Abnormal Mapping

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We figured it would be best to start with our very first episode, back when all our mics were bad and M used a different name. We didn't want to change any of that, so you get the raw reality of us four years ago for your listening ... pleasure? Pleasure seems like a strong word. We've come a long way, baby! And you can see those humble beginnings here.

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Games Discussed This Episode
Gunpoint
DmC: Devil May Cry

Music Used This Episode
Blown Away by Kevin MacLeod
Melancholia by John Robert Matz, Ryan Ike and Francisco Cerda
What the Fuck Is Wrong With You by Combichrist

Welcome to the very end of the year, where we talk about the good, the bad, and the musical. Please enjoy over two hours of hot, banging audio content. Please enjoy the end of 2016. Please enjoy the end.

Next Month’s Game Club: Tomb Raider Legend, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Tomb Raider Underworld, Tomb Raider (2013), Rise of the Tomb Raider

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The Best Game Music Choices of 2016!

Witcher 3 – Priscilla’s Song – Marcin Przbylowicz, Mikolai Stroinski
Wolf Among Us – Intro Theme – Jared Emerson Johnson
Stellaris – Gravitation Constant – Andreas Waldetoft
Super Mario World – Athletic Theme – Koji Kondo
Link to the Past – Dark World – Koji Kondo
Super Castlevania 4 – Simon’s Theme – Masanori Adachi, Taro Kudo
Majora’s Mask – Milk Bar – Koji Kondo
Majora’s Mask – Giants’ Theme – Koji Kondo
Sonic the Hedgehog – Starlight Zone – Masato Nakamura
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – Metropolis – Masato Nakamura
Sonic CD – Stardust Speedway Zone (Bad Future ver) – Spencer Nilsen, David Young, Mark Crew
Sonic Adventure – Azure Blue World – Jun Senoue, Fumie Kumatani, Kenichi Tokoi, Masaru Setsumaru
Yoshi’s Woolly World – Clawdaddy Beach – Tomoya Tomita, Misaki Asada
Kirby: Planet Robobot – Float Islands (Blue Lab Area) – Hirokazu Ando
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Mangrove Cove – David Wise, Kenji Yamamoto
Picross 3D Round 2 – Track II – Megumi Ohara, Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai
Super Hexagon – Courtesy – Chipzel
Streets of Rage 2 – Wave 131 – Yuzo Koshiro
Thumper – Road – Brian Gibson
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst – The Shard – Solar Fields
No Man’s Sky – Blueprint for a Slow Machine – 65daysofstatic
Rez – Rock is Sponge – Joujouka
Stardew Valley – Summer (Tropicala) – ConcernedApe
Stardew Valley – Winter (Nocturne of Ice) – ConcernedApe
Kingdom Hearts – Hikari (Orchestral) – Yoko Shimomura
Auld Lang Syne – Frank Stanley

Backing Music

Rise of the Tomb Raider – Main Theme
Uncharted 4 – Nates Theme 4.0
Firewatch – Hidden Away
The Witness: Ambient Sound
Bullet Hell Monday: Stage One
Heart & Slash – I You
Chameleon Run – Trailer Theme
Oxenfree – Main Theme
The Last Guardian – Main Theme
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare – Menu Theme
Inside – Main Theme
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Main Theme
Pokemon Sun – Welcome To Alola
Thumper – Tunnel
Rez Infinite – Stage 5
Super Hot – Menu Theme
Stardew Valley – Starwatcher

The Mappers take on a special guest in this very special episode, as Heather Alexandra comes onto the cast to join us on our journey through the path of the spirit. We brave forests, destroy ships, run nightclubs, and manage to recite a poem or two in remembrance of classic adventure game Grim Fandango! No fancy intro this time, just good old fashion podcasting about a classic game! I hope you enjoy!

Art for this episode was done by Em, who themself himself an amateur artist when he’s not hosting this podcast.

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Heather Alexandra can be found on twitter (@transgamerthink) and at her blog. You can find her Skies of Arcadia video here.

Reading List Additions: Justice Points and Major Third

Games Discussed: Goldvision Pacifist GTA Online, Skies Of Arcadia, Far Cry 3, Beyond: Two Souls, Heavy Rain, Dead Island, Bloodborne, Cave Cave Deus Videt

This Month’s Game Club: Grim Fandango

Next Month’s Game Club: Elegy for a Dead World

Music This Episode
Blown Away by Kevin McLeod
Rubacava by Peter McConnell
Casino Calavera by Peter McConnell
Manny & Meche by Peter McConnell
She Sailed Away by Peter McConnell
Bone Wagon by Peter McConnell

On today’s very special Abnormal Mapping, we are here today to celebrate the end of the year, and indeed the end of the decade! We’ve got some lists of our favourite games, from this year and the decade at large. There’s some music in there as well, but not as much as on previous years, because it’s been a weird one. Here’s to the second decade of podcasting. That’s a terrifying thing to say.

If you want to send us comments or questions, shoot us an email at [email protected]!

Next Month's Game Club: Outer Wilds

Your Programme This Evening:

MUSIC: The Lost Forest by Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, Takafumi Nishimura (Nier)
Segment 1 - EM 2019
WORST:
MGSV
BEST:
Untitled Goose Game
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Bloodstained
Mario Maker 2
Don't Wake The Night
MUSIC: Wild Hearts Never Die by Daniel Olsén (Sayonara Wild Hearts)
Segment 2 - Jackson 2019
WORST:
Death Stranding
Nier Automata
BEST:
Nier
Death Stranding
Zone of the Enders 2
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sonic Adventure 2
MUSIC: Beyond the Bounds by Maki Kirioka (Zone of the Enders 2: The Second Runner)
Segment 3 - Em Decade
10. The Last Guardian
9. Tacoma
8. Gravity Rush 2
7. Device 6
6. Binding of Isaac
5. Animal Crossing New Leaf
4. Bayonetta 2
3. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Hollow Knight
1. Super Hexagon
MUSIC: Courtesy by Chipzel (Super Hexagon)
Segment 4 - Jackson Decade
10. What Remains of Edith Finch
9. Pikmin 3
8. Beeswing
7. Virginia
6. Abzu
5. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
4. Tacoma
3. The Room 2
2. Cibele
1. Thumper
MUSIC: Mickey Mouse March by Jimmie Dodd and Tsuyoshi Sekito (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep)
Segment 5 - Em Old
10. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
9. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
8. Full Throttle
7. Portopia Serial Murder Case
6. We Love Katamari
5. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
4. Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
3. Planescape Torment
2. Doom
1. Final Fantasy IV
MUSIC: E2M3 Intermission by Bobby Prince (Doom)
Segment 6 - Jackson Old
10. We Love Katamari
9. Doom
8. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
7. Dead Rising
6. Killer7
5. Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
4. Mega Man 6
3. Earthbound
2. Metal Gear Solid 3
1. Final Fantasy VII
MUSIC: Tifa's Theme by Nobou Uematsu (Final Fantasy VII)

Jackson is joined today by official Final Fantasy Correspondant Austin Walker to talk about Final Fantasy XI - specifically the base game and Rise of the Zilart. It’s been a busy MMO summer and we simply needed to get it out of our systems and into microphones somewhere. Please enjoy this three hour tribute to a game that’s still around and still good as hell.

Thank you so much as always for listening, please rate and review the podcast, and tell all your friends on whatever social media you call home that they should check us out. See you next month!

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Things Discussed: Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, all the other Final Fantasies a little too, World of Warcraft and MMOs. It’s mostly just FF11 though.

This Month’s Second Game Club: Mister Mosquito

Music this Episode
One Last Time by Nobuo Uematsu
The Grand Duchy of Jueno by Naoshi Mizuta
Voyager by Naoshi Mizuta