File:NF Magazine Iwata Tribute Cover - Part 4 Earthbound

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This is a series of videos in which we show the process of painting the cover design for an Iwata Tribute issue of Nintendo Force Magazine. Featuring Omni Jacala & Nathanael Platier.

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--- Chris Szczesiul -- Twitter ▸ http://twitter.com/ChrisSzczesiul -- Deviantart ▸ http://zesiul.deviantart.com -- Tumblr ▸ http://chrisszczesiul.tumblr.com

--- Nathanael Platier -- Youtube ▸ http://youtube.com/nathanaelplatier1/ -- Twitter ▸ http://twitter.com/Thanael_Platier -- Tumblr ▸ http://nathanael-platier.tumblr.com

--- Omni Jacala -- Twitter ▸ http://twitter.com/artsyomni -- Facebook ▸ http://facebook.com/artsyomni -- Deviantart ▸ http://hextupleyoodot.deviantart.com

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1miPlyhfe4

This is the fourth in a series of six videos. The first five show us painting different segments of the cover, and the sixth and final video will be a long video featuring all of the segments together, with artist commentary. Each segment of the cover art represents a different Nintendo game or franchise which Mr. Iwata impacted in a critical way.

In this video, it's EarthBound! The EarthBound fandom needs no introduction at this point. They're the most dedicated, most diehard disciples of a single game series on the planet – rallying together in communities like Starmen.net, spinning off to launch awesome game merch stores like Fangamer, pooling their talents to do a complete fan translation of Mother 3 and much, much more. EarthBound fans are seriously the best and brightest.

But they may not have existed at all without Mr. Iwata! EarthBound (a.k.a. Mother 2) had an incredibly turbulent development, as its code was, at one point, a wholly unusable mess. But Iwata swooped in and save the project with his spectacular programming skill, essentially redoing all of the behind-the-scenes code from scratch and ensuring that the game would be able to be released! Without his intervention, the game may not have seen the light of day – EarthBound would never have been EarthBound, as the series would have gone down in history with just the one-in-done original Mother on Famicom in Japan.

So if you're an EarthBound fan, join us in saying "Thank You, Mr. Iwata!"