Earthbound homesick

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Homesickness is a status ailment appearing only in EarthBound. Ness , the only playable character who can be affected by it, will become homesick at a random chance after winning a battle. Instant winning does not trigger homesickness. Homesickness will cause Ness to have a chance of missing turns while in combat; instead he will spend turns reminiscing about home, whether about his mother or craving whatever the player had set as his favorite food. The primary way of curing homesickness is either by a Telephone call to Ness' mother or by talking to Ness' mother in person. Besides that, the only other ways to get over homesickness are to visit Dr.

Earthbound homesick

Log In Sign Up. What do you need help on? Cancel X. Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. Boards EarthBound What is Homesickness in this game? Magikoopa 16 years ago 1. I keep hearing about a status effect called "Homesickness", but I have never seen it. Right now, I'm in the Department Store in Fourside. Was I supposed to see Homesickness? What does it do? Slayerkinglord 16 years ago 2. Homesickness is a random status ailment that sometimes prevents Ness and only Ness from attacking. Only Ness can get it, and it gets worse as time goes on.

You just get to have an interesting conversation. A craving for whatever my food was earthbound homesick the time. I think everytime he gets homsick is the worst time.

So, the last time I played through EB I was getting pretty deep in the game I am sure it was the Desert Gold Mine and I had killed 4 of the 5 Guardian Diggers and was pretty beat up by that point and low on items. Pretty carely on my part, sure :p. Then as soon as I got in the final battle with the last mole I got homesick and just got rocked so bad by him. I can't remember all of the other times it's happened but that one stuck out as being the most inconvenient at the time! Who else here has neglected to call your Mom and ended up paying for it?

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Earthbound homesick

I finally got around to playing Earthbound. Known as Mother 2 in Japan, for years this was the only entry in the series that made it to North America. Ness is just an ordinary kid, living in the town of Onett in the country Eagleland. One night, a meteorite lands nearby, waking him.

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I don't think calling your mom will prevent homesickness. I don't know if it is based off of your stats or not, though. Sign In Register. I didn't know what to do about it either so I just kept on going and going awhile longer. EarthBound Beginnings. Especially in Peaceful Rest Valley, where it seems it always starts happening if you haven't called your mom yet since the beginning. Here's the detailed explanation of the formula:. Binta 5 years ago 6. How do you get jeff to repair "broken" items? Didn't you also get homesick in the Giygas fight once, SB? See Also [ ] Asthma.

Status Ailments are used to hinder both player and enemy on the battle field, some even being problematic to the player while navigating on the world map.

Now I am gonna worry next time I am playing cause I get in a lot of battles looking for the rare items. Tech Support. It's entirely possible to get homesick, call home, and get homesick again after your very next battle. I actually rarely get homesick What do you need help on? PsychicKid is right; calling mom doesn't buffer or alter homesickness in any way. Unless I'm wrong looking at a chick will also cure it just like normal, making calling home technically unnecessary at any point though somewhat inconvenient since chicks are an expirable item. SimonBob wrote on Thu, 17 April Ness isn't everything! With though, while I could still see it fitting with the same theme, since he'd be even more well-travelled at that point, I could also see it simply being reduced completely for balance reasons. It's a red herring, mostly perpetuated by zeth's faq. Back to top All rights reserved by Starmen. Binta 5 years ago 6 Ajogamer posted I don't think calling your mom will prevent homesickness.