Damn, I thought I reached the limit of the most difficult Earthbound challenge. I even said beating this challenge without save-manipulation was nearly impossible. I congratulate you for actually completing the ultimate challenge without save states.

@fly_hammer

3 ай бұрын

I’m so happy to hear from you, I loved your video!

Ness punching an entire alien invation to death is fuckin sweet

@Gamerman-lu9bs

4 ай бұрын

One punch Ness

@CatzyCatzy

3 ай бұрын

Yet...in Melee he can beat the crap out of any fighter

@invschematics

3 ай бұрын

Duke Nukem in Earthbound

@SurmenianSoldier

3 ай бұрын

​@@invschematics It's time to punch butt and chew nothing

@MrSkysenGames

3 ай бұрын

Just your typical anime school student activity.

I love the mental image of four kids just beating eldritch horrors to death with their bare hands

@legdig

3 ай бұрын

I am become kirby.

@cgecko3

3 ай бұрын

This honestly just sounds like a southpark episode.

@Indigo_Ninja

3 ай бұрын

Hands rated E for everyone

@null-Oh-6666

3 ай бұрын

Bro never heard of Dragon Ball

It's funny you mentioned the 90's gross out humor considering they tried to market Earthbound that way when it was first released. They used taglines like "This game stinks!" and people thought that meant the game was bad and it impacted sales.

@StarmenRock

4 ай бұрын

and with only the first 6 minutes or so of gameplay on the commercials. hope the marketing director or producer of this game got a lot of shit for this later

@thenoxxyboy

4 ай бұрын

Is his name Poo because of that?

@StarmenRock

4 ай бұрын

@@thenoxxyboy still poo in japanese, Pū

@warmpancaxe

4 ай бұрын

​@@thenoxxyboyno but I'm surprised op neglected to mention this article also had scratch and sniff images in the pages of stinky things

@ToLa-qe1pg

3 ай бұрын

The advertising campaign was fine, mainstream audiences weren't ready for Earthbound yet in the US, and this is coming from someone who played it at launch and loved it before it was popular.

“1000 attempts maybe…? But man that’s still pretty bad-“ “10000 attempts…” 😦

How to not have fun in the most entertaining way possible: The Video

WORLDS MOST NORMAL EARTHBOUND FAN in all seriousness this vid had my jaw on the floor the ENTIRE time. you have to have the patience of a saint and the strength of a god to have pulled this off. genuinely the most impressive mother series challenge ive ever seen. 10k resets for giygas literally made me pause the video and spend 5min just sitting in disbelief. MASSIVE kudos to you

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, Giygas is now even scary for me lmao

I love how no one calls it GamFAQs anymore, just "this super old game forum"

@greyscaleadaven

3 ай бұрын

I use that place all the time bc I've played so many overly elaborate old RPGs (FF5, DQ9, etc.), guess it's more familiar to me for that reason lmao. The guides on there are actually really great, well organized for F3 key searching and in-depth. Would recommend for older games in a post-guidebook gaming world where ad infested wikis, long reddit threads, and shoddy journalism are usually now the primary info sources.

@devilord3271

3 ай бұрын

I call it GameFacks

@TheWrathAbove

3 ай бұрын

​@@greyscaleadaven I would also shoutout Strategy Wiki for having tons of great guides for old games. As well as sites like Caves of Narshe, Game Corner Guides, and so many more which don't have a ton of guides, but are invaluable resources for the few games they do focus on.

@AnaverdGaiden

3 ай бұрын

Ironically it's still the best game walkthrough site and place to get questions answered. Tons of people use it every day, too.

@saltyralts

2 ай бұрын

@@greyscaleadaven i've had to use non-gamefaqs gaming forums to find information on rune factory 3 because of how underdeveloped its wiki is i love the internet

Alternative title: Can you beat Earthbound by just throwing hands?

@gunk7014

3 ай бұрын

the itadori run

@jadenwilliams4807

3 ай бұрын

​@@gunk7014 Stand proud, you can SMAAAAAAAASH!!!

@ohmeohmicah

Ай бұрын

@@jadenwilliams4807 "Nah, I'd SMAAAAAAAASH!!!"

This is the third strongest Earthbound run I’ve ever seen!

@JeanKP14

3 ай бұрын

lmao

@digplayz5740

3 ай бұрын

​@@JeanKP14 erik pfp!!!

@hue_solaris

3 ай бұрын

A man of culture!

@trgtheredghost6528

3 ай бұрын

​@@digplayz5740 ran yakumo pfp!!!

@hux0rd

3 ай бұрын

​@@digplayz5740Based Ran Pfp

Man this surfer dude is pretty good at Mother

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Chah brah 🤙🏻

@KmpMusicProd

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer surfs up ma dude 🤙

To this day i am shocked more games don’t do rolling hp counters.

Earthbound if Ness REALLY liked Fist of The North Star instead of baseball

@richarddavis8863

2 ай бұрын

Omae wa mou... ShindePOO

And to think that Nintendo managed to condense all of that grinding into a single Sword of Kings hunt.

man gygas at the end really did just say "go go gadget bitrate destroyer"

It's insane to see someone with so few subs complete such an ambitious challenge. I really hope the algorithm blesses you with this one because this was crazy.

33:03 Paula making it through the Plague Rat of Doom fight with 1 HP is nuts!

10k attempts is just mind-boggling. I would have thrown the towel in at 1,000, but I probably wouldn't have made it so far in the first place. Can't wait to see what else you get up to. Also, Toby Fox actually used that unused song in his old romhack! I honestly thought it was an original song he made for the hack, but TIL.

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, took a bit of time lmao

@poopgaming6970

3 ай бұрын

it reminds me of the duncan factory from Mother 1, maybe it's just a remix of it?

YESSSSS EARTHBOUND CONTENT IN 2024

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

The game’s goated what can I say 🤷🏻‍♂️

@KnownAsKenji

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer I feel that, first played it when I was Ness' age, it's still my favorite game of all time, more playthroughs than anything else, I imagine you like other challenge runners are in a similar boat. From one Earthbound enjoyer to another, I recommend trying Mother 2 Deluxe Edition if you haven't, it's a great refresher of the game and a good challenge.

I love the addition of the death counter, I was laughing out loud not even 3 min into the run

that one unenployed friend on a tuesday:

@null-Oh-6666

3 ай бұрын

If I was unemployed I wouldn't torture myself like this, this is almost a job (or worse)

@richarddavis8863

2 ай бұрын

I'm almost unemployed bc I only work 15 hours a week and I have two Star Pendants and two Holy Frypans. That third pendant will be mine

I couldnt beat the end area even with no restrictions! This is a tough game! TEN THOUSAND ATTEMPTS?! You deserve a hall of fame entry for that!

Daaaaaang dude. That was sick. I had not anticipated the death counter would go up as fast as it did. Major props.

@KnownAsKenji

4 ай бұрын

An aspect of it I wasn't expecting but makes sense, is that the biggest downsides to death in normal Earthbound is losing your PP and your other characters staying fallen. In this run though, you don't use PP, and you have infinite money to revive party members because there's nothing else to spend it on besides a house in Onett, so you may as well just bash your head in until you die every time.

dang thats INASANE and this is crazy underrated

That 10,097 resets literally got you a subscribe. That’s dedication

This is partially because I suck at video games, but I barely got through that last area *with* equipment and items. The fact that you were insane enough to do it without blows my mind, even with the 10000+ attempts.

2:48 I REALLY LOVED THIS MECHANIC. it made the game so unique and tested your reflexes to quickly restore your teammate with PSI/goods before they succumb to the inevitable... i wish more RPGs had this. i see it as like "bleeding out" for fatal blows in this game, its only a matter of time to stop the bleeding. (oh, and also he had the advantage with the fast text to speed up the battle)

Bro this is just a hell play through, massive respect

Challenge aside, major props for managing to make this a rather interesting video. Considering the fights had you doing nothing but bash or guard every turn, you managed to pull a lot out of very little. I imagine it was very difficult.

what 20 years without a new game does to a fanbase

Very impressive! Challenge Runs like this one are always a joy. Nicely edited and good explanation for all the tricks. Keep it up!

This was incredible to watch. Earthbound is one of my favorite things. I was certain that this type of run just had to be impossible. I thought you were done for when I realized that you were 99 before Magicant and thus had to do the endgame missing out on a tremendous stat boost. Congratulations, and thank you for sharing such an amazing accomplishment!

this is genuinely insane. you were very committed and did not cheat or lose hope not even once. thats awesome.

You're now THE Earthbound legend. What an impressive level of dedication and commitment!

The sheer dedication required to pull this off is mind-boggling. You've richly earned this like and subscribe.

I didn’t know about The Beetles or Beach Boys sampling, that’s really cool! Congrats on the run too! My guess was 250 on that final dungeon run so I was absolutely floored by the actual amount. In my playthough, I never ran into that other recolor of Master Barf, just the one you’re meant to run into, so it’s cool to know there’s another one!

@KnownAsKenji

4 ай бұрын

It was one of the reasons people were worried why Earthbound wasn't getting on 'virtual console' back when that started with the Wii. That some copyright issue might show up. Fortunately, it did end up in Nintendo's console stores later on and sold pretty well for what is to many a less impactful SNES title.

"moonside, where yes is no, kanye is bad, and paintings attack you"

Now at the end of the video, didn't know about the beach boys sample. That just lends Even MORE credence to my theory. In like 92 or something there was an album of the Solar System released by NASA. Electromagnetic waves from all planets were recorded by probes sent in the 70's and 80's to all the planets. At earth, those waves were shifted into the audible spectrum to give us some analog of what space sounds like. Those sounds, that album, I'm POSITIVE is the direct inspiration (if not ripped/sampled???) for the "music" of Giygas. I discovered this in like 12 or 13, however in the years since I think NASA has removed any illicit uploads of that album from KZread. This means it's hard to compare... most videos remaining that have the "songs" (sounds) are ones talking scientifically about them. It's really fascinating regardless of whether or not Giygas might actually be the only alien enemy in all of human media to have scientific basis to its musical existence!

@gummywormy98

3 ай бұрын

OOOOH thats an incredibly cool theory!! I’ll have to search around the internet sometime to see if I can find the album bc I’m super curious to hear and compare

I was not prepared for that full health Gygas attempt number. You have the determination of a small child fighting God. Bravo. Hope it was fun.

I found a site that wasn't blocked by the school and played till 4side and the opposite world at yhe end of the year. Great video!

lmao nice. I would never try this cause it'd drive me mad. Especially having beaten this game about 8 times. You sir def earned a sub

10k attempts is an absolutely staggering number. Truly one of the most impressive challenge run vids ever seen. Hope your sanity can recover.

NO PSI NO Equipment YES Ness NO Items NO Savestates

this is the most insane challenge ive ever seen in any rpg. massive ggs

This is a BANGER video. If you keep this up you'll have ten times the subs in no time. Ill do my part in helping you achieve this.

This is a great video. While also an insane challenge, it also covers Earthbound's own *intended* insanity, making this almost, in a way, a walkthrough. Just one that, well, stinks. /ref

very good video. honestly, i was very surprised when i saw that this didn't have more views just because of how ridiculous of a challenge this is. the fact that you had the patience to spend over 10k attempts just trying to get to giygas is actually insane and if it was me, i would've broken in the first 200 and would've just used save states. also, it'd be interesting to maybe see this challenge done in mother 3, although it'd probably be easier to do in that game since only lucas and kumatora use PSI anyways.

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

I might do this one day, unfortunately I haven’t played mother 3 yet so attempting a challenge like this on a new game seams a tad crazy 💀 and yeah, I’m kinda patient lmao

@strange7190

4 ай бұрын

​@@fly_hammer hammer land part 2 when?

Extremely impressive stuff- but I do have one note… you can move around while using teleport alpha. I think the distance is longer when you do but if you are fast enough you can use it even in deep darkness. If you use it right you can move around in the lost underworld super fast, it keeps resetting the timer on the geysers, and it lets you avoid most of the monster too!

As great as this run is... There was one PSI Teleport you could have skipped. Instead of teleporting to Magnet Hill right after getting the phone call from Mr. Spoon and then going back to Summers to head to Scaraba, you can actually wait until you have to go back to the Onett Library to get the Shyness Book. After grabbing the book, you can trek all the way to Fourside and complete Magnet Hill before heading back to Tenda Village. Sorry, but it looks like you need to start over for the perfect run... Unfortunate.

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Welp, guess I'll have to start the grind again lmao. I didn't really think about the routing, I said at the beginning I'd use it because it's not a battle move. But yes, you are correct, which is good that I didn't know as I probably would have made that trek

Banger content, I applaud the dedication and patience it took to record this run (twice! no less) A well earned subscription.

Usually dont sub from one video, but this shows such great effort and a great performance, thanks for this video +1 sub

man this is so cool! what an insane challenge, your dedication is incredible!!

Threed was originally named Threek, but was changed because it could be read as Three-K.

I finally beat Earthbound last Saturday, I honestly can’t believe how great the game was.

this is insaaane your commitment is awe inspiring

This is absolutely jawdropping. Never would have thought a run like this to be possible. Wonder if this inspire others to attempt similar runs

52:43 Thanks, KZread, for muting this segment for no reason, other than flimsy copyright.

You sir, are a madman. Great work!

Why yes, my favourite children’s game where you fight a statue on the moon while tripping ball in the back of a bar

This is very well made! You have definitely inspired me to do some Earthbound challenges!

alternate title : "Ness and Friends punch God to death. Not with their psychic powers, but only with their bare fists.

been on a earthbound kick recently and this is incredible! great work!

Threed is called Threek in the Japanese version (AKA Mother 2) so it's a portmanteau of Three and Eek. Referencing the horror-movie esque atmosphere.

What an amazing run. The sheer amount of determination and patience is insane

Fun fact: Half of the Sanctuaries can be saved for later: The 2nd isn't needed to go to Threed, the 3rd isn't needed to go to Fourside, and you can go to Scaraba without visiting the 5th and 6th. You still need to do all of them to go to Magicant. Of course for this run it was probably better to get the experience from doing them immediately.

Jesus,, I’ve played earthbound like 7 times and when I saw this, I thought you were joking . How the hell did you do this, are you mentally okay?? But in all seriousness this was an AMAZING feat, oh my god. I’m subscribing for sure, that was …, I’m speechless, I don’t have any words for this. Holy shit. I think you’ve won the title of biggest earthbound fan.

"NO PSI" what did I do to you

Ten THOUSAND is a ludicrous amount of attempts for ANYTHING, let alone a full run through a dungeon.

Earthbound Hard Mode, or more like Hell Mode, Amazing run dude!, hope you do one with Mother 3 🐐🔥

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Mother 3 is on my list to do one day but I’ve not played it yet, and doing a challenge like this blind it a tad extreme lmao

@FoxGG411

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer Oh really? You know what, I think you have to enjoy Mother 3 then dude!, as much as you can, let it be a new experience, and then do challenges once you finish it, or do it later buddy, I promise you it's something even better than the og Earthbound experience.

@NeonValkyrieGaming

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer I would 100% recommend doing a M3 challenge but maybe not as extreme as this one something easier like no normal attacks only PSI, skills and items

@Streetcleanergaming

3 ай бұрын

​@NeonValkyrieGaming I'm thinking about that dusters solo castle is gonna be hell but everything else seems OK execpt maybe the absurd missing with flint in the extreme early game

@FoxGG411

3 ай бұрын

@@Streetcleanergaming Fate and Serious are Hell

Legendary masochism tyty

This is pretty cool. I'd like to see more deranged challenge runs.

This was such a fun way to experience this game. I've only made it up to Threed and couldn't figure out what to do next, so seeing what all's passed that town in such an interesting way felt really cool

Man, 10,000 attempts. You're crazy dude so I subscribed for you

10000 attempts. I love Earthbound but that's insanity. I almost want to try this challenge, but I know I wouldn't be able to do it!

very epic challenge run, big respect for tackling something this ridiculous

The title alone is making me dizzy. Stoked to check this out!

Wow 25 Years Later I’m Still Learning Stuff About This Amazing Classic, This Is By Far My Favorite Game Of All Time 😂

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

It was in my top 10, I fear I might have ruined it 😂

I have suggested to my friend as a joke: Cracked Bat%. Just play the entire game with the Cracked Bat as Ness’s weapon. I guess you could make it so nobody else can attack other than Ness.

such a chill voice over for what looks like a really intense challenge. good video though, subscribed.

My friend loves to do the Cave of the Past, it's her favorite. So I got there in a save file, dumped ALL my items (except like one useless thing), and saved the game, then invited her to finish it for me. She was so pissed about having no items. She tried like twice and hasn't touched it since. So I have a certain appreciation for this video 👍

There's a cheat code that makes the game initiate its anti piracy behavior, spawning double the enemies. There should be a round two of this with that code active. Oh, but save states would need to be active. The game will sometimes spawn enemies or clones of Ness that freeze the game.

@grunkleg.3110

3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that still result in Pokey resetting your entire save file at the very end?

If never watched an entire video more worthy of a like and sub. After a run like that i hope life treats you nicely for a while lol

The Beatles took that melody from the French national anthem.

@fly_hammer

3 ай бұрын

The Beatles > France

Man…and I thought Mt. Itoi was the peak of difficulty in this series 🥵 Must’ve been absolutely PK Rockin’ to complete this

This run is also known as "I was too fucking young to know what to do, so I literally attempted this whole thing when I was 9 and failed miserably" Yes, I was a dense child.

Watching this a few months after my first play through ever and I’m realizing two things 1) you have the most patience possibly of any human and it kinda wants to make me be your friend lmao this video rules and was so cool to watch. Excellent job adding little fun facts like the ‘Dierdre’ sample from The Beach Boys, really helps the video feel even more fun 2) I got… insanely wildly lucky. Because I was able to march straight up to the Devil’s Machine and had zero issues beating Giygas the FIRST TRY. EVER. I realize this is crazy because I’m seeing just how much this game relies on probability and statistics to create the magic. You’re a saint for doing that shit FOR LITERAL MONTHS 😂

this video is gonna blow up i can feel it amazing job!! youve got some great production and the dedication is crazy- would you consider doing this type of run with mother 1 or 3? (more realistically mother 3- mother 1 is brutal enough as is)

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

In the future yes, but right now earthbound is the only one in the series I’ve played

thumbnail goes hard

2:05 "heres where the run truly begins" *already 17 deaths in*

Gonna be real, woulda been happy if you counted Poo’s training as a death lol. Great video.

KZread is unreal for copyright claiming 5 seconds of beatles song Anyways great video ! Subbed for more (hopefully)

cool video, you are a madman for doing this lol

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! And yes, I am very patient lmao

Straight impressive my man!

This is just..amazingly well done and edited and Earthbound content is 2024? You have got yourself a like and a new subscriber

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, EarthBound is goated

Dude youve been talking abt this for so long. Glad you finally finished it

@fly_hammer

3 ай бұрын

Took some time lmao

that is an unreal amount of dedication

Get this man one mil subs this is insane

Respect. That was a joy to watch. Amazing run!

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it, thank you so much!

@GamerGidMostlyMobileGaming

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer I play Earthbound every year or two since original release. That was a great run! So much work went into that!

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

@@GamerGidMostlyMobileGaming it’s such a good game right? I’ve played it many times but I’m worried I just ruined it 😂 my next play through is going to feel so easy in comparison

@GamerGidMostlyMobileGaming

4 ай бұрын

@@fly_hammer My question from the run was: Do you think it would have made much difference if you had finished Magicant without being max level to benefit from the powerup?

@fly_hammer

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think so. My main issue with Giygas was Paula dying and not Ness, so the HP boost wouldn’t have helped that issue. It also would have made the carbon/diamond dogs and Ness’s Nightmare slightly more difficult. Plus I would have to do a similar run away strat to avoid xp in the fire spring and magicant, which seamed like more work than it was worth

the road of the masochist earthbound🙂

First time I've actually seen a full playthrough of Earthbound, it was a RPG that I just kind of missed when I was younger despite loving a lot of the other SNES classics and (at least on the relative scale) nicher ones like Seiken Densetsu 3 and Secret of Mana. So from this I will conclude that Earthbound, is clearly a baby easy RPG since you can just basic attack through it. But seriously this was wild, that insanity of getting to Gigas. -Months-. Like, holy shit dude, that is some dedication. Hope to see more from you in the future, and for now will take a look over your backlog!