<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We finish our long Final Fantasy adventure by playing Square’s largest single player Final Fantasy yet. But does size equal quality? Does it equal ambition? We have many thoughts about this and about where the entire Final Fantasy VII Remake Project has gone and is heading in this enormous podcast about an equally enormous game. After dozens of hours, we are left with one simple question: why do we do this to ourselves? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;1. Because we were ready to game&lt;br&gt;2. Because we were sure of quality&lt;br&gt;3. Because we were clueless&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Trick question. The correct answer was: because it’s our job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed: &lt;/strong&gt;Balatro, Cosmo Cheats at Poker, Rise of the Ronin, &lt;a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth/final-fantasy-vii-rebirths-ending-poorly-answers-a-question-it-never-needed-to-ask"&gt;Jackson's piece on the ending of FF7 Rebirth&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/rise-of-the-ronin/rise-of-the-roninis-the-best-open-world-game-of-2013"&gt;Jackson's Rise of the Ronin review&lt;/a&gt;, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, every other Final Fantasy on earth but ones with specific spoilers include: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Intergrade, and Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XVI&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Beyond Oasis and Dynamite Headdy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The Fight for Naming Rights by Mitsuto Suzuki, Masashi Hamauzu, and others&lt;br&gt;Let's Go, Mt. Corel! by Mitsuto Suzuki, Masashi Hamauzu, and others&lt;br&gt;Queen's Blood by Mitsuto Suzuki, Masashi Hamauzu, and others&lt;br&gt;Crazy Chocobo by Mitsuto Suzuki, Masashi Hamauzu, and others&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(00:00:00) - Segment 1: Games Played&lt;br&gt;(00:30:00) - Segment 2: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth&lt;br&gt;(01:57:34) - Segment 3: Questions&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Those are 7 seconds you are never getting back, turns out.

Abnormal Mapping 158: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We’re joined by Molly for the return of one of the classics, a guy who just needs to jump over every spike in all the world, conveniently located in a beautiful palace. That’s right, we’re here to talk about the return of Prince of Persia, and the surprising ways Ubisoft have melded the last ten years of exceptional platforming games into something with its own identity. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed: &lt;/strong&gt;Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Granblue Fantasy: Relink and Granblue Fantasy, Pseudoregalia, Iconoclasts, Monster World IV, Prince of Persia, Immortality, Another Code: Recollection, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, a bunch of Metroidvania stuff broadly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Managarmr, Sequestrian Primal by Tsutomu Narita&lt;br&gt;Hanging Gardens of Mont Qaf by Mentrix&lt;br&gt;Frozen as it Falls by Mentrix&lt;br&gt;End Credits by Mentrix&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(00:03:30) - Segment 1: Games Played&lt;br&gt;(00:37:10) - Segment 2: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown&lt;br&gt;(01:33:15) - Segment 3: Questions&lt;/p&gt;</description>

a truly mighty double jump is all you need

Abnormal Mapping 157: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage with a special announcement: Jackson has played the Final Fantasy XIII games, at last. Despite the frankly illegal amount of Final Fantasy content lately they were not going to let that go to waste. They are joined by Erin (@&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/woodabris"&gt;Woodabris&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Woodaba"&gt;Woodaba on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;) to discuss the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, with a little Type 0 in there. It’s time to get remember: Fabula Nova Crystallis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed: &lt;/strong&gt;Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Type-0, Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy XII, Mass Effect (lol).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The Promise by Masashi Hamauzu&lt;br&gt;Caius’ Theme by Naoshi Mizuta&lt;br&gt;Zero by Bump of Chicken&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(00:00:00) - Intro&lt;br&gt;(00:10:30) - Final Fantasy XIII&lt;br&gt;(00:51:00) - Final Fantasy XIII-2&lt;br&gt;(01:30:00) - Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII&lt;br&gt;(02:27:10) - Questions&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Caius Ballad Number One Fancast

 Abnormal Mapping 156: Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We’re going back to the heady days of licensed multi-platform games in the early 00s this month as we play 007: Everything or Nothing and talk about the era of arcane save processes, weird genre mashups, awful final missions, and the ways in which the whole medium could turn on a relatively short dime to become something new. Was this game an unheralded prelude to the next-gen era? Maybe! We talk about it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed: &lt;/strong&gt;Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy XIV, GoldenEye, The Binding of Isaac, Star Ocean The Second Story R, Octopath Traveler II, 007: Everything or Nothing, 007: NightFire&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Gun Barrel by Sean Callery and Jeff Tymoschuk&lt;br&gt;Everything or Nothing by Mya&lt;br&gt;Theme of RENA by Motoi Sakuraba&lt;br&gt;The Leaflands (Day) by Yasunori Nishiki&lt;br&gt;Nearly Civilized by Esthero&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(00:00:00) - Segment 1: Games Played&lt;br&gt;(00:32:00) - Segment 2: 007: Everything or Nothing&lt;br&gt;(01:58:10) - Segment 3: Questions&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Bond. Games Bond.

Abnormal Mapping 155: 007: Everything or Nothing

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We close out the year with a podcast years in the making, as &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/yerfriendmolly"&gt;Molly&lt;/a&gt; joins us and we take a road trip with the king to be and his homies and play the much maligned but beloved by us Final Fantasy XV! This podcast will cover the main game and the first three episode DLCs (Gladio, Prompto, Ignis), and there’ll be a follow up podcast on the patreon (free for everyone) in about a week covering the movie, the anime, Episode Ardyn, and the Awful Book. Please look forward to it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Send us questions about our game clubs, other games, or gaming in general to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If you would like to support us please visit patreon.com/abnormalmapping for exclusive podcasts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed: &lt;/strong&gt;Coral Island, Granblue Fantasy Versus, The 3rd Birthday, Oboeshoesgames &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8lz_HtV-m0"&gt;video on The 3rd Birthday&lt;/a&gt;, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Air Combat, The Binding of Isaac, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy broadly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS by Yoko Shimomura&lt;br&gt;Valse di Fantastica by Yoko Shimomura&lt;br&gt;Somnus by Yoko Shimomura&lt;br&gt;Main Theme from FINAL FANTASY by Yoko Shimomura&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(00:00:00) - Segment 1: Games Played&lt;br&gt;(00:29:10) - Segment 2: Final Fantasy XV&lt;br&gt;(01:58:10) - Segment 3: Questions&lt;/p&gt;</description>

For fans and first-timers!

Abnormal Mapping 154: Final Fantasy XV

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