{"id":124817,"date":"2022-05-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131390"},"modified":"2022-05-14T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:00:00","slug":"feature-backlog-club-week-two-may-getting-snestalgic-with-earthbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/14\/feature-backlog-club-week-two-may-getting-snestalgic-with-earthbound\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Backlog Club: Week Two, May – Getting SNEStalgic With Earthbound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article is part of our new experimental series, Backlog Club<\/a>, where we (Nintendo Life!) pick a game that’s likely to be on our list of “games we should get around to playing”, and then we (NL + you!) spend the next month playing that game. This is the halfway point, the Part One of two, where we stop for a minute to check in with the game, and how much we’re enjoying it.<\/em><\/p>\n

For May 2022 (how is it May already, etc.) we’re playing seminal JRPG SNES game, Earthbound<\/a>, and discovering memories from a childhood we never had…
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My bedroom smells like burned rubber. It’s not because I’ve been hosting raunchy Formula 1 parties, or because my furniture is made of old tyres \u2014 it’s because I’ve been reading the rather lush Fangamer handbook for Earthbound<\/a>, which comes with its own scratch-and-sniff card, a replica of the one that came with the original game. And let me tell you: It is pungent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The fact that I have spent my very own hard-earned journalism money on a book about the game I’m playing should tell you a lot about how much I’m enjoying Earthbound. It is only very rarely that I like a game enough to willingly<\/em> do homework about it, and while it helps that Fangamer’s handbook is a gorgeous little thing, framed as a tourist guide, it’s all thanks to Earthbound’s incredibly well-aged self that I’m having this much of a blast with a nearly 30-year-old game. After all, most things start going downhill around 25, don’t they…? (sob)<\/em><\/p>\n