Like Earthbound, you play as a seemingly normal kid named Ninten with psychic powers who goes on a strange adventure. The 1989 JRPG was localized and released on Wii U in 2015.

In Japan, it's known as Mother 2, although it's the first of the series that made its way stateside.Įarthbound Beginnings is the original Mother title that didn't see release outside of Japan for 16 years. Along his travels across the globe, he meets plenty of strange characters and forms a party with three other very capable children.

Likewise, Earthbound Beginnings will become a new part of the Switch's NES collection.įor those unfamiliar with Earthbound, it's a 1994 JRPG that follows a small-town boy named Ness who is tasked by a time-traveling bee to save the world from an alien invasion. Nintendo announced the SNES classic Earthbound is finally making its way to Switch, and its NES prequel dubbed Earthbound Beginnings will be joining it.Įarthbound will be available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online SNES collection, being added to the service for no additional cost. It's rare that we get big Nintendo Directs like the 40-minute presentation today, and it's even rarer that we get any Earthbound news.

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