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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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01:00:42

Xenogears E43: More Stereo Dripping [The Stars Know]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/07/20

Let us unravel the mystery of Shakespearean demises with our animal friends. This time we're checking in with disc 2, genociding the Croaker Tribe, solving arcane riddles to put rocks in holes, discovering ancient murals, falling through other holes, getting crushed by the ceiling, measuring water levels, suffering the tragedy of Hammer, glitching out, viewing clone violence, being logic and using logic as a logic lord, pissing off the Fake Net, elevating slumbering ships, meeting at dawn, and

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01:11:08

Xenogears E42: Merge for the Kill [Soul Vessel]

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2020/07/13

Let us join together as we unravel the mystery of interdimensional chair sitting. On this episode we're getting deposited in dungeons, meeting Shopkeeper Johnny, eating death, replacing fuses to open lock A, solving arcane puzzles to open lock B, enjoying the sound of steam bolt locks, acquiring god technology, fighting teen girl squads, watching their Gears combine into one larger Gear, hitting our rivals with psychoanalysis, conspiring to kill Cain with Cain, wishing we could actually see Ramsus'

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01:04:19

Xenogears E41: The Ultimate JPEG [Break the Seal]

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2020/07/06

If only you didn't exist. This time we're continuing to dream, imposing a total sentence of ten years, reacquiring Knight of Fire, shattering Ramsus' absolute confidence, launching nanoparticles into the atmosphere, battling Solarian super weapons, realizing government buildings are ships and robots, mutating into abnormal forms, eating god's apostles, subverting the Gazel, constructing monsters with organic compounds, cinematically merging Elly and Sophia, watching anime for the first time in six

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01:10:38

Xenogears E40: Being Naked in Tubes Together [Shot Down]

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2020/06/29

Please insert Disc 2. This time we're literally and virtually sitting in chairs, unpacking our own existence, spending quality time painting our partners, exploring our interiority through our reclaimed souls, loving the same soul across epochs of time, exploring the duality of dreaming, waking up naked, forgetting our names, worrying our comatose girlfriend might forget us, controlling Id with a System, debating the path of fate, listening to Mitsuda music from different games, telling women they

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01:19:03

Xenogears E39: Monotheism is Not on the Menu...

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2020/06/22

Let's go, Fei. In this episode we're acting on Emperor Cain's directions, concluding managers are no longer needed, denying mental health issues exist, selecting Ramsus as our favorite tool, realizing we're our own subordinate, registering as tenants in the room of cowardice, using our girlfriend as brain armor, defining The Coward and The Bully, encasing dangerous friends in carbonite, participating in apologetic group therapy, dismissing logic lords, downgrading to Steel Giant, and reading Grahf's

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56:26

Xenogears E38: Annoying Handyman [Tears for Fears +...

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2020/06/15

Chris didn't know Tears for Fears is a real band. On this episode we're telling Ramsus we're in different situations, putting four people in our party, realizing Emeralda is the original Bayonetta, meeting all of our friends again twice, declining to use our Jugend training, fighting Grahf in person, bungling a sacrifice play, replacing death with the next dimension, unmasking the Executioner, blowing up a bridge, and sorting out intense identity issues. You had no time to say goodbye but, don't

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56:16

Xenogears E37: Unworthy Molecular Machine [Krelian's...

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2020/06/08

God has given us a right to rule over the universe. This time we're identifying our assholes, getting imprisoned in a CRT Danger Room, suffering betrayal, citing Arch Angels, arking artifacts, enduring an MRI, awakening some other inner-selves, reading three books a day, discovering the urobolus ring, nursing an obsession with our 500 year old girlfriend, defining damn it, fighting for a place where we can belong, going on drug benders, and blinging our sword. Now is not the time to contemplate

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01:08:04

Xenogears E36: This is Reality. Let's Go. [Krelian's...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/06/01

We're opening our minds and drinking the purest form of nutrition; people. This time we're getting sucked up in a dust chute, destroying ventilation infrastructure, gluttonously gobbling up idle foodstuffs, hacking another computer, eating Soylent in real life, manufacturing memory cubes, liberating mutated prisoners, murdering mutated prisoners, challenging the Bloody Bros, missing with magic, learning facts from holograms, and asking Citan questions he doesn't like. This is reality. Let's go

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50:21

Xenogears E35: End of the Sh*tpipe [Escape Solaris +...

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2020/05/25

This is better than Doc's bathtub! In these two chapters, we're loving raw sewage, wrecking security cubes, walking into wealthy Solarian's houses with poop-stained clothes, predicting soylent, telling our girlfriend her mom is hot, putting a shower in our rooms, getting a psycho rod from the maid, hacking our father's computer, desiring a trash chute, reporting our daughter as a burglar, punching out windows, walking out on our girlfriend, @$&%$#!, and evading death squads. Every time my dad caught

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01:06:31

Xenogears E34: Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich [Into...

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2020/05/18

We're entering Solaris to beat up all the fascists, kill their leaders, and save the world. Our discussion and activities include wondering why Krelian let Emeralda go, denying the compulsion to adopt Maria, worrying about Hammer time, getting in shipping containers, realizing most of the fictional Solarian hellscape is 2020's actual hellscape, escaping with Samson, removing Samson from the physical plane, engaging The Chewbacca Defense, Entrenstrolling, either killing or returning to Mother God,

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57:42

Xenogears E33: Showing His Samurai Ass [Gate 3: The...

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2020/05/11

How do you do? This time we're concluding Drunk Elevator Guy is an assigned position, breaking the Fake Net, obtaining underwater gear for our Gears, getting physically wrecked by Mermen, getting mentally wrecked by Rattan, substituting wings for arms, meeting Kim (who is Fei), revealing Solaris from the ether, having moments in the sky, and choosing our own path. You will be hurt. They will also be hurt. If you take their side I'll kill you without a doubt, even from the back. 00:39 - Intro 02:59 -

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10:01

Season 2 Poll Results and Announcement

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/05/05

Here's the results and announcement show we recorded as we revealed the results to ourselves, recorded on May 4. Thanks to everyone who participated! We are looking forward to the conclusion of Season 1 (which will take 55 episodes to completely cover Xenogears) and a new beginning with Season 2! What game will we cover? Listen to find out!

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01:03:18

Xenogears E32: Angle it for the Drop Ratio [Gate 2:...

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2020/05/04

Calm down, your pants are too loud. In this episode, we're worrying Chu-Chu might be out of unique dialogue, witnessing the effect of monarchy's dissolution on the local non-playable populace, eating fish out of an aquarium, fantasy equipping Ramsus' speedo, decimating Elements, appreciating Kelvana's professionalism, missing incredibly important laser shots, solving imaginary union disputes, not knowing where Solaris is, extracting data from nanomachines, and spreading panic to Etrenank. Once you

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01:09:43

R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 Retrospective

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/05/01

And now, for something completely different. Released in North America on May 1st 1999, R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 closed a generation—and a millennium—with character and class. Namco’s signature racing series, once defined by its garish spectacle and manic energy, finally relaxed into a state of confident sophistication. This podcast is a complete retrospective on R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 written and narrated by Eric Layman.

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51:25

Xenogears E31: Bart vs. Bartholomew [Gate 1: Margie]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/04/27

A boss battle and a plot device; let's go. We're missing glowing red buttons, observing Grahf's technology and Gate technology, noting Shakhan is a jerk and a punk, not getting it up, blessing up our Big Boy, min-maxing Elly and destroying god, crashing our PlayStation Classic, creating a republic, having sex out of sects, cultivating dread, tolerating Rico's bad ideas, de-committing from Chu-Chu, and trashing Ramsus' trash-ass. Margie's not in this chapter. 00:57 - Intro 03:14 - Ambush at the

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01:25:08

Xenogears E30: Bartweiser, The King of Gears [Protect...

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2020/04/20

You're really acting absent-minded chu-day. This time we're listening to half the soundtrack, "burning ass" back to the Yggdrasil, committing to Chu-Chu, fighting on a stage set, collecting our thoughts on a bridge, not robbing an abandoned store, exploring an actual spaceship, using our ancestral eyes to open sacred doors, lamenting the mausoleum's whack-ass dungeon, deathblowing each other, bonding pilots with robots, flying saucers, suggesting clergymen should commit suicide, and controlling

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01:06:45

Xenogears E29: Perfect Robot Body [Intruder Alert! +...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/04/13

Unification increases power. This time we're listening to forest music in an air shaft, thinking Maria's combat prowess might be underdeveloped, hopping windmills, conjuring alternative Big Joe truths, listening to villains reveal critical plot machinations, regretting Rico, dealing with our machine father, speculating Billy's infatuation with Boondock Saints, riding Gears instead of piloting Gears, witnessing fantastic animal transformations, practicing telepathy with children, running like Naruto,

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01:20:56

Xenogears E28: Disagreeable Squirt [Sky City Shevat]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/04/06

Let's not imagine things. It's not good for your heart. What's real is spilling beverages on podcast equipment, identifying 2018 lyrics in a 1998 song, appreciating Bart carrying plot points across time, squirting, collecting different shaded rocks, encountering Shevat's assemblage of ragtag rebels, parlaying with Chu-Chu's, turning yesterday’s tears into tomorrow's smiles, receiving all of the lore at Shevat Palace, blending our fake religion with Xenogears' real legends, getting gaslit by Yui, and

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59:54

Xenogears E27: Lost Porpoise [Babel Tower]

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2020/03/30

We've lost our porpoise. On this episode, we're realizing the places we feared as children aren't to be feared as an adult, admiring Krelian's headgear, going over Chu-Chu composition theories, confronting the horror of 1998 physics systems, falling into dank pools, jumping over wreckage, speculating tower origins, obliterating Ramsus' weak ass (again), riding through Traffic Jams, meeting a young anime girl with pilot goggles, recognizing a familiar large Gear, and experiencing two SOL-900

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01:04:47

Persona 5 Royal: The Retrograde Amnesia Review

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/27

Good day. This bonus podcast is a fun one-off episode as well as a way for Eric to rationalize doing nothing else for two weeks. Podcasting about things is now a release equal to writing about things. This won’t replace any scheduled pods, it’s just a thing we’re doing. For fun. This podcast is intended for those who already have a familiarity with Persona 5 and will likely be incomprehensible if you have not played Persona 5. Check out Eric's review on digitalchumps.com. It’s an answer to the

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