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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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01:05:52

Xenogears 26: EA Wild Second Amendment Appears! [Deep...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/23

Are you strong? This time we're dealing with the implications of Citan as party leader, finding Zeal in Xenogears, developing some suspicious Dan suspicions, meeting Id and wondering gosh what the heck is an Id, watching heroes come out of the rafters, LOOKING AT STONE'S FACE OR LACK THEREOF, clarifying a "fake awakening," questioning Grahf's motivations, doing bong rips with Citan, desiring a Jessie manga, laughing at Stone self-identify as an incel, noting the absurdity of suicide Gears, and

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01:10:01

Xenogears E25: Yoke, not Yolk [Ocean Floor]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/16

Oh god. We're missing our dead friends, determining the info line on Chu-Chu, keeping pictures of our house in our house, numbing our fear of Reapers with booze, ratioing/radioing Grahf with Miang, spending a lot of time in hallways and staircases, computing some math problems, watching nanomachine colonies assume human form, organizing the hierarchy of conspirators, figuring out what "yoke" means, and meeting some new Elements. Religion can only be used for wrongdoing. Drunks love to fight. It's

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44:34

Xenogears E24: Hacking with Friends [Burning Souls]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/09

Burning Desire, Burning Souls, Burning Rangers. It's been exposed. We spend our time stealing our father's gun, realizing you can't have separation of church and state if the church is also the state, uncovering Solaris' global meddling, watching dying people cough up blood and plot, shattering faith, enduring Bond villain soliloquies, watching Bishop Stone overdo it, and sitting through escalations of lore and plot devices. Current Xenogears toilet count: 2. 00:43 - Intro 02:50 - Yggdraslin' around

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05:30

Season 1 Trailer [Xenogears]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/06

Retrograde Amnesia is a comprehensive discussion show where we re-live a classic JRPG -- chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Through these conversations, we re-experience our lost memories of treasured classics and discover why these stories have become so precious to us and so many others. Season 1 covers Xenogears (1998).

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50:27

Xenogears E23: Various, Pointless Gun Envy [Reaper's...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/03/02

Thank you, my good man. As we board the Transport ship, we're speculating the nature of father and son ethical considerations, telling our garbage sons to quit their bullshit jobs, embracing for sex acts with blood relatives, identifying Bishop Stone as Billy's Citan, pinpointing silence as an indicator of wisdom, selling our bodies to perverts, laughing at Bart's Sideshow Bob-ass running animation, explaining the holy man violence paradox, busting down doors at full speed, and making our monster

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01:02:19

Xenogears E22: God Tolerates Our Heathenism [A Young...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/02/24

It's happened. We've come to value the meaningful and the meaningless information relinquished by Xenogears' localization. We're also justifying Margie as a manager, wondering why machines are gendered, watching the Ripper digest and disappear party members, identifying Ether Doubler acquisition methods, uncovering some ulterior motives at Etone H.Q., questioning Hammer's retention, referring to our biological father as "that man," expanding our nationalistic beef awareness, discovering mystery

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50:09

Xenogears E21: Classic Protagonist Incapacitation...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/02/17

Ramsus attacks in this chapter, but so does Dominia. And so does Jessie, but only with his words and only at Bart. We're also questioning the ethical responsibility of GameSharks, admiring pirate and salvager bonds of sea and fire, expressing rage with quick camera cuts, missing every mother fucking X attack, noting the time/space error by the Yggdrasil's depth charges, not paying attention to Ramsus' Mirror Stance, conjuring an NPC Doctor Academy FanFic, jerkin' off with Bart, outlining Nisan sect

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57:01

Xenogears E20: Pranks in an Unknown Land [Friends...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/02/10

It's true; Xenogears and Xeno-adjacent podcast may be our own dark cruel destiny. This time we're dissecting idioms, unlocking abilities through the power of narrative, expressing surprise at some casual abduction, picturing "Malibu Bart," remembering Hammer is on this blasted ship, fantasizing over non-erotic Old Maison fan art, determining the current villain tier list, continuing our adoration of portrait-less doctors, and dabbling in some hypno-programming. You shouldn't play pranks in an

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52:57

Xenogears E19: Do Men Drink Hard Seltzer? [Men of the...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/02/03

We. Are men. Of the sea. Or at least we try to be. Between the shards of these emotions we're discovering men who love to drink, clarifying the way to say words, debating more origin species of demi-humans, talking through the safety of combining inebriation and work assignments, learning a new card game, seeing what happens when antagonists are consumed by rage, and recognizing that treasure and people are both treasures. We don't know if the Captain is dosing his crew but we do know that you

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48:53

Xenogears E18: Dry, Crumbly Conversation [Escape...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/01/27

Life is a movie that flashes back between floating platforms and floating ships. Between these dire circumstances we're evaluating Fei's exclusive friendship with portrait characters, sorting out the Ministry's latest AOL keywords, noting Bart and Rico's mutual admiration, learning some Gear aesthetic choices, watching Fei's miserable attempts to fish with his bare hands, accepting more Shevat revelations, and trying to find common ground in Fei and Elly's mutually assured destruction. Citan isn't a

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59:44

Xenogears E17: Nationalist Robot Boss [Secret Weapon]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/01/20

Hello today. We begin with a routine check to see if this podcast is enhancing our damaging our love of Xenogears. We move on to lose faith in the acumen of our favorite doctor, determine the best air-jacking sequence in role-playing games, make sense of Deathblows, become suspicious of Hammer's connections, appreciate framing and directing decisions, acknowledge airship feints, hat-tip Grahf's non-stop flexing and insistence on remaining "fucking awesome," and shake our heads at a certain pirate's

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52:17

Xenogears E16: Super Nacho Information: Rubbing Tanks...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/01/13

It's about that time, players. We're discussing giant robots and the feelings people are feeling while inside of them as we wipe the floor with villainous stooges, recognize the necessity of equipping items before a boss fight, question Citan's concern for the innocent, observe Rico's declining mental state, watch Elly turn face, and witness how much Fei loves heart-to-heart conversations before, during, and after serious conflict. Heart stopping mysteries are solved, robots fall in slow motion, the

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52:21

Xenogears E15: The Only Toilet in the Ignas Continent...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2020/01/06

We live in a new room. It has a playlist of one song. It never stops. We're also talking about Kislev's strength-based merit system, meeting a new candidate for Best Doctor, receiving advice from a toilet nun, interpreting Kislev's iconography, sending Rico's brain to hell, shutting Hammer up, jumping on a moving train without committing suicide, and being amused by Fei's resolve to "just go wild." Fei denies he cares about Rico but due to classic male insecurity he cannot admit he cares about Rico

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44:47

Xenogears E14: A Mutilated State [Battling Champ]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/12/30

Behold the introduction of a brand new segment: Egregious Oversights and Corrections. After that we're bebopping back into Nortune’s D Block where we try to avoid talking about Citan's deviancy, attempt to trash talk our arena battling opponents, use our weakness as strength, and listen to some D Block poetry. We also realize Hammer might be playing us, and determine Gundam is patient zero for mech fiction. Then Wiseman literally drops in and solves inscrutable riddles from previous anime

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01:02:10

Xenogears E13: Grahf's Spreadsheet [Brave Battlers +...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/12/23

It's episode 13, the best number. We begin with an outrageous Blue Guy/Red Guy Digital Thunderdome sequence before moving onto the Battle Arena and discovering someone tried to make a fighting game in the middle of this role-playing game. We also find Hammer The Supplier in our modern society, get body shamed by French cooks on a planet that doesn't have France, question whether Rico seeks justice or recruitment, stomp out grotesque monsters in the sewer, experiment with vertical platforming, and

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52:57

Xenogears E12: Black Market Concerns [Kislev Capital]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/12/16

Hey. We're in Nortune now, which means everything is different until it becomes the same again. Enigmatic forces of questionable benefit are everywhere. Prison initiation rituals are unavoidable. There are suspect choices on diversity and representation. Fei finally sleeps a lot. We also discuss pretentious attempts at creating introspection, our wish for a D Block Animal Crossing spinoff, bomb collars in popular fiction, Rico's clear origins in Blanka, and bro'ing out Hamer The Supplier. At the end

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01:08:31

Xenogears E11: Mister Puniverse [Recapture Aveh +...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/12/09

It's Episode 11, our 12th episode. We open with Ramsus' nightmare and try to determine who's pulling the most strings. We battle with Elly's Loser Squad and watch Elly get dosed with space racism. We witness Vanderkaum realize his destiny, watch Ramsus transition from Powerful to Pathetic, note strong directorial decisions with archaic assets, identify who desires the power, and wonder if there really is a Mother God. Finally, the "Demon of Elru" debuts with monstrous, awestruck-dread energy. 00:36

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01:00:07

Xenogears E10: Nun of These Characters [City of Peace]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/12/02

Schöne Grüße. Xenogears is a Japanese role-playing game, which means we have to wind up in a church. After poking around in Nisan we spend some time in its cathedral. Here we learn incest is an aspirational fantasy, contemplate the morality of genociding the Gonzales clan, and speculate Gnosticism’s influence on Sophia, the Ethos, and Nisan. Later, we discuss Solarian abductions, conduct operations for an all-out assault against to recapture Aveh, and what happens when we meet characters with

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49:42

Xenogears E9: Emphasis on Sick Combos [Margie’s...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/11/25

It is time for Episode Nine. After coming to Margie's rescue, Bart faces off against Ramsus. Then Fei comes to help! Then they run into Elly! Then Margie's stuffed animal is a real animal! We learn the necessity of deathblow combos, explore the lack of stride animations in non-essential characters, and also develop an utter mistrust of Citan. Remember, Xenogears’ first law states that something must be foreshowed ten (10) times before you're allowed to know the truth. 00:34 - Intro / Washed Reality

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01:00:41

Xenogears E8: Oblivious to the Dire Nature of...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2019/11/18

Yes. This time we're exploring Aveh's capital, Bledavik, and plotting ways to bust Margie out of the prison she doesn't know she's in. We meet Ramsus, Miang, Shakhan, Vanderkaum, and an absolute wreck of a man who lives in the sewer. We wonder if gambling is the only human vice the stretches through time, speculate who's behind Dan's mysterious agency, and appreciate the interplay between fighting and sneaking. The best cure I ever came across for hangover was raw meat, and plenty of it. 00:37 -

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