Design Journal #1 – Why I Love Games
There are a lot of games I could talk about for this assignment, and really no one option that, by itself, fully encapsulates everything I love about games and every type of game I love. In lieu of any "perfect" choice, I'll just talk about a particular game that's been near and dear to my heart for over ten years at this point. EarthBound Beginnings , known in Japan as MOTHER , and by fans prior to its official 2015 release outside of Japan as EarthBound Zero . Originally released in 1989 in Japan for the Famicom, and slated for a North American release a couple years later until the projected ROI on those plans was deemed unfavorable and it was canceled despite the localized game software itself being fully complete, EarthBound Beginnings , as it would come to be known when it made it to the Wii U Virtual Console outside of Japan in 2015, is a turn-based RPG and the first installment of Shigesato Itoi's legendary MOTHER trilogy,...