It was simply a evil somehow born like organs in a body and its eyeball shows the person's face looking at it... When its turned off and its been mind controlled to the point of destroying, the soul becomes corrupted thus having a skull swirly face and distorted unusual looks. It simply screams and moans because its in eternal hopelessness and despair and it simply wants to get along with people. In other words this is a alien beyond what we saw in tv and movies since they came out somewhere in the 1950's... Truthfully it may look like its not that artistic but it is creative, this being is like our darkness, evil, despair, sadness, and hopelessness. And thats true, if we allow ourselves to fall into despair, darkness, evil, sadness, and hopelessness for the rest of our lives, we too shall be destroyed and being nothing more than a scapegoat willing to be slaughtered. This made me realize that why and others should I fear it? Its true to its meaning after all... This game had to be dark in a creative way to show that we can conquer the evils in our lives whatever they may be... Yes earthbound is very symbolic in its own nature but for me it was frustrating and difficult to get through it because of the enemies so I gave up but I still understood what Shigesato Itoi meant to do. Hes the best geniuses in nintendo don't doubt it :). This is why I only care for games that are really worth playing even if its just one game :). Its why I dont play mario, zelda, and star fox very much because they become too cliche and repetitive but not that they are terrible but they arent my taste