233 episodes

A comprehensive podcast covering classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Yes, we will kill god.

Season 1: Xenogears | Season 2: Chrono Cross | Season 3: Final Fantasy VIII | Season 4: Suikoden & Suikoden

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective Retrograde Amnesia

    • Leisure
    • 5.0 • 119 Ratings

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A comprehensive podcast covering classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Yes, we will kill god.

Season 1: Xenogears | Season 2: Chrono Cross | Season 3: Final Fantasy VIII | Season 4: Suikoden & Suikoden

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher

    Suikoden II E21: Dirt Fetishist [Even More Recruitung]

    Suikoden II E21: Dirt Fetishist [Even More Recruitung]

    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 b******t is real, henpecking for life, stumbling into a wild ass cooking minigame, devaluing human life, getting Sonic references out of our system, and concocting a school days plot. It’s anime. It’s war. It’s all the same.
    00:00 Pickle Juice | 01:46 Intro | 02:59 Clive Event #4 | 05:41 Forest Village | 17:69 Kobold Village | 27:50 Unicorn Test | 34:19 Unicorn Woods | 39:06 Hix & Tengaar | 45:28 Real Pigeons | 46:04 Cook Off | 53:46 Shu’s Green Hill Gambit | 01:01:51 Real Net | 01:05:06 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
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    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Suikoden II E20: A Higher Form of Dog [More Recruiting]

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

    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 training.Can this thing judge food?
    00:00 Remastered | 02:05 Intro | 03:43 Two River Debrief | 14:27 Toasty Tetsu | 18:10 Exploring HQ | 29:26 Stallion | 33:29 Shilo, Tengaar, Hix | 38:45 Gabocha | 42:57 Sid | 51:20 Meg & Gadget | 01:00:25 Real Net 01:02:35 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
    E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Suikoden II E19: The One Who is Full of It [Two River, Part II]

    Suikoden II E19: The One Who is Full of It [Two River, Part II]

    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 marginalized grandma of hope, sounding the death bell, uniting the races in battle, finally chopping someone’s head off, and watching Jowy take off the mask. Of course I’m me.
    00:00 Intro | 03:37 Ridley vs Fitcher | 08:10 Two Rivers Politicking | 12:42 New Leaf Inn | 14:34 A Spy? | 19:42 Sewers | 28:41 Trespassers | 32:20 Kiba & Klaus | 40:55 Susu Consultation | 44:06 Kiba & Klaus II | 47:37 Wingers Save The Day | 56:43 Jowy’s Ambition | 01:01:07 Real Net | 01:03:23 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
    E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
     

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Suikoden II E18: Toasty People [Two River, Part I]

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

    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 hoodlum like me.
    00:00 Intro | 04:00 Lakewest | 12:41 Clive Incident #2 | 17:14 Taki | 21:51 Tetsu’s House | 25:46 Two Rivers | 35:39 Winger Zone | 45:00 Kobold District | 53:51 Real Net | 57:57 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
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    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Suikoden II E17: Strong as Piss [Recruiting]

    Suikoden II E17: Strong as Piss [Recruiting]

    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, enticing Clive with free travel, recruiting a displaced merchant couple, throwing shit at Adlai’s head, and reinventing the elevator. I see you still like sticking your neck into suicidal causes.
    00:00 Weird Al | 02:38 Intro | 04:45 Barbara | 07:05 Fitcher | 08:25 Castle Exploration | 15:52 Fitcher’s Offer | 20:25 Tai Ho & Yam Koo | 27:20 Yoshino | 33:03 Richmond | 37:16 Amada | 40:59 Return To Headquarters | 46:28 Clive | 49:00 Hilda & Alex | 53:13 Adlai | 56:56 Real Net | 58:51 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
    E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Suikoden II E16: Our Sprite Picnic [Defense of North Window Castle]

    Suikoden II E16: Our Sprite Picnic [Defense of North Window Castle]

    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, and you’ll be the loser.
    00:00 Intro | 03:37 Introducing: Shu | 15:17 Overslept | 16:53 Solon Jhee, Round 3 | 21:29 Celebration/Initiation | 29:26 Viktor’s Genkaku Digest | 40:05 Lord Riou | 42:14 Dr. Haun | 45:31 Leknaat & Luc | 50:34 Real Net | 52:25 Outro
    Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 
    Twitter: @retroamnesiapod
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    Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

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119 Ratings

119 Ratings

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Xenogears is the best game ever and I’m so glad I stumbled on this podcast. Incredible dissection of my favorite game!

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