Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

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Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Final Fantasy Tactics E2: Anarchists & Blasphemers [Orbonne Monastery]

    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 wondering if this Delita guy is an a-hole. Blame yourself, or god.

    00:00 Intro | 03:33 Power On | 14:37 Push Start | 22:46 Intro Movies | 29:14 Orbonne Monastery | 37:25 Enter Gaffgarion + Ramza | 41:45 Enemy Attack | 46:40 First Battle | 53:23 Ovelia’s Abduction | 01:01:55 Real Net 01:06:42 Outro

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    22 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 34 minutes
    Final Fantasy Tactics E1: Class Warfare [Introduction]

    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, listening to commercials, reading old game magazines, applying elite hacks, hot-seating a past playthrough, getting lost in the Epic Center, relating Ogre Battle to IVF, and spawning Chris’ origin story. Be clever. Be ruthless. Be dead. This fantasy becomes reality: today.

    00:00 Intro | 04:25 Release Information | 12:26 How to Play in 2024 | 15:30 Development Staff | 22:54 Staff Interviews | 38:58 Promotional Media | 47:18 Cut Content | 49:21 Contemporary Reviews | 58:12 Square-Enix and the PSP | 59:10 Mods | 01:00:43 Memories | 01:17:08 Odds, Ends, and Expectations | 01:23:30 Real Net 01:31:09 Outro

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    15 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    Xenosaga E33: Narrative Malpractice [Finale]

    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 of Adam, finding chaos alone, relinquishing pain unto robot, performing a silent shout, playing with gifted child blocks, engulfing the Elsa in angel wing love, not dying until that —time— arrives, and still wondering if Chaos is real. The sunshine would just dissolve me into light. Dissolve yourself into season six, covering Final Fantasy Tactics, next week.

    00:00 Intro | 03:00 Abeldo Post-Battle | 09:46 Sophie Peithos | 21:31 Escaping Proto Merkabah | 31:48 Pain Hogg | 44:49 Escape | 47:52 Chaos KOSMOS | 59:50 Aftermath | 01:02:59 Kokoro | 01:17:22 Final Thoughts | 01:23:30 Real Net

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    8 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 57 minutes 52 seconds
    Xenosaga E32: Will to Power, Bad? [Proto Merkabah, Part II]

    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 will (purple shit with a face on it). Ziggy is a computer, but he can’t use one.

    00:00 Intro | 03:20 Proto Merkabah Pregame | 10:26 Proto Merkabah | 15:33 Computer Lore #1 | 18:19 Computer Lore #2 | 21:38 Computer Lore #3 | 28:32 Stardust Room | 34:35 Momo Birth Zone | 42:27 Albedo | 51:47 Real Net | 54:50 Outro

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    1 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Xenosaga E31: God Slayers vs. Tanks [Odds and Ends]

    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 princess, speculating over character-specific bosses, and battling the greatest Joe of them all. Let’s complete the invincible robot that I’ve dreamed of.

    00:00 Season 6 | 03:20 Intro | 05:59 Battle Passport | 12:07 Card Passport | 17:34 Final Durandal NPC Report | 23:44 Robot Academy Episode V Part I | 29:41 Robot Academy Episode V Part II | 34:44 City Sector 26 | 43:50 City Sector 27 | 50:32 Mintia | 59:09 Great Joe | 01:04:06 Real Net | 01:08:15 Outro

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    25 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Xenosaga E30: Father, Son, and the Holy Sh*t [Proto Merkabah]

    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, favoring a goop scenario, and finally finding the boss (of us). The laws by which we are governed are just too different.

    00:00 Season Six Update | 01:42 Intro | 03:32 Testament Testifies | 09:27 Durandal Bridge | 13:38 Proto Merkabah | 38:16 Durandal Bridge Again | 40:03 Bridge Check In | 44:32 Drill Passport | 48:32 Casino Passport | 53:14 Real Net | 01:00:29 Outro

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    18 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Xenosaga E29: Suffering of Robot Based On Lecherous Jealousy [Song of Nephilim, Part III]

    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 daddy issues, introducing a blue Testament, and suffering an engine stop. I do not exist for your pleasure, but this podcast does.

    00:00 Season Six Update | 02:18 Intro | 03:52 Albedo Throne Scene | 23:56 Perspective Unconscious | 27:37 Versus Simeon | 33:28 Win The Battle, Lose the Cutscene | 41:37 The New Guy | 48:47 Virgil | 58:09 Real Net | 01:01:47 Outro

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    11 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier]
    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.
    6 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Xenosaga E28: Her Brain Items [Song of Nephilim, Part II]

    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 willing ourselves to power through a slog of a dungeon. Carrying two guns is the same as carrying a sword.

    00:00 Shin Godzilla | 02:35 Intro | 04:01 Albedo’s Family Fun Event | 07:13 The Gang Figures It Out | 17:58 Durandal Bridge | 22:20 Durandal Residential Area | 28:28 Graves | 30:46 Durandal Park + Dock | 34:12 Odds & Ends | 38:43 Oh No Momo | 46:35 Song of Nephilim | 01:01:24 Real Net | 01:0825 Outro

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    4 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Xenosaga E27: Poisoned by the Holy Spirit So Hard [Song of Nephilim, Part I]

    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, demanding candles for villain pondering, keeping the phase transfer mass low, and finding the true lunatic pandora. I wanted to make a more direct impact on people, rather than just analyzing data.

    00:00 Season Six | 04:37 Intro | 07:30 Albedo vs Gnosis | 09:51 Momo Gets Kidnapped | 16:37 Momo Solo | 20:35 Federation Fleet Battles | 22:57 Momo Memory Hole | 27:25 Shion Hears A Song | | 31:30 Censored Albedo Scene | 45:23 Rhine Maiden | 51:06 Weapon Briefcase | 54:33 The Miracle | 58:54 Real Net | 01:04:03 Outro

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    26 February 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 seconds
    Xenosaga E26: Die in the Trash [Attack on Kukai, Part II]

    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 thought I was going to die in the trash.

    00:00 Godzilla | 01:35 Intro | 03:10 Kukai Foundation | 04:51 Robot Academy Episode III | 07:36 Allen You Piece Of Shit | 09:19 Albedo’s Playlist |18:07 Durandal NPCs | 22:29 Kukai Foundation NPCs | 25:23 City Sector 26 Rescue | 32:28 Sector 27 Rescue | 37:55 Gigas | 47:18 Robot Academy Episode IV |51:25 Real Net | 57:16 Outro

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    19 February 2024, 10:00 am
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