Abnormal Mapping

Emmmeline had surgery this month so I am joined by Dia for another exciting surprise episode of Abnormal Mapping. We will not miss a month, come rain or shine. That is the pact we signed in 2013. Enjoy a lot of Metroidvania talk, and a classic Capcom Shmups

Thank you for your support while we have dealt with many health issues this year, it is greatly appreciated, thank you to Dia for coming through, and everyone send nothing but love and kindness to Emmeline while she’s recovering from even more surgery.

Things Discussed: Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, Metroid: Planets, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past, The Legend of Zelda Link’s Awakening, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Super Tennis, Castlevania: The Adventure, U.N. Squadron, Forgotten Worlds

Next Month’s Game Club: Before the Green Moon

We’re back with a bunch of games and gaming news, including a look back at one of the more influential entries in the RPG Maker sphere, Belgium post-modern RPG OFF! We had a really good time with this one.

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

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Things Discussed: physical games are dead, Double Fine freed, thoughts on Rare, Halo: Combat Evolved, Quake 2, Jackson’s Kingdom Hearts document, Touhou 5 Mystic Square, Proverbs, Kamaitachi no Yoru, OFF,

Next Month’s Game Club: Before the Green Moon

Music this Episode
Pepper Steak by
Stay in Your Coma by
Fake Orchestra by
Avatar Beat by

Em is recovering from illness this month so Jackson called up Dia Lacina in order to preserve the streak. THE STREAK NEVER DIES. WE WILL NOT MISS A MONTH.

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: Let’s Plays, Undernauts, Shinsekai: Into The Depths, Metroidvanias, Shmups, RetroAchievements, Another World, Heart of the Alien

Next Month’s Game Club: OFF (2008)

Music this Episode
Escape from Another World
Flight from Another World
Uncertain Flight from Another World

Jackson continues their Resident Evil journey as we play one of the least discussed numbered entries in the series. Is there a reason that’s the case? Turns out, yeah!

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

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Things Discussed: games have never been more dead, Warframe, Persona 3 Reload, Kowloon’s Gate, The Namco Museum Museum, Kingdom Hearts MelonMix, Chip & Ironicus Rebirth LP, Street Fighter 6, Granblue Fantasy Versus, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Resident Evil Zero,

Next Month’s Game Club: OFF (2008)

Music this Episode
Welcome to the Parade from Granblue Fantasy Versus
ZERO from Resident Evil 0
R.E.D. (Zangief’s Theme) from Street Fighter 6
Want To Be Close -Reload- from Persona 3 Reload

Our friend Molly returns to Abnormal Mapping to run, jump, grapple, dig, climb, surf, and shoot shoot shoot our way through one of the more cool and intense games we’ve played in recent memory. Please enjoy!

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!

Next Month’s Game Club: Resident Evil 0

Music this Episode
Astra by Floating Door
Gamma by Floating Door
Occluded by Floating Door
Roll the Credits by Floating Door

We’re joined by our friend Kim to talk about a visual novel of the murder game and detective kind! Ran Ibuki is a very not normal girl who finds herself stuck in a timeless place where girls mostly fall in love and kill each other, and it’s up to us to get her out! We had a pretty good time with this one, please enjoy.

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

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Things Discussed: Final Fantasy XIV, Voices of the Void, Scarlet Hollow, she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died, Not So Instant Messaging, Our Lovely Ladyverse, Of The Devil, The Chrono Jotter

Next Month’s Game Club: Echo Point Nova

Music this Episode
Mystic Room by 贤狼HUSKY
Lloigor by 贤狼HUSKY
BuggShash by 贤狼HUSKY
Azathoth by 贤狼HUSKY

We dig through the pile of trash that is the Wii library for one of the hidden gems of its lineup, the one Rabbids game that people remember fondly! It turns out the kids who said this was one of the good games of their childhood were correct! We also talk way way way too much about Resident Evil.

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: GBA anniversary, Castlevania, Logiart Grimoire, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Pokopia, Resident Evil (the series), Screamer,

Next Month’s Game Club: The Chrono Jotter

Music this Episode
Jamaica Farewell by Harry Belafonte
Bãtutã Din Moldova by Fanfare Vagabontu
Bubamara by Fanfare Vagabontu
Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane

We return to a game we played near the very start of the podcast, but … in port form? Much to discuss about the place of ports as transformative work and also the strange routes of design lineage, especially when we talk about NiGHTS and Sonic Team’s peculiar ideas about what 3D gaming should look like. A TRULY action packed episode.

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!

Things Discussed: Xbox has never been more dead, Persona 6 ideas, Dodonpachi, Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Final Fantasy XV 1.0 mod, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Silksong, Ratcheteer, Persona 3 Reload, Walfie’s Nonograms, Initial Unity, Touge Shakai, DOOM, NiGHTS into Dreams

Next Month’s Game Club: Rabbids Go Home

Music this Episode
Gate of your Dream by Tomoko Sasaki
Message from Nightopia by Tomoko Sasaki
Track 12 by Aubrey Hodges
Club Doom by Aubrey Hodges
Dreams Dreams by Tomoko Sasaki

We play a bunch of classic phone games and talk about an era of small games that feel like they vanished from the earth. This was a great walk down memory lane, even if we mostly talk about Device 6.

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!

Things Discussed: gamedownsights.com, Hollow Knight: Silksong, gacha corner, Call of Duty (franchise), Doom 2, Half-Life, Boomerang X, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, https://simogo.com/work/device-6/

Next Month’s Game Club: DOOM (PSX) and NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn)

Music this Episode
Device 6 by Daniel Olsén
Lace by Christopher Larkin
Glittermåne by Daniel Olsén
Anna by Jonathan Eng

Surprise! One final Abnormal Mapping before the end of the year. Jackson is joined today by Erin to get thoughts down about the most baffling Game of the Year in recent history, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a game that has kicked off a ton of discourse most of which talks around the actual game itself, which is what this podcast is about. I could not care less about France vs Japan I want to talk about this game’s weird fucking ending.

Erin can be found on bsky here, go give them a follow!!

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!

Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to [email protected]!

If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!

Things Discussed: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Final Fantasy, Myst, Diablo

Next Month’s Game Club: Simogo Legacy Collection

Music this Episode
Until You’re Gone by Lorien Testard
Gestral Market by Lorien Testard