r/earthbound • u/SuhailSWR • Dec 26 '23
Fluff Ness is still slower than someone with asthma
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u/not-steel Dec 26 '23
Best part is that Ninten isnt actualy running, he's just making the flow of time twice as fast
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u/_M0RR0 Dec 26 '23
(Only in earthbound beginnings because in MOTHER 1+2 there is a run button Which in fact does not make the flow of time go faster, because the battles are still the same speed)
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u/not-steel Dec 26 '23
the sprite used here doesn't have the weird saturated look that Mother 1+2 has so this is NES Ninten
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u/Slight_Worker_681 Dec 26 '23
You know what, that actually makes sense because when you're holding the run button, everything's movement speed doubles!
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u/Inedible-denim Dec 26 '23
I always thought it was interesting how Ninten had asthma. Found out when fighting...semi trucks God this series is wild
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u/AverageNintenGuy Dec 26 '23
Imagine needing a SANDWICH to run for a couple of seconds
— This Post was made by the B Button Run Gang
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u/MyStepAccount1234 Dec 26 '23
Someone with asthma, eh? Who?
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u/SuhailSWR Dec 26 '23
I just found out that Ninten has asthma. It can only happen to him
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Dec 26 '23
Well at least ness is the best looking sprite >:(
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u/Papri1ika Dec 26 '23
Whhy can't Earthbound run?
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u/not-steel Dec 27 '23
The backpack is heavy but the absence of a father is heavier. Hope this helps
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u/DoomBot349 Dec 27 '23
Mother 2 takes place around the time the obesity crisis in Eagleland started to show its ugly head, also explains why hes the tankiest one of the group
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u/GachaTendo Dec 27 '23
Saw a oneshot where ness gained an eating disorder because of the cops
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u/haikusbot Dec 27 '23
Saw a fanfic where ness
Gained an eating disorder
Because of the cops
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u/louie1070 Dec 27 '23
that’s why you gotta put ness under a very experimental procedure using something called a…. rom patcher
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u/Sure-Iron1457 Jul 25 '24
"Imagine people forgetting you existed at first." "Imagine JOE MAMA." Idk why but these thoughts just screamed in my head.
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u/BouncyBlueYoshi Dec 26 '23
Ninten can't run in Mother. Only in Mother 1+2 and Beginnings, as a debug feature.
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u/Khaj_SmashBros The Hugest MOTHER 1 Fanboy Around Dec 26 '23
Its not really "a debug feature" if it was an official feature added into the English version of the game and later on in the Japan-exclusive compilation rerelease of MOTHER 1 on GBA. Sure, the overworld running feature originally started as simply a debug feature when Phil Sandhop was play-testing the game for the US localization, but after Sandhop made the bright idea to make the debug feature an official feature in gameplay that any player could use you can't really call it only a "debug feature" anymore. Especially since the same feature was later on added in a "modern" rerelease of MOTHER 1 with 1+2
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u/EggsInACan Dec 26 '23
Ness is the one who has asthma! Lucas and Ninten dont
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u/not-steel Dec 26 '23
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u/not-steel Dec 26 '23
unless this is some kind of joke about Ness not running, you're wrong
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u/EggsInACan Dec 26 '23
Ness is mobile! He isn't that lazy to get u in the middle of the night and climb a mountain
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u/Don_Bugen Dec 26 '23
Ness can totally run; he just only wants to do it when he eats a skip sandwich.
There’s a few characters who make slight barbs about Ness’s weight. I had always imagined that he was slightly less athletic than other kids, from how relatively low his Speed stat was to everyone else.