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Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Written by: Retrograde Amnesia
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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.2019-2024 Science Fiction
Episodes
  • Phantasy Star IV | E10: Cave or Lost Civilization [Guild Hall, Wreckage, Kadary]
    Jan 12 2026

    Do not run on the floor. Instead, run your ears on observing infinite lives, hearing about the troops, declining a free drink, enriching lives, rendering pixel ass, making sure they're bug ladies and not bunny ladies, splitting the cave-computer binary, tying into Phantasy Star III, decaying orbit, merging two guys into one guy, rejecting the M.E.T.A. meta, becoming annoyed at the cultists, uniting christ with computer, and blacking out at either snake church or tongue church. Purge the souls of the fools.

    00:00:00 Coach Dad 1-0
    00:02:23 Intro / Mechanical Man
    00:05:41 Hunter's Guild
    00:15:09 Hunter's Guild Back Room
    00:18:43 The Ranch Owner
    00:22:05 Wreckage
    00:34:08 Passageway
    00:39:56 Kadary
    00:49:46 Kadary Buildings
    00:58:04 Real Net
    01:03:45 Outro

    • Patreon: patreon.com/retroam
    • Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social
    • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia
    • E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    • Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Phantasy Star IV | E9: A Fluid Town [Nalya, Aiedo]
    Jan 5 2026

    We're ex-convicts, no one will marry us now. We're doomed to a life of observing the need to fix bridges, inhabiting a dead town, fearing dentist technology, bowling alone, refusing to trust the neighbors, Wet Banditing our own house, vomiting all over the wall, observing a fluid town, stealing husband's secret savings, losing a lot in translation, interpreting a poster, panty-raiding ourselves, sneaking out of an inn, refusing to tell a fortune, and drinking to numb the pain. I don't seem to be in good shape today, come back some other time.

    00:00:00 The Server Has a Tattoo
    00:04:14 Intro
    00:06:22 World Map
    00:09:32 Nayla
    00:13:01 Nayla Buildings
    00:28:37 Aiedo
    00:36:54 Aiedo Buildings
    00:45:43 Big Market
    00:57:12 Jail
    00:58:28 Real Net
    01:02:20 Outro

    • Patreon: patreon.com/retroam
    • Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social
    • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia
    • E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    • Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Phantasy Star IV | E8: Bubblegum Crisis [Bio-Plant]
    Dec 29 2025

    What on earth are you, and what is this place? To figure that out, we're doing it in the Birth Valley, re-entering the Techno Drome, expanding Chris' vocabulary, touring the Porsche factory, mixing monsters with machines, creating a bioactive environment, enjoying the Professor Holt bit, referencing Nei, citing sexy lady anime, determining the cat girl origin point, upsetting mother nature, stacking computers, breeding harmful monsters, meeting a computer child, and carrying the will of Seed. Sterilization treatment completed; please follow the line on the floor.

    00:00:00 Marathon Man
    00:03:06 Intro
    00:04:32 Return to Birth Valley
    00:05:45 Bio-Plant
    00:21:32 Rika
    00:31:44 Seed
    00:45:57 Fresh Air in Zema
    00:49:24 Real Net
    00:56:20 Outro

    • Patreon: patreon.com/retroam
    • Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social
    • YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia
    • E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
    • Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

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    1 hr and 2 mins
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