It completely catches you off guard, and it gets your heart racing.Īll of a sudden, you're not paying as close attention to the attacks you're making, and you're not keeping everyone's PSI shields and health up. But after a few rounds, things suddenly kick into high-gear, and you get an earful of MIDI death metal, and then it lunges into a bass-driven refrain after a key moment of silence. The music in the final battle with Giygas starts off unassumingly with a surprisingly retro tune even for it's 16-bit generation. And after he calls your mute analog a wimp to his face, you get your chance. Because then the atonal organ notes kick in, and that fat fucking bastard Pokey, whom you've chased across time and space just to have a chance to pop him in the mouth, comes floating down in a giant goddamn spider mech. When you come upon Giygas, and you see your face reflected in his quivering mass for the first time…then it gets worse. You've summoned your courage, and you feel like you're prepared.
This place wants to kill you.īy the time you reach the end of the path, you think you're ready. And it wants to suck you in and smother you. Giygas is a pulsing, squirming mess of what looks like entrails. The first time I did, I almost pissed my pants. And if you manage to make it through all that, you enter Giygas' lair. The difficulty level of the game spikes to an almost absurd level at this point. You start off in this game fighting puppies. Not to mention the enemies in this area are the hardest in the game: self-destructing robots, Ultimate Starmen, and fearsome octopi with lasers. It's only synth music played through a long delay filter, but it's used to alarming effect. And in that moment, I was suddenly really, really scared.įor those of you who've played EarthBound, you know that the music in the area leading up to the final confrontation with Giygas is equally terrifying. We'd sacrificed our physical forms so that we might travel back in time to defeat Giygas, and it was then that I realized how far I'd come and how much this battle really meant. It wasn't until I saw all of the characters in my party laid out one by one on a black background, shaking as some unshown instrument ripped our very souls from our bodies. I think as a kid, I hadn't really noticed the tone of the game becoming ever darker.
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