Abnormal Mapping 26: Elegy For A Dead World

The Mappers deal with the loss of technology and hope in the only
way they know how: deep existential crisis and how it informed
criticism. Good thing they’ve finally stumbled across a game that
is willing to compete with them for who can be the most
fatalistic, even if it means doubling down on prescriptive ideas
of what educational/artistic games should be. Also, we talk about
lore for almost a half an hour and nobody makes a Star Trek joke,
so it’s all a minor miracle today in this post-computer episode
of this post-computer podcast.


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


Next Month? TBD, sorry!


Games Discussed: Elegy for a Dead World, Pokemon
Art Academy, Rock Band, Resident Evil HD, Even The Stars, Mass
Effect, Mass Effect 2, Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins, Dishonored,
Alan Wake, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Battlefield: Hardline, Monster
Hunter 4 Ultimate, Dark Souls


Music This Episode
Blown Away by Kevin McLeod
Game Over from Sega Rally Championship
Rock the Dragon by Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahehi
Wicked Child by Kinoyu Yamashita
All I Want by Offspring