Giygas: straight up crying Giygas a second after: *YOU CANNOT GRASP THE TRUE FORM OF GIYGAS-*

[@boxmanco.6199]

I like how most horror games, which are meant to be scary, have no right to be compared to this

[@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s]

This was one of the most creepiest boss battles I have seen.

[@thestickopia4619]

I remember when I beat earthbound for the first time not to long ago. I knew about everything giygas related and was fully expecting everything But while fighting him I still got a deep uneasy feeling That’s the power this fight has, it creeps you out even when you know exactly what’s happening and we’re ready for it

[@ryszardwiechwiech3074]

3:33 "Giygas dodged quickly" imagine seeing giygas doging like... a knife

[@Super-xs5gq]

Giygas right now makes up the entire background, so you would just see the incomprehensible horror all around you recede slightly when you try to poke it with your knife

[@mlee5366]

is it just me or is giygas’s sprite just the background and the true sprite is invisible

[@JNSStudios]

Yes. At least I assume that’s how the battle was programmed.

[@Jupedd]

Not too sure, but in the first phase with the devil's machine the sprite of giygas was just the ness face

[@fatswissandtee]

I've done some rom hacking on this game in the past and am pretty familiar with how it works behind the scenes, can confirm that there is no Giygas battle sprite. Giygas is portrayed by a battle background.

[@ortherner]

Your Correct!

[@Headless_Toil2418]

@@ortherner you're*

[@AguyInACrazySuit]

The scary thing is the fact that Ness barely wins. He literally needed divine intervention from the player

[@WillNotHere]

I think we can all agree that Giygas is the most horrifying final boss in Nintendo

[@coleharding9439]

You can hear how much trouble he's having based on the beep-boop noises in the background. In his initial encounter (first game), he had a frequency sound that was high and buzzy, you know, kind of like a brainwave "frequency". Then when you see him this time, 3:30 hear the same thing, but its waayyy more sad and distorted and drawn out. When he gets wounded, his frequency destablizes even more (5:05). I've also always imagined the static in the background as him actually speaking, and he has that high pitched, almost computerized voice that sounds like static. I mean, he's just a longcat, so, the demon voice that some people try to give him in "voice overs" never tracked for me lol.

[@TheBingoAstro]

Giygas Might just be one of The MOST Creepiest Video Game Villans Nintendo has made. He reminds me of the NES Godzilla Creepypasta Character, Red

[@melonstuff9creative]

what about zelda 64 shadow temple

[@pigaboyAKAthecoolestguyonearth]

so, isn't this terrifying? i'm terrified, too

[@skimask.doughboy]

Just now getting to play this game was amazing and I wish I was born around the time it came out so I could play it as a kid. I loved this type of stuff when I was younger.

[@shorty3725]

All praying cutscenes Mr Saturns: 5:25 Runway 5: 6:44 Polestar: 7:23 Boarding School: 8:40 Dalaam: 9:39 Ness’ Family: 11:24

[@Fliptastic]

10:34 Frank

[@spinnorsomething]

Shorty, I’m a little upset you forgot about good old Franky

[@Merasus]

You forgot my man frank 😔

[@local_neighbourhood_aneurysm]

I love how the boss fight is Paula praying, so the screen alternates between everyday scenes, like houses and restaurants, and then switches back to a Snoop Dogg drug trip type-shit nightmare fuel-

[@haru.2336]

Ive felt everything with this game. Happiness Sadness *Horror* Being angry And at last, being joyful for my adventure. Thanks, earthbound.

[@GentleGiantAudio]

I say this without any irony, Earthbound snes has changed my life. Playing this game as a 12 year old was so surreal. This game .. what is it? I still don't know! I'm 42 now. I never grew out of this game. You don't play a game like this game and simply forget about it. It's funny, it's sad, it's tender, it's terrifying, it's fun and it's a true original. There was nothing like this game before and never will be again. It's almost as surreal playing the game as a 42 year old now as it was a young fell'r. I was NESS. I played baseball. The SNES era is when I started playing RPG's. I went fromm FF4 and Chrono Trigger to Earthbound. Talk about sensory whiplash. As soon as I picked up the 'cracked baseball bat' and equipped it, I knew I was going to be in for it. There is a comical irreverence, a sweetness in tone to the game's story, character and dialogue and then all of a sudden... BOOM! Cosmic horror. WHAT IS HAPPENING??? The events leading up to end game literally still knock the crap out of my conscious mind. Am I really playing this game right now or is this game playing me? The visual presentation with the cutesy Charlie Brown esque characters turning into robots to fight an enemy that is shapeless and formless.... and the music... this final battle with this unconscious entity, GIYGAS, is incomprehensible and is still one of the most unsettling things I have ever seen. It's also incredibly moving. This battle with an unknown enemy, shapeless and formless is even more terrifying to me now as an adult than it was when I was a kid. It isn't a boss... is a battle against the fear that lurks in the unknown of every human heart. The way Giygas is presented in-game is incredibly Lovecraftian. Giygas is not something that humans can comprehend. The music represents this feeling to the letter. I still head bang to the intro at 1:03... I still headbang to this opening. OMG It's fucking operatic! I love how it starts with NES soundfonts with this almost gothic baroque style of classical music... It's like Beethoven. Then it goes into PURE METAL... THEN CHAOS. HOLY SHIT.

[@CatsNCapes]

The more well-known Giygas fight starts at 3:17

[@arialblade1224]

You know it’s horrifying if me who was 13 playing it on the Wii U was crying at this. I didn’t touch that system since believing something god awful corrupted it.

[@billbombshiggy9254]

Played this game so many times in the past 30 years and it just dawned on me that those weird sounds that start at 3:32-- that's Giygas talking. "It's not right .. it's not right .." That's the sound that represents his voice, which kinda makes it all scarier.

[@maneater_mela]

Bestie the game isn't even 30 years old yet

[@billbombshiggy9254]

@@maneater_mela it's pushing it. You can round up you know.

[@maneater_mela]

Fair ig Fun fact about the sounds tho, I actually got my hands on the Earthbound soundfont a while ago. The sound you mentioned is labeled as "Giygas static" in the file. I doubt it's meant to be speech or that it was even made out of a human voice, but everyone can have their personal interpretation

[@billbombshiggy9254]

​@@maneater_melaI dunno. I like the idea that it's supposed to be his speech. It's super creepy and gives the game devs probably a ton more credit than they deserve :D

[@maneater_mela]

@@billbombshiggy9254 like I said, there's no harm in interpreting things like this in your own way, even if it's not exactly in line with the truth! Plus, Earthbound is no stranger to sampling random noises for it's music/sfx, so I can see why you'd think the static sound was heavily edited human speech

[@zackthecharizard9139]

(Idea for the true Happy Ending) During the final phase of Giygas Fetus Form as he is breaking apart, After You praying in your heart, You decide to sing the Eight Melodies to him where Giygas Mother Maria Sing to his son, Giygas may attack you and interrupt your sing but keep sing it until Giygas will instantly stop attacking and think through his flashbacks while his fetus form is breaking apart, then Maria appears with him, Giygas turns back into his original form Giegue and started in tears then his Mother is with him finally he realized his evil deeds, As Maria disappears, Giygas thanked Ness for everything and went back to space to always be with his mother and stopped the war once at for all, Ness and his friends which went back to his Human bodies and during the credit Ness went outside in midnight to see the sky where Giegue is happy finally reginted his mother... *THE END* Edit: This idea sounds pretty stupid as it misses something that make sence and how would giygas remember when it loses it's mind.

[@VinIn3D]

Everyone before the battle: LETS BEAT THIS LAST BOSS TOGETHER: *Literally sees Giggas true form* Everyone again: *NIGHTMARE FUEL: 100%*

[@bamboocarver]

If we didnt know this clip came from an actual game, everyone would think this would be some horror video like petscop

[@TheMezoMd]

15:10 Giygas' mass shrinks into a tiny ball. It reverts back to a human friendly Giegue. Extraterrestrials have finally made peace with humans...

[@fakefreckles6253]

I can really see the inspiration Toby took to Photoshop flowey's fight.

[@MiguelMem]

Wasn't Undertale Inspired By Earthbound?

[@almasanchez1496]

@@MiguelMem it is

[@rob0killa007]

And now we get to relive this terror on the switch :D

[@nastyhotline]

I PUT EVERYTHING AT 2 SPEED AND MY EYES ARE MELTING

[@Oilipsy]

Look what you made me do

[@ortherner]

I had a sezuire and I don’t have Epilepsy

[@amaze_z1953]

@@ortherner Hold up

[@marcosandrey5059]

MY BRAIN IS RESETING

[@illusionist1872]

This is exactly what I want when someone promises "a being that is the embodiment of the concept or idea of EVIL."

[@ortherner]

same!

[@Gemidori]

I remember seeing a removed video of this boss fight when I was 8 or 9. I first thought that it wasn't scary. One spontaneous nightmare later and I had to watch any more Giygas videos standing 10 feet away from the screen for a long while. Fucker.

[@ARCHIVED9610]

hey dont worry, im still terrified of pipes after scp

[@paulineking513]

Yup, scarier than Omega Flowey, I just found something similar about Undertale and Earthbound, both have scary final bosses OwO

[@Dasamael]

Undertale Is based from mother games

[@pkwafflest]

What about the asking for help part

[@yourdude9942]

OwO what's this?

[@Theunihornable]

Also flowey does flash random colors similarly to giygas.

[@Rustycube88]

Omega flowey isnt scary in my opinion. And its hard to see a videogame as a boss , its like impossible . But interesthingly giygas Sucsess at being scary

[@luflliks8216]

“Giygas tried PK Rokin B” “Excuse me whaaaaaat”

[@samasadollahi6649]

The Giygas, Has destroyed TONS of stars, to destroy the universe, but 3 humble psionicists and a smart child destroyed Giygas, right before it gets worse than 1984. The Children then Prayed to Countryside Onett, Polestar Preschool, The Academy and the Dai-llam palace, when suddenly, Giygas got disintegrated like static, saving Everyone’s lives through the powers of 4 young men.

[@ItsZombiefied]

I'm pretty sure Giygas's intent was to simply take over the world, partly in revenge for Ninten's actions in the first game, and George's before that.

[@ddjsalva]

We Dont Need mother 4, we Need a Mother Movie

[@irishboy06]

We need both

[@mzbossy1ful]

I'd say a manga

[@ddjsalva]

@Lavos Also this would be amazing!

[@perrisavallon5170]

I've never played this game before and don't really know anything about it, but holy fucking shit. Just the fact that the final boss is this kind of intangible almost-face thing is insane. I might have to play this now.

[@xLoneSensei]

After playing Mother 3, I’m starting to think Giygas can’t hold a candle to Porky’s evil. Don’t get me wrong Giygas is G O O D but Porky is just a whole different level of evil.

[@vithebi]

Kinda glad I never played this as a kid. I love horror now and this still makes my eyes water. As a kid, this would have traumatized me for years. This is one of my favorite examples of cosmic horror I've seen in a game and honestly I think it works so well because of the limitations of the snes at the time. It leaves more to the imagination which is appropriate because Giygas' form and nature cannot truly be grasped.

[@superkuba1]

4 children ripping apart an unborn demigod

[@IlIIIllIII]

i wish i played this in my childhood. what a gem

[@zacharykenniston748]

Another sad thing is that the prayer that makes giygas go into agonizing death throes is when ness prays to his mom and vice Versa. All he wanted was his mom to comfort him.

[@oblivion2755]

I just completed Earthbound. To be honest, the battle against Giygas was pretty easy, but challenging. During the battle, I didn't have the heavy bazooka and only Ness and Paula survived. Still, we managed to beat Giygas.

[@Catswithouthats123]

You literally need no one else besides Paula.

[@ihappentobeabuilder5849]

Fourside sounds somewhat like the lab theme in Undertale. This makes sense because the creator of Undertale was inspired by Earthbound.

[@squeenixu]

I love how the first form of Giygas simultaneously looks like an eye AND Ness' face

[@catpip_]

That's the devil's machine, which Giygas is inside, not Giygas himself

[@itziza11]

10:27 *Hmmm I wonder where spooky’s house of jumpscares took inspiration from...* 🤔

[@prodbyillyrian]

I don't see it

[@andromedanangel6042]

Specimen 7.

[@tentilol]

specimen 7 and wall of flesh are at your door

[@ChristianKnight-bv7vb]

Everyone has their own opinion on what Giygas (or Giegue) is or represents. This just my own personal fan theory. In my opinion, after the ending of Mother 1, Giegue thought that the reason why he lost is because his psi was not powerful enough. So after the fight, he created the Devil’s Machine. A machine that absorbs any cosmic energy from the area. That is why the Cave of the Past is so bare. Over the course of potentially several thousands of years, his body just could not handle all of the cosmic energy that he was absorbing, so his body just fell apart. However, due to the cosmic energy, he still had life. He was still physically there. Mentally though, he had realized that he was this bloody, decaying mess, and was mentally broken from all angles. While Itoi said that the baby background was just a side effect from the tech that they were using to make the background. In the context of the game, I do not think that the background is literally implying that he is a fetus. In my opinion it is a metaphor for the Devil’s Machine. This chamber that he is contained in that will not let him out. And finally, the reason that Paula has to pray is that, he has contaminated all of the world with his mental anguish that the only way to combat it is with love and care through Paula’s telepathy. This game is really fucked up if you really start to think about it.

[@jenniferk.harding547]

"Giygas used Pk Rockin'" Shouldn't that be illegal?

[@alexiaNBC]

(Pokey warps away into another era) Yeah I'm sure that kid won't cause any damage in the future....right?

[@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343]

Mother 3: *Chuckles* I'm in danger

[@ceikrlmao]

I love this bossfight because out of nowhere he can just kill one of your fucking party members while others stay unaffected

[@jtstutt438]

Guy: *Puts on English dubbed anime* Weebs: 12:00 Me: *uses lamp while in bed* My sleep paralysis demon: 12:00 *Sees a spider in the bathroom* *Spider moves* Me: 12:00 Everyone when Boris made Brexit a thing: 12:00 Everyone: 2020 will be my year. When COVID-19 hit: 12:00 Rich KZbinrs when COPPA was made: 12:00

[@passivelotus6782]

This is so underrated wtf

[@sebastianu2001]

0:00 - 15:12 december 31th, 2020 15:12 - 18:08 january 1st, 2021 (hopefully) *The war against COVID-19 is over*

[@finden3362]

Seeing so many 12:00 in one comment: 12:00

[@Yoruharu]

@@sebastianu2001 *wakes up* december 32nd, 2020

[@ArcadeLink]

These kids had to go through so much horrible stuff. What a great ending to a classic game.

[@swagg5098]

sup

[@deadacc6338]

The amount of cash you had with you is messing with me lol

[@Jupedd]

I actually farmed so many starmen trying to get the sword of kings, so i had about 500k around the end. I had 99k on me, because that's the limit for carrying money lol

[@Frogs2005]

“Dad, I don’t like this game anymore!” -Kid, 1995

[@theRealclassicchannel8066]

just imagine a poor kid having to suffer this extreme hellhole of a music for a nintendo game + this extreme hell of the appearnce giygas takes and the static during the part where the screen cuts to black to show the things after this

[@King_Boo1779]

I love how the person who posted this is named ness

[@liamsi5405]

How did they wake up at the end if their brains were still in the robots?

[@luishernndez8367]

If you think about it: a morbidly obese kid who resents Ness decided to take revenge on him by unleashing an all-powerful alien that became so powerful, it turned into a mindless-horrid eldritch abomination… JUST BECAUSE HE RESENTS HIM

[@HelloPersonReadingThis.]

“Remember that game where 4 children go to a literal hell to fight a being that was made of evil and hate itself while also running into your “best” friend that was possessed by that said evil?” “Go home Bob, you’re drunk.”

[@Alfangelwolf]

11:20 pueden pasar los años y no puedo evitar derramar una lágrima en esta parte SIEMPRE Me hace pensar en mi madre y las veces que no me encontraba con ella, cuantas veces habrá pedido a Dios por mi seguridad. Hoy día mi madre está en el cielo, y yo solo espero que en ese lejano lugar ella esté bien.

[@antares_the]

I first heard about Earthbound this year, after hearing the Gigyas fight theme. It was at the top of a Playlist of the scariest video game soundtracks

[@tdgtto]

same

[@chloe-jy1wi]

i like how at 14:47 you can see that the negative space around giygas looks like a baby in the womb

[@KaitlynG]

What makes this more disturbing is the fact that gigyas’s dialogue is from a r..pe scene the creator saw in a movie when he was really young. That scene traumatized him

[@zulimations]

what's even weirder is that neither the dialogue or the scene he remembered actually happened

[@OneOfTheChosenFour]

Even though i was a robot, i was extremely terrified fighting giygas.

[@wonokairun69]

03:33 Jeff Attacks! Giygas Dodges Quickly Me: One Question That Contains One Word *H O W*

[@Andromeda14161]

Giygas is what I imagine depression looks like if given form. So I had him tattooed on my back.

[@alejandouran5790]

0:27 this theme...hits diferent

[@TrashHeap64]

The text "Paula's call was absorbed by the darkness" on a pure black screen goes hard as hell

[@agentbtz]

watching this after re watching Undertale's Omega Flowey battle and it has so many similarities! i was aware that Undertale's creator got really inspired by earthbound but seeing this is pretty crazy indeed :o

[@mx.viscera2247]

If you’ve never checked it out, you’ll probably enjoy Toby Fox’s Earthbound hack! Super cool to see what he was thinking Pre-Undertale

[@comentarista7909]

Undertale is shIt

[@gojibbq]

holy SHIT dude i knew about giygas but i never knew it was like THIS??????? this is some junji ito shit, genuinely eldritch

[@Glitched_Puppet3791]

Nintendo WTF were you smoking? 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@vakhi04]

many doesnt understand that the battle is intended to take a lot by usual methods, and 4 children in fact are no match for an omnipotent being,after some time when you use all you got, they end up in despair without anything else than pray as a last resource.

[@dousuketoby1731]

If this was real whoever this really wanted to kill would be physically and\mentally slaughtered. Just imagine the seizures and all forms of physical ways to get incarcerated from endless possible forms of attacks.

[@Кожуркаотпомидора]

You know, seeing all this in turn-based form... It can give an illusion our four has at least time to catch a break... Imagine, how brutal and how hell severe this battle is, considering it in real-time form.

[@alexacosta3655]

More than ten years later and this scene still creeps me out