EarthBound is a turn-based role-playing game for the Super Nintendo and serves as the sequel to the Japan-only title EarthBound Beginnings. Players follow Ness, a young boy in a fictional version of the USA, as he embarks on an adventure through bizarre locales. Along the way, he encounters eccentric characters and confronts the alien menace Giygas, all while navigating the challenges of adolescence.
A turn-based JRPG and sequel to then-Japan-only Earthbound Beginnings (1989) in which Ness, a young boy living in a land based on the USA, leaves home to go on an adventure through strange locations, get to know quirky characters and defeat an unknowable alien threat called Giygas while facing up to the realities of growing up and becoming familiar with the real world.