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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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55:41

Final Fantasy Tactics E6: Who Will Lick the Boots?...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/05/20

Animals have no god. But they have us, and so do you, as we’re correcting the marquis, nesting menus, rending equipment, interpreting the kindness of time, being false on another’s behalf, once again realizing knights are cops, wasting strength and vitality, wondering if executing a scenario requires executing a god, demanding more than an apology, blowing up my clothes, supping on broth of bean, thinking beastly thoughts, doing it in the gutter, filling radicalization meters, and stealing one lady

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45:02

Final Fantasy Tactics E5: Here for Politics [Dorter...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/05/13

Welcome to the rat cellar. A beating has loosened our tongues, allowing us the chance of identifying the wrong song, speaking false to a knight, getting a guy muddy, discovering an actual Dune reference, endlessly reviving Ramza, employing an ineffective mage, configuring the proper Post Up, beating up prisoners, bearing a ribald tongue, filling different radicalization meters, wishing to end the aristocracy, pulling off one last job, arguing over the necessities of a rebel army, speaking our fill,

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50:57

Final Fantasy Tactics E4: For Want of Coin [Igros...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/05/06

Mayhap your ears not fail you. For, if they do, you wouldn’t hear us telling the same stories, loving our brave lads, creating a time paradox, seeking justice for a waylaid marquis, hunting down a whoreson, shitting into Argath’s mouth, being assigned to guard the base, chatting on a thinking bridge, throwing a rock into a pond, bursting a sister’s seam, putting a spy with the enemy, honeying some words, blowing an ominous wind, and chancing upon Final Fantasy monsters in the wood. Mind your own

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55:34

Final Fantasy Tactics E3: Heroes & Wizards [Magic...

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2024/04/29

Honest work would see us die old in bed. Instead of that, we’re flashing to a different back, hearing of the Corpse Brigade Death Corps, teaming up with the cops to murder homeless veterans, randomly generating soldiers, getting on the roof, name-dropping our nobility, learning from the computer, droppin’ crystal, crafting a homely bar scene, reading lore, wondering who is writing history, dying in the middle of the room, treating the bastard like family, and witnessing Argath’s frisky animations

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01:09:46

Final Fantasy Tactics E2: Anarchists & Blasphemers...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/04/22

Join me in my search to uncover the answer. This quest for truth includes actions like turning our consoles on, engraving vanishing memories, attracting mode, skipping a tutorial, defeating the war, yearning to be known as a blaspheming anarchist, aspiring to just be a guy, riding birds through war torn country, nailing Jesus to something else, pressuring Ovelia to leave church, being rude to nobles, ridding oneself of vulgar knaves, slaughtering our enemies, slugging a lady in the stomach, and

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01:34:27

Final Fantasy Tactics E1: Class Warfare [Introduction]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/04/15

Hello! And welcome to the sixth season of Retrograde Amnesia, where we’re covering the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics and The War of the Lions. In the opening, information-loaded episode, we’re determining who is playing which version, ignoring Tactics Advance, pronouncing “Ivalice,” buying the mobile version, leaving Quest en masse, framing Tactics as another attempt at an Ogre, adding a sense of swashbuckling heroism, valuing 60fps, calling Matsuno for help, canceling a sequel,

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01:42:29

Xenosaga E33: Narrative Malpractice [Finale]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/04/08

Kindness is something I don’t want or need. In the final episode for season five, we’re doing all this for Rubedo’s sake, simultaneously blaming Rubedo for everyone's sake, installing Sonic Adventure’s Chaos as the final boss, tormenting for fun, consulting Brady, detaching subcompartments in one whole minute, worrying Chaos, denying Ziggy his need to kill himself, justifying an incomplete arc, setting a Christ Denial Record, deploying Joanne twice, seeing with our heart, gender bending The Creation

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57:52

Xenosaga E32: Will to Power, Bad? [Proto Merkabah,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/04/01

I’d accompany you to the very depths of hell. That task includes making sure we have company approval, wondering if Junior or KOSMOS is a bigger liability, god blessing the dungeon music, shifting bridges to solve a puzzle, celebrating the voiceless cut-scene, observing a hologram, locating satan, prototyping Dora, relieving goods, blacking out Lost Jerusalem, growing arms out of a head, refusing parent-child abomination transfers, engaging in a classic elevator battle, and revealing the power of

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01:10:13

Xenosaga E31: God Slayers vs. Tanks [Odds and Ends]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/03/25

You know what awaits you if you are defeated in a gunfight, boy? Consequences include detailing the Dumb Virtual On, coming to terms with CCG’s, checking in with some folks one last time, nabbing the final robot part, drinking to cope, realizing friendship is the key to building the Erde Kaiser, maturing into a man, knocking all the boxes off the truck, building back the community, saluting child labor, concluding the saga of Johnny and Mina, no-selling an exploding car, battling a goth gnosis

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01:03:50

Xenosaga E30: Father, Son, and the Holy Sh*t [Proto...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/03/18

We were made to discover the true form of the universe. You were made to discover us asking masked men relevant questions, amnesia’ing away Virgil, realizing Junior has failed, summoning even more fucked up shit out of space, going way off villain plan script, hallucinating heroines, ejecting a science lab into space to rebuild a knowledge daughter, throwing dangerous items into the abyss, losing it over the idea of a double black hole, rebuilding the Death Star, forcing a time-based ultimatum,

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01:06:10

Xenosaga E29: Suffering of Robot Based On Lecherous...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/03/11

Don’t be vague in the Y data. Join as as we’re crystal clear about slicing the head off our statue throne, suffering a Momo asset swap, receiving a cheese massage, longing for reality, reconsidering Nietzsche as a “little bitch,” inserting hands into jellybellys, regrowing another head, blaming nanomachines (son), exploring brain memories, laughing until it makes sense, engaging in an energy battle, drawing “super sonic” out of Junior, entering a third beam in the energy wars, drawing out Momo’s

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32:06

INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/03/06

Our second episode of Infinite Perfect finds the intersection between the bizarro world of film negatives and the fantasy zone of Space Harrier. It's the same place at the same time, and one cannot exist without the other. Ride the cycloptic mammoth through the checkerboard pastal wastes to figure out how in the hell Eric believes all of this must be true.

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01:12:08

Xenosaga E28: Her Brain Items [Song of Nephilim, Part...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/03/04

Why is she trying to sell stuff when she has nothing to sell? Join us as we’re (well, Albedo is) abusing a robot child for information, clarifying additional censorship, arguing over if dad can save daughter or if boyfriend can save girlfriend, receiving weapons in email, blowing up vending machines, learning about space graves, wondering if robots can be as illogical as humans, implying Tonyism, dragging out memory mind consciousnesses, becoming catatonic, solving an elevator box math puzzle, and

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01:08:20

Xenosaga E27: Poisoned by the Holy Spirit So Hard...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/02/26

Are you worthy to shed such tears? Cry with us as we’re cackling incessantly, letting Momo out of our sight, wasting vital shuttle transports, arguing about where Momo is, seeing a false daddy, friending a dead sister, blaming Helmer, rebuilding Sakura as a robot, performing a memory hand transfer, experiencing robot depression, defining an uncomfortable anime moment, wondering who has a soul, speculating if dead robots are corpses, cutting off seemingly vital body parts, maintaining a peach pun,

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01:00:22

Xenosaga E26: Die in the Trash [Attack on Kukai, Part...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/02/19

My goodness, this feels like a dream. This episode feels like we’re welcoming Hyper Assistant Scott, remembering Angels and Elements, flexing while wasted, playing with toys too hard, vibrating the water, shaking off premonitions, preventing gnosis incursion, blooming Luty’s flower, sliding down a roof, turning city sectors into people puzzles, presuming cats have innocent souls, getting in the robot, losing to a boss over and over, and settling a dispute between The Professor and Assistant Scott. I

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01:04:50

Xenosaga E25: The Christ for Robots [Attack on Kukai,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/02/12

Well, it looks like we all managed to make it back. Now we’re relentlessly drawing a connection to Xenoblade 2, laughing through illusory worlds, existing in the subconscious, fighting energy with energy, vaporizing a gas giant, issuing the many worlds theory, pasting in a picture of space, disarming subconscious domain protection, denying a hug, earning a three-way, crying in a graveyard, giving Allen exclusive access to the future, passing out after the sex, showing feet, monologuing in bed, and

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45:53

INFINITE PERFECT 001: Watch it Move [Burning Rangers]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/02/07

Hello and welcome to Infinite Perfect, a new periodic Retrograde Amnesia podcast series built to assemble the devastating anecdotal happenstance that connects one of the hosts to their favorite games. Our debut episode covers the Sega Saturn's Burning Rangers, a game that is either horrendous to the senses or dazzling to the eyes. It all depends on your point of view.

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01:09:00

Xenosaga E24: The Time for Feasting Has Come [Old...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/02/05

Joyful memories form only one half of the whole. Form the other half by becoming child soldiers, shooting Udo with machine guns, interpreting blood spatter, living a robot’s genetic memory, witnessing Kevin’s sacrifice, blowing a head off, returning to sewer, passing through train cars, quoting Revelations, flaming out, extracting soda from mechanical carrots, drawing a false head, finding a common resonance in memory, confusing illusion with reality, finding Feb, barreling through Shion’s soul,

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01:03:02

Xenosaga E23: The End Comes Beyond Kevin [Old Miltia,...

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective ·

2024/01/29

Would you shut up for a second, I’m in the zone right now. Get in your zone as we’re speculating Gundam names, shulking to ourselves, requiring only scenario guys, alluding to Udo and Zohar(s), losing nukes, deepfaking a space battle, figuring out how to edit truth video, fetishizing a cyborg knockout, finding strength in gloves, spotting a cop at the craps table, equating thunder to Kevin trauma, leveling up in the dream, building robots from father, and killing platypus helicopters. Thanks, you’re

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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

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