The boy that calls himself Ninten has always kept people at arm's length. Raised in a house full of people who never quite reached him, he's learned to deflect with sarcasm and get by alone. But when strange phenomena begin spreading across America, he finds himself following the trail of his great-grandfather George's secret diary, and finds himself building something he's never had before. All That I Needed is an interpretive adaptation of EarthBound Beginnings / MOTHER, reimagining the classic NES RPG as a grounded character study about abandonment, found family, and the wounds we inherit.