Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better safe than curry. On this episode we're diagnosing problems with Realians strapped to inversion tables, writing Realians off as infants, equating fables and proverbs to myths and legends, driving free will out of a machine, finding ourselves addicted to the consumption of body tissue, moralizing cannibalism, referencing some kind of disaster in Miltia, locating Mr. Driller, investigating planetary disappearances, thinking about Ninja Assault, playing tag money matches, and hanging out in a hangar. You're the same as us humans, you just happen to be born differently. 00:00 Intro | 03:08 Realian Lab | 20:02 Enter Luis Virgil | 34:19 Realian Lab II | 41:47 Woglinde Tour IV | 57:47 A.W.G.S. Hangar | 01:02:02 Real Net | 01:07:49 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

Who is the most human character in Xenosaga, and is that individual even human? To figure that out, we're chatting up our Vector co-workers, diagnosing Allen's patheticness, discussing Jung's origin of all shit, refusing to ask out our boss, confessing sins while we beat up our subordinates, reminisce enduring thoughts, ding-crossing with a ghost girl, slacking off because of bimbos, referencing multiple "incidents," and committing to fix the Realians outside of union rules. Don't have feelings about your science robot. 00:00 Intro | 05:07 Vector Lab | 08:50 Exploring Vector Lab | 17:03 Woglinde Tour I | 24:34 Lab Goofs | 29:35 Zohar / Vanderkam | 33:42 Kevin! | 39:31 Zohar Freakout | 44:57 Woglinde Tour II | 49:00 Allen Finds Shion | 57:40 Woglinde Tour III | 01:02:01 Real Net | 01:06:39 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

Can robots experience emotions? Can we? Listen to use try as we're advancing time by 40 centuries, obscuring facial details, losing our minds in technobabble, looking for scientific evidence of the human soul, dancing around to move the shit of the universe, entering virtual reality, reluctantly wishing our robot weapon was our real friend, entering U.M.N. Mode for some tips, seeing enemies on screen, generating blood smoke, kicking off our sci-fi game in an industrial wasteland, holding R2 to walk, witnessing a ghost child, gating out of space, and diving into Cherenkov's eccentricity. Pollyanna is a not a crewmember of the Woglinde. 00:00 Intro | 02:56 4000 Years Later | 21:21 Encephalon Training | 45:38 Encephalon Drone Upgrade | 50:02 The Hilbert Effect | 55:01 Lab Debrief | 1:00:02 Woglinde Bridge | 01:10:03 Real Net | 01:12:34 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

Hi. Welcome to season five of Retrograde Amnesia. As we let the Saga take us, we're talking about when and where Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht came out, observing the will to power, establishing Xeno-links, finding inspiration in pornography, resolving to finish the soundtrack, treating cut-scene length like a threat, losing to Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, socking the doorknob for spoilers, agreeing Xenosaga was the most important thing to ever happen, forecasting an existential crisis, inserting a zohar key in a zohar shape, and observing the light from the nether. You've read the document, now play the game. 00:00 Intro | 04:13 Release Information | 09:42 Development Team | 20:20 Promotional Media | 24:15 Contemporary Reviews | 28:27 Memories and Expectations | 44:17 Intro Cut Scene | 53:45 Real Net | 57:20 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

This the final farewell. On our final episode for season four, we're closing the loop on a humiliated Lucia, owning the shit out of Han Cunningham, licking the carpet, rattling death over Seed and Culgan, thinking killing is a good thing, breaking up with my adopted kid and dead wife, filling our pockets with stolen death coins, crumbling the palace, denying the responsibility of creating a new country (Riou Country), escaping all forms of responsibility, purchasing some mannequin piss, returning to the promise rock, refusing to fight Jowy, waving off murder crimes, accepting a death ruse, and stalking my ex from afar. Fate is not unchangeable, you can just leave. Join us next week for season five, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht. 00:00 Last One | 00:40 Intro | 01:40 Sacking L'Renouille | 07:28 Han Cunningham | 11:54 Seed & Culgan | 15:40 Goodbye, Jillia + Pilika | 21:25 Leon Silverburg | 26:40 Riou Lives | 27:32 After The War | 29:51 King Riou Ending | 32:15 Good Ending | 35:20 Jowy | 46:26 Nanami | 50:54 Character Endings | 01:11:43 Real Net | 01:16:08 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Would you like me to sheathe Odessa in you? While the boys hot me up in the mouth, we're taking a ton of baths, waxing heads, foreshadowing Kelley, observing a knight paradox, suffering rune exhaustion, stabbing my wife in the stomach, sloshing water around, betting the farm of a fire card, cutting promos as the world burns down, dispatching Viktor on a dirty job, calling off the sacrifice play, shedding gun blood, insulating the populace from politics, and returning to our hometown. Living people have the pain of living. 00:00 Birthday Pickles | 03:07 Intro | 04:21 Bath Scenes | 09:32 Clive/Elza Muse | 14:57 Rockaxe Check In | 17:26 The Weight Of War | 20:00 Blood Sacrifice | 25:06 The Fire Card | 31:35 Fire War | 38:38 Major Battle: L'Renouille | 42:42 Sajah / Clive Finale | 50:29 Tenzan Pass | 51:00 Kyaro | 53:11 Real Net | 55:24 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Since we are risking everything, it's a big gamble. Risk your time and listen to us rejecting a cruel unicorn's thesis, peer pressuring Kiba into death, completing group math problems, receiving the divine power of destiny, yarring, merging for the kill, forging citizen soldiers, combining Capture The Flag with murder, invading Rockaxe Castle, double-ko'ing a battle, separating from the main party, suffering from Rune addiction, dodging bolts with critical input timing, forgiving signs with hungry friends, prioritizing the flag, and letting everyone console our weepy protagonist. Anyone unwilling to die should leave now. 00:00 Fighting Chris | 01:24 Intro | 03:55 Sierra x Siegfried | 07:00 Kiba's Suicide Run | 12:18 All Hands Meeting | 19:23 Ygg'castlin' | 21:13 Liberating Matilda | 23:14 Matilda Debrief | 28:26 Matilda Invasion | 34:49 Riou x Jowy X Gorudo | 51:04 Nanami | 53:51 Sorry, Riou | 56:09 Real Net | 59:51 Outro Get more Retrograde Amnesia: Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam. Join the community and get bonus episodes, miniseries, and access to the RealNet. For a complete list of our bonus material, check out content.retrogradeamnesia.com. Twitter: @retroamnesiapod E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com