OSC 141 - House of the Dead 2 & Super Monkey Ball

THIS WEEK: Joe starts spooky season with a light gun rail shooter aimed at terribly voiced Venetian zombies with Tetsuya Kawauchi's work in The House of the Dead 2 and Peter controls the tilted direction of the floor to move orbed simians to the goal in Super Monkey Ball.

TIME STAMPS:

4:28 - Composer Headlines

6:39 - GAME 1: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2

21:27 - Composer History: Tetsuya Kawauchi

23:16 - Critical Track #1

25:08 - Critical Track #2

27:28 - Critical Track #3

29:42 - Critical Track #4

31:57 - Critical Track #5

34:19 - Cutting Room Floor

40:14 - Transition

41:36 - GAME 2: SUPER MONKEY BALL

55:48 - Composer History: Sakae Osumi

58:21 - Critical Track #1

1:00:49 - Critical Track #2

1:03:37 - Critical Track #3

1:06:29 - Critical Track #4

1:09:01 - Critical Track #5

1:11:46 - Cutting Room Floor

1:19:23 - Outro

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OSC 140 - Uncharted 2 & Finding Paradise

THIS WEEK: Peter picks up the adventurous trail of Marco Polo's journey to Shambhala in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Joe dives back into the career of fulfilling deathbed dreams through memory alteration with Kan Gao and Chris Ryker's work in Finding Paradise.

TIME STAMPS:

3:55 - Composer Headlines

9:19 - GAME 1: UNCHARTED 2: AMONG THIEVES

24:16 - Composer History: Carmen Rizzo

28:49 - Critical Track #1

31:13 - Critical Track #2

34:12 - Critical Track #3

36:55 - Critical Track #4

39:35 - Critical Track #5

41:42 - Cutting Room Floor

47:42 - Transition

49:28 - GAME 2: FINDING PARADISE

59:53 - Composer History: Chris Ryker

1:02:57 - Critical Track #1

1:05:29 - Critical Track #2

1:07:33 - Critical Track #3

1:10:09 - Critical Track #4

1:12:28 - Critical Track #5

1:15:32 - Cutting Room Floor

1:21:52 - Outro

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OSC 139 - Disc Room & Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

THIS WEEK: Joe navigates rooms filled with spinning buzzsaws while learning that dying to them can be acceptable with Doseone's work in Disc Room and Peter tackles Cold War nuclear deterrence through portable stealth in 1970s Central America in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

TIME STAMPS:

3:49 - Composer Headlines

10:25 - GAME 1: DISC ROOM

22:17 - Composer History: Adam "Doseone" Drucker

30:34 - Critical Track #1

32:50 - Critical Track #2

34:43 - Critical Track #3

36:36 - Critical Track #4

39:17 - Critical Track #5

40:46 - Cutting Room Floor

44:41 - Transition

45:51 - GAME 2: METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER

1:03:31 - Composer History: Akihiro Honda

1:07:36 - Critical Track #1

1:10:38 - Critical Track #2

1:13:44 - Critical Track #3

1:16:47 - Critical Track #4

1:18:54 - Critical Track #5

1:22:33 - Cutting Room Floor

1:29:04 - Outro

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OSC 138 - Ace Attorney Investigations & Layton's Mystery Journey

THIS WEEK: Peter uses logic and rebuttals as a prosecutor at crime scenes to unravel an international smuggling ring in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Joe starts a private detective agency in London to work small cases in the shadow of an iconic father with Kana Nishino's work in Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy.

TIME STAMPS:

5:05 - GAME 1: ACE ATTORNEY INVESTIGATIONS: MILES EDGEWORTH

23:53 - Composer History: Yasuko Yamada

28:09 - Critical Track #1

31:14 - Critical Track #2

34:17 - Critical Track #3

37:21 - Critical Track #4

39:54 - Critical Track #5

42:41 - Cutting Room Floor

54:16 - Transition

55:18 - GAME 2: LAYTON'S MYSTERY JOURNEY: KATRIELLE AND THE MILLIONAIRES' CONSPIRACY

1:13:58 - Musician History: Kana Nishino

1:19:50 - Critical Track #1

1:22:19 - Critical Track #2

1:24:28 - Critical Track #3

1:26:21 - Critical Track #4

1:28:17 - Critical Track #5

1:31:39 - Cutting Room Floor

1:36:50 - Outro

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OSC 137 - Sonic Generations & Sonic Colors

THIS WEEK: Joe runs into nostalgia with twenty years of a classic and modern hedgehog in Sonic Generations and Peter visits an amusement park in space to free enslaved Wisps with Kenichi Tokoi's work in Sonic Colors.

TIME STAMPS:

6:08 - Composer Headlines

9:00 - GAME 1: SONIC GENERATIONS

31:01 - Musician History: Johnny Gioeli

36:56 - Critical Track #1

40:02 - Critical Track #2

42:08 - Critical Track #3

44:22 - Critical Track #4

47:31 - Critical Track #5

50:04 - Cutting Room Floor

1:00:14 - Transition

1:01:46 - GAME 2: SONIC COLORS

1:18:07 - Composer History: Kenichi Tokoi

1:23:46 - Critical Track #1

1:27:02 - Critical Track #2

1:29:15 - Critical Track #3

1:32:06 - Critical Track #4

1:34:48 - Critical Track #5

1:37:38 - Cutting Room Floor

1:43:25 - Outro

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OSC 136 - Splatoon & Trauma Team

THIS WEEK: Peter is a kid now and then is subsequently a squid now with Nintendo's entry into multiplayer shooters in Splatoon and Joe assumes the role of six medical professionals to stop the deadly Rosalia epidemic with Ben Franklin's work in Trauma Team.

TIME STAMPS:

4:19 - Composer Headlines

12:22 - GAME 1: SPLATOON

26:35 - Musician History: Hiroaki Takeuchi

31:07 - Critical Track #1

34:20 - Critical Track #2

36:39 - Critical Track #3

39:07 - Critical Track #4

41:37 - Critical Track #5

45:39 - Cutting Room Floor

51:28 - Transition

52:54 - GAME 2: TRAUMA TEAM

1:16:15 - Musician History: Ben Franklin

1:21:16 - Critical Track #1

1:23:08 - Critical Track #2

1:25:25 - Critical Track #3

1:27:42 - Critical Track #4

1:30:19 - Critical Track #5

1:33:18 - Cutting Room Floor

1:43:41 - Outro

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OSC 135 - Child of Light & Ghost of Tsushima

THIS WEEK: Joe falls into a deep sleep and grows wings to find a portal home with Béatrice Martin's work in Child of Light and Peter eliminates Mongol invaders while struggling with the samurai code of ethics in Ghost of Tsushima.

TIME STAMPS:

5:59 - GAME 1: CHILD OF LIGHT

23:36 - Composer History: Béatrice Martin

29:45 - Critical Track #1

31:39 - Critical Track #2

33:35 - Critical Track #3

35:53 - Critical Track #4

37:54 - Critical Track #5

39:34 - Cutting Room Floor

45:57 - Transition

47:25 - GAME 2: GHOST OF TSUSHIMA

1:04:01 - Composer History: Ilan Eshkeri

1:10:17 - Critical Track #1

1:13:11 - Critical Track #2

1:15:30 - Critical Track #3

1:19:24 - Critical Track #4

1:21:56 - Critical Track #5

1:24:12 - Cutting Room Floor

1:30:42 - Outro

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OSC 134 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps

THIS WEEK: Peter gathers fragments of a light spirit while trying to find a lost baby owl friend with Kristin Naigus' work in Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

TIME STAMPS:

2:25 - Composer Headlines

7:13 - GAME: ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS

19:18 - Musician History: Kristin Naigus

28:16 - Critical Track #1

30:31 - Critical Track #2

32:31 - Critical Track #3

34:30 - Critical Track #4

36:35 - Critical Track #5

38:32 - Cutting Room Floor

43:22 - Outro

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OSC 133 - RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

THIS WEEK: Joe manages his very own theme park while also enjoying the thrill rides with Alistair Lindsay's work in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.

TIME STAMPS:

3:07 - Composer Headlines

5:19 - GAME: ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON 3

23:58 - Composer History: Alistair Lindsay

27:48 - Critical Track #1

29:44 - Critical Track #2

31:36 - Critical Track #3

33:11 - Critical Track #4

35:20 - Critical Track #5

37:25 - Cutting Room Floor

41:13 - Outro

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OSC 132 - Twilight Princess & Ring Fit Adventure

THIS WEEK: Peter turns into a wolf and teams up with an imp to rid Hyrule of a dark force in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Joe works out with the Ring-con in an exercise-focused RPG with Shinji Ushiroda's work in Ring Fit Adventure.

TIME STAMPS:

4:37 - Composer Headlines

11:53 - GAME 1: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS

33:44 - Composer History: Michiru Oshima

43:49 - Critical Track #1

47:17 - Critical Track #2

50:05 - Critical Track #3

52:17 - Critical Track #4

55:53 - Critical Track #5

58:48 - Cutting Room Floor

1:08:25 - Transition

1:09:39 - GAME 2: RING FIT ADVENTURE

1:21:44 - Composer History: Shinji Ushiroda

1:24:11 - Critical Track #1

1:26:14 - Critical Track #2

1:28:32 - Critical Track #3

1:30:42 - Critical Track #4

1:33:18 - Critical Track #5

1:35:16 - Cutting Room Floor

1:38:48 - Outro

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OSC 131 - Kingdom Hearts 3D & Donkey Kong Country 2

THIS WEEK: Joe gets really tired as he tries to awaken sleeping Disney worlds with Tsuyoshi Sekito's work in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and Peter saves the titular ape with the side-scrolling SNES monkey-platforming sequel in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.

TIME STAMPS:

5:42 - Composer Headlines

9:03 - GAME 1: KINGDOM HEARTS 3D: DREAM DROP DISTANCE

27:06 - Composer History: Tsuyoshi Sekito

33:25 - Critical Track #1

36:26 - Critical Track #2

38:30 - Critical Track #3

40:45 - Critical Track #4

43:30 - Critical Track #5

45:10 - Cutting Room Floor

53:01 - Transition

54:18 - GAME 2: DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2: DIDDY'S KONG QUEST

1:07:41 - Composer History: Graeme Norgate

1:14:05 - Critical Track #1

1:16:45 - Critical Track #2

1:19:46 - Critical Track #3

1:21:46 - Critical Track #4

1:25:28 - Critical Track #5

1:27:45 - Cutting Room Floor

1:37:14 - Outro

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OSC 130 - Rocket Knight Adventures & Later Alligator

THIS WEEK: Peter jumps on the mascot platformer craze as an armored opossum with a jetpack in Rocket Knight Adventures and Joe plays noir-set minigames with a paranoid scaly child's family members with 2 Mello's work in Later Alligator.

TIME STAMPS:

3:22 - Composer Headlines

6:51 - GAME 1: ROCKET KNIGHT ADVENTURES

19:52 - Composer History: Masanori Oouchi

23:38 - Critical Track #1

26:54 - Critical Track #2

29:25 - Critical Track #3

31:37 - Critical Track #4

34:31 - Critical Track #5

36:49 - Cutting Room Floor

41:48 - Transition

43:33 - GAME 2: LATER ALLIGATOR

53:24 - Composer History: 2 Mello

59:06 - Critical Track #1

1:00:42 - Critical Track #2

1:02:38 - Critical Track #3

1:04:49 - Critical Track #4

1:06:37 - Critical Track #5

1:09:10 - Cutting Room Floor

1:14:00 - Outro

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OSC 129 - Crypt of the NecroDancer & Hyrule Warriors

THIS WEEK: Joe crawls through dungeons to the beat of the music alongside a singing shopkeeper in Crypt of the NecroDancer and Peter grinds through the Musou game that crosses over with The Legend of Zelda with Masato Koike's work in Hyrule Warriors.

TIME STAMPS:

3:42 - Composer Headlines

6:41 - GAME 1: CRYPT OF THE NECRODANCER

23:12 - Musician History: Jules Conroy

29:31 - Critical Track #1

32:18 - Critical Track #2

34:18 - Critical Track #3

36:14 - Critical Track #4

39:14 - Critical Track #5

41:17 - Cutting Room Floor

48:25 - Transition

50:38 - GAME 2: HYRULE WARRIORS

1:05:26 - Composer History: Masato Koike

1:10:56 - Critical Track #1

1:12:54 - Critical Track #2

1:15:17 - Critical Track #3

1:17:41 - Critical Track #4

1:19:24 - Critical Track #5

1:21:26 - Cutting Room Floor

1:28:24 - Outro

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OSC 128 - Halo 3 & Risk of Rain 2

THIS WEEK: Peter ends the Human-Covenant war at the cultural apex of Microsoft's first-person shooter series in Halo 3 and Joe changes camera perspectives to challenge a third-person shooter roguelike that increases in difficulty over time with Chris Christodoulou's work in Risk of Rain 2.

TIME STAMPS:

4:03 - Composer Headlines

9:32 - GAME 1: HALO 3

29:04 - Composer History: Michael Salvatori

36:16 - Critical Track #1

39:27 - Critical Track #2

42:34 - Critical Track #3

44:48 - Critical Track #4

47:00 - Critical Track #5

49:13 - Cutting Room Floor

54:03 - Transition

55:03 - GAME 2: RISK OF RAIN 2

1:15:49 - Composer History: Chris Christodoulou

1:20:33 - Critical Track #1

1:23:23 - Critical Track #2

1:25:33 - Critical Track #3

1:28:17 - Critical Track #4

1:30:52 - Critical Track #5

1:33:34 - Cutting Room Floor

1:39:26 - Outro

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OSC 127 - Tomba! & Mario Strikers Charged

THIS WEEK: Joe retrieves a family heirloom by throwing evil pig wizards into bags with Harumi Fujita's work in Tomba! and Peter takes the pitch in a post-apocalyptic world of angry Mushroom Kingdom megastrikes in Mario Strikers Charged.

TIME STAMPS:

5:16 - GAME 1: TOMBA!

19:10 - Composer History: Harumi Fujita

25:13 - Critical Track #1

27:12 - Critical Track #2

28:55 - Critical Track #3

31:12 - Critical Track #4

33:45 - Critical Track #5

36:04 - Cutting Room Floor

39:35 - Transition

41:10 - GAME 2: MARIO STRIKERS CHARGED

58:52 - Composer History: Mike Peacock

1:02:48 - Critical Track #1

1:06:02 - Critical Track #2

1:10:29 - Critical Track #3

1:13:34 - Critical Track #4

1:16:18 - Critical Track #5

1:18:48 - Cutting Room Floor

1:26:47 - Outro

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OSC 126 - Touhou 6 & Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

THIS WEEK: Peter plunges into Gensokyo in the bullet hell shooter about eliminating an evil red mist with Jun'ya Ota's work in Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Joe opens up his own store to pay off a debt while exploring dungeons for supplies to sell in Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale.

TIME STAMPS:

3:40 - Composer Headlines

14:32 - GAME 1: TOUHOU KOUMAKYOU: THE EMBODIMENT OF SCARLET DEVIL

27:13 - Composer History: Jun'ya Ota

34:56 - Critical Track #1

39:01 - Critical Track #2

42:24 - Critical Track #3

44:52 - Critical Track #4

47:25 - Critical Track #5

51:18 - Cutting Room Floor

55:22 - Transition

56:19 - GAME 2: RECETTEAR: AN ITEM SHOP'S TALE

1:10:57 - Composer History: m_box

1:12:12 - Critical Track #1

1:13:48 - Critical Track #2

1:16:10 - Critical Track #3

1:18:08 - Critical Track #4

1:19:45 - Critical Track #5

1:21:29 - Cutting Room Floor

1:24:57 - Outro

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OSC 125 - The Sims 2 & Spyro the Dragon

THIS WEEK: Joe designs 3D characters and homes through defining the life simulation game genre in The Sims 2 and Peter collects gems as a little dragon that just wants to save his frozen friends with Stewart Copeland's work in Spyro the Dragon.

TIME STAMPS:

5:29 - Composer Headlines

14:37 - GAME 1: THE SIMS 2

31:16 - Composer History: Mark Mothersbaugh

39:21 - Critical Track #1

41:07 - Critical Track #2

43:30 - Critical Track #3

45:17 - Critical Track #4

46:47 - Critical Track #5

48:47 - Cutting Room Floor

52:56 - Transition

54:10 - GAME 2: SPYRO THE DRAGON

1:09:07 - Composer History: Stewart Copeland

1:16:42 - Critical Track #1

1:19:46 - Critical Track #2

1:22:31 - Critical Track #3

1:24:52 - Critical Track #4

1:26:59 - Critical Track #5

1:29:50 - Cutting Room Floor

1:35:02 - Outro

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OSC 124 - Ratchet & Clank (2016) & Outer Wilds

THIS WEEK: Peter blasts his arsenal and collects bolts in a remake that is a retelling of an animated Hollywood movie in Ratchet & Clank (2016) and Joe becomes an astronaut to explore the secrets of the universe in a 22-minute time loop with Andrew Prahlow's work in Outer Wilds.

TIME STAMPS:

3:37 - Composer Headlines

13:47 - GAME 1: RATCHET & CLANK (2016)

32:04 - Composer History: Michael Bross

38:15 - Critical Track #1

41:26 - Critical Track #2

44:04 - Critical Track #3

46:31 - Critical Track #4

49:10 - Critical Track #5

53:10 - Cutting Room Floor

57:32 - Transition

59:25 - GAME 2: OUTER WILDS

1:20:15 - Composer History: Andrew Prahlow

1:27:43 - Critical Track #1

1:30:32 - Critical Track #2

1:33:31 - Critical Track #3

1:36:23 - Critical Track #4

1:38:49 - Critical Track #5

1:41:39 - Cutting Room Floor

1:48:37 - Outro

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OSC 123 - Paradise Killer & Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

THIS WEEK: Joe returns from a three million day exile to discover who committed mass murder on Island 24 with Barry Topping's work in Paradise Killer and Peter is trapped inside Hope's Peak Academy with a killing game run by a sadistic bear in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

TIME STAMPS:

5:14 - Composer Headlines

9:28 - GAME 1: PARADISE KILLER

31:15 - Composer History: Barry Topping

35:27 - Critical Track #1

39:20 - Critical Track #2

40:55 - Critical Track #3

43:46 - Critical Track #4

46:03 - Critical Track #5

48:36 - Cutting Room Floor

52:46 - Transition

54:11 - GAME 2: DANGANRONPA: TRIGGER HAPPY HAVOC

1:12:53 - Composer History: Satoshi Iwase

1:16:24 - Critical Track #1

1:20:08 - Critical Track #2

1:24:06 - Critical Track #3

1:26:39 - Critical Track #4

1:29:39 - Critical Track #5

1:31:55 - Cutting Room Floor

1:41:33 - Outro

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OSC 122 - Persona Q2 & Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

THIS WEEK: Peter is trapped inside a theater while drawing maps and meeting too many characters on his way out in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth and Joe fires up his Gun-PC while recruiting demons as a member of the Spookies with Toshiko Tasaki's work in Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers.

TIME STAMPS:

6:26 - Composer Headlines

9:35 - GAME 1: PERSONA Q2

25:51 - Composer History: Hidehito Aoki

30:52 - Critical Track #1

35:29 - Critical Track #2

37:42 - Critical Track #3

41:14 - Critical Track #4

44:25 - Critical Track #5

46:40 - Cutting Room Floor

51:15 - Transition

52:45 - GAME 2: DEVIL SUMMONER: SOUL HACKERS

1:13:57 - Composer History: Toshiko Tasaki

1:18:26 - Critical Track #1

1:20:59 - Critical Track #2

1:23:17 - Critical Track #3

1:25:40 - Critical Track #4

1:28:26 - Critical Track #5

1:30:04 - Cutting Room Floor

1:34:43 - Outro

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