x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Retrograde Amnesia

A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. We"ve covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. Yes, we will kill god.

leisure video games

All Episodes

01:10:34

Xenosaga E22: Theologically Problematic [Kukai...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/01/22

This place permeates some kind of fondness for the past. Permeate your present by answering trivia questions from a kiosk, vibrating with kinky excitement, learning dream fragments are robot parts, demanding a lady’s measurements, introducing new sunglasses guys, equating the Y Data to a McGuffin, lore diving for Simeon and Nephilim, sharing perverse tastes, exposing songs that drive us to madness, binding a wallet chain to a bullet, showcasing an ominous auditorium, arguing over government funding

en

01:03:16

Xenosaga E21: There's a Ludonarrative Dissonance in...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/01/15

Mom doesn’t understand how a man feels. But we feel like revisiting the world map concept, observing the global hum, cranking off, reading the signs of an obvious dungeon, getting high off of explosions, dumpster diving, loading a bar with fuckheads, assigning virtue to Purple Hunchman, understanding King to be a farce, chatting up Pink Bug, extracting the fish detector, engaging in work-related familial conflict, thinking of expensive books, and spawning an Allen ghost head. I’m always telling the

en

01:04:43

Xenosaga E20: Central Bottom Hole [Kukai Foundation,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/01/08

Hey, who’s an illegitimate son? Maybe it’s us, maybe it’s you, maybe we’re inserting the Durandal in the bottom hole, wondering of space flower cities are common, as you know’ing to oblivion, finding another palm tattoo guy, A-posing like an asshole, hinting at an anime ability, debating beach anxiety, admiring a soviet pistol, failing to comfort Shion, proposing a chaotic chaos theory, brining a screen to the beach, challenging DNA, freaking out at thunder, and wondering if the madman made more

en

56:37

Xenosaga E19: Identity Diffusion, the Eternal Dilemma...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/01/01

Identity diffusion: the eternal dilemma. Diffuse your identity with us as we’re wondering if child robots are programmed to hate a biological dad father, running like a big goober, bombing a pick-up line, discovering a gambling-addicted populace, begging for dig-b abuse, stealing signage, considering a fan club, telling Momo that robot fireflies are good actually, entering the Pinocchio zone, and throating the military balance. The truth that exists here may have been a bit too much for her. 00:00

en

01:09:32

Xenosaga E18: The Bodies of Jesus Christ and His...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/12/25

Will feeling pain make me complete? Complete your own pain and listen as we’re not supplied for a gnosis attack, freaking out on the bridge, dialing up the KOSMOS contemplativeness, talkin’ bout momma, scanning transfection course, deciding it’s Kevin’s hand at work, failing the yearly review, wondering if computer mom has a virus, falling into a hell void, exposing the devil hand, telling our friends where we keep dangerous items, showing off our emulators, concocting a perfect Kukai Foundation

en

01:04:48

Xenosaga E17: Ethical Consumption [Cathedral Ship,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/12/18

I alone can take humanity to its next natural state of evolution. Together alone, we’re inducing a tilt-shift effect, defining PS2 ladder controls, going to the mall, curing women’s diseases with herbs, softening the hardness of mother, running a doomed op, hallucinating wife and child wife, meeting Hamburger Hook, suffering the ultimate sense of peer rejection, getting anime crucified, going Gargoyle Mode, living with contradictions, embracing the arts, lusting after the great reset, failing to

en

56:48

Xenosaga E16: A Miserable Pile of Nucleic Acid...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/12/11

Why? Why not joins us as we’re sleeping in our work clothes, steaming the breath, defining “ghost shit,” foreboding ominously, penetrating the space column, spreading the Hilbert Effect to Ultra Wide, estimating our 10K times, staring down a door, honoring goldfish, becoming a brand new person, igniting the forehead glyph, fetishizing the aquarium, adopting a husband, denying a legacy, suggesting Demolition Man sex, dehumanizing the remixed man, slaughtering a clone, and reclaiming garbage for

en

58:22

Xenosaga E15: This Game is Apolitical [Dock Colony]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/12/04

Are you enjoying life? We’re certainly enjoying reading the obvious signs of an apolitical game, inventing more things to haunt Cherenkov, cleaning to impress men, dunking on Allen, hiding the fish detector, threatening members of the military, turning and coughing, weighing ourselves, making it weird in the basement, getting our asses kicked in an alley, activating the forehead glyph, rejecting nanosurgery, lying about secret forehead ankh powers, detesting this old body, and wondering why women

en

01:06:30

Xenosaga E14: Don't Sext Your Kaiser [U-TIC Battleship]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/11/27

Pierce me with your hatred. Pierce your ears as we’re referencing The Wizard of Oz, activating false memories, introducing a southern belle and a goth princess, making a sword into a spaceship, suspecting Momo’s abduction was an inside job, wondering if —they— will come, determining Albedo’s whole deal, debating AWGS vs mech, killing the Woglinde again, engaging condition zebra, subchanneling to a high velocity cannon, foreshadowing T-elos, meandering through a dungeon, plugging a cable into our

en

01:07:07

Xenosaga E13: Anime Moment of the Lord [U-TIC Attack]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/11/20

There is no need to divert more personnel to this location. At our location, we’re figuring out if Andrew Cherenkov is a character, performing sick tricks in the space column, skittering off the column wall, avoiding obligations for either a tunnel shooter or a crane game, counting on Allen, recognizing Chaos’ interest in souls, misunderstanding Boost, wondering if Hammer and Tony will ever make out, assuming Naruto has anything to do with this, watching Hammer’s shit roll downhill onto Allen,

en

55:08

Xenosaga E12: The Wrath of Jesus [Still on the Elsa]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/11/13

We have scenarios, so we have to have keys. The keys to this episode include disappointing the real human robot child, wondering where the Y Data is hidden, sealing off space, realizing there is an even higher council, hiding the map from Tony, receiving correspondence from Kazuya, performing the wrath of Jesus, wondering if the UNM lady is a robot, slamming the brakes on a spacecraft, playing hardball with Shion’s boss, offloading busywork to Miyuki, and reminding Allen that he is made of shit

en

01:02:34

Xenosaga E11: Eating Neatly [Back on the Elsa]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/11/06

Now, where does the real you exist? As we exist, we’re applying the rules of characters to our characters, sharing curry instead of a campfire, noting the lack of estrogen as applied to sexist stereotypes, sleeping with food, witnessing Allen go down in flames, crawling with mutants, directing eyeballs, throwing guns all over the bed, rubbing couches for secret items, potentially pulling a Shinji on a sleeping robot, killing everyone, firing an invisible arrow from an invisible bow, failing to

en

01:01:25

Xenosaga E10: The First Dad Game [Pleroma]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/10/30

Machines like you exist to be used. Machines like us exist to talk about entering the Android Discourse with Margulis and Momo, requiring mommy to take us back to the lab, aborting any reasonable attempt at stealth, burying cult figureheads in child robot brains, merging our cult base with its previous religion, unrealty’ing a mere phenomenon, decoding Pleroma, baptizing our new daughter with her selected name, loving the back toss, passing the Life Recycling Act, buying our son a robot dog,

en

01:05:21

Xenosaga E9: 2000 F*cked Up Guys [Elsa, Part II +...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/10/23

It’s the same for me. It’s just something I can do. What you can do is listen to us talk about double-momming Allen, wondering if Captain Matthews cuts Chris’ lawn, seducing Shion with wine, firing 9MM bullets in space, excelling over others in one specific skill, going full Gendo Ikari, hearing Willhem introduce more vocabulary words, introducing another masked man mystery, watching a planet disappear, preparing Plan 31, sitting in obelisk chairs, talking about Councils of Fucked Up Guys, donating

en

56:20

Xenosaga E8: Meta Gel [Elsa, Part I]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/10/16

Let’s meet the space junkers. Let’s also make sure we’re owing money to the Kukai Foundation, presenting as another nerd class, warning others of our addictions via head-based apparel, disrespecting space corpses, expressing interest in space necrophilia, punching a spaceship window, trying to make meaningful contact with someone, shitting in a refrigerator (???), deploying the authority hand, threatening suicide to compel to robot into action, manifesting an anime boy, touching a lady’s shoulder,

en

56:56

Xenosaga E7: A Finitely Bound Realm [Gnosis Attack,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/10/09

KOSMOS has the capacity for being sassy. We don’t, but we’re debating the rules of Gnosis-touching, engaging the Hilbert Effect, cutting sausage goblins, fiddling with the menus, demanding our deaths mean something, wondering of Asimov’s laws of robotics apply here, death rattling “Feb,” once again seeking god in the machine, typing on the computer while the world ends, wondering when physicality came back to games, reporting in to a Scenario Guy, laughing like Bryan Fury, and riding an escape pod

en

01:05:50

Xenosaga E6: Baphomet Feet [Gnosis Attack, Part II]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/10/02

The company says we can’t free the slaves. While you’re in our company, we’re pounding human meat into bloody shit, violating privacy agreements, sucking a Gnosis out the airlock, dying like it’s our job, moving randomly, citing divine intervention, running around like an idiot, looting a dead man’s key, going awol during battle, going down with the ship, faking death to escape death, suffering fuel Eric explosives, citing facts and logic as we kill fake real people, and resigning from life with a

en

01:09:33

Xenosaga E5: Crestfallen Coffee Face [Gnosis Attack,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/09/25

Cosmos is pronounced differently than KOS-MOS. This time we’re treating DME addiction as a casual hobby, jamming to the Seraphim Sisters, wondering if Realians deserve equal rights, not delivering the sexy murder robot project on time, hiding a mysterious phone call, acquiring the M.W.S., video chatting with a mysterious bad guy, indulging in the old ways to spite our sister, wishing this wouldn’t happen again, distorting space time, suffering an assault from ancient space fish, and standing on

en

01:13:21

Xenosaga E4: A Weird, Shakespearean Creeper [Realian...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/09/18

Better safe than curry. On this episode we’re diagnosing problems with Realians strapped to inversion tables, writing Realians off as infants, equating fables and proverbs to myths and legends, driving free will out of a machine, finding ourselves addicted to the consumption of body tissue, moralizing cannibalism, referencing some kind of disaster in Miltia, locating Mr. Driller, investigating planetary disappearances, thinking about Ninja Assault, playing tag money matches, and hanging out in a

en

01:12:31

Xenosaga E3: God is Decentralized [Woglinde, Part II]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/09/11

Who is the most human character in Xenosaga, and is that individual even human? To figure that out, we’re chatting up our Vector co-workers, diagnosing Allen’s patheticness, discussing Jung’s origin of all shit, refusing to ask out our boss, confessing sins while we beat up our subordinates, reminisce enduring thoughts, ding-crossing with a ghost girl, slacking off because of bimbos, referencing multiple “incidents,” and committing to fix the Realians outside of union rules. Don’t have feelings

en

340 results

Similar Podcasts

Expres Ráno

Expres FM

詭哭郎嚎

郎祖筠 & FMTaiwan製作團隊

Ron en Erik Podcast

Ron en Erik

Poor Man"s Pinball Podcast

Poor Men Ian and Drew

WeAreChange on Odysee

WeAreChange