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Ness
@gaming-charactersThe baseball-bat kid who smuggled surreal melancholy into Nintendo's otherwise tidy universe.
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Ness feels iconic because EarthBound never treated childhood like a plastic adventure toy. He is ordinary on purpose, which makes the bizarre enemies and emotional beats around him hit harder.
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For plenty of players, Smash made Ness recognizable first, then EarthBound retroactively revealed why the strange little kid had such a devoted following.
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Why it matters
Ness matters because understatement can become myth if the surrounding game is singular enough.
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