Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-4383275-20160805170406

Tabbender wrote:

SOUL-based fights are gameplay mechanics tho, canonly Frisk dodge everything with his body and the knife was real. And unless the reverse is stated, the physics are the same as our world.

What's your source for this "canon" information? And the reverse is absolutely stated, as Undertale and EarthBound are both fantasy realms that defy the laws of physics and nature, from the monsters to Determination to magic and PSI.

Tabbender wrote:

There's a reason why Toby told people to stop making connexions between Undertale and his Earthbound rom hack.

He did no such thing. Look at the wording again. You may be assuming the existence of conversational implications that aren't there. Tabbender wrote: As far as i know Mother characters can't save / load or cheat death like Frisk does with determination.

Continuing from a Game Over screen in EarthBound yields this quote: "Ness decided to return after summoning all the courage and energy he had." Without courage, Ness could not return from the brink of death. Tabbender wrote:

The human / monster souls aren't a thing either, actually, as i said there is no monsters in Mother except for the ones Giygas created, and they were far from being pacifist or weaker than humans. They didn't use magic attack either, outside of PSI of course. True, but they may have appeared between 199X and 201X. This makes sense, in fact, since 201X is the earliest specific date in Undertale's history, with everything before it simply being labeled as "long ago." And EarthBound does contain magic items that are distinct from PSI, such as the Magic Frying Pan, Magic Tart, and Magic Truffle.