EarthBound: Who Is Giygas?
EarthBound has certainly reached cult-classic levels of appreciation in the past few decades, and it's not difficult to see why. The game takes a wacky approach to RPGs and has a certain brand of humor and style that hasn't been replicated since, though you can feel its inspiration in plenty of newer games.
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Something that remains largely unknown to the fanbase is that the game's central villain, Giygas (also known as Giegue), has his roots in the first game of the series, EarthBound Beginnings (also known as Mother). In this game, you learn of the alien's origin and his extremely woeful tale.
The story of Giygas begins with two humans, Maria and George. They are a married couple living in the town of Podunk that gets abducted by an alien race. This all happened many years before the events of EarthBound Beginnings.
While living with the aliens, George studied them and their strange powers, known as PSI, short for Psionics. It is unknown whether PSI was created or learned only by the race of aliens who abducted the married couple, but it is thanks to George that PSI came to Earth.
With the powers of PSI, Maria and George were able to return to Earth. Along with them came an infant alien, Giygas, that they had grown fond of while in captivity. They raised the alien as their son, and Giygas became especially close to Maria, who became his surrogate mother. It is also implied that George's return to Earth makes PSI a widespread phenomenon across the globe — this evokes the story of Prometheus, the Greek hero who stole the knowledge of fire from the gods.
When he came of age, Giygas was given a task by his people. They felt that George learning about the
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