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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.

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01:01:21

Suikoden II E25: Tremendous Beating of Wings [Rockaxe...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/04/17

If you're lying, they’ll kill you. In our search for truth, we exploring cop land, blowing off a mustache, refusing to sing a song, abandoning our milk slinging duties, rejecting army recruiters, filling Kent’s head with dragon fantasies, beating up a harpy, listening to a tremendous beating of wings, finally hearing about Lord TcDohl, finding a big egg in a gravy pool, christening Bright, helping Miklotov remain inconspicuous, forcing while resisting, debating clockwork knights, and preparing to

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01:04:59

Suikoden II E24: The Secret Beneath Her Lips [Matilda]

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2023/04/10

Whack to your heart’s content. After we pickle up, we get down to employing a new voice, founding and then quitting the Jeanies, losing sheep in the woods, picking up a healthy chick, depositing books in the library, checking suspicious characters, washing GenGen in a wooden basket, recruiting even more children, making one of them a groupie, telling my lunatic boss I want to marry his sister, beating the fuck out of hideous pastel elves, reacquiring Viki, establishing a base, submitting to another

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01:06:26

Suikoden II E23: The Skills Engraved Upon My Soul...

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2023/04/03

This guy knows what time it is, if you know what I mean. If you get what I’m saying, we’re rescuing Fitcher from the townies, inciting violence to prevent worse violence, feeling the pull of destiny on Nina’s love of Flik, hearing a skittering ghost, finding a hidden passage through a secret door, discovering a cabin in the woods, m’ladying out of control, getting hype as fuck for my spider sword, turning refugees on citizens, searching for humanity, killing cops in front of school, delivering hero

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01:05:01

Suikoden II E22: Larry, Vomit, Spew, and Pipichan...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/03/27

I’m thinking about what to drink tonight. While we pretend to be students, we’re making up aliases, desiring more flying squirrel friends, aspiring to own a warm hearth, perverting thine eyes, tee-hee’ing with Jeane, fantasizing about taking classes, admiring a wad of hair on a man, immediately blowing our cover with Emilia, declaring our regularity, inspecting Nanami to gain a competitive advantage, harassing local business owners, bumping in the night, and loving a sword instead of a teenager

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01:07:31

Suikoden II E21: Dirt Fetishist [Even More Recruitung]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/03/20

For us, the forest and village are one. As that unification increases our power, we’re mistaking Elza’s identity, looking to get stronger by beating ass, busting up a puzzle, recruiting another gardener, accusing Tony of being a dirt fetishist, upgrading from house to tent, entering the jam vs butter rivalry, regressing Tengaar to damsel status, dispatching Hix on a bullshit quest, realizing that bullshit is real, henpecking for life, stumbling into a wild ass cooking minigame, devaluing human life,

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01:06:16

Suikoden II E20: A Higher Form of Dog [More Recruiting]

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2023/03/13

I AM NOT A TOOL FOR FIGHTING. After a four month break, we’re strategically firing Fitcher, buying fried tacos in bulk, becoming toasty, fantasizing about a sauna, installing a kitchen, measuring bird weather, losing a foot race because we didn’t escape enough times, playing that cursed bowl dice game, further emasculating Hix, piling on the mutants, recruiting a misanthropic goth bully, shitting pants, creating graves for fish, following the call to adventure, and running into a trickster in

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01:07:47

Suikoden II E19: The One Who is Full of It [Two...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/03/06

Your lies won’t save you this time. In search of salvation, we’re meeting a buff dogman, allowing Fitcher to get his ass whipped, brandishing the Bright Shield Rune, meeting the plenipotentiary, forgetting to eat dinner, considering the plight of the Winger, chasing Chaco through raw sewage, finding Sid behind a sewage fall, eliminating a demon rat pest, winding up in the kobold village, intercepting a communique, wishing Klaus to eat shit and die, ordering reinforcements, meeting the mystical

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01:03:56

Suikoden II E18: Toasty People [Two River, Part I]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/02/27

The bigger you get, the stronger you’ll be. As we widen, we’re meeting men of the sea, getting a reference, keeping the children toasty, using a Gameshark to time travel, recruiting a well-informed old lady, getting robbed by a flying child, hiring an idiot armorer, tasting meunière, observing black water, swallowing warm fish heads, overloading on puns in the dog village, finding respect for Gengen, and speculating the nature of foul pie contents. They wouldn’t trust you much if you were with a

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01:01:41

Suikoden II E17: Strong as Piss [Recruiting]

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2023/02/20

I ain’t got too much brains but I always been stronger ‘n piss. During our recruiting drive, we’re lying to Fitcher about everything, observing moving NPC’s, leaving our husband to run storage, leaving our wife to go fight, manifesting a boat, marrying Kimberly, demanding Freed respect his wife, wielding a naginata, calling out a rigged coin toss, paying Richmond to investigate himself, beating the shit out of Amada (again), gambling on rock climbing, declaring a boring life to be meaningless,

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56:37

Suikoden II E16: Our Sprite Picnic [Defense of North...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/02/13

If you don’t trust me, perhaps you should leave. While you stay, we’re discovering that relaxation time is heart softening time, killing three horses for no reason, conscripting the elderly and the children, seeing potential in Freed Y, burning off my expendable unit, becoming the herald of victory, assuming a leadership position, finally flashing back to the fall of Genkaku, acquiring friend strength, selecting a name for our castle, and once again accepting the curse of Luc. Don’t believe in me,

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53:59

Suikoden II E15: A Pest of a Man [Recruiting Shu]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/02/06

Good morning. After we get out of bed, we’re entering a rich guy’s house, finding out he’s the worst kind of capitalist, failing to recruit him anyway, prostrating ourselves in front of him, finding a hard-boiled noir detective in the water margin, hearing of a risky trade, opening a plot debate, throwing a coin off a bridge, beating up a grown man, sifting through mud, and forging a much needed alliance. I already know what you want, but go ahead and tell me anyway. 00:00 ODE | 02:10 Intro | 03:58

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54:54

Suikoden II E14: Freelance Dickhead [North Window...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/01/30

I know that once a person is dead, they’re gone forever. Before we go, we’re challenging Suikoden II’s treatment of Suikoden, embracing a child rune, pushing baphomet, denying the dirty vampire’s tricks with violence, clicking a sword, slaughtering an abomination, chopping off more than one head, deciding we need to use a strategy to win, learning of a brilliant expelled student, failing to protect women, accepting a bartender into destiny, remembering Pohl, and hearing all about Shu. That’s right,

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01:00:43

Suikoden II E13: You Don't Suck Wrong Blood [North...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/01/23

This is punishment for what you did to my body. Through our pain, we’re forgetting Pohl ever existed, formally accepting Flik and Viktor, wondering why Freed has a last initial, repeating Suikoden’s vampire subplot, dragging Pilika along, remaining oblivious to the concept of sex, raising the dead, missing our magic talking sword, beating up rocks, mounting a forehead rune, solving a rock pushing puzzle, finding Kahn in the middle of a damn cave, using a doppelganger secret, insulting the talking

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59:09

Suikoden II E12: Don't Get a Piss [Kuskus & South...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/01/16

Anyway the wind blows, the dice rolls. Before we blow our roll, we’re profiling Jowy, forcing destiny through chinchirorin, leaving Sheena behind, suppressing Rina’s subplot, questioning the apple trade, waiting for Karen to dance, slinging some Josh (derogatory), confirming Viktor as a loud guy, conducting business with Clive, rejecting the sugar trade, touching a bonsai and receiving a crystal, filling slots with candles, rejecting the mayonnaise barrel, and getting ready to meet all of our

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58:40

Suikoden II E11: Shagging Down with Viktor's Bear Ass...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/01/09

What do you want? Are you from around here? While you figure that out we’re assigning light and dark to different destinies, meeting secret ninjas in secret places, stopping by to share some wine, complimenting the wine’s bouquet, inventing demolition sex, desaturating Muse, smashing a wine glass, escaping from a crime scene, assuming unchangable fate brought us here, fantasizing about running away from life, meandering about a fishing town, and meeting up with our favorite weirdos. Your life? I

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59:18

Suikoden II E10: Succession of Jowy Dots [Jowston...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2023/01/02

My face is proof of my identity. While you find proof of yours, we’re running up that hilltop, failing facial recognition, belly bumping a lady, suffering surly knights, channeling Elden Ring’s intro narrator, testing the Jowston State Agreement, calling a false flag, reading into the dots, bloodying their nose a little, turning Gilbert’s coat and also sometimes killing Gilbert, furthering Jowy’s disillusionment, plotting an escape, lying to Pilika, cutting in with Suikoden 1 lore, asking Anabelle

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51:22

Suikoden II E9: I'm Tired From Waiting [Highland Camp]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/12/26

Don’t worry, I’ll show you a good trick. As we debate the merit of how good that trick was, we’re putting on our dead friends’ uniforms, speculating Rowd’s Joke Character potential, accidentally holding a princess hostage, seeking the power, slapping the shit out of a city official, screaming at the chamberlain, admiring the gorgeous dusk sky, begging a child to take my place, embracing a friend, and chatting up everyone at the bar. Perhaps you’d like to leave now? 00:00 Intro | 03:39 Infiltrating

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01:00:10

Suikoden II E8: An Ominous But [Muse]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/12/19

Can you shoot, gunner? After we wake in jail, we’re looking older and tougher, observing war’s effect on the citizens of Muse, holding on to a stranger’s contraband, feeling the bullets whiz by our face, becoming infantilized again, realizing Anabelle knows Genkaku, falling prey to idiot war schemes, conscripting a child to be a field medic, doing Anita’s bidding for a date, demanding access to make an accurate map, loving non-romantic romantic usage, watching teammates change clothes, and dressing

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58:15

Suikoden II E7: Eat This Medicine [White Dear Inn &...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/12/12

It’s medicine. Eat it. While we decide what’s most dear about this, we’re being denied entry to Muse, winding up at an inn in the woods, absorbing the ravings of a treasure obsessed husband, helping find treasure to get an entry permit, collecting shapes, placing those shapes in holes to open doors, fearing Mr. Venus, engaging a nifty contraption, slaughtering a two-headed snake, throwing away an herb, finding our wife passed out on the floor, reviving her with that fated herb, role-playing away our

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58:41

Suikoden II E6: Idea Bomb Truth Blast [Defense of...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/12/05

We have looked into your hearts and witnessed your character. As we shift into a new genre, we’re deploying turn-based tactics, lighting people on fire, fighting a war right after we fought a war, slaughtering a spineless worm, exposing a traumatized child to even worse trauma, throwing munitions into a furnace, making a pact for Muse, venturing into the forbidden cave, leveling up Touching Theme, looking for power, flashing back to our friendship’s origins, peeping thomas, receiving the power

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