'How is this even possible?' Tomodachi Life Player Recreates An Iconic SNES RPG — Gaming

"Local survey shows most popular career among kids in Onett is adventurer."

Characters pose by a fountain in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream provides players with a ton of tools to create wild and imaginative worlds that are uniquely their own. Whether it's Bethesda Game Studios head and supple leather jacket enthusiast Todd Howard stealing your girlfriend, or my own half-assed recreation of the coked-out cast of Vanderpump Rules, every island offers a fun and fascinating glimpse inside the mind of the person who created it.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have players who commit wholeheartedly to a single-minded vision and devote considerable time and care to getting every detail just right. These folks are playing Living the Dream on a whole other level. Redditor u/sokas98 is one of those people. They recently shared their recreation of Earthbound's Onett in the r/earthbound subreddit. That's the bucolic small town where Ness begins his journey in the 1995 Super Nintendo classic. I don't know how you'd even begin to create something like this, but it's cool as hell.

Sokas98's island does an incredible job of translating Earthbound's 2D pixel art into a 3D space, retaining the game's distinctive 16-bit aesthetic while also giving the island a pop-up book feel. From the vivid red delivery trucks to the seedy arcade where Frank lurks, waiting to clobber Ness with his skateboard, the attention to detail here is immaculate. We even get a cameo from Ness's loyal pup King, and Professor Adonut's Sky Runner can be seen in the trees behind Ness's house.

"How is this even possible?" asked one commenter. "Lots of [patience] and powering through haha, but it’s worth it, having a blast making this," Sokas98 replied. Elsewhere in the thread, they note that there's "still a lot I wanna do" and that they plan to post future updates on the project to the Earthbound subreddit. I'd love to see all the blue-robed cultists from Happy Happy Village rendered in full Living the Dream glory.

Earthbound is one of those classic games that truly never needs a remake, but if Nintendo were to insist upon it for some reason, they should get this person involved with art direction.