This month we feast on one of the largest games time investment wise we’ve ever played for Abnormal Mapping, but it just so happens to be the game we initially bonded over well before we started the podcast. Thankfully, we can’t get too self indulgent, as we’re joined by special guest Molly Rhinebeck to navigate the ins and outs of the 1000 year journey of Kaim and Seth and their wives.

Please enjoy this supersized episode about how games can be meaningful and uneven in the same breath, the hell space that was late 00s console JRPGs, and how Final Fantasy is truly an essence that can be captured if the right people are making it, brands be damned.

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Things Discussed: Molly!, Pro Evolution Soccer, Football Tactics & Glory, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Scarlet Nexus, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade coming out on VoIP Life Friday!, Observation, Dragon Quest II, The Messenger, a bonus podcast we did for Dia's Dragon's Dogma LP, Lost Odyssey, various Final Fantasies (broadly), Nobuo Uematsu, first and favorite RPGs

This Month's Game Club:
Lost Odyssey

Next Month's Game Club: 
Metroid Prime 2

Music This Episode
Neverending Journey by Nobuo Uematsu
A Return, Indeed... (Piano Version) by Nobuo Uematsu
What You Are by Nobuo Uematsu
An Enemy Appears by Nobuo Uematsu
Parting Forever by Nobuo Uematsu
Howl of The Departed by Nobuo Uematsu
Victory by Nobuo Uematsu