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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”.
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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.
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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.