6/11/2023 0 Comments Giygas ness eyeball![]() ![]() Some of my interpretation is based on head canon but I'd definitely say it's a combination of both. Porky was far more vile and evil than Giygas ever was. He lost his rationality and operated only on sorrow, fear, and rage. Even so, I don't even think that he himself was "evil" at that point so much as he had become nothing but a mass of emotions that can be attributed to evil. His madness only continued to fuel his PSI until his mind destroyed his physical body, and he became the nightmarish entity seen at the end of Earthbound/Mother 2: the "embodiment of evil". Even just hearing his mother's lullaby brought up intense feelings of grief, enough to drive him to retreat. He still loved his family dearly, even amidst hate consuming his mind-he did offer Ninten, technically his relative, asylum from his planned destruction of humanity. He had hatred for humanity due to his hurt, but I don't think that he held any inherent contempt for other living things anything inhuman that got hurt as collateral damage was only another source of regret for Giygas. However, I don't think he did this because he wanted to, but because he had begun to go insane and lose control over his own immense power. Eventually, they grew so much that they began to influence things outside of himself, bringing inanimate objects to life and turning people and animals violent. His immense latent PSI capabilities only reacted to and fueled his own hatred. I think that he began as something innocent, but he got hurt, and that hurt turned into rage. he's wonderfully complex once you have all of the context about him. Does This Remind You of Anything? Cue Scare Chord. Eerie red static flashes on the screen, with an quiet, high-pitched noise, and as the flashing slows down, we see a scene of UFOs shooting lightning at a city. Wait through the logos for Nintendo, Ape (now Creatures), and Halken.The Japanese version is even scarier where in English the spirit informs you that he will "take your sight," in Japanese he says he will "crush your eyeballs." See here for the comparison between the Japanese and English versions. ![]() The final step reminds the player that all they have remaining to them is their mind-which they are then asked to give up as well. Worst of all, before each step, it asks for confirmation. It then proceeds to (all in text, mind you) break your legs, tear off your arms, cut off your ears, poke out your eyes, and tear out your tongue. The training initiates a battle, where an outline of a stylized Chinese-ancestor head appears. You're controlling an unfamiliar character who is told to go attend to a training session. Read the explanation Pokey gave as you fighting Giygas in the past, his future evil has become so powerful that it retroactively made his past self more powerful.Still this doesnt make him less terrifying. Actually you DO fight the Giygas from the present, who fled into the past.Imagine what he would have been like in the present. There's also the fact that you're fighting Giygas in the past, when he was weaker.NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS.However, it is still terrifying, especially since Earthbound is cartoonish normally. There is a clear tonal center unlike in true atonality. The music for that battle is not truly atonal.The fact that most of the rest of the game is so childlike and cartoonish only makes this more terrifying. Then when you finally defeat Giygas, the visual and audio distortions get worse and louder until they peak, then instantly blip out like a TV set turned off. The creepy, atonal, jarring background music and the dialogue inspired by the creator's trauma of seeing a glimpse of a murder scene, which he thought was a rape scene, in a movie as a young child only adds to this. You spend the entire game fighting cartoonish monsters with baseball bats and frying pans, and end up battling a Cosmic Horror with a terrifying, amorphous visage that looks like a screaming face, a demonic ghost, and a fetus. The final battle against Giygas in EarthBound.
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