15 - Narrative Nihilism

THE DEVIL: "One hell of a fourth-walloping awaits for you two. Now just make it easier for yourselves and narrate this win for me..."
NARRATOR: "Satan? Did I treat Stanley too poorly or something? As if."
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TRACK BY: swoldow
ART BY: kirb (Stocks) and PandaWithPixels (Background Assets)
Characters: The Devil, Narrative Nihilism
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#03 NO-DEAL: The Devil (Cuphead: Don't Deal With The Devil) [S]
-Songs from Cuphead and other bullet-hells, bullet-hell fusions and indie platformers.
(Die House, Clip Joint Calamity, Floral Fury, Coin-Op Bop, One Hell of a Time)
(The Delicious Last Course, Snow Cult Scuffle, Bootlegger Boogie, High Noon Hoopla, Baking the Wondertart)
(Maiden & Spell, Darius, Just Shapes and Beats, DonPachi, Enter the Gungeon)
(The Messenger, Demon Turf, Shovel Knight, Mago, A Hat In Time)
-Songs associated with rubberhose/Fleischer-inspired animation.
(Clover, Animaniacs, SOXNSANDALS, Betty Boop, Other Friends)
-Songs by artists in the Jazz genre and its subgenres.
(ODJB, John Coltrane, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Miles Davis)
(Cab Calloway, Herbie Hancock, Nucleus, A Man Called Adam, Frank Zappa)
-Villain songs, and songs related to villainy/bad behaviour and hell/the occult.
(Evil Walks, Vaudeville Villain, Bad Guy, I'm the Villain Now, A Touch Of Evil)
(Highway to Hell, DOOM, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Helltaker, Sympathy for the Devil)

#15 FIFTH-WALL: Narrative Nihilism (TRAGEDY + Narrator - Bad End Theater + The Stanley Parable) [K]
-Songs from environmental narrative and indie puzzle games.
(The Beginner’s Guide, Deliver Us the Moon, Soma, Umurangi Generation, Gone Home)
(Baba Is You, Fez, Untitled Goose Game, Monument Valley, Taiji)
-Songs related to bad endings and unrequited love.
(ENDING CREDIT, Luv Deluxe, The Wolf, 99 Luftballons, In The End)
(FRIENDS, Scorpion Queen, want Ü 2 love me, I THINK, Danger)
-Royalty-free music, and songs related to normality/boredom.
(Kevin MacLeod, TeknoAXE, Randy Sharp, Double Lion, BenSound)
(Ordinary Lives, When I’m Bored, Thank God For Life, USA, Back To Normal)
-Songs from self-aware media, or related to self-awareness and theater/musicals.
(Discworld, Baten Kaitos, No More Heroes, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Destroy All Humans!)
(This Song’s Just Six Words Long, Human Interface, Something Changed, Greendale, Crazy Mixed-Up Song)
(The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Hamilton, Little Shop of Horrors, Twisted, The Book of Mormon)

SOURCES:
Railroad Wrath [Electro Swing Remix] - The Musical Ghost (Cuphead)
Brass Devil - Parov Stelar (The Devil)
Dramatic Fanatic - Cuphead OST (Cuphead, Theatre)
Emperor's New Clothes - Panic! at the Disco (Hell, Villain Songs)
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye (Unrequited Love)
Scorpion Queen - Ace of Hearts (Unrequited Love)
Candy Store - Heathers: The Musical (Villain Songs, Bad Behavior, Musicals)
The Pitiful Children - Be More Chill (Villain Songs, Musicals)

[WR1M7] - Theatrical Tussle

NARRATOR: "One night, a spy and his tagalong shadow approached us, thinking they could catch us unawares. They were wrong."
AGENT S: "Ah. Omniscience. That's a problem. But one with plenty of workarounds."
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TRACK BY: swoldow
ART BY: kirb (Stocks) and PandaWithPixels (Background Assets)
Characters: Narrative Nihilism, Shadowsnatched!
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#15: Narrative Nihilism [K]
-Environmental narrative and indie puzzle games
-Vocal synth, or theatre/musicals
-Self-aware/choice-centric media, or bad endings
-Normalcy/boredom, loneliness and unrequited love

#13: Shadowsnatched! [K]
-PM Seymour media and Tumblr-prominent artists
-Urban fantasy and cosmic/eldritch horror
-Spy/stealth media, spy music and espionage
-Darkness/shadows, chaos and the void

SOURCES:
The Spy And The Liar - Puddles Pity Party (Spy Media, Indie Puzzle Games: I Expect You To Die 2, Theatre)
A Good Song Never Dies - SAINT MOTEL (Spy Music, Self-Aware Media: Inscryption)
Hole Dwelling - Kikuo (Vocal Synth)
BAD END THEATER - true end ver. - BAD END THEATER OST (Indie Puzzle Games, Vocal Synth, Choice-Centric Media, Unrequited Love)
Bunk Rock - Cosmic Wonders OST (PM Seymour)
Miku's Little Dark Age - Astrophysics (Vocal Synth, Darkness)

[LR1M4] - The Credits Are More Than The End

NARRATOR: “And then we wiped the floor with our opposition, moving on to the next round with ease.”
TRAGEDY: "It brings a tear to my eye- see, just like this one here- to see such generous support given to our lovelorn little troupe. All the world's a stage, and with you on our side... we'll never run out of new closing numbers."
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Thank you all for voting in Losers Round 1! Preparation for Winners Round 2 is still in progress, but it's coming soon. Stay tuned for more! -core core
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TRACK BY: swoldow
ART BY: kirb (Stocks) and PandaWithPixels (Background Assets)
Character: Narrative Nihilism
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#15: Narrative Nihilism [K]
-Environmental narrative and indie puzzle games
-Vocal synth, or theatre/musicals
-Self-aware/choice-centric media, or bad endings
-Normalcy/boredom, loneliness and unrequited love

SOURCES:
BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA - Will Wood (Normalcy)
EARFQUAKE - Tyler, The Creator (Unrequited Love)
Invisble - MonoNeon (Loneliness)
The Whole Being Dead Thing - Beetlejuice: The Musical (Musicals)

Victory! - Narrative Nihilism

(NARRATOR) “And so, Dunkey took a sharp downturn, losing what steam Mario hadn’t already beaten out of him- hey, why are these parenthesis here?”
DUNKEY: "sweep losers. got it."
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The final match of FMGB's losers round 2 has begun!
VOTE HERE:
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TRACK BY: swoldow
ART BY: kirb (Stocks) and PandaWithPixels (Background Assets)
Characters: Narrative Nihilism, videogamedunkey
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#15: Narrative Nihilism [K]
-Environmental narrative and indie puzzle games
-Vocal synth, or theatre/musicals
-Self-aware/choice-centric media, or bad endings
-Normalcy/boredom, loneliness and unrequited love

#11: videogamedunkey [S]
-Dunkey injokes, “best of” features, or Bigmode-published games
-Gaming YouTubers and their injokes/prominent associations
-Comedy musicians and bait-and-switch memes
-Songs that dunkey jams to in the car while playing GTA

SOURCES:
Shake Ya Body - Lumines OST (Indie Puzzle Games, "Best Of" Features)
Right Hand Man - Hamilton (Musicals)
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine (GTA Car Jams)
Double Lariat - Agoaniki-P (Vocal Synth, Comedy Musicians)
This Is A Chicken Wing - videogamedunkey (Dunkey Injokes)
Scorpion Queen - Ace of Hearts (Gaming YouTubers: Alpharad, Unrequited Love)
3005 - Childish Gambino (Dunkey-Associated, Loneliness)
Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore (Boredom)
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley (Bait-And-Switch Memes)
Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi (Unrequited Love)

SFX:
The Stanley's Parable - videogamedunkey (Environmental Narrative, Dunkey Injokes)

15 - Narrative Nihilism

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