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Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

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S6 Ep 19Final Fantasy Tactics | E19: Perverts Can Never Die [Riovanes Castle]

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All such tales of gods and their miracles are false. But not us, and not when we're swearing on words that have no honor, realizing scripture is leverage, taking fate into mine own hands, listening to death noises, slaking thirst for revenge, selling out for the lord, perverting into another ghoul, unthinking brains, slaying another pervert, surveying the murder room, frowing up on myself, letting Isilud rest, sparking divinity from Alma, losing days' past, retching our innards, repaying debts with vengeance, throwing a guy off the roof, and killing one to achieve victory over three. You need a broad range of interests or you're going to become like that one guy. 00:00 Intro | 01:55 Riovanes Castle Gate | 08:07 Riovanes Castle Dungeon | 11:44 Riovanes Castle Keep | 22:23 New Pervert | 29:26 Riovanes Castle - Conference Room | 39:00 Riovanes Castle Roof | 45:37 Assassins | 52:08 Real Net | 57:14 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Aug 19, 20241h 2m

S6 Ep 20Final Fantasy Tactics | E18: The Leverage and the Slop [Yardow Fort City + Yuguo Woods]

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The air is thick with death's foul stench. This episode is thick with sliming rockets, adding another cultural stereotype, invalidating past benevolence with modern action, resolving sibling arguments, allowing a heretic to triumph, opening the orphanage-to-assassins pipeline, becoming conduits of heaven and nether, speaking to a frog, becoming a knight in shining armor, slaying lingering souls, hiding fascism with austerity, assigning true power to the templar, gaslighting the church, slapping the shit out of my son, and eliminating sport from revenge murder. I'll not abide your ill-mannered tongue 00:00 Retrotink 4K 02:30 Intro 03:37 The Walled City of Yardrow 14:48 Yardrow Post-Battle 27:15 Zeltennia Castle Chapel Ruins 30:39 The Yuguewood 34:09 Riovanes Castle 51:38 Real Net 55:03 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Aug 12, 202458 min

S6 Ep 17Final Fantasy Tactics | E17: Differently Jokerfied [Dorter + Grog Hill]

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We are all but puppets, dancing as they pull our strings. You are all but listeners, frolicing as we're taking shelter from the rain, meeting with an outland mage, being honest about forbidden knowledge, refusing to be a puppet, wishing no more need of tears, excavating at the mines, delivering job reports, falling out of Mana Secrets, recruiting a juvenile game hunter, buying freedom with blood, slaughtering deserters, appearing on a handbill for heresy, justifying infinite war, adopting a son in law, and making our first real friend. We've had our fill of blood and death 00:00 Season 7 | 03:47 Intro | 05:42 Merchant City of Dorter | 09:00 Animated Cut-Scene | 17:43 Job Report | 21:07 Luso Clemens | 29:21 Grogh Heights | 37:05 Orrin | 47:59 Real Net | 50:52 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Aug 5, 202452 min

S6 Ep 16Final Fantasy Tactics | E16: Unsuitable Facts [Underground Book Storage, Part II]

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Only with power can dreams be made real. Only with this podcast can we tell you about wishing for the Auto-Face, persisting in a fool resistance, fighting in the book store, confusing opponents by betraying our class, normalizing the battle gauntlet, girding for battle, becoming a thrall of the church, jokerfying yet another would-be ally, living for this, wiping a brain after defilement, switching to demon dialect, biting from the fruit of the tree of knowledge, leaving things undone, and reading from the brain that was reading The Scriptures of Germonique. Unsuitable facts had to be deleted from history. 00:00 Repeated Master | 02:44 Intro | 04:39 Monastery Vaults, Third Level | 17:56 Monastery Vaults, , First Level | 35:59 Orbonne Monastery - Outside | 46:00 The Bible Or The Necronomicon | 58:52 Real Net | 01:02:03 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jul 29, 20241h 6m

S6 Ep 15Final Fantasy Tactics | E15: Brother's Blood in My Eyes [Lesalia + Underground Book Storage, Part I]

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What nonsense is this? Well, it's an audio variety show where we're playing Dycedarg's theme for a meeting with Zalbaag, wondering if Zalbaag is dumb, failing to avoid Alma, proving truth words, fighting a heresy examiner, perverting into the Lucavi, profaning the gods, cutting a deal with Alma, rumoring Elmdore's death, storing books underground, acquiring magic rocks to gain the people's trust, making Alma guard the base, wishing we were born a man, assigning the universal mong theory, and getting deep into subterranean book storage. Your mother's common blood forever stains you common. 00:00 1000xRESIST | 02:14 Intro | 03:56 The Royal City of Lesalia | 12:20 Lesalia Castle Postern | 16:49 High Confessor Zalmour | 27:10 Lesalia Castle Postern Post Battle | 33:57 Rumors | 34:52 Orbonne Monastery Vaults, First Floor | 46:17 Monastery Vaults, Second Level | 50:57 Monastery Vaults, Third Level | 53:50 Real Net | 01:00:50 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jul 22, 20241h 5m

S6 Ep 14Final Fantasy Tactics | E14: Precursory Games of Thrones [Chapter Three Intro]

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Mentally, are you becoming a coward? Vocally, we're entering a pope meeting, pronouncing "Orlandeau," feeling lost in the sauce, using a prisoner's confession as an excuse to kill a guy, recognizing Orlandeau's prowess, showcasing multiple councils, haggling over war logistics, closing the borders, going against the big tide, performing the forbidden dance, preaching secular theories, believing in god so much we quit the war, rescuing a shuffler, obtaining a battle dict., and shakin' hands. There can be no peaceful end to this. 00:00 V Rising | 03:11 Intro | 05:15 Zeltennia Castle Keep | 15:20 Arazlam's Words | 16:34 Fort Besselat | 26:40 Job Classin' | 39:12 Mining Town of Gollund | 45:44 Ramza & Orrin | 48:13 Real Net | 52:24 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jul 15, 202455 min

S6 Ep 13Final Fantasy Tactics | E13: Belly Based Goblin Teeth [Lionel Castle]

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Think of us simply, as allies. Allies who are not touching our supper, expressing a shit head belief system, revealing a princess as false, laying out different scenarios, figuring out scenes were added to the PSP release, swearing vengeance to killers, granting Wiegraf a second act, finally 1v1'ing Gafgarrion, feeling cold, thrice damning Gafgarrion, making our purpose plain, showing up too late to save the princess, transforming into the taint king, excruciating in ecstasy, waving goodbye to our souls, and slaying the pervert. Church is bad and they've got the magic. 00:00 Ren Faire | 02:27 Intro | 04:17 Lionel Castle Dank Cell | 18:05 Lenalian Plateau | 24:00 Gate of Lionel Castle | 30:47 Zeirchele Falls | 36:13 Lionel Castle Oratory | 44:09 Cúchulainn | 52:03 Real Net | 57:25 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jul 8, 20241h 4m

S6 Ep 12Final Fantasy Tactics | E12: Wrong Doing [Gologrand Execution Site]

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Stop looking at girls, stop looking at rocks. Instead, look at us with your ears as we're warning Ramza off the criminal conspiracy, reading six books, wondering who pilled Delita, realizing the nobles and the clergy are united in corruption, sniffing out a fake, losing another princess, preferring Dragoon to Samurai, falling for a gallows-based switcheroo, expecting Ramza to prodigal son his way home, painting deeds as foul, appreciating Gaffgarion's persona, literally saying "game of thrones," and denying a solution to the trolley problem. I'm protecting Agrias [oh god]. 0:00 God Hand | 01:41 Intro | 03:19 Animated Cut-Scene | 12:46 Lionel Castle Villains | 22:15 Balias Swale | 32:00 Golgollada Gallows | 37:08 Golgollada Gallows Battle | 50:49 Real Net | 57:28 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jul 1, 20241h 2m

S6 Ep 11Final Fantasy Tactics | E11: In Spite of Objective Holiness [Machine City Goug]

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Just when I thought this fen could grow no fowler, we've cast another pod. Indulge us as we're believing in god to get through a gate, identifying the manipulator, vexing with such worryment, listening to myths and legends, understanding auracite as everything magic, listening to the church's perfect pitch, murdering the dead, appearing clergy and merchant adjacent, trading rock for father, blinging auracite, revealing a magic rock switcheroo, and evicting chocobos from our party of heretics. Fuck, you win. I'm not a monster. 00:00 Chris' Chronicle | 02:40 Intro | 04:49 Lionel Castle | 22:00 Rumors | 24:14 Tchigolith Fenlands / Zigolis Swamp | 27:55 Goug | 37:45 Goug Showdown | 40:23 Dank Interior | 46:54 Real Net | 54:05 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jun 24, 202457 min

S6 Ep 10Final Fantasy Tactics | E10: The Most Religious Man Available [Zaland Fort City]

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Those who live by deceit are the first to die by it. Those who listen to this episode will hear tales of jumping in first-person, rescuing a pony-tailed squire, blinging the magic rocks, climbing walls and talking shit, bringing a gun to a wizard fight, realizing we're in Final Fantasy XII's future, losing patience with Mustadio, finding Christ without a crucifixion, creepin' on some ladies, blowing grass, wishing for no quarrel, leaving us wroth, soiling our names, coddling the boy, sipping villainously, and wondering if Agrias is lost in the sauce. Ramza's brain is discolored. 00:00 El Fira | 02:55 Intro | 03:58 Castle City Zaland | 13:46 Dank Room Meeting | 24:07 Propositions | 25:50 Ovelia's Worries | 34:00 Battle Notes | 41:25 Balias Tor | 44:56 Eagrose Castle Solar | 54:26 Real Net | 01:01:35 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jun 17, 20241h 5m

S6 Ep 9Final Fantasy Tactics | E9: The Taste of Lies [Zirekile Falls]

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The day grows lovelier by the hour. Just like us, as we're eavesdropping on a conspiracy, threatening a heretic brand, wonder which magic spell hurts the worst, rescuing a large bird from goblins, gouging eyes out, climaxing at a waterfall, realizing Gaffgarion's true nature, writing the scenario in real time, refusing to step over dead guys, understanding class warfare but choosing to not care, denying filth of money, reasoning with each other in front of a waterfall, and understanding the church to be…the church. Do you so enjoy the taste of lies? 00:00 Intro | 02:57 Dorter Trade City | 16:27 Araguay Woods | 22:51 Zeirchele Falls Preamble | 29:22 Zeirchele Falls Battle | 38:14 Animated Cut Scene | 42:26 Rumors | 43:13 Real Net | 48:46 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jun 10, 202451 min

S6 Ep 8Final Fantasy Tactics | E8: The Father's Keeping [Fort Zeakden]

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It's about time you learned about difference. The difference between battling under the threat of crimson snow, taking hostages, shooting the hostage, mongering flowers on a street corner, looking for a woke, losing ourselves to vengeance, flitting a forked tongue, igniting the gunpowder, debating the merits of new-fangled cut-scenes against old school cinematics, citing the contract for additional payment, realizing no one knows what Ramza wants, looking for the manipulator, and searching for the subservient. God knows where this path leads us. 00:00 Half Chris | 03:05 Intro | 04:50 Ziekden Fortress Showdown | 14:38 Ziekden Fortress Battle | 26:34 Animated Cut Scene | 30:48 Orbonne Monastery | 37:39 Rumors | 40:15 Real Net | 42:55 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. To see an up to date listing of all our premium offerings, go to www.patreon.com/retroam/collections. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jun 3, 202447 min

S6 Ep 7Final Fantasy Tactics | E7: To Pill Others [Lenalia Plateau + Fovoham Plains]

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Fighting is the only way out. Listening to this episode is the only way we can start listing Chris' top three tactics, aligning with Dycedarg, swallowing Dycedarg's shit, realizing the rich won't save the poor, criticizing common blood, speculating Argath is a radicalization agent, understanding a meager fate, realizing Milleuda is willing to die for this, watching Milleuda inflict psychic damage on Delita, deploying tricky smooth talk, kidnapping the wrong lady, thinking of the children, sending improper knights to kill someone, refusing to treat, defending bastard brothers, and wondering why all of this is happening. Never believe in never. 00:00 Intro | 05:00 Eagrose Castle | 07:40 Delita's Clenched Fist | 19:45 Animated Cut Scene | 23:59 Hot Gos | 25:37 Lenalian Plateau | 35:15 Fovoham Windflats Mill | 40:54 Fovoham Windflats Battle | 50:08 Windmill Whoopsies | 51:52 Real Net | 55:50 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

May 27, 202458 min

S6 Ep 6Final Fantasy Tactics | E6: Who Will Lick the Boots? [Thieves Fort]

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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. God wants us to kill poor people. 00:00 Chris Run It | 02:22 Intro | 04:34 Big Dumb Idiot | 06:11 Inventory of Tactics | 13:03 Eagrose Castle | 24:36 Brigand's Den | 36:58 Post Battle | 41:55 Abduction at Eagrose | 45:54 Real Net | 49:41 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

May 20, 202455 min

S6 Ep 5Final Fantasy Tactics | E5: Here for Politics [Dorter Slums + Zeklaus Desert]

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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, and trading one life for another. You may yet keep your bacon. 00:00 Open World Paralysis | 02:47 Intro | 03:36 Dorter Slums | 08:52 Dorter Battle | 13:53 Slum House Interrogation | 26:11 Sand Rat's Sietch | 30:34 Wiegraf & Gustav's Disagreement | 36:36 Real Net | 41:44 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

May 13, 202445 min

S6 Ep 4Final Fantasy Tactics | E4: For Want of Coin [Igros Castle]

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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 limits, you can't be responsible for everything. 00:00 Intro | 03:10 God Smack 2 | 08:18 Eagrose Castle | 15:22 Argath's Chip | 18:53 Family Business | 29:02 Shopping | 32:33 The Siedge Weald | 38:53 Real Net | 43:51 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

May 6, 202450 min

S6 Ep 3Final Fantasy Tactics | E3: Heroes & Wizards [Magic City Gariland + Mandalia Plains]

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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. We're definitely the bad guys. 00:00 Intro | 02:35 Gariland Military Academy | 11:20 Gariland Battle | 18:40 World Map & Menus | 25:20 Biographies | 28:22 Barbaneth Bedtime | 37:21 Mandalia Plain | 42:16 Argath | 44:27 Real Net | 47:48 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Apr 29, 202455 min

S6 Ep 2Final Fantasy Tactics | E2: Anarchists & Blasphemers [Orbonne Monastery]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Apr 22, 20241h 9m

S6 Ep 1Final Fantasy Tactics | E1: Class Warfare [Introduction]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Apr 15, 20241h 34m

S5 Ep 33Xenosaga | E33: Narrative Malpractice [Finale]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Apr 8, 20241h 42m

S5 Ep 32Xenosaga | E32: Will to Power, Bad? [Proto Merkabah, Part II]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Apr 1, 202457 min

S5 Ep 31Xenosaga | E31: God Slayers vs. Tanks [Odds and Ends]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Mar 25, 20241h 10m

S5 Ep 30Xenosaga | E30: Father, Son, and the Holy Sh*t [Proto Merkabah]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Mar 18, 20241h 3m

S5 Ep 29Xenosaga | E29: Suffering of Robot Based On Lecherous Jealousy [Song of Nephilim, Part III]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Mar 11, 20241h 6m

INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier]

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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.

Mar 6, 202432 min

S5 Ep 28Xenosaga | E28: Her Brain Items [Song of Nephilim, Part II]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Mar 4, 20241h 12m

S5 Ep 27Xenosaga | E27: Poisoned by the Holy Spirit So Hard [Song of Nephilim, Part I]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Feb 26, 20241h 8m

S5 Ep 26Xenosaga | E26: Die in the Trash [Attack on Kukai, Part II]

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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 Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Feb 19, 20241h 0m

S5 Ep 25Xenosaga | E25: The Christ for Robots [Attack on Kukai, Part I]

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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 reaching new depths of pity for Allen. This is Realians, let's go. 00:00 Comics Zone | 02:54 Intro | 05:03 Green Tree Zone | 17:53 Space Theories | 22:20 Crucifixion | 26:44 KOSMOS Wakes Up | 29:46 Lapis' Evidence | 33:00 Allen x Chaos | 39:44 Gaignun's Office | 41:14 Shion Emotion | 44:31 Durandal Exploration | 52:55 Real Net | 01:00:06 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Feb 12, 20241h 4m

INFINITE PERFECT 001: Watch it Move [Burning Rangers]

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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.

Feb 7, 202445 min

S5 Ep 24Xenosaga | E24: The Time for Feasting Has Come [Old Miltia, Part II]

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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, observing the infinite boy, and slaying a biblically accurate Tiamat. This is no illusion. Accept the reality of your memories. 00:00 Infinite Perfect | 01:46 Intro | 03:21 You Do Udo? | 07:37 Miltia Playground Round 2 | 16:22 Miltia Park / Playable | 23:27 Treading the Wastes | 25:49 Labyrinthos Pitstop | 32:03 Forest Families | 43:23 Church | 49:38 Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility |57:56 Real Net | 01:00:59 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Feb 5, 20241h 9m

S5 Ep 23Xenosaga | E23: The End Comes Beyond Kevin [Old Miltia, Part I]

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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 pretty cool! 00:00 GOD BLESS THE RING | 02:17 Intro | 05:34 The Gang Gets Arrested | 08:14 Lapis' Plan | 21:26 Doctored Footage | 27:29 Punch Cop | 30:56 Durandal Sneakin' | 35:35 Group Dive | 36:42 Shion's Miltian Playground | 46:16 Junior's Miltian Apocalypse | 48:24 Decimated Miltia | 51:37 Real Net | 56:13 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jan 29, 20241h 3m

S5 Ep 22Xenosaga | E22: Theologically Problematic [Kukai Foundation, Part III]

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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 and artifacts, suffering a farce crime, and getting arrested by a lady with a cool haircut. A man's dream is a giant robot. 00:00 Miniseries 5 | 02:26 Intro | 03:24 AWGS Hangar | 08:00 Giant Robot Training Hall | 16:31 Launch Pad | 18:25 Dock Colony Check In | 19:18 Durandal as Junior | 22:24 Pleroma | 29:31 Albedo Interlude | 39:52 Allen KOSMOS Shion | 42:07 Jr's Gift | 44:39 Federation Intimidation | 45:15 Parliament Argument | 53:31 Frame Job | 01:01:11 Real Net 01:05:28 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jan 22, 20241h 10m

S5 Ep 21Xenosaga | E21: There's a Ludonarrative Dissonance in This Town [Kukai Foundation, Part II]

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Mom doesn't understand how a man feels. But we feel like revisiting the world map concept, observing the global hum, cranking off, reading the signs of an obvious dungeon, getting high off of explosions, dumpster diving, loading a bar with fuckheads, assigning virtue to Purple Hunchman, understanding King to be a farce, chatting up Pink Bug, extracting the fish detector, engaging in work-related familial conflict, thinking of expensive books, and spawning an Allen ghost head. I'm always telling the kids in the city: if you're a man, become a man like me. 00:00 Explaining Suikoden To Normal People Tease | 03:17 Intro | 05:03 World Map | 07:16 City Sector 26 | 17:14 Iron Man Bar | 24:57 Our Treasure | 26:29 Sector 27 | 32:45 King's Hideout | 39:17 Lavare | 43:54 Rooftops | 50:48 Fish Detection | 51:43 Real Net | 57:51 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jan 15, 20241h 3m

S5 Ep 20Xenosaga | E20: Central Bottom Hole [Kukai Foundation, Part I]

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Hey, who's an illegitimate son? Maybe it's us, maybe it's you, maybe we're inserting the Durandal in the bottom hole, wondering of space flower cities are common, as you know'ing to oblivion, finding another palm tattoo guy, A-posing like an asshole, hinting at an anime ability, debating beach anxiety, admiring a soviet pistol, failing to comfort Shion, proposing a chaotic chaos theory, brining a screen to the beach, challenging DNA, freaking out at thunder, and wondering if the madman made more emulators. Fuck it, I guess. 00:00 All the Downloadin' | 01:53 Intro | 04:13 Approaching Kukai Foundation | 09:09 Gaignun Kukai | 16:25 Gaigun + Jr Office Chat | 25:13 Sad Sack Shion | 28:17 Launch Pad | 30:32 Beach Day | 33:41 Kevin Dissociation | 35:38 Beach Bastards | 46:35 Gaignun Calls Helmer | 54:08 Goodbye Beac\h | 56:26 Real Net | 01:00:55 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jan 8, 20241h 4m

S5 Ep 19Xenosaga | E19: Identity Diffusion, the Eternal Dilemma [Durandal, Part II]

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Identity diffusion: the eternal dilemma. Diffuse your identity with us as we're wondering if child robots are programmed to hate a biological dad father, running like a big goober, bombing a pick-up line, discovering a gambling-addicted populace, begging for dig-b abuse, stealing signage, considering a fan club, telling Momo that robot fireflies are good actually, entering the Pinocchio zone, and throating the military balance. The truth that exists here may have been a bit too much for her. 00:00 New Chris | 03:00 Intro | 04:58 Where's Momo? | 09:31 Dock | 12:25 Residential Area | 25:14 Bridge | 27:51 Hangar | 30:26 Park | 43:32 Further Exploration | 45:27 Real Net | 50:32 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Jan 1, 202456 min

S5 Ep 18Xenosaga | E18: The Bodies of Jesus Christ and His Superstars [Durandal, Part I]

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Will feeling pain make me complete? Complete your own pain and listen as we're not supplied for a gnosis attack, freaking out on the bridge, dialing up the KOSMOS contemplativeness, talkin' bout momma, scanning transfection course, deciding it's Kevin's hand at work, failing the yearly review, wondering if computer mom has a virus, falling into a hell void, exposing the devil hand, telling our friends where we keep dangerous items, showing off our emulators, concocting a perfect Kukai Foundation real-world analog, reducing to salt, and insulting the biological father of our future robot girl girlfriend. No cum, just satan. 00:00 Marathon Recap | 03:15 Intro | 05:13 Asymmetrical Space Bridge Panic | 11:28 Technobabble Word Salad World Championship | 16:36 KOSMOS' Gnosis Eradication Methods | 23:37 Pleroma Check In | 25:19 Durandal Bridge | 32:28 Miltia Flashback | 36:09 Zohar(s) | 45:46 Betty | 56:34 Real Net | 01:05:50 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Dec 25, 20231h 9m

S5 Ep 17Xenosaga | E17: Ethical Consumption [Cathedral Ship, Part II]

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I alone can take humanity to its next natural state of evolution. Together alone, we're inducing a tilt-shift effect, defining PS2 ladder controls, going to the mall, curing women's diseases with herbs, softening the hardness of mother, running a doomed op, hallucinating wife and child wife, meeting Hamburger Hook, suffering the ultimate sense of peer rejection, getting anime crucified, going Gargoyle Mode, living with contradictions, embracing the arts, lusting after the great reset, failing to develop any hobbies, feeling left behind, and finding the greatest solace in slowly fading away. Everything is the Third Impact. That's how anime works. 00:00 Intro | 02:56 Cathedral Ship Exploration | 12:45 Dirty Zohar | 14:28 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov IV | 17:53 More Cathedral Ship Exploration | 24:33 Golden Zohar | 37:11 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov V | 44:09 The Beach of Nothingness | 53:28 Existential Crisis | 56:23 Real Net I 59:38 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Dec 18, 20231h 4m

S5 Ep 16Xenosaga | E16: A Miserable Pile of Nucleic Acid [Cathedral Ship, Part I]

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Why? Why not joins us as we're sleeping in our work clothes, steaming the breath, defining "ghost shit," foreboding ominously, penetrating the space column, spreading the Hilbert Effect to Ultra Wide, estimating our 10K times, staring down a door, honoring goldfish, becoming a brand new person, igniting the forehead glyph, fetishizing the aquarium, adopting a husband, denying a legacy, suggesting Demolition Man sex, dehumanizing the remixed man, slaughtering a clone, and reclaiming garbage for villainous objectives. I've always wanted to be a type Z man. 00:00 Intro | 03:19 Port to Miltia | 04:01 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov I | 09:54 Shion's Grayscale Zone | 12:57 Elsa in Hyperspace | 15:59 Cathedral Ship Arrival | 19:52 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov II | 24:04 Exploring Cathedral Ship | 29:03 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov III |47:25 Margulis' Dog Rescue Program | 50:27 Real Net | 54:05 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Dec 11, 202356 min

S5 Ep 15Xenosaga | E15: This Game is Apolitical [Dock Colony]

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Are you enjoying life? We're certainly enjoying reading the obvious signs of an apolitical game, inventing more things to haunt Cherenkov, cleaning to impress men, dunking on Allen, hiding the fish detector, threatening members of the military, turning and coughing, weighing ourselves, making it weird in the basement, getting our asses kicked in an alley, activating the forehead glyph, rejecting nanosurgery, lying about secret forehead ankh powers, detesting this old body, and wondering why women can't work on me. It's because of those good for nothings that I live like this now. 00:00 Intro | 02:57 Elsa at Dock Colony | 07:16 Ygdrasslin' the Elsa | 14:31 Dock Colony Exploration | 19:27 Dock Clinic | 25:34 Talk To Me | 30:24 The Adventures of Andrew Cherenkov | 31:32 Lower Dock Colony | 35:40 Cherenkov Debrief | 41:43 More Adventures of Andrew Cherenkov | 44:06 Yggdrasslin the Elsa II | 46:05 Real Net | 49:49 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Dec 4, 202358 min

S5 Ep 14Xenosaga | E14: Don't Sext Your Kaiser [U-TIC Battleship]

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Pierce me with your hatred. Pierce your ears as we're referencing The Wizard of Oz, activating false memories, introducing a southern belle and a goth princess, making a sword into a spaceship, suspecting Momo's abduction was an inside job, wondering if —they— will come, determining Albedo's whole deal, debating AWGS vs mech, killing the Woglinde again, engaging condition zebra, subchanneling to a high velocity cannon, foreshadowing T-elos, meandering through a dungeon, plugging a cable into our heads, jacking into everything, and pondering the combination of short man syndrome combined with large guns. Penetrate the port side and prepare for combat. 00:00 Intro | 03:25 Enter Jr. I 15:16 Aboard the Durandal | 19:16 Margulis' Manipulations | 31:26 Jr and Mary: Salvagers | 36:18 Durandal vs UTIC | 40:57 Jr's Mission | 52:16 Sisterly Data Transmission | 59:07 Real Net | 01:03:11 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Nov 27, 20231h 6m

S5 Ep 13Xenosaga | E13: Anime Moment of the Lord [U-TIC Attack]

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There is no need to divert more personnel to this location. At our location, we're figuring out if Andrew Cherenkov is a character, performing sick tricks in the space column, skittering off the column wall, avoiding obligations for either a tunnel shooter or a crane game, counting on Allen, recognizing Chaos' interest in souls, misunderstanding Boost, wondering if Hammer and Tony will ever make out, assuming Naruto has anything to do with this, watching Hammer's shit roll downhill onto Allen, revealing government secrets to a government secret, referencing boogers, debating the ethics of robot gratitude, throwing the ship out, and committing insider trading. The current situation shows that I can manage without the help of others. 00:00 Intro | 06:01 Flyboys and Flygirls in the Space Column | 16:05 Ziggy and Momo in the Cargo Bay | 25:09 Rescuing Ziggy & Momo | 37:26 Ziggy & Momo Meet & Greet | 41:09 Family Dinner Night || 47:33 Elsa Tour | 56:35 Real Net | 01:01:22 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Nov 20, 20231h 7m

S5 Ep 12Xenosaga | E12: The Wrath of Jesus [Still on the Elsa]

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We have scenarios, so we have to have keys. The keys to this episode include disappointing the real human robot child, wondering where the Y Data is hidden, sealing off space, realizing there is an even higher council, hiding the map from Tony, receiving correspondence from Kazuya, performing the wrath of Jesus, wondering if the UNM lady is a robot, slamming the brakes on a spacecraft, playing hardball with Shion's boss, offloading busywork to Miyuki, and reminding Allen that he is made of shit. Technically, you are a man, so you need to be more careful. 00:00 Intro | 02:29 Area 66, Rupen Sector | 04:24 Council of Fucked Up Guys II | 15:27 Elsa Catapult Conundrum | 28:18 UMN Chat | 32:11 Ziggy Is Maverick | 34:53 Shion x Miyuki Zoom Call |44:49 Real Net | 49:15 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Nov 13, 202355 min

S5 Ep 11Xenosaga | E11: Eating Neatly [Back on the Elsa]

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Now, where does the real you exist? As we exist, we're applying the rules of characters to our characters, sharing curry instead of a campfire, noting the lack of estrogen as applied to sexist stereotypes, sleeping with food, witnessing Allen go down in flames, crawling with mutants, directing eyeballs, throwing guns all over the bed, rubbing couches for secret items, potentially pulling a Shinji on a sleeping robot, killing everyone, firing an invisible arrow from an invisible bow, failing to execute the sleeping robot, capturing the Elsa's screaming hole, exercising the habit of pulling a gun, and explaining how we're definitely soldiers and we go where we're told. Girls won't like you if you're so annoying. 00:00: Intro | 02:57 Character Game | 07:12 Dinner At The Elsa | 11:11 Cleaning Up Dinner | 20:54 Elsa Exploration / Hot Plate | 27:18 Chaos Looks At KOSMOS | 29:16 The Night KOSMOS Went Crazy | 39:23 Cherenkov Looks At KOSMOS |42:04 Exploring Elsa Basement | 47:44 Shion Chats With Cherenkov | 56:34 Real Net | 59:28 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Nov 6, 20231h 2m

S5 Ep 10Xenosaga | E10: The First Dad Game [Pleroma]

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Machines like you exist to be used. Machines like us exist to talk about entering the Android Discourse with Margulis and Momo, requiring mommy to take us back to the lab, aborting any reasonable attempt at stealth, burying cult figureheads in child robot brains, merging our cult base with its previous religion, unrealty'ing a mere phenomenon, decoding Pleroma, baptizing our new daughter with her selected name, loving the back toss, passing the Life Recycling Act, buying our son a robot dog, slipping off pipes, deploying a mobile Hilbert Effect, and cutting through smoke. What happens after that, god only knows. 00:00 Intro | 02:07 Hello Momo | 06:51 Ziggy Infiltrates Pleroma | 12:28 Ziggy x Juli |16:03 Ziggy Looks For Momo | 30:09 Ziggy Finds Momo | 36:00 Ziggy Flashes Back | 39:12 Ziggy and Momo Escape | 49:55 Ziggy vs Margulis | 53:49 Ziggy Escapes Pleroma | 56:16 Real Net | 59:09 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Oct 30, 20231h 1m

S5 Ep 9Xenosaga | E9: 2000 F*cked Up Guys [Elsa, Part II + SOCE Meeting]

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It's the same for me. It's just something I can do. What you can do is listen to us talk about double-momming Allen, wondering if Captain Matthews cuts Chris' lawn, seducing Shion with wine, firing 9MM bullets in space, excelling over others in one specific skill, going full Gendo Ikari, hearing Willhem introduce more vocabulary words, introducing another masked man mystery, watching a planet disappear, preparing Plan 31, sitting in obelisk chairs, talking about Councils of Fucked Up Guys, donating our bodies to Ziggurat Industries, requesting the deletion of neural memories, and being brought back to life against our will. We are the ones who determine life or death. 00:00 Anime | 01:17 Intro | 02:38 Woglinde Crew Meets Elsa Crew | 15:19 Gnosis on the Elsa | 24:30 Dämmerung | 32:53 Pleroma | 40:22 Fifth Jerusalem Orbit Tower | 58:07 Real Net | 01:01:57 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Oct 23, 20231h 5m

S5 Ep 8Xenosaga | E8: Meta Gel [Elsa, Part I]

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Let's meet the space junkers. Let's also make sure we're owing money to the Kukai Foundation, presenting as another nerd class, warning others of our addictions via head-based apparel, disrespecting space corpses, expressing interest in space necrophilia, punching a spaceship window, trying to make meaningful contact with someone, shitting in a refrigerator (???), deploying the authority hand, threatening suicide to compel to robot into action, manifesting an anime boy, touching a lady's shoulder, and fighting chaos with order. KOSMOS and chaos are opposite things; thank you ButtCoin. 00:00 Intro | 03:17 The Elsa | 14:38 KOSMOS In Space | 28:29 Escape Pod Madness | 38:39 chaos | 47:07 Escape Pod Rescue | 47:54 Real Net | 52:36 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Oct 16, 202356 min

S5 Ep 7Xenosaga | E7: A Finitely Bound Realm [Gnosis Attack, Part III]

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KOSMOS has the capacity for being sassy. We don't, but we're debating the rules of Gnosis-touching, engaging the Hilbert Effect, cutting sausage goblins, fiddling with the menus, demanding our deaths mean something, wondering of Asimov's laws of robotics apply here, death rattling "Feb," once again seeking god in the machine, typing on the computer while the world ends, wondering when physicality came back to games, reporting in to a Scenario Guy, laughing like Bryan Fury, and riding an escape pod doggystyle. Your life has meaning. Death does not. 00:00 Intro | 02:57 KOSMOS Enters the Chat | 14:51 Woglinde Evacuation | 21:18 Zohar Hangar Showdown | 24:45 Post-Virgil | 38:27 Still Evacuating | 40:51 Woglinde Explodes | 45:14 Real Net | 51:29 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Oct 9, 202356 min

S5 Ep 6Xenosaga | E6: Baphomet Feet [Gnosis Attack, Part II]

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The company says we can't free the slaves. While you're in our company, we're pounding human meat into bloody shit, violating privacy agreements, sucking a Gnosis out the airlock, dying like it's our job, moving randomly, citing divine intervention, running around like an idiot, looting a dead man's key, going awol during battle, going down with the ship, faking death to escape death, suffering fuel Eric explosives, citing facts and logic as we kill fake real people, and resigning from life with a whimper. Oh well, I'm going to die anyway. 00:00 Zohar: The Book of Splendor | 02:05 Intro | 03:34 Gnosis Attack | 08:15 KOS-MOS Wakes Up | 15:53 Surviving The Woglinde | 20:18 Shion & Virgil | 32:47 Gnosis Attack More | 40:14 Zohar Chamber Evac | 42:45 Shion & Virgil II | 59:14 Real Net | 01:03:13 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Oct 2, 20231h 5m

S5 Ep 5Xenosaga | E5: Crestfallen Coffee Face [Gnosis Attack, Part I]

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Cosmos is pronounced differently than KOS-MOS. This time we're treating DME addiction as a casual hobby, jamming to the Seraphim Sisters, wondering if Realians deserve equal rights, not delivering the sexy murder robot project on time, hiding a mysterious phone call, acquiring the M.W.S., video chatting with a mysterious bad guy, indulging in the old ways to spite our sister, wishing this wouldn't happen again, distorting space time, suffering an assault from ancient space fish, and standing on spaceships like Gundams. An incident like that will never happen again. 00:00 Twilight of the Idols | 02:21 Intro | 03:52 Woglinde Tour IV | 10:57 Woglinde Bridge | 28:26 Return to the Realian Lab | 29:44 Enter Margulis | 38:09 Jin Uzuki | 44:09 Shion's Nightmare | 49:07 A Series of Alarms | 01:03:11 Real Net | 01:05:01 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get early access, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod Cohost: cohost.org/retroam E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Sep 25, 20231h 9m