
Show overview
Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 364 episodes, alongside 15 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 380 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 8th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 56 min and 1h 8m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Chris Stone & Eric Layman.
From the publisher
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, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, and Phantasy Star IV. Yes, we will kill god.
Latest Episodes
View all 364 episodesPhantasy Star IV | E27: Inching Into the Gnosticism Zone [Rykros, Part I]
Phantasy Star IV | E26: Consequences All Over the Place [Silver Solider, Soldier's Temple]
Phantasy Star IV | E25: Head Honcho [Guild Quests]
Phantasy Star IV | E24: I Want to Know About Rick Ross [Gumbious Tower, Guild Quests]
Phantasy Star IV | E23: This Place is Brains [Garubek Tower]
Phantasy Star IV | E22: Non-Rascal Variety [Air Castle]

S8 Ep 21Phantasy Star IV | E21: Pope Hatted Out and Whatnot [Jut, Weapon Plant, Gumbious Temple]
EThere are things here that I have no clue as to what they are. Help us engage with these strange objects while we're worshipping the flame, putting an anti-blowing string in a hat, looking for lucky finds, acknowledging home invasion, wishing god would kill Chris' house, casually insulting religion, entering the conveyor belt dungeon, spitting out repair kits, merging faith with government, intending to remove a sacred relic, reducing to ashes all that is unclean, doing the complete suite of dew, and yearning for an empowering physical space What is Christ if not a hero from the past? 00:00:00 Pixel Project Radio 00:01:36 Intro 00:03:16 Leaving Esper Mansion 00:04:41 Jut 00:08:01 Jut Houses 00:19:12 Jut Fort Church 00:22:08 Weapon Plant 00:29:14 Gumbious Temple 00:38:22 Real Net Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 20Phantasy Star IV | E20: You Can Suck and Be a Wizard [Esper Mansion]
EWhat a gentle looking face this statue of a woman has. And what gentle ears you have, listener, to hear us injecting life energy into sick people, confirming midi-chlorians, wearing capes from space, meeting a girl of exceptional courage, sexually harassing the nurse, spawning infinite trees that eat people, meeting another anime space princess, seeking Lutz who is also Noah, improving body and soul, blackening the earth, christening a special boy of destiny, and praying for your safety. Yes, we will make it a hospital. 00:00:00 Our Next Miniseries is… 00:02:23 Intro 00:05:14 Meese Sick House 00:14:46 Raja Falls Ill 00:20:56 Carnivorous Forest 00:31:26 Esper Mansion 00:45:48 Inner Sanctuary 00:56:06 Real Net 01:01:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 19Phantasy Star IV | E19: Have Penguins, Have No Problems [Zoza, Climate Center, Meese]
EYou shouldn't say such unscientific things. Let us us do it while we're somehow waltzing into another JRPG penguin town, "making improvements" to owls, creaming a guy, turning Chaz into a Hero Leader, buying a penguin follower, leading a breeder's life, slaughtering zombies, hearing word of man-eating trees, meeting Dark Element Lars, debating the relationship between monsters and computer, contracting illness, letting the kids go outside, and converting the inn into hospice. Rest in peace to those spirits who are victims of illness 00:00:00 Next Miniseries 00:02:35 Intro 00:05:26 Zosa 00:13:41 Zosa Houses 00:19:34 Climate Control Center 00:29:31 Reshel 00:30:43 Meese 00:35:13 Meese Houses 00:39:38 Real Net 00:45:30 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 18Phantasy Star IV | E18: When Satan is in the Computer [Kuran]
EMy head is out of whack. Solve this neural distress with us as we're growing new hands, making sure vehicles don't get cut, admiring the galaxy map, solving the button mystery, shootin' goop, greeting a treasure chest, putting Satan in the computer, wishing for greater robot lore, pitch-shifting gak, contrasting red and black, failing to fix climate chaos, keeping a special car in space, busting through ice in our new car, speaking with cats, feeling a fond remembrance, and discussing the unparalleled beauty of badminton equipment. I am living a real life version of a life simulator. 00:00:00 Real True Videogaming 00:05:14 Dezolis Spaceport 00:09:23 Kuran 00:18:04 Dark Force 00:29:07 Zelen 00:35:48 Myst Vale 00:43:31 Real Net 00:48:02 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 17Phantasy Star IV | E17: The Androids are Dating While Everyone Else is Hunting Bears [Ryuon and Tyler]
ETwo fists is the best situation. But you can also use two ears to hear us speaking with fire, curating creamsicle outerwear, admiring the JRPG snow town, humping a rock, speaking an untranslatable pun, identifying foundational videogame farts, going hard on Tic Tacs, huddling tight on winter nights, looking at this lot with suspicion, buying armor we already have, blowing hats off, thinking of our favorite Tyler, installing a grandfather in every town, respecting father and mother, freebasing Pez, and expecting to see a spaceship buried under the snow grave cave. Trust that body to us. 00:00:00 Coach Dad Update 00:02:47 Intro 00:05:12 Ryuon 00:18:41 Ryoun Houses 00:25:16 Ryoun Bar 00:34:52 Tyler 00:41:09 Tyler Houses 00:50:34 Tyler's Grave 00:52:52 Below the Grave 00:56:41 Real Net 01:03:10 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 16Phantasy Star IV | E16: A Flamboyant Landing [Dezolis]
EWhat a flamboyant landing! Embrace the reentry glitz as we're always feeling like something is wrong, confusing Marvel Chrises, becoming divided over robots wearing cloaks, shorting out, feeling safe with Wren, witnessing a procession of absurdities, destroying an important temple, dragging an old man around with us, taking a "pleasure trip," guarding what's left of this place, summoning the pocket rover, and wondering if you can make soap dirty. How strange, it's raining machines. 00:00:00 Chris Promotes Goat Soap 00:03:07 Intro 00:05:10 Uncomfortable Space 00:08:21 Red Alert 00:12:50 Crash Landing 00:17:06 Dezolis - Temple of Raja 00:31:10 Dezolis World Map 00:38:24 Real Net 00:46:10 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 15Phantasy Star IV | E15: Absolute Unit [Zelan]
EThank goodness you've revived. Now you can listen to us raising a spaceport out of the sand, losing another party member, investigating the dorms, caring for another's child, running out in a tab, remaining an influencer, sorting out the estranged families, falling into crack, slaying ooze, going to SPACE, looking at space, curing the problem, denying weather control, revealing a second teacher, extending the problem we cured, meeting up offline, and digesting gas station pills. Perhaps he was talking about the end of himself. 00:00:00 Bad Break Up 00:01:46 Intro 00:03:10 A Spaceport 00:05:35 Missing Student (Guild Quest) 00:09:29 Kadary Revisited 00:21:49 Fissure of Fear (Guild Quest) 00:29:47 Spaceport 00:32:55 Zelen 00:43:54 Real Net 00:45:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 14Phantasy Star IV | E14: Anime Shadow Sadness [Nurvus]
EEveryone's mothers are congregating and looking sad. They're listening in as we're investigating a deadly premonition, becoming an honorable adult, withholding emotions through dark eyes, innovating narrative pain and agony through manga panels, revealing a dark backstory, checking Rune's stats, encouraging Hahn to leave, recalling videogame graves, getting inside the nucleus, making sure a robot carries the gun, doth seeking the power, assuming the battle was death-rigged, using weapons as items, putting a robot into the computer, and telecommuting with a guy in space. From now on, you have to carve out your own destiny, by yourself. 00:00:00 Seven Hour Sonic Adventure Podcast 00:02:12 Intro 00:04:44 Her Last Breath 00:14:07 Post Mortem 00:20:01 Krup: The Next Day 00:24:58 Saya's Schoolhouse 00:31:46 Return to Zio's Fort 00:38:56 Zio 00:46:58 Aftermath 00:52:54 Real Net 00:57:40 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 13Phantasy Star IV | E13: The Person of Lordly Caliber [Plate System & Ladea Tower]
EI can smell the urge to fight in you. With such pungency, you're aiding us in contracting pink eye, wasting MP on a robot, naming a kid "gunner," fearing the mono-eye robot, adapting weird machine parts for androids, refusing to look at naked robot, watching Gryz express facial emotion, worshipping a heroine of yore, aggressively referencing Phantasy Star I, locating the depraved daughter, putting our feelings in metal, rapidly blinking eyes, dying recovered, eliminating another jobber, and fearing her last breath. Put your adversary down by force. 00:00:00 Bubblegum 00:02:23 Intro 00:04:52 World Mappers 00:06:10 Plate System 00:21:00 Termi 00:27:05 Termi Houses 00:31:10 Laeda Tower 00:39:08 GyLaguiah 00:44:59 Real Net 00:49:32 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 12Phantasy Star IV | E12: New Lore Opportunities [Land Rover & Monsen]
EDo you like this kind of treatment? Audio injections of us imagining what Krup "tastes like," saying mighty cheeky things, emerging from the ground, freely restoring HP/MP, worrying about Dark Force, keeping a car in our pocket, fighting things with the car, looking all over the world for a fat dog, locating the secret bakery, dealing with earthquake surge pricing, recalling 9/12/2001, learning more about sinkholes, enshrining a heroine of yore, realizing this guy has a cuck chair, stealing joy from children, and refusing to buy into the immersion. Would this constitute some kind of clue? 00:00:00 Caught in the Act 00:02:04 Intro 00:05:17 Krup 00:09:48 Machine Center 00:14:16 Land Rover 00:20:25 Tinkerbell's Dog 00:28:19 Monsen 00:40:04 Monsen Houses 00:50:42 Real Net 00:59:19 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 11Phantasy Star IV | E11: God is Computer [Zio's Fort]
EOnly after destruction can we create a new world. Become reborn with us as we're playing in the cave in the church, living in idleness, filling pauldrons with puss, walking the red carpet, falling through a hole, obliterating a jobber, mistaking knees for ass, pulling more characters out of Bubblegum Crisis, showcasing medical power, taking a look at our own evil selves, confronting Zio, losing a rigged battle, applying healing magic that doesn't work, manifesting a car, and wondering if Phantasy Star IV invented primary protagonist incapacitation. School work is so stupid. 00:00:00 Robots In Disguise In Disguise 00:02:04 Intro 00:03:46 Kadary Church 00:12:39 Zio's Fort 00:19:18 Juza 00:21:45 Demi 00:27:35 It's Zio! 00:38:42 Krup Regroup 00:52:19 Real Net 00:57:08 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 10Phantasy Star IV | E10: Cave or Lost Civilization [Guild Hall, Wreckage, Kadary]
EDo 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: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 9Phantasy Star IV | E9: A Fluid Town [Nalya, Aiedo]
EWe'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: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

S8 Ep 8Phantasy Star IV | E8: Bubblegum Crisis [Bio-Plant]
EWhat 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: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com