Tribute to the EarthBound Player's Guide (Part 1) 

That’s cool and all but where is Teddy?

Fun fact: on the box art, Ness isn't inside the Starman, but is in fact Ness' reflection on the Starman's lens, implying that you the player are an extention of Ness

1:37 The most likely reason your brain smoothed over the pointed feet, is that only the "prickly" Starman sprite has them, with the normal Starman Sprite having the round feet you remember. This leads to a massive imbalance with the Starman Junior, Starman, Starman Super, and Ghost of Starman all having round feet, while only the Starman Deluxe and Final Starman have the pointy ones. The only other differences are minor changes to the visor (which was probably a mistake, the spikey parts on their shoulders and head, and their badges are a different color being red instead of black (with the exception of the Ghost of Starman but that's because of the non-standard palette it uses), although you probably already knew those.

My favorite part about this strategy was how it was also written like a travel guide to all the places you'd go. I really wish more strategy guides were written like this, especially most guides at this point are collectors' items. It would actually incentive me to start collecting strategy guides again, which is a hobby I sort of miss. They just don't make them like they used to anymore

When it comes to the police-men seen within the stock photos at 12:46, you are 100% correct with them not being American. Based on their uniform, and the striking headwear, they couldn't be misconstrued as anything other than British officers. The pith helmet they wear with the officers mark on gives it one of the most defined looks for any police officer, so much it is equally known as a bobby helmet. If I were to guess the nationality of the horse mounted police-men I would gander that they were German, or French. I reason this based off the smooth rimed officers cap which is used in some areas, along with the button up jacket and under shirt which both used in areas. Though they are harder to get a definitive statement on. Either way thanks for the rad video, while I never owned a copy of it I've read through it via the power of digital archives, tons of cool stuff in there. Keep up the good work, and have a nice day.

Love the dedication that fans have to this game years later. So lovely to see this being covered! Thank you!

Poo's name in brown font killed me im literally dead rn yall

I'd watch an entire video of you going page-by-page analyzing the Player's Guide, even if it were an hour long.

I would love to have a part 2, I especially would like to know what you thought of the scratch and sniff cards.

Glad to see the guide get some love, it really is such a fun, thoughtful addition to the game and I love how much care they put into it. Also love how they published the pdf online for anyone to access, that was really cool of them

Model Tracy looks like she'd stand at the foot of your bed and say "mom i frew up"

I've only ever flipped through the official strategy guide--I've never actually played through the game with it so this was a really cool look at a classic companion piece to EarthBound (or apparently Earthbound if you prefer, lol). I love the details you chose to elaborate on, like the "Pak of bubble gum" likely being a reference to Nintendo's Game Paks, and the choice to display Poo's name in a brown font lmao. Hearing about all the inconsistencies is great too, it's neat to see screenshots with beta elements not present in the final version. Despite the book's mistakes, I'm glad there is still valuable information to be found here; I did not know that the Happy Happy Cultists you can interact with move slightly quicker on the overworld than the others either! My favorite funny thing about this guide is the fact that the Happy Happyist Japanese design is shown instead of the American redesign like you said, but for whatever reason they chose to use a white dot to censor the "HH" on its forehead instead of a dot that matched the color of its robe... I would absolutely watch a second part to this, keep up the fantastic work!

Would love a Part 2, I've got to see how the translators described the zombie woman

that fucking picture of xfis dressed as an earthbound cart activated a long dormant synapse in my brain

5:01 ayyyyyyyyy i get that reference :3 that made me smile. im glad to see GITCY get some recgonition.

Here criminally early. Love my strategy guide its so minty that when it is opened the scratch and sniff cards stand straight up. Love that Nintendo provides the scans online for free and viewing it on the wii u tablet is awesome.

See, this is why i always preferred the official Nintendo guides over any third party ones. They were so much more creative in their writing and presentation.

They’re British bobbies 🚓 I just started earthbound today. So much fun! I’m glad they included it on the NSO. I never saw it in the U.K. until now.

I really enjoyed this video! I hope you do a part 2

---- the one thing that stuck with me is the most important advice ever Deep Darkness - NO HUNTING, THE WILDLIFE HUNTS YOU

As someone who is playing Earthbound for the first time this guide is helping me a lot

Yes, I'd love to see more of this! One of my favorite games of all time!

at 14:33 I believe that the white dot on its forehead was actually supposed to be at the end of the hood but it was unnoticed and misprinted in the final manual

I bought the game and guide used, so I missed out on the scratch and sniff. Overall, this is one of my all time favorite games. I even ripped the chicken hatching sound effect and use it as my text message alert sound. Nostalgia to the max!

I gotta say the localizers are VERY lucky that some of the red crosses they forgot to remove were never noticed by the organization.

Yay i'd love to see more of this!

14:35 i remember someone theorising that the white dot on their forehead was a missprint and is supposed to be on the tip of the cap to have the western design

Another great video! This is the best video game guide book to ever release and this was a great in-depth video on all its contents. Keep it up!

Part 2 would be nice.

Jesus Christ this channel keeps pumping out bangers

God this is such a cool guide

This was a very good video man, can’t believe you’re only a couple thousand subs. Keep it up!

The main reason why "the" is in parenthesis is probably to test out "the" flag on enemies. Some enemies need "the" while others don't.

(12:50) those police officers are definitely british, or they look very close to it

7:40 I think this was because of how obsessed Nintendo was about the snes playing with power thing

One interesting thing I found is that on pg. 34 there is a screenshot of ness fighting an insane cultist that still has it's Japanese sprite, with the rom being in English. I think the battle intro text is different as well but I'm not completely sure.

How did I know you were going to use the Stephen Georg picture when reading "When you're Earthbound"

I think the reason the starman is everywhere, is because they are Giygas’ chief henchmen, and they can’t just put Giygas on everything, so it falls to the starman to be an icon

13:44 in my experience, it’ll stop at some point. When I first got the game I would get at really low health at the start of Peaceful Rest Valley and go back to the hotel to sleep.

I find it cool that because IQ increases max PP on level up for every character EXCEPT Jeff, he instead uses that stat to determine the chance of repairing items that can be at times just as powerful as a PSI attack (Big Bottle Rocket). I think it's a great design choice that fits the character since he is in universe a very intelligent kid, as is reflected in his IQ stat.

The guide helped make the game more biblical for me as a kid.

This guy is the cybershell of the Mother Series

The manual is also supposed to tell you about the rock candy/condiment trick. Please look for it!

11:50 i’m guessing the dogs of Onett are King and the white dog in Onett Town.

You are the CYBERSHELL of EARTHBOUND RU-vidRS!!!

I bet the Favorite Thing is probably “POWER” because the guide was put together by Nintendo Power staff or by some affiliate.

I didn't know Ness was chubby huh.. cool like I watched a va let's play of Earthbound and didn't hear this even in the comantary for Earthbound I watched

The slime on the cover is most likely left from Master Belch. (I know this is very obvious, I don't mean to be a snob)

I’ve always heard that Poo’s canon age is 16. I’ve always like that, it makes him feel like the experienced older brother. Which makes sense, since he has the most powerful PSI in the game, and he literally runs a country.

also the PSI is called PK in the titanic ant screenshot

6:41 😢

OFF TOPIC BUT TODAY I FOUND SOMEONE IN MY SCHOOL WHO LIKES EARTHBOUND TOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

1:10 That’s not A Starman Deluxe, that’s a Finale Starman

Am I the only one who gets creeped out during the Mu Training segment, or is that just me?

PART TWOPOOO

OMG, you also NOTICED that Poo's name is in BROWN?

Part two pls.

I wonder if there's a proto type of the English translation that exists, because from the looks of it this guide uses a copy of the game with English text but with the Japanese sprites for the most part, and a lot of the wrong names for things in this guide book could be explained by an earlier translation that was changed here and there before the game was put on shelves.

12:30 That screenshot says PK instead of PSI.

Part 2 plz

Part 2 pls?

I don't like Earthbound at all but man I love its artstyle and setting. though I do respect it for what it did and the sub genre it started also. Mother 3 is one of my favorite games of all time and inwpuldnt have gotten it I not for Earthbound. *salute*

I think that you have a video before pt2 to make suspense

How much is your video style inspired by sonic youtuber Cybershell?

I saw the cooki typo! Whoops, cookie. I MEAN COOKIE BUT ITS SAYING COOKI

I think the writers mistaken eagleland for England

Muffin? Please... we do not have such trash on our menu.

Oh I love the strategy guide. I actually paid like...$500 for a real version of it And the Scratch and Sniff cards are great and when I heard they existed they made me want to play it. Smelly cards made me play my favorite game of all time

How much do those cost these days?

Fun fact after so many stays it won’t show Paula’s message if you haven’t rescued her, either that or their was a glitch in my 1st playthrough

How tf are you uploading a full new video everyday for this long?

11:43 WHAT!?

So random question since I don't feel like watching it *Does it include on how to get Jeff's best weapon from the Monkeys?*

Third 🥉!

7:00

I really like Earthbound but Mother 3 is in a whole different level than this

Is there no way to play that shit for free on the switch fuck that subscription shit

This game stinks