Your opinion on this game?

Good game that gets by entirely on its humour, world and music

JRPGs in general all seem to pivot themselves on the Wizardry formula, which they know can be addictive and successful, with their own unique salad dressing. This is the aesthetic, story, characters etc.

As far as JRPGs go, this is one of very few where the salad dressing has real wit and creativity.

Canon homo

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This, also bonus points for music

It's funny because even on his sprite he looks like he's about to suck a dick

I like the style, it's pretty cool and kind of timeless. Don't know why people go ape (heh) shit over it though.

Nowhere near deserving of the love it gets. If you totally ignore all the hubbub around it, it's a pretty generic RPG.
It's extremely linear, the graphics are pretty bad, the music isn't that great, and the humor is mostly just potty humor.
It gets outdone by almost every SNES RPG. Even its main selling the point, the quirky and original setting, is done better by games like Mario RPG, Robotrek, Live A Live.
It's not a bad game, but it's not the masterpiece people make it out to be either. It's babby's first niche game.

How'd it go from no one caring about it and its contemporary Western reviewers critically panning it to today being commonly called one of the best Super NES games around? Was it underrated in the 1990s or overrated today or both?

Smash. No really.

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Prententious crap

This, I never knew about the existence of the Mother series until I play smash

Playing it right now it's pretty good dawg
The sound effects are great, swirly backgrounds during fighters are pretty

>the humor is mostly just potty humor
that's not true at all

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It's pretty cozy

good game for modding material, like SMW

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>Was it underrated in the 1990s or overrated today or both?
I think it was just underrated at first. It was more expensive because it came with a strategy guide and the marketing for it was bad.

>The game's atypical marketing campaign was derived from the game's unusual humor. As part of Nintendo's larger "Play It Loud" campaign, EarthBound's "this game stinks" campaign included foul-smelling scratch and sniff advertisements. At the time, Digital Trends described the campaign as "bizarre" and "based around fart jokes". GamePro reported that they received more reader complaints about the game's scratch and sniff ad than about any other 1995 advertisement.

I still think it's a great game though. I usually don't like turn-based games but the first hit system and scrolling HP meter keeps it fun. I don't really have any complaints about it other than maybe that brute force is usually the best option, and trying to use items other than damaging ones or assist PSI isn't the best choice most of the time.

Mostly because a lot of people didn't actually play it when it first released. Now with emulators and rereleases, people can actually experience it for themselves.

Better than Chrono Trigger.

it didn't sell well at first but it became smashbabbies first rpg when they got ahold of it, now the game is heavily demanded by collectors for how infamous it is and people pretend its "rare"

Yeah I can confirm this. I didn't play any RPGs on my physical SNES. It was only during the next console gen that I got into the genre, but by then emulation was available.

I liked it better when it was called Dragon Quest.

Battle screen was extremely lazy. It should have been a proper view then my younger self would have been intrigued.

Instead, I passed on it because it reminded me of a gameboy-level quality game.

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It's funny because Earthbound has far more diverse and interesting spritework than FFVI.

I liked the battle backgrounds. Not sure how you'd do the Giygas fight with that either.