<description>&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This Abnormal Mapping needed an extra week to cook, but it’s finally here for you to enjoy! We talk about a bunch of arcade games, Capcom’s inability to tell a good story (charm point), and Jackson is the one who brings up gacha this time??? Please enjoy the episode!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed:&lt;/strong&gt; Xbox is dead, Mega Man, Violent Storm, Duet Night Abyss, Ball X Pit, Inazuma Eleven, Silksong, Mushihimesama, Batsugun, Castlevania the Arcade, Major Havok, Skins Game, Onimusha, Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, Resident Evil&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Mega Man 7/8 at the end of the month!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Rising Sun - 1st Movement by Takashi Niigaki &lt;br&gt;Onimusha (Demon Warrior) by Takashi Niigaki &lt;br&gt;Ai by Takashi Niigaki &lt;br&gt;a secret blast from the past song&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Also a bunch of arcade games!

Abnormal Mapping 179: Onimusha: Warlords

<description>&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;After months of chipping away at it Em finally completed Persona 5 Royal, which means she invited two of her most Shin Megami Tensei-brained friends to come on and talk about the game. And oh boy, did they ever talk about the game. Over two nights! This is a big one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Niamh podcasts on &lt;a href="https://exportaud.io/"&gt;Export Audio&lt;/a&gt; with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells in addition to &lt;a href="https://www.abnormalmapping.com/longfire"&gt;Around the Long Fire&lt;/a&gt; on our network. Fae posts on bluesky at &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/foxmomnia.exportaud.io"&gt;foxmomnia.exportaud.io&lt;/a&gt; and on twitter &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/FoxmomNia"&gt;@foxmomnia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Ina doesn’t have a regular podcast but sometimes remembers to watch 2WBY and show up on the podcast! You can find her on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/poyfuh.bsky.social"&gt;bsky&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/poyfuh"&gt;read her fanfic on AO3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed:&lt;/strong&gt; Armored Core, Long Live the Queen, Umamusume, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Onimusha: Warlords and then Mega Man 7/8&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There by Shoji Meguro&lt;br&gt;No More What Ifs by Shoji Meguro&lt;br&gt;Beneath the Mask by Shoji Meguro&lt;br&gt;Rivers in the Desert by Shoji Meguro&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The titan of JRPGs makes a titanic sized podcast. Just like the ship of state...

Abnormal Mapping 178: Persona 5 Royal

<description>&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Some games are just very okay to the point where you don’t have too much to say about them, but thankfully we have some other gaming to keep us going as we poked through some photos and perspective puzzles this month. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed:&lt;/strong&gt; gaming news, Persona 5 Royal,&amp;nbsp; Dragon Warrior III, Silksong, Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, Colin McRay Rally 2.0, Marvel Infinity War, Charlie Murder, Zombie Vikings, Alltynex, Raiden Fighters, Strider (2014), Mega Man X 2-5, Viewfinder&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Onimusha: Warlords (and Bonus Persona 5 Royal podcast!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Wake Up Your Hero by Masanori Akita&lt;br&gt;Boss Area (Aces Version) by Yasuhiro Hashimoto&lt;br&gt;X vs Zero by Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka, and Takuya Miyawaki&lt;br&gt;Yume Wo Kakeru by Kenta Higashiohji&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Persona 5 Royal is dead, long live Persona 5?

Abnormal Mapping 177: Viewfinder

<description>&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We played a classic of the greatest console ever made, the Nintendo 64, this month! How did Em find returning to a game she 100%ed long ago? How did Ace Combat superfan Jackson find Nintendo’s take on the genre? All this and more in this episode!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed:&lt;/strong&gt; Switch 2, PS5 price hikes, San Francisco Rush, Hydro Thunder, Wave Race 64, Extreme G, F Zero X, Mario Kart 64, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, Ridge Racer Type 4, Gran Turismo, Sega Rally 2, Persona 5, Star Fox 64&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Viewfinder&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Opening by Koji Kondo&lt;br&gt;Area 6 by Koji Kondo&lt;br&gt;Aquas by Koji Kondo&lt;br&gt;Star Wolf Theme by Koji Kondo&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Can't let you do that, Abnormal Mapping!

Abnormal Mapping 176: Star Fox 64

<description>&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;A small and fascinating puzzle game gets us through a rough month this week as we talk about score chasing, the tone of indie games in aesthetics vs mechanics vs story, our feelings about short games, and more. This was a pretty solid little game! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" 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="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things Discussed:&lt;/strong&gt; Switch 2, Persona 4 and 5 (&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKkuUmwghVE5t8WI68mq7qpfPark2oNPr"&gt;Freckled1der's daily Persona 4 LP&lt;/a&gt; ), NBA 2k12, NFL Blitz, Super Tennis, Sports games at large, Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum,&lt;a href="https://superbiasedgary.itch.io/bite-the-hand"&gt; play Gary's game Bite the Hand&lt;/a&gt;, Touhou 3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Month’s Game Club&lt;/strong&gt;: Star Fox 64&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music this Episode&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Virtua Tennis introduction &lt;br&gt;Cult Jam, Pts 1-2 by Aidan Baker&lt;br&gt;FIFA Anthem by Franz Lambert, Rob May, Simon Hill&lt;br&gt;Marisa Kirisame’s Theme ~ Dimensional Dream by ZUN&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Sports month, apparently?

Abnormal Mapping 175: Children of the Sun

Abnormal Mapping is a monthly game club of Em and Jackson, talking primarily about old games with an eye to critiquing without nostalgia.

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