Giygas' story begins in the early 1900's when a couple disappeared from their home in rural America. These people were George and Maria. Now, George and Maria didn't just completely disappear out of the blue, they were abducted by aliens. These aliens took George and Maria back to their planet and gave them an alien infant, Giygas, to raise. Why did they abduct them to raise Giygas? I don't know. Perhaps humans are the best caretakers. I also wonder if Giygas was an important alien, perhaps heir to the throne or something of that sort... Well ignoring a couple gaping holes in that plot summary, let's continue.
These aliens had special psychic abilities, or PSI, and George began to study this power. Of course the aliens didn't know what he was doing and he didn't have their permission so if they found out, he would be in big trouble. Well, George somehow manages to escape back to Earth, leaving his wife and baby Giygas back on the planet. Somehow the aliens found out what George had been doing, and they were mad. They didn't want humans to discover this immense power, who knows what would happen.
Giygas was raised by Maria, and once he was fully grown, the other aliens gave him a very important task: to destroy the Earth so that they never discover the psychic power. Of course, Earth is where Maria is from, and Giygas, being raised by Maria, has human emotions. How could he destroy his beloved mother's home planet? She would never forgive him for that.
Before Giygas left on his important mission (of which Maria knew nothing about) he somehow managed to take a song that Maria used to sing to him when he was a child, and break it into eight pieces which then were scattered about the Earth. Why did he do this? Well, he did have human emotions and we can guess that because of this, that song held some memories for him, memories which he could no longer bear, seeing as he was about to betray Maria, the only person he cared about.
Somewhere around this time, he comes upon a strange object called the Apple of Enlightenment. What is the Apple of Enlightenment? No one really knows for sure, but we do know that it predicts the future. The Apple of Enlightenment tells him that sometime in the future he will be defeated by a boy named Ness. Giygas now knows he must destroy the Earth quickly, before he is defeated.
On Earth, 80 years have passed. George is long gone, but he has a grandson named Ninten. When Giygas begins to send out his alien army to attack Earth, Ninten stumbles upon a journal that George wrote about the alien's pschic powers. He then sets out to try to put a stop to Giygas.
Here's where I get kind of confused because some of the Human characters already have psychic powers. Presumably, these are not the same as the alien's psychic powers, but they may be. I'm guessing that only the humans who already posess psychic powers would be able to harness the alien psychic power, but I may be wrong.
Well, somewhere along the line, Giygas kidnaps some humans, probably doing experiments on them. He doesn't really do much rather than sit in his base on Earth and command his armies. As all this is going down, he has no idea that Ninten and his friend are tracking down all eight pieces of the melody for somebody named Queen Mary who lives in a strange world called Magicant (may or may not go over this later, basically Queen Mary is Maria's spirit.) Well, Ninten and his buds finally reach where Giygas is, and temporarily defeat him by singing the eight melodies to him. I say temporarily because he isn't really defeated, he just couldn't attack because he was overwhelmed with memories of Maria.
After this all seems safe once more. Giygas seems to be defeated and the world is at peace once more... until about 10 years later. Remember when I told you the Apple of Enlightenment said he would be defeated by a boy named Ness? Yeah, Ninten didn't really defeat him, only Ness can. Well now we're in the 1990's and the Earth is being plagued by alien attacks once more. Ness gets woken up one night by a meteorite crashing to Earth. In this meteorite is a bee, no ordinary bee, it's actually an alien. This alien-bee tells Ness that he is from 10 years in the future where Giygas has taken over Earth and all is misery, but there is a legend of three boys and one girl who could defeat Giygas. One of these boys is, of course, Ness.
So Ness eventually meets the other heroes and they set off to defeat Giygas after doing a couple other things first.... but where is Giygas? With the help of a scientist, they had managed to track down his whereabouts, but there's nothing here. That's because Giygas is actually attacking from the past. You see, after he was defeated by Ninten, he came up with the brilliant idea to destroy the Earth in the future so that Ness would never have a chance to defeat him. Unfortunately for him, that scientist helps them time-travel to where Giygas is.
Now this place is extremely unnerving in the past. It's completely white, misty, and empty, oh is it ever empty. When you get to this place, the Cave of the Past, you feel so... alone. It's a really weird thing how alone it makes you feel, something I have never experienced in any other game. Back to the story. Ness and his friends finally reach Giygas' lair, a place even more unnerving than the Cave of the Past, and rightfully so, for it is home to one of the most disturbing things I have had the pleasure of viewing. Giygas' Lair is strange, the floor seems to be made of pulsating intestines, and at the end of that disturbing pathway lies a machine that also seems to be made out of some internal material.
(Giygas' Lair, and that jerk, Pokey)
It is here where Ness sees someone he didn't expect to see; his obnoxious next-door neighbor, Pokey. Now I'm not really going to say much about Pokey at this moment, remember this is about Giygas, but I will be going over Pokey at some point. So Pokey tells them that he has been helping Giygas for a while, helping plant his evil influence throughout the world, causing more trouble for our heroes than there would have been originally. He also tells them that Giygas gained so much evil power that it basically obliterated his mind which means that Giygas cannot think anymore, he has no idea what he is doing, an "almighty idiot" as Pokey puts it. This evil power also basically tore Giygas from his body, causing him to become an incomprehensible form, one that is so powerful, his very being there is tearing the very fabric of time and space.
Giygas is being kept safe in that machine, nothing more than a weapon for Pokey now, a once intelligent and perhaps noble being now reduced to being controlled by a mere child. After battling Ness for a while, Pokey decides to turn off the rightfully named "Devil's Machine" and show the chosen four what true fear looks like, and now we get our first glimpse of Giygas himself.
Trying to wrap your mind around Giygas will confuse you and probably give you a headache. He seems to be a dimension in and of itself. He is nothing but a mass of black with a red swirl that seems to make a face. Although he is quite simple in appearance, he is still quite bone chilling, and that along with the insanely freaky music is enough nightmare fuel for the rest of your life.
As Pokey said, his mind is basically mush. When he talks to you during the battle, what he says is strange and twisted, it almost makes you sorry for him. The human emotions he once had seem to come out as he calls Ness his friend and says that it hurts... he also says he's happy.. why? He's facing his doom, but he has no idea what's going on, he doesn't know he's attacking. Unfortunately, though you may feel sorry for him, he must be killed or his just being there will unravell the fabric of time and space.
He dies in a strange way, he's much to powerful to be killed with physical and psychic attacks, but he is killed with nothing more than a few simple prayers. One of the party members, Paula, has the ability to pray, which causes other people of the Earth to suddenly pray. The final prayer has the player themself pray, defeating Giygas. In a way it's kind of tragic the way he dies, the only alien who had human emotions was killed by human emotions.
All is right in the world now right? Giygas is actually defeated and now the world is at peace. Unfortunately, this is not true, although troubles may be over for Ness and his friends, a new villain rises out of the ashes of the old... Pokey.
Thus ends my overly-long tale of Giygas, although this is not the end of my over-analyzations of EarthBound characters, more will be coming in the future.
