So here I am, all set to take on the Universal Cosmic Destroyer. AJ got ten levels ahead during Magicant. Corey's equipped with all the best equipment I have, including the Sea Pendant and the Franklin Badge.
Pokey arrives to taunt me for a bit. I'm at max HP, max PP, and max Super Plush Bear capacity; my years of experience have taught me how to avoid large fights, and there's no single enemy you can't run from if you're equipped with the Rabbit's Foot and all the royal equipment (note Lucas and Mark's enhanced Speed bonuses.)
The first SPB casualty. This wouldn't have happened if I'd gotten Paralysis to work on Pokey. Incidentally, Giygas is fast in this form! He got the first attack every round.
Lucas works Pokey over with a Multibottle Rocket. I didn't catch a screenshot earlier, when he got over 1,400 damage, but I think this gets my point across.
I will never get tired of seeing Giygas's lightning being reflected onto him.
Lucas was fatally wounded right before he got this Heavy Bazooka shot away, which kicked Giygas into form three. He actually survived the hit.
Mark saves himself from certain doom. Just as well, he needs a PP boost anyway.
I'll also never get tired of seeing Giygas tied down by Freeze-induced solidification. Shouldn't the trippy background stop swirling around when that happens?
Brainshock! It didn't work that great tho, Giygas shook it off like a tick off a wet puppy.
Brought that all the way from Twoson, I did. It's better than a Brain Food Lunch for Lucas, since he has no PP.
Just adding to my collection of "stuff happens to Giygas" shots. Seriously, though: Mr. Saturn, Dr. Andonuts, Apple Kid, and Gerardo Montague can build a Phase Distorter capable of going to any point in spacetime (well, not so much Gerardo maybe) but they can't do more than shake down Giygas's defences when they pray? Stupid scientists! That'll teach you to be atheists!
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.
Wait, false alarm, he's okay! But now Lucas and Mark are down. This is what happens when Giygas gets smart and targets people more carefully with his attacks. Luckily, he never got that smart again.
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE PART II.
And another bear takes it on the chin.
Thanks a bunch, R----------!
Joe, it's Rex Manning Day!
That's a lot of damage. Also, everyone is alive, which was my goal for this battle. Just goes to show that if you're prepared, you can beat EarthBound even with the crappiest characters ever.
A surviving Bear, and some postcards.
The For Sale Sign is probably my favourite item in the whole game. It's just a darn shame the words go dull after you take it to the past and back. Wait, how do everyone's items get back from the past, anyway? Shouldn't our inventories all be empty? That is highly bizarre.
I just took this one because I like horseshoes. I'm actually very good at it. We should play sometime.
Hey wait you forgot your bear! Oh well. I think Ness should punch his fist into the air here, like in The Breakfast Club.
So long, Bear! I need backpack space for cool stuffs. It doesn't even bother me that I took that Bear through hell and now I'm just tossing it like the two of clubs.
Enough of your chit-chat and friendly jabs! I want my Bicycle, post-haste!
I wish more things worked this way in real life. "You have a straight-forward style. Welcome to medical school."
I knew it! The Tenda tribe actually split up over the gay marriage issue!</topical>
Riding my bike in the swamp. Chug, chug.
A forgotten gift box in the desert. It had a Skip Sandwich DX in it. I was actually looking for missed photoman points.
Like this one. It's weird seeing these photos in the credits with your whole party in them, and then out of nowhere there's this one shot of Ness all alone.
Oh, I get it, the sequel to EarthBound is actually Terranigma.
Another missed photo man, and a great line from an actual story Itoi wrote.
AJ the player. My librarian never kisses me, which is a shame, because she's not actually a stereotypical 80-year-old woman who's been working the library for three-quarters of her life.
Hey, sure, I totally believe that anyone who saves the world goes on to live in a Unabomber shack on the edge of town and digs for buried treasure. "Modest" isn't the word for it, though.
Phone calls. The first one's from the tough businessman in Deep Darkness, who I let pay for a doctor visit for me. That's how medicare works: your parents pay for it. The other two are just amusing.
Rex Manning does it again.
My dad calls me up in the middle of the night to make sure I'm not working too hard, too.
OBLIGATORY ENDING PIC. Feel free to hurl witticisms or obscenities of your choice. I'm going to bed.
Dear Mr. Itoi,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice an entire month to stop Giygas from doing whatever he was going to do wrong. But we think you're crazy for asking us to write you an essay telling you what classes we think we are. You class us as you want to class us, in the standardized terms, with the most convenient player's guide. But what we found out is that each one of us is a healer, a fighter, a mage, and a thief. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours,
The Chosen Four
Don't you... forget about me!