Ironically Earthbound was meant to be a break for myself, but it turned into a major task, as all my other projects screeched to a halt. (Episode 139: Mega Man still barely holds the record at 138.5 hours). In total, counting gameplay, writing, shooting, editing, the entire video took 137.5 hours to finish, making it the 2nd most time-consuming AVGN episode to date. On top of that, I couldn’t resist adding a dream scene with laborious green screen effects. It became the longest single-part AVGN episode, by total accident (running nearly 40 minutes). Then came a bunch of researching facts, and developing my own personal theories. To write the script, I had to search through 45+ hours of game footage, to confirm and describe accurately all the moments that I wanted to comment on. If you’re wondering about the characters’ names such as “Milly” and “Lilly”, my 4 year old daughter named them. But I realized there were plenty of wacky moments in the game that the Nerd could react to. At first, I didn’t think it would be an AVGN episode, but more of a casual “James review”. After recording it all, I decided to put all those hours to good use, and make a video. The gameplay took me 45 and a half hours. But after more than 20 years, I owed it to myself to complete Earthbound. SNES has so many amazing masterpieces, it’s almost impossible to play them all. The only reason I never played it much was because I was too busy with Final Fantasy 3 (6) and Chrono Trigger. Yes, even when I saw the ads in Nintendo Power. I never played much of Earthbound before, but it’s a game that always appealed to me. It wasn’t originally meant to be an AVGN episode. This video has been in the works since last October (2017), when I first started the playing Earthbound on the mini SNES Classic. Earthbound (SNES) Angry Video Game Nerd: Episode 156
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