Reception
Since appearing in EarthBound, Giygas has received largely positive reception. 1UP.com staff listed the battle with Giygas as one of the 25 best boss battles, describing it as an "insane end to an insane game". They cited the pixelated imagery and screeching noises that came from Giygas, as well as the final portion of the battle, which requires the player's characters to pray for aide from their friends and family to defeat Giygas, including the player, effectively breaking the fourth wall of the game. GamesRadar listed Giygas as one of the most iconic boss encounters in Nintendo history, stating that the defining moment came from the second phase, where Giygas becomes "swirling, undulating background", as well as citing the method of defeating Giygas as another defining moment. 1UP.com editor Jeremy Parish used the final battle against Giygas as an example of how EarthBound inverts gamers' expectations, due to the fact that the player characters employ prayer as opposed to their strongest attacks. UGO Networks editor Chris Littler listed Giygas as one of the hardest boss battles. GameSpot featured him in a user-voted poll of the greatest villains in video games. However, he lost to Darth Malak from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, with 13,867 votes in his favour compared to 55,764 for Malak. GameSpot describes Giygas as "everything sinister that ever was, is, or will be all rolled up into a single, screaming, disturbing red blob." In discussing the possibilities of EarthBound being on the Wii's Virtual Console service, IGN editor Lucas M. Thomas makes reference to the battle with Giygas, stating that fans of the series will be "hoping, wishing, praying in front of Giygas nine times over that Nintendo will be listening, and that the series will be acknowledged once again." Destructoid editor Jonathan Holmes described Giygas as "one of the most abstract, unhappy, all powerful villains to ever appear in a Nintendo game." Screwattack recently labeled Giygas as the "Scariest Retro Enemy" of all time, thanks in part to massive suggestions from the viewerbase.
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