31st May 2010, 8:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 31st May 2010, 9:23 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Another thing about Earthbound, it's a game that's not afraid to say "you lack the power, and never will have the raw physical strength, to punch out Cthulu, there will have to be some other way". Actually, Cthulu isn't entirely accurate. That abomination of monstrous star stuff was just a high priest. The game's final boss is basically Azathoth incarnate.
In fact lazy can probably back me up here. Azathoth, if ever awakened, will destroy all of everything to infinite darkness, and can only be put to sleep with a strange song (in it's case, played for all eternity, but then again we can't be sure that the way the Devil Machine works isn't to just play the 8 melodies for all eternity). It's just raw insane nullifying strength, with no real mind, called the "Blind Idiot God", and everything else, including creatures with minds beyond our comprehension, fear it. It's form is also beyond our comprehension, as is the nature of it's existance and whatever means it'll use to destroy the entire universe if awakened, and it exists across all time.
Giygas is all of that, except like Tony Stark it's a self-made ultimate horror.
Heck even Lavos, another eldritch horror from beyond the stars and able to control things outside our space and control the development of all life on the planet (while the whole time fighting the planet, as the planet is alive and equally capable), is nothing on Giygas. However, I'm willing to bet that the hyper-evolved timeless form of Lavos as the Time Devourer would be the one thing capable of taking Giygas on. Time Devourer Lavos, aside from being fused with Schala, is "linked" to infinite copies of itself across infinite realities, and all are in a position to destroy all of existance, meaning just killing the one in your reality isn't enough, because any of the infinite others will start the chain-fusion of them all that will collapse everything forever. That, plus the planet's only way to even slow this down was involving it's own multi-reality gambit involving an alternate reality ruled by Reptites taking on the utopian future made possible in Chrono Trigger and the FATE super computer. In the end, like all eldritch horrors in Japanese games, you win via song.
If they fought, well... Yeah.
Oh, and Mantorok sucks compared to either of them. Oh sure that thing manipulated eons of human history just to kill 3 other elder gods that had originally imprisoned it, but it's still dying and otherwise rather impotent to do any sort of world destroying, and all it's manipulations were rather subtle. Heck even the 3 other elder gods were simply going to imprison everyone on earth in a hellish nightmare based on their... well personality isn't the right word because it compares their minds too closerly to our talky ape minds... their "attributes"? That's about as close as it gets.
Until Silicon Knights FINALLY makes a sequel! Where is it?! WHERE?!
All these horrible void things make me sad... C'mere Niggerman. Wow, that is the most racist name for a pet black cat I've ever heard (the most racist name for anything really). Lovecraft you're racist as hell dude, not cool, not cool.
In fact lazy can probably back me up here. Azathoth, if ever awakened, will destroy all of everything to infinite darkness, and can only be put to sleep with a strange song (in it's case, played for all eternity, but then again we can't be sure that the way the Devil Machine works isn't to just play the 8 melodies for all eternity). It's just raw insane nullifying strength, with no real mind, called the "Blind Idiot God", and everything else, including creatures with minds beyond our comprehension, fear it. It's form is also beyond our comprehension, as is the nature of it's existance and whatever means it'll use to destroy the entire universe if awakened, and it exists across all time.
Giygas is all of that, except like Tony Stark it's a self-made ultimate horror.
Heck even Lavos, another eldritch horror from beyond the stars and able to control things outside our space and control the development of all life on the planet (while the whole time fighting the planet, as the planet is alive and equally capable), is nothing on Giygas. However, I'm willing to bet that the hyper-evolved timeless form of Lavos as the Time Devourer would be the one thing capable of taking Giygas on. Time Devourer Lavos, aside from being fused with Schala, is "linked" to infinite copies of itself across infinite realities, and all are in a position to destroy all of existance, meaning just killing the one in your reality isn't enough, because any of the infinite others will start the chain-fusion of them all that will collapse everything forever. That, plus the planet's only way to even slow this down was involving it's own multi-reality gambit involving an alternate reality ruled by Reptites taking on the utopian future made possible in Chrono Trigger and the FATE super computer. In the end, like all eldritch horrors in Japanese games, you win via song.
If they fought, well... Yeah.
Oh, and Mantorok sucks compared to either of them. Oh sure that thing manipulated eons of human history just to kill 3 other elder gods that had originally imprisoned it, but it's still dying and otherwise rather impotent to do any sort of world destroying, and all it's manipulations were rather subtle. Heck even the 3 other elder gods were simply going to imprison everyone on earth in a hellish nightmare based on their... well personality isn't the right word because it compares their minds too closerly to our talky ape minds... their "attributes"? That's about as close as it gets.
Until Silicon Knights FINALLY makes a sequel! Where is it?! WHERE?!
All these horrible void things make me sad... C'mere Niggerman. Wow, that is the most racist name for a pet black cat I've ever heard (the most racist name for anything really). Lovecraft you're racist as hell dude, not cool, not cool.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)