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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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01:12:41

Suikoden E9: Wet Elves in Our Bed [Village of the Elves]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/07/25

Ho ho, you smell like humans. After we roll this wet elf out of our bed, we’re recruiting more children into the army, throwing dice for another degenerate, sacrificing morals for money, slaughtering Christmas trees, recruiting a teleporting amnesiac, meeting a talking dog, receiving racism, counting chicken hearts, getting locked up, busting out of jail, fondly recalling abandoned twitter handles, marveling at circular dwarven windows, appraising a piss boy, and inventing electricity. It looks like

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01:01:04

Suikoden E8: Husband Lady [Lepant, Part II]

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2022/07/18

Want to take a bath? You’ll feel refreshed. While we refuse to discuss our trauma, we’re escaping Lepant’s fun house, stealing a named sword, refusing to get poisoned again, donning a skin cloak, threatening a man’s wife, taking a man’s life, dividing our will to kill, making a family fighting team, letting a cop in the squad, throwing a dinner party, dealing with a ninja assassin, storing our precious antiques in the hot tub, and finding a friend who swam here. You are no longer my wife. 00:00

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01:05:16

Suikoden E7: Hello, Fellow Thieves [Lepant, Part I]

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2022/07/11

A liberating invention needs a liberated world. On the New Liberation Army’s Founding Day, we’re receiving a non-electronic tablet to coordinate destiny, starting a cult, being watched in our sleep, seeing stars, sleeping in the dirt chamber, uniting our recruitment efforts, installing an elevator in the castle, putting indie stores out of business, employing those we’ve made unemployable, hallucinating an elf, appraising question marks, stealing a sword to create a conversation, literally

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01:11:16

Suikoden E6: Soul Eating in Front of a Children...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/07/04

This is the fixed version, we hope! Here we go then, too late for regrets. And too early for lining up great walls, declaring false identities, seizing the moment to fake a temper tantrum, blaming fate for problems, finding skilled professionals with no obvious means of employment, making Mathiu an offer he can refuse, confusing doctor with sensei, murdering soldiers in front of children, giving kids a year of homework, seeking a Headquarters, denying Camille’s payment, throwing dice in a magic cup,

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01:05:03

Suikoden E5: Mother-Commander [Mt. Tigerwolf & Sarady]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/06/27

In any case, we have to go up. Let’s go. While there we’re investing in dad lore, finding Child Ted on the battlefield, plucking facts off The Cutting Room Floor, hiking up a snowy mountain, trusting a man with a bowl cut, remaining ignorant of bitter, drinking a beverage that is clearly poisoned, expressing discontent and doing something about it, poking around an isolated community, bonding with Odessa in the middle of the night, gaslighting the blueprint ninja, engaging in sexual innuendo,

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01:03:36

Suikoden E4: Viktor Lays It Thicker [The Liberation...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/06/20

Everything’s okay, make sure to hide your faces. Before we dry out, we’re trusting the scoundrel Viktor with our lives, dining and dashing, shifting rows for better attack, sharpening weapons, attaching runes, daydreaming about murdering imperials, finding Odessa behind a clock, reaching the Time To Sewers, meeting our rebel conspirators, realizing we narc’d on comrades, censroing crucifixion, performing a casual arson, walking through a burning building and killing everyone inside,

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01:15:00

Suikoden E3: Did You Talk to the Graveyard? [Rockland...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/06/13

Loneliness is a slow acting, but fatal, poison. Before we ingest the antidote we’re taking a dragon to see a play, becoming tax collectors, watering the seeds of class warfare, cheating Marco out of a million bits, reading epitaphs, refusing to strike children, bullshitting a bullshitter, trapping the feds in ant holes, installing stairs in a mountain, fighting the unbeatable ant queen, performing some light colonialism, slaughtering bandits, murdering Imperial soldiers for the crime of child abuse,

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01:13:42

Suikoden E2: Ouroboros of Young Masters [Gregminster...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/06/06

Both magic sisters think I’m hot. While we admire ourselves in the floor, we’re losing our father to a border crisis, reporting to a Krazy boss, hiring a magician who looks like my wife, auto-walking home, playing a real guitar, defining a Gremio, rifling through Milich’s clothing, questioning the reality of Ted, keeping a food journal, dreaming in black and white, leaping in the elephant dragon’s basket, fighting forest monsters, obtaining the emperor’s astrology report, and opening the invitation

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50:22

Suikoden E1: Please Tell Me The Answer [Introduction]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/05/30

In the first episode of our fourth season, we’re talking when where and how Suikoden first released, basic pronunciation guidelines, how the hell to play Suikoden in 2022, finding inspiration in anime soccer, identifying hot sound smiths, reading a german magazine ad, digging up and then settling old scores, indulging in the instructions, watching the intro movie, and deciding what to name Tir McDohl. All of this has to happen so we can play Suikoden II in a few months. 00:00 Intro | 02:47 Release

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01:19:23

Final Fantasy VIII 44: Is Love the Problem? [Epilogue]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/05/23

The only Squall permitted here is you. As we sort through computer generated cut scenes, we’re trying to remember the power of friendship, completing the time loop, accepting sorceress power, talking to myself, wandering through the desert, collapsing in futility, finding our soulmate in the abyss, becoming a no winged angel, speaking without a voice, blowing feathers around, holding up wedding rings, staring at a headstone, shooting a home video, shoving hot dogs in the mouth hole, raising a finger

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01:27:22

Final Fantasy VIII 43: I Can't Even Final Fantasy...

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2022/05/16

Face my wrath for seeking thy sealed power. As we kompress time, we’re multiplying save points and sorceresses, stepping over dead SeeDs on the beach, fastening wings to a castle, sealing our powers away, evaporating a rainbow, deducing latin paintings, weighing everyone in our party, turning blood green, slaying a fallen GF, meeting up with Xu and the CC Club, obtaining Proof of Omega, listening to an incoherent villain speech, fighting my ring, slaying a legendary beast, and facing off against the

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54:53

Final Fantasy VIII 42: About to Do a Blessed...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/05/09

I have a lot to tell you, unless you don’t want to hear it. In which case I’ll understand. After we put a bullet in the head of Triple Triad, we’re identifying the father of the son, ramming Lunatic Pandora, parking our dragon at the base, quitting our jobs to go drink, telling my boy we’re not a posse, killing the unkillable friend, wandering away to get kidnapped, swapping in disc four, junctioning a person to another person, mugging our imperiled girlfriend, and falling through compressed time

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01:03:51

Final Fantasy VIII 41: Shounen Energy [The Plan to...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/05/02

Man, you look way too serious. As the world ends, we’re reaching max level, reading Selphie’s Laguna webpage, breaking down the couch cars, meeting the President, being called a faerie, performing calisthenics at critical plot points, staying on a boat for ten years, flashing back to Laguna’s rebellion, outwitting a sorceress, sending our problems to space, working too much to visit my dead wife, sending our body to the future, concocting a plan to visit the future in the past, believing in our

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01:00:28

Final Fantasy VIII 40: The Great Neoliberal Lie...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/04/25

The world’s over, man. While continuing to neglect our witch girlfriend, we’re throwing rocks in a lake, humming to summon a shadow, receiving awful clues, stealing a crop circle, getting Piet fired, scouring the world for unique NPC dialogue, exposing the public to Ultimecia, gathering materials for supreme violence, cutting Rinoa out of magic pipes, conceding Squall to Rinoa again, yearning to be a sorceress’ knight, lying about forgetting, and sharing a romantic dream. As long as you can work

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01:00:35

Final Fantasy VIII 39: More Headcanon [Deep Sea...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/04/18

We understand each other’s thoughts and hearts. While ignoring Rinoa’s imminent peril, we’re wasting a day with Triple Triad, failing to move the Queen of Cards, sailing past 100 hours, playing Red Light Green Light, picking the hidden option, spelling blow wrong, brimming with passion, beating up the boiler room, battling Ultima Weapon, indulging in the ultimate GF, finishing Laguna’s statue, diegetically playing an Irish jig, breaking up a Shumi spat, and being content with more morsels of NORG

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01:03:40

Final Fantasy VIII 38: Absence of Space Dog [Ragnarok]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/04/11

I’m not your mom. In truth, I’m denying romantic impulses, killing and re-killing aliens, scanning my girlfriend, using a radio for the first time, resisting any attempt at creating intimacy, accepting a sorceress’ fate, descending from Hyne, revealing the sorceress inside me, not doing shit about anything, repeatedly dying inside, flying with exuberance, and adding a mascot and sentient haunted trains as guardian forces. You’ve missed out on all the good things in life, you’ve missed out on so

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01:04:08

Final Fantasy VIII 37: I Wanted To Die in Space...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/04/04

Nobody ordered me to escape. Through the wineglass, we’re using our girlfriend as our therapist, cashing out our cards, receiving a ghost punch, breeding monsters on the moon, crying those monsters onto the planet, putting on a space suit, meeting a panicky space gentleman, opening a space tomb, shoving a cowboy into a sunroof, finding out what happened at the end of disc two, riding a handlebar elevator, playing the worst minigame of all time, and finding a secret space spaceship in space. Only

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01:03:26

Final Fantasy VIII 36: The Random Rules of Space...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/03/28

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01:06:29

Final Fantasy VIII 35: Hot Info That I Have [Esthar]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/03/21

This place sure is weird. Inside this swirling pastel Oz, we’re smiling through the pain, performing unpaid labor, ensuring a moomba develops CTE, taking a gun to work, picking the weirdest guy as the leader of the #resistance, misunderstanding the meaning of “special lady,” rescuing Ellone, relishing the presence of an adult, leaving Rinoa up for human experimentation to the guy we rescued Ellone from, using the healing station, and going to the mall. I want a device that allows me to scratch

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53:02

Final Fantasy VIII 34: Best Looking Wife Here [White...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2022/03/14

It’s like a swear jar, for meat. Inside the jar, we’re waking up in the infirmary again, asking mom where the rest of her kids are, lying about why we want Ellone, listening to the legend of Hyne, denying responsibility of Rinoa, trading pornography for playing cards, stealing my girlfriend, talking to myself on the railroad tracks, loving only what I can’t have, confessing to a body, adding mom to my party, running all over salty dinosaur bones, interacting with the glitch hole, and finding the

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