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Hey guys! Today I want to share one of the scariest and most interesting gaming creepypastas that I've ever seen. It's called "Buzzbound" and is an Earthbound creepypasta project done by Lumpy Touch and BigSharkZ on Youtube.
In the OG Earthbound was a relatively minor character. His goal was to travel from the ruined future controlled by Giygas to the past to see Ness. Buzz Buzz warns Ness about Giygas' plans to control the world, and sends him on his quest to find the 8 "Your Sanctuary" locations. However, Buzzbound centers around Buzz himself, who travels a few weeks too late to save Ness, and is stranded in an alternate time where Giygas already took over the world and got to Ness first.
I've never played Earthbound before, but watching Buzzbound makes me want to! The atmosphere in Buzzbound is so dreadful and depressing. The sprites for the enemies are well made, and the enemy designs themselves, especially for Ness' mom and Tracy, are terrifying. The music is really interesting in that the lo-fi remixes of the OG game tracks are creepy, but catchy and fun to listen to. Ness really makes for a horrifying, yet tragic villain here. Yes, he's been corrupted by Giygas and wants to destroy all of humanity, but he's still just a little kid. He still lives at home with his mom and sister in a bright, happy illusion that hides the new sick, sad world. Perhaps even in this world, a piece of his old self still lives.
If you like the whole Buzzbound concept and want to see more of it, then you can also check out the prequel made by BigsharkZ called "Buzzbound: Shadow of Giygas"!
This version of Buzzbound takes everything creepy and tragic and amplifies them by a thousand! It's so much more disturbing with not only the enemy designs, but also the implications of what has happened to these characters. Pokey, who was a major villain in the OG Earthbound, is a sad former shell of himself here as a neglected shadow. Some sort of horrible cult formed around Paula or something turned her to mush, and she still calls out to Ness, who is completely corrupted by Giygas' influence. What Ness does to Buzz Buzz is absolutely brutal too. A fate worse than death for sure.
Like the previous video, the art is very well made and freaky, but this video definitely could have gone without the cheap AI images of the Ness figure and that honestly kinda lame jumpscare. Other than that, it's very good, just like the OG one.
I just wanna finish off on a light note by sharing this beautiful fan animation by DMG. The DBZ rotoscope animation depicting Buzz Buzz as a saiyan is hilarious and incredibly well made.