Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

It makes my heart soar like an eagle to see your face again. Hear our voices again as we're debating pregnancy, switching Greenhill's music, loving a lady like a sister, locating some lost clay, reuniting the musical trio, recruiting another cave-dwelling misanthrope, reuniting the two best dandy fops ever made, saving Pesmerga for last, living by the way of a level 14 sword, containing truth inside of lies, marching the troops outta here, listening to Jowy's idiot plea to run away, cleansing the stain of defeat, telling girls what they look like, letting some of our guys get eaten by magic wolves, and seeking the Third Impact. Our friendship is what's truly precious. 00:00 Star Wars Hotel | 03:48 Intro | 05:31 Pico | 13:41 Jude | 19:05 Alberto | 20:42 Mazus | 23:59 Vincent | 29:36 Pesmerga | 33:14 Genshu | 38:46 Ninja Village | 40:24 Muse Invasion Meeting | 43:40 Jowy's Gambit | 51:50 Major Battle: Liberating Muse | 54:23 Golden Wolves | 01:00:41 Real Net | 01:03:03 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

I am your death. With the rest of our life, we're confronting an invader, casting earthquake in my bedroom, visiting the narcissist garden, choosing to fight, waiting for battlefield reports, returning the Greenhill's forest, pleading ignorance over a severe war crime, deferring the sins of the father, assigning Yuber to the rune police, teleporting to hell, keeping Teresa's promise, knowing the Knightdom would submit to fascists, deciding it all with a cook off, making a fucking mess in the kitchen, tearing up a recipe, rolling credits, and looking to a sword for inspiration. I owe nothing more, farewell. 00:00 Second Atheist | 03:38 Intro | 04:42 Lucia! | 08:54 Situation Explanation | 10:00 Muse/Greenhill Battle | 14:31 Staying Behind | 17:55 Greenhill Invasion | 28:28 Greenhill Showdown | 33:10 News From Matilda | 35:08 Hai-Yo Finale | 48:55 Tessai | 53:18 Real Net | 57:52 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

I vow to aid you with all the strength in my worthless hands. After pissing all over Neclord, we're adding eight consecutive stars of destiny to our army, never cracking a smile, founding a coven, concealing true feelings for Anabelle, disservicing worms, recruiting a literal kraken, practicing kraken monogamy, swearing to Georg that we won't give up, developing a presence, literally pushing Gantetsu around, diverging into a new dog, switching to a new aggression, wishing Riou could join the circus, making mother sad, impregnating Yoshino, and allowing Flik closure for Odessa…at the expense of Nina. Watch and see how a brave man dies. 00:00 Season 5 Winner |02:46 Intro | 04:56 Hauser | 07:15 Sierra | 10:08 Jess | 12:26 Gijumu | 14:19 Lo-Wen | 15:49 Koyu | 17:28 Marlowe | 18:59 Kahn | 20:15 After Neclord | 21:32 Abizboah | 25:43 Georg Prime | 30:58 Gentetsu | 34:32 Boris | 40:18 Night Time Reflections | 52:54 Real Net | 55:11 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

Now is the time to destroy the demon. As we reset reality, we're declining the temptation of abdication, breaking our sister, following orders into hell, acting on bad information, soft-locking inside Gustav's house, tunneling with Neclord, stating the need to seal a soul, shipping Sierra and Klaus, tricking promising youngsters, hating the self that cannot die, ethically sucking off, assembling a golem out of sprites, cutting a promo on Neclord, confirming Jesus, lamenting the zombies' effect on local commerce, and witnessing Jess accept humility. The sin of tricking me is a heavy one. 00:00 Season 5 Update | 02:09 Intro | 03:24 No, Nanami | 05:00 Jess: Idiot | 11:46 Mine Accident? | 16:44 Crom & Kahn | 21:14 Tigermouth & Sierra | 27:44 Crom Meeting | 35:10 Abandoned Mine | 41:47 Neclord: Showdown | 53:24 Post-Neclord | 01:00:39 Real Net | 01:06:36 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

When the need arises, it's these muscles that will come in handy. On this one we're calling into Coast to Coast AM, rendering Jess a surly dickhead, accusing town guys of being creeps, reliving Annabelle's death, watching Leknaat have a stroke, learning that kids shouldn't kill people, abandoning ship with Nanami, leaving shit in the hotel room, allowing zombies to engulf dirt towns, living for true meaning and promises, killing off a Star of Destiny, slapping the shit out of Riou, retreating to a log cabin, acting like we never did our dumb selfish bullshit, demanding bath, and pretending like all of this never happened. I've had it with lords. 00:00 Season 5 Semifinal | 01:30 Intro | 06:08 Jess Shits Up The Joint | 13:26 Decompressing with Leknaat | 16:42 Nanami's Breaking Point | 24:10 Running Away to Cron | 30:09 Running Away to Tigermouth | 32:13 Georg's Ultimatum | 37:10 Jowy's Tummy Ache | 39:08 Riou vs Peers | 47:26 Rewind Bad End to Crom | 52:07 Real Net |56:03 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

Speak with your fists while we talk with our mouths about running an obstacle course, gathering intel from mountain bandits, observing the town well, conjuring a bicycle, bringing water for it, refusing to pay for another meal, brandishing Window Sets, reading every available town item, unionizing mine work, hauling the dirt away, learning the secret of scroll making, smoothing out Tinto's political situation, commenting on arm size, telling Marlowe he's not up to the job, and questioning the necessity of a vampire-zombie ethnostate. The place where god lives is so filthy. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool | 06:35 Intro | 08:27 Drakemouth Pass | 10:05 Lampdragon Bandits | 13:36 Tigermouth Village | 20:50 Crom | 22:26 L.C. Chan | 28:12 Tenkou | 34:23 Tinto | 42:16 Raura | 47:06 Gustav's House | 54:34 Fucking Neclord | 56:55 Real Net | 01:00:40 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 is a gift from my heart, I hope it will help with throwing down over the Sindar, spreading rumors of peace, becoming old enough to get lost, regressing portraits, adapting nuclear bomb logic, pumping Jowy's dialogue into Teresa, denying Jowy anything and everything, using Pilika as human collateral, stacking up war crimes, having ill-feeling left, realizing Neclord has resurfaced in Tinto, allowing Lester to restore Hai-Yo's confidence, tickling Gremio, validating onomatopoeias, calling in pregnant mom favors, and finally receiving a toilet confirmation. Eat a bowl of it, and you'll burst with happiness. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool | 05:29 Intro | 07:23 Killey & Loralai | 09:41 Coronet 11:40 Muse Peace Conference | 20:51 Rescue | 26:15 Pilika Bait Debrief | 29:15 Koyu's Debacle | 37:50 Hai-Yo vs Lester | 40:59 Gremio's Special Stew | 43:39 Drakemouth Village | 49:24 Real Net | 53:05 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

If it's in your mouth, it's good. And what's in our mouth? How about sightseeing in South Window, wondering how Max got even worse, trying to pay for food with songs, farting through our stomach, singing silence, following the trail of the Sindar, selling out Alex, slapping Alex, remaining drutherless, recruiting a Riou impersonator, dancing with Karen, solving another conflict with a cookoff, examining defeat, marrying children to each other, presenting a peace treaty, fumbling the sacred moonbird recipe, and assuming Jowy's intentions are genuine. Face me in the kitchen. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool |04:58 Intro | 06:15 Maximillian | 10:17 Annalee | 16:02 Killey | 24:43 Hoi | 32:39 Karen | 39:56 Hai Yo vs Gyokuran | 44:15 Culgan's Offer | 55:22 Hai Yo vs Retso | 01:00:15 Real Net | 01:02:27 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

Whether it's a gift from the heavens, or simply destiny, I don't know. What I can tell you is that we're realizing Shu pulled a move from The Art of War, sleeping for a week, demanding Simone bark like a dog, allowing Antonio to pep up Hai Yo, appealing to Gremio's weakness, witnessing the soul still burning inside of Tir, getting a little kid abducted, hatching out of a worm, stepping back from the republican throne, gentling ribbing our war buddies, shooting our shot with Cleo, acknowledging the pain of home, replaying Suikoden 2 to correct a typo, and feeling satisfied with our adventure into the past. Walk your road unafraid. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool | 04:37 Intro | 05:59 Luca Decompression | 11:06 Groggy Morning | 15:44 Hai Yo vs Antonio | 19:44 Gremio + McDohl | 24:51 Rescuing Ko | 31:12 Tir Returns to the Palace | 34:35 Tir Returns to his Friends | 36:20 Tir Returns Home | 40:07 Farewells | 45:02 Real Net | 47:55 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

I want to believe I am brave enough to accept fate. Until then, destiny entails massaging Luca's ego into self-destruction, surrounding dog units with man units, sharing a face with Luc, realizing Tsai is an ugly deadbeat dad, getting our life together, caring about breeding, designating ambush positions, winning a war battle way too early, thirsting for blood, creating three tactical units, preparing our eyes for darkness, violently arrowing dudes to death, beating the holiest of shit out of Luca, 1v1'ing Luca No Items Firefly Tree, giving a world class villain death speech, and getting married again. The thirst that scorched my flesh is disappearing. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool | 03:12 Intro | 05:21 Highland Camp | 07:00 Ridley's Been Ambushed ! | 12:52 Castle Business | 14:30 Tsai'd Quest | 20:25 Highland Camp | 22:41 Strategy Meeting | 26:27 Major Battle: Luca Blight | 31:36 Hai Yo vs Ryuko | 34:46 Intel | 38:03 Luca's Night Raid | 46:49 Luca's Firefly Tree | 55:45 Victory Assembly | 56:48 Coronation |01:00:44 Real Net | 01:05:50 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

With you, I think I'll be able to hear many new sounds. Listen close as we're relearning about the Gate Rune War, realizing Badeaux has the shine to him, listening to the heart, wondering if everyone here only has three fingers, defending a good monster, taking up two slots, feeling the charge between Valeria and Anita, defining "maiden" for a pervert fantasy horse, blessing a white lady, recruiting a werewolf, learning more about The Group, getting Harmonia into the theater of war, piercing Flik's cold hard shell, and gathering once more with our circus friends. You cannot separate the world into people and monsters. 00:00 Season 5 Games Pool | 03:53 Intro | 05:37 Old Book Vol 7 | 07:38 Badeaux | 12:18 Connell | 15:16 Ayda & Feather | 23:18 Anita & Valeria, Round 1 | 26:06 Sigfried | 31:30 Bob | 34:47 Hai Yo vs Bashok | 40:21 Pre War Battle Meeting | 41:36 Night Time Reflections | 47:38 Real Net | 49:40 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

I would like to sound good to me. If that sounds good to you, we're getting rid of various portraits, observing replica Tir clothes, forging an State with you, dropping dots like Humphrey, recognizing special boy eye glimmer, picking between Kasumi and Valeria, borrowing the Blinking Mirror, frittering time and money away, picking up Lorelai off the street, making 50,000 potch from Celadon Urns for Gordon's ass, reading Sonya Shulen's diary, suffering the noblewoman's laugh, embarrassing a ninja, and denying the crunch of time. Take my idiot son with you. 00:00 Saturn | 01:38 Intro | 03:05 Toran Border Patrol | 04:45 Gregminster Palace | 08:32 Throne Room | 17:26 Kasumi & Valeria | 22:00 Sheena | 27:27 Exploring Gregminster | 44:22 Rokkaku Hamlet | 49:44 Banner Village | 50:34 Real Net | 54:19 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

Gentleness has becoming a sin in this world. Handle us with care while we're finding Sheena up to his old assaults, boiling water at high altitudes, setting aside time to wack off, feeling inspired by the Toran Republic, pushing that inspiration into admiration, picking Freed Y to form an alliance, climbing rope for celadon urns, reflecting on Lord Granmeyer's folly, getting Clive shot to shit, meeting another dandy fop by the river, recruiting a narcissist for the war effort, traversing another chirpy forest, confronting monsters again, stumbling into a secret ninja village, and knocking at the gates of a beautiful golden city. It makes me feel good to make something dirty clean again. 00:00 Trivia | 01:41 Intro | 03:45 Sex Pest Sheena | 19:26 Castle Level 3 | 24:23 South Window | 27:00 Radat / Clive Incident #6 | 35:00 Banner Village | 37:49 Simone & Lebrante | 45:10 Banner Pass | 48:08 Rokkaku Interlude | 48:43 More Banner Pass | 49:49 Real Net | 53:29 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

Content warning (sexual assault) from 22:29 to 25:46. I love a good challenge, it's what keeps me going. As we go into battle with no strategy, we're respecting our opponents, alienating the dog race, getting married and knighted at the same time, recognizing the wine of fealty, poisoning a blood beverage, rearranging units, performing racism as a ruse, equating ceremonial decapitation to a waste of resources, accepting a lesser strategist, aging 56 years in 37 years, killing Barbara in the kitchen, identifying a Mortal Kombat crossover, and trying to stop the mortal peril of high-level chef competitions. To lead, you must first die in your mind. 00:00 Understand | 02:35 Intro |03:56 Kiba and Klaus, Round 1 | 09:20 Bad Habit | 12:02 Wedding-Regicide | 25:46 Shu's New Plan | 29:30 Kiba and Klaus, Round 2 |35:46 Kiba, Klaus, Welcome To The Resistance | 45:10 Castle Exploration | 48:59 Real Net | 53:45 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

What's wrong, don't you think it's beautiful? As we try to control our emotion, we're witnessing a doubled-headed spectral wolf suck souls off, projecting filth, distrusting illegitimate blood, blinking out like a Mad Gear gang member, telling Knight Father of war crimes, debating a knight's honor, quitting my job, getting my boys to quit their job, pulling Leon out of the ether, suddenly deciding Riou is too important, watching a chef commit suicide for a cake recipe, loafing off, denying a monster devoured everyone, and pretending to be friends with our enemy. I resign myself to your disgrace. 00:00 Food Time | 01:37 Intro | 03:35 Sacrificial Feast | 06:05 Luca & Jowy | 10:15 Ghosts of Muse | 14:19 Muse-Matilda Border | 15:49 Rockaxe | 23:45 Milotov and Camus Quit | 29:51 Green Hill Passage | 32:10 HQ Check In | 34:31 Jowy's Gambit | 39:11 Yggcastlin' | 44:54 Radat Recon | 50:51 Real Net | 53:40 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

If you're lying, they'll kill you. In our search for truth, we exploring cop land, blowing off a mustache, refusing to sing a song, abandoning our milk slinging duties, rejecting army recruiters, filling Kent's head with dragon fantasies, beating up a harpy, listening to a tremendous beating of wings, finally hearing about Lord TcDohl, finding a big egg in a gravy pool, christening Bright, helping Miklotov remain inconspicuous, forcing while resisting, debating clockwork knights, and preparing to enter Muse. It wouldn't be a betrayal to have a new dragon. 00:00 Battle Rap | 02:24 Intro | 03:39 Rockaxe | 10:45 Clive Incident #5 | 13:16 Highway Village | 28:32 Mount Rakutei | 38:13 Egg | 46:17 Humphrey & Futch | 51:29 Muse-Matilda Border | 55:05 Coronet Check In |55:49 Real Net | 57:34 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

Whack to your heart's content. After we pickle up, we get down to employing a new voice, founding and then quitting the Jeanies, losing sheep in the woods, picking up a healthy chick, depositing books in the library, checking suspicious characters, washing GenGen in a wooden basket, recruiting even more children, making one of them a groupie, telling my lunatic boss I want to marry his sister, beating the fuck out of hideous pastel elves, reacquiring Viki, establishing a base, submitting to another fascist, refusing to save innocent lives, and disobeying Knight Law. I have to see it with my own eyes. 00:00 Pickles | 02:37 Intro | 05:28 Jeane | 09:11 Yuzu | 14:46 HQ Check-In | 22:22 Teresa, Shin, Nina | 29:07 Jowy's Gambit | 33:40 Team Meeting | 38:54 Path To Matilda | 46:21 Knights Into Knightdom | 49:09 Leknaat | 50:54 Gorudo vs Refugees | 59:27 Real Net | 01:02:52 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 guy knows what time it is, if you know what I mean. If you get what I'm saying, we're rescuing Fitcher from the townies, inciting violence to prevent worse violence, feeling the pull of destiny on Nina's love of Flik, hearing a skittering ghost, finding a hidden passage through a secret door, discovering a cabin in the woods, m'ladying out of control, getting hype as fuck for my spider sword, turning refugees on citizens, searching for humanity, killing cops in front of school, delivering hero dialogue, threatening suicide, passing and failing Teresa's speech checks, creating a belief circle, performing an anime knockout gut punch, questioning Jowy's motives, and diving deeper into conspiracies. We cannot forgive you, ghost! 00:00 Dragoon Promo | 01:38 Intro | 03:53 Fitcher vs Mob | 07:55 More Nina | 11:00 Ghost Hunt | 15:16 Greenhill Forest | 19:10 Teresa's Flashback Cabin | 28:40 Goodbye School | 30:34 Jowy | 34:15 Escaping Greenhill | 42:19 Teresa Must Live | 49:02 Jowy II | 53:53 Jowy III | 58:35 Real Net | 01:01:37 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

I'm thinking about what to drink tonight. While we pretend to be students, we're making up aliases, desiring more flying squirrel friends, aspiring to own a warm hearth, perverting thine eyes, tee-hee'ing with Jeane, fantasizing about taking classes, admiring a wad of hair on a man, immediately blowing our cover with Emilia, declaring our regularity, inspecting Nanami to gain a competitive advantage, harassing local business owners, bumping in the night, and loving a sword instead of a teenager. Eric held a boxed Fox Mulder action figure for the entire episode. 00:00 The Atheist | 02:43 Intro |07:04 Getting into Greenhill |12:16 Welcome to Greenhill | 20:19 Nina vs Pervert | 23:30 Exploring New Leaf Academy | 31:21 First Day of School | 39:45 Nina 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

For us, the forest and village are one. As that unification increases our power, we're mistaking Elza's identity, looking to get stronger by beating ass, busting up a puzzle, recruiting another gardener, accusing Tony of being a dirt fetishist, upgrading from house to tent, entering the jam vs butter rivalry, regressing Tengaar to damsel status, dispatching Hix on a bullshit quest, realizing that bullshit is real, henpecking for life, stumbling into a wild ass cooking minigame, devaluing human life, getting Sonic references out of our system, and concocting a school days plot. It's anime. It's war. It's all the same. 00:00 Pickle Juice | 01:46 Intro | 02:59 Clive Event #4 | 05:41 Forest Village | 17:69 Kobold Village | 27:50 Unicorn Test | 34:19 Unicorn Woods | 39:06 Hix & Tengaar | 45:28 Real Pigeons | 46:04 Cook Off | 53:46 Shu's Green Hill Gambit | 01:01:51 Real Net | 01:05:06 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

I AM NOT A TOOL FOR FIGHTING. After a four month break, we're strategically firing Fitcher, buying fried tacos in bulk, becoming toasty, fantasizing about a sauna, installing a kitchen, measuring bird weather, losing a foot race because we didn't escape enough times, playing that cursed bowl dice game, further emasculating Hix, piling on the mutants, recruiting a misanthropic goth bully, shitting pants, creating graves for fish, following the call to adventure, and running into a trickster in training.Can this thing judge food? 00:00 Remastered | 02:05 Intro | 03:43 Two River Debrief | 14:27 Toasty Tetsu | 18:10 Exploring HQ | 29:26 Stallion | 33:29 Shilo, Tengaar, Hix | 38:45 Gabocha | 42:57 Sid | 51:20 Meg & Gadget | 01:00:25 Real Net 01:02:35 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

Your lies won't save you this time. In search of salvation, we're meeting a buff dogman, allowing Fitcher to get his ass whipped, brandishing the Bright Shield Rune, meeting the plenipotentiary, forgetting to eat dinner, considering the plight of the Winger, chasing Chaco through raw sewage, finding Sid behind a sewage fall, eliminating a demon rat pest, winding up in the kobold village, intercepting a communique, wishing Klaus to eat shit and die, ordering reinforcements, meeting the mystical marginalized grandma of hope, sounding the death bell, uniting the races in battle, finally chopping someone's head off, and watching Jowy take off the mask. Of course I'm me. 00:00 Intro | 03:37 Ridley vs Fitcher | 08:10 Two Rivers Politicking | 12:42 New Leaf Inn | 14:34 A Spy? | 19:42 Sewers | 28:41 Trespassers | 32:20 Kiba & Klaus | 40:55 Susu Consultation | 44:06 Kiba & Klaus II | 47:37 Wingers Save The Day | 56:43 Jowy's Ambition | 01:01:07 Real Net | 01:03:23 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

The bigger you get, the stronger you'll be. As we widen, we're meeting men of the sea, getting a reference, keeping the children toasty, using a Gameshark to time travel, recruiting a well-informed old lady, getting robbed by a flying child, hiring an idiot armorer, tasting meunière, observing black water, swallowing warm fish heads, overloading on puns in the dog village, finding respect for Gengen, and speculating the nature of foul pie contents. They wouldn't trust you much if you were with a hoodlum like me. 00:00 Intro | 04:00 Lakewest | 12:41 Clive Incident #2 | 17:14 Taki | 21:51 Tetsu's House | 25:46 Two Rivers | 35:39 Winger Zone | 45:00 Kobold District | 53:51 Real Net | 57:57 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

I ain't got too much brains but I always been stronger 'n piss. During our recruiting drive, we're lying to Fitcher about everything, observing moving NPC's, leaving our husband to run storage, leaving our wife to go fight, manifesting a boat, marrying Kimberly, demanding Freed respect his wife, wielding a naginata, calling out a rigged coin toss, paying Richmond to investigate himself, beating the shit out of Amada (again), gambling on rock climbing, declaring a boring life to be meaningless, enticing Clive with free travel, recruiting a displaced merchant couple, throwing shit at Adlai's head, and reinventing the elevator. I see you still like sticking your neck into suicidal causes. 00:00 Weird Al | 02:38 Intro | 04:45 Barbara | 07:05 Fitcher | 08:25 Castle Exploration | 15:52 Fitcher's Offer | 20:25 Tai Ho & Yam Koo | 27:20 Yoshino | 33:03 Richmond | 37:16 Amada | 40:59 Return To Headquarters | 46:28 Clive | 49:00 Hilda & Alex | 53:13 Adlai | 56:56 Real Net | 58:51 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

If you don't trust me, perhaps you should leave. While you stay, we're discovering that relaxation time is heart softening time, killing three horses for no reason, conscripting the elderly and the children, seeing potential in Freed Y, burning off my expendable unit, becoming the herald of victory, assuming a leadership position, finally flashing back to the fall of Genkaku, acquiring friend strength, selecting a name for our castle, and once again accepting the curse of Luc. Don't believe in me, and you'll be the loser. 00:00 Intro | 03:37 Introducing: Shu | 15:17 Overslept | 16:53 Solon Jhee, Round 3 | 21:29 Celebration/Initiation | 29:26 Viktor's Genkaku Digest | 40:05 Lord Riou | 42:14 Dr. Haun | 45:31 Leknaat & Luc | 50:34 Real Net | 52:25 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

Good morning. After we get out of bed, we're entering a rich guy's house, finding out he's the worst kind of capitalist, failing to recruit him anyway, prostrating ourselves in front of him, finding a hard-boiled noir detective in the water margin, hearing of a risky trade, opening a plot debate, throwing a coin off a bridge, beating up a grown man, sifting through mud, and forging a much needed alliance. I already know what you want, but go ahead and tell me anyway. 00:00 ODE | 02:10 Intro | 03:58 Shu's House | 11:24 Tavern | 16:01 Dandy Richmond | 19:00 Midnight Surprise | 23:09 Illicit Bridge Meeting | 27:26 Sluice Gate | 33:19 River Bank Scavenger Hunt | 36:32 Shu: Bastard | 42:01 Shu & Apple: Stars | 47:41 Real Net | 49:56 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

I know that once a person is dead, they're gone forever. Before we go, we're challenging Suikoden II's treatment of Suikoden, embracing a child rune, pushing baphomet, denying the dirty vampire's tricks with violence, clicking a sword, slaughtering an abomination, chopping off more than one head, deciding we need to use a strategy to win, learning of a brilliant expelled student, failing to protect women, accepting a bartender into destiny, remembering Pohl, and hearing all about Shu. That's right, get ready to die! 00:00 Poser | 02:34 Intro | 06:16 North Window Regroup | 07:00 Neclord's Other Castle | 12:07 Neclord Showdown | 21:45 Post Neclord | 26:54 Apple Moment | 32:29 Oulan | 38:35 Leona | 40:58 Radat | 48:05 Real Net | 51:03 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 is punishment for what you did to my body. Through our pain, we're forgetting Pohl ever existed, formally accepting Flik and Viktor, wondering why Freed has a last initial, repeating Suikoden's vampire subplot, dragging Pilika along, remaining oblivious to the concept of sex, raising the dead, missing our magic talking sword, beating up rocks, mounting a forehead rune, solving a rock pushing puzzle, finding Kahn in the middle of a damn cave, using a doppelganger secret, insulting the talking sword, and rekindling our relationship with that surly weapon. Well, I'm leaving, so do whatever you want. 00:00 Midnight Climb | 02:56 Intro | 04:30 South Window Tavern Strategy Meeting | 11:43 South Window City Hall | 17:45 South Window Tavern Strategy Meeting II | 23:55 North Window | 26:34 Gothic Neclord | 35:03 Cave of the Wind | 47:46 Star Dragon Sword | 54:30 Real Net | 58:17 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

Anyway the wind blows, the dice rolls. Before we blow our roll, we're profiling Jowy, forcing destiny through chinchirorin, leaving Sheena behind, suppressing Rina's subplot, questioning the apple trade, waiting for Karen to dance, slinging some Josh (derogatory), confirming Viktor as a loud guy, conducting business with Clive, rejecting the sugar trade, touching a bonsai and receiving a crystal, filling slots with candles, rejecting the mayonnaise barrel, and getting ready to meet all of our friends at the inn. The only luck you've got is bad luck, son. 00:00 Soul Hackers Giveaway | 02:47 Intro | 05:46 Gambling For A Boat | 16:48 Kuskus! | 32:58 World Mappin' | 33:49 South Window | 51:58 Real Net | 54:32 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

What do you want? Are you from around here? While you figure that out we're assigning light and dark to different destinies, meeting secret ninjas in secret places, stopping by to share some wine, complimenting the wine's bouquet, inventing demolition sex, desaturating Muse, smashing a wine glass, escaping from a crime scene, assuming unchangable fate brought us here, fantasizing about running away from life, meandering about a fishing town, and meeting up with our favorite weirdos. Your life? I came to take it. 00:00 Bit Brigade | 03:20 Intro | 04:58 Where's Jowy? | 07:36 Jowy's Resolve | 09:20 Viktor & Anabelle | 19:32 Where's Jowy II | 21:09 Anabelle & Jowy | 26:19 Riou, Nanami,& Anabelle | 30:00 Escape Muse | 32:05 Under A Tree 35:30 Coronet | 46:40 Reunited With The Carnies | 50:29 Real Net | 55:34 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

My face is proof of my identity. While you find proof of yours, we're running up that hilltop, failing facial recognition, belly bumping a lady, suffering surly knights, channeling Elden Ring's intro narrator, testing the Jowston State Agreement, calling a false flag, reading into the dots, bloodying their nose a little, turning Gilbert's coat and also sometimes killing Gilbert, furthering Jowy's disillusionment, plotting an escape, lying to Pilika, cutting in with Suikoden 1 lore, asking Anabelle why she fights, corrupting a save file, and babysitting an orphan. It'll be something to tell your grandkids about, I'm sure. 00:00 Ax Throw |01:39 Intro | 03:58 One Week Later | 05:16 Pre Hilltop Conference | 14:18 Hilltop Conference Introduction |17:16 The Hilltop Conference | 25:07 Post Hilltop Conference | 32:11 Major Battle: Muse City | 39:18 Leona's Tavern Debrief | 43:41 Meeting With Anabelle | 48:34 Leona's Tavern Meeting | 50:33 Real Net | 53:22 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

Don't worry, I'll show you a good trick. As we debate the merit of how good that trick was, we're putting on our dead friends' uniforms, speculating Rowd's Joke Character potential, accidentally holding a princess hostage, seeking the power, slapping the shit out of a city official, screaming at the chamberlain, admiring the gorgeous dusk sky, begging a child to take my place, embracing a friend, and chatting up everyone at the bar. Perhaps you'd like to leave now? 00:00 Intro | 03:39 Infiltrating The Highland Camp | 07:22 Jillia Blight | 16:39 Fated Escape | 19:23 Where's Jowy? | 21:01 Return to Muse | 23:25 Bureaucratic Showdown | 29:50 Leona's Tavern | 31:12 Nanami Waits At The Gate | 40:48 Morning | 42:35 Real Net | 47:57 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

Can you shoot, gunner? After we wake in jail, we're looking older and tougher, observing war's effect on the citizens of Muse, holding on to a stranger's contraband, feeling the bullets whiz by our face, becoming infantilized again, realizing Anabelle knows Genkaku, falling prey to idiot war schemes, conscripting a child to be a field medic, doing Anita's bidding for a date, demanding access to make an accurate map, loving non-romantic romantic usage, watching teammates change clothes, and dressing up like our dead friends. I haven't found the edge of the world yet. 00:00 Patreon Promo |01:41 Intro | 04:40 Awake In Jail | 07:07 What's New In Muse? | 11:32 Clive Incident #1 | 18:44 Meeting With Anabelle | 28:37 City Hall | 32:51 Tuta & Dr Haun | 34:37 Leona's Tavern | 40:31 Templeton | 46:19 Muse-Highland Border | 52:20 Real Net | 55:01 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

It's medicine. Eat it. While we decide what's most dear about this, we're being denied entry to Muse, winding up at an inn in the woods, absorbing the ravings of a treasure obsessed husband, helping find treasure to get an entry permit, collecting shapes, placing those shapes in holes to open doors, fearing Mr. Venus, engaging a nifty contraption, slaughtering a two-headed snake, throwing away an herb, finding our wife passed out on the floor, reviving her with that fated herb, role-playing away our idiot plan, becoming incarcerated again, waxing about the past, and telegraphing the fall of a hero. Don't talk to me over-familiar, got it? 00:00 The Best PS3 Game | 01:58 Intro | 04:00 Muse City Gate | 06:19 White Deer Inn | 10:25 White Deer Morning | 13:35 Alex: Raving Lunatic | 17:45 Sindar Ruins | 29:42 Treasure of Dreams | 35:33 Hilda Crisis | 41:55 The Muse Permit Gambit | 45:10 Muse Jail | 47:12 Full Moon Reflections | 52:52 Real Net | 54:44 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

We have looked into your hearts and witnessed your character. As we shift into a new genre, we're deploying turn-based tactics, lighting people on fire, fighting a war right after we fought a war, slaughtering a spineless worm, exposing a traumatized child to even worse trauma, throwing munitions into a furnace, making a pact for Muse, venturing into the forbidden cave, leveling up Touching Theme, looking for power, flashing back to our friendship's origins, peeping thomas, receiving the power runes, and cosigning our downfall. Go now, and write your fates. 00:00 Intro | 03:11 Bright Blight | 04:26 Merc Fort War | 13:39 Between Battles | 14:48 Merc Fort War 2 | 17:54 Luca vs Mercs | 26:19 Refuge in the Woods | 28:54 Big Holiday Shrine | 33:09 Inside the Shrine | 34:57 Bygone Days | 42:31 The Power to Alter Fate | 48:41 Return to Reality | 49:50 Real Net | 53:33 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

I've got no time left. And yet we're admiring shirtless men at work, discovering Joey is an uncle, wondering if knights are cops, staring down the big holiday door, entering the tekken, meeting Pilika and her family, venturing to Muse for an amulet gift, running it, selling Jowy's signet ring for no reason, scream-crying at the ashes of parents, meeting Apple (of all people), seeking the godfather of all mercenaries, rediscovering Odessa's legacy, recognizing Tsai as the counter-Mathiu, burning spineless worms, dehumanizing doomed villagers, crawling like a pig, dueling our leader, and naming our company. I just don't know how to thank you enough, for what you did for me. 00:00 Chris Bought A Robot | 02:03 Intro | 06:23 Toto Village | 14:45 Zamza | 19:07 Pilika's House | 24:28 Muse City | 36:57 Return to Toto | 42:48 Hannah | 45:26 Mercenary Conference | 54:28 Tsai's Cabin | 58:58 Ryube's Blight | 01:05:54 Aftermath | 01:08:20 Duel | 01:11:41 Luca's Here | 01:13:42 Real Net | 01:15:57 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

It looks like your path to success took a detour. As we find our way, we're stealing heirloom vases for running-away money, reuniting with Rowd, waking up in jail, appealing to an ineffective princess, failing the prophecy of our final sunset, pulling chestnuts out of the fire, speaking to the items, reminiscing at the town exit, interrogating everyone at the Merc Fort, recruiting a hungry samurai, paying a 3000 potch bar tab, looking for a lost pet, debating Man of the Woods vs. Prepper, recruiting a wolf-dog and his master, and slaying the world's only spider hog. I've only ever seen it in anime. 00:00 Intro | 03:40 Escape Kyaro | 08:20 Captured | 11:22 Perp Walk | 13:50 Gallows | 16:23 Rescue | 25:07 North Sparrow Pass | 27:00 Merc Hideout | 33:48 Rikumaru | 43:05 Baby Bird, Shiro, Kinnison | 50:54 Bonaparte | 55:05 Real Net | 57:56 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

What is homesickness, if not nostalgia? Between adult conversations, we're getting roped into a knife-throwing exhibition, letting the carnies join us, trading sex for safe passage, slaying the Mist Shade, alienating my hometowns folk, learning Jowy's got money, hearing I look cool from a blind kid, watching my dad disown me, recruiting a flying squirrel, letting my sister beat the shit out of me, and learning all kinds of secrets about all kinds of characters. You should run away, there's nothing for you here anymore. 00:00 Intro | 04:18 Ryube Street Performers | 21:17 Guard Negotiations | 25:04 North Sparrow Pass | 28:16 Exploring Kyaro | 39:40 Jowy's Family Fun Time | 45:44 Riou & Nanami | 53:55 Real Net | 58:25 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

Wake up, or I'll throw you in the river again. After we survive a swan dive, we're opening our eyes to familiar strangers, sleeping in a storeroom jai cell, performing unpaid labor, rainchecking the knowledge of sex and alcohol, meeting a kobold in the first hour of the game, recruiting a child, admiring the world map, pissing pants with fear, conversing with street performers, fetching flour that might be gunpowder, wiping the floor, getting rescued, standing in the principle's office, bargaining for a spoon, picking a lock, lighting the base on fire, and escaping out on the veranda. Our air and water are delicious. 00:00 Intro | 04:07 Sepia Flashbacks | 09:08 Riverside Reunion | 14:09 Mercenary Fortress | 16:53 Chores? | 19:26 Exploring the Fortress | 36:03 World Map | 37:11 Ryube Village | 47:25 Return to Mercenary Fortress | 51:13 Rescue | 53:55 Fireside Chat | 56:10 Jail Again | 58:50 Escape | 01:01:09 Real Net | 01:07:33 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

Welcome to part two of season four of Retrograde Amnesia! As we kick off our coverage of Suikoden II, we're going over release history, development staff, contemporary reviews, modern reflections, and our personal history & expectations. Then we press start, and we're loading Suikoden I data, hearing both side's case about war & peace, running with a dust cloud, putting on main character clothes, exploring at night, running through a massacre, escaping to the north, fighting for our lives, and leaping into a waterfall. DETERMINE. 00:00 Intro | 03:01 Release History | 09:03 Promotional Media | 11:22 Contemporary Reviews | 16:27 Modern Takes & Expectations | 27:46 Power On | 32:52 Push Start | 36:46 Night Camp | 41:11 Exploring Camp | 47:54 Surprise Attack | 51:00 Betrayal | 55:29 Waterfall | 01:00:17 RealNet | 01:04:30 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

Can't something be wrong, and priceless? On season four, part one's final episode, we're investigating bathing dynamics, pretending Sanchez isn't a rat, allowing Leknaat to lore dump all over us, wasting our only resurrection spell, sending monsters back to hell, executing Ain Gide, engaging in a rooftop showdown, accepting shame from former colleagues, suffering rune rejection, faking indoctrination, performing a murder/suicide, escaping the crumbling castle, reading every ending, creating expectations, diving into the lore, and fighting the power. Damn, this is the end. I shall go ahead. 00:00 Intro | 04:09 Bath Time | 06:48 The Oath | 13:16 Gremio | 19:48 The Last Battle | 30:10 World Map Check In | 33:30 Ain Gide | 37:39 Palace Invasion | 40:10 Imperial Garden | 42:38 Golden Hydra | 44:08 Aftermath | 52:16 Earthquake Escape | 57:08 Celebration & Sadness | 01:00:06 108 Endings | 01:17:04 Summations | 01:22:24 Suikoden Lore | 01:25:20 Water Margin | 01:29:38 Real Net | 01:37:33 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 is no time to be distressed, we have a job to do. As we ingest the envy of angels, we're learning Mathiu and Humphrey were on opposite sides of a massacre, brewing our finest tea, preventing adults from having consensual sex, writing Hix off as a forever dumbass, wishing the old would die instead of the young, making 500 boats out of fucking ice, telling our dad's girlfriend why he's dead, tipping the oil pots too early, defiling a human being, listening to the plight of the betrayer, covering up a crime, and recruited yet another hater. I'll stay by your side so I can watch you die. 00:00 Bourbon | 01:44 Intro | 04:11 Humphrey & Flik | 08:08 Gen & Kamandol | 11:19 Pahn & Cleo | 12:00 Tai Ho x Yam Koo x Kim | 14:59 Hix & Tengaar | 16:01 Flik & Sanchez | 18:17 Luikan & Fuiken | 18:45 Viktor & Tir | 20:15 Ice Boats | 22:45 Battle at Floating Fortress Shasarazade | 27:25 Closing the Flood Gate | 31:54 Sonya Shulen | 37:40 Traitor | 42:19 Sonya Shulden Debrief | 45:36 Castle Talk'n | 46:58 Real Net | 49:25 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

I dislike myself intensely when I am fighting. As we experience classic RP Games, we're being infiltrated by a spy, realizing it's not just a drill, rejecting breakfast and surrender, failing an execution, contriving subterfuge, applying a ruse, invading a castle, resting on a guy, busting our boys out of jail, auto-joining man servants, calling upon the city states of Jowston, forcing Kasim into non-violence, utilizing a narcissist, citing Don Quixote's influence, and telling Mathiu his ideas are impossible. I don't mind, but do you really trust me? 00:00 Gun Circle | 02:33 Intro | 05:09 The Mathiu Trust Initiative | 09:10 Maneuvers Site | 10:25 Griffith's Folly | 15:50 Mathiu's Feint | 18:32 The Chewbacca Plan | 21:12 Moravia Castle | 29:31 Kasim Hazil | 40:58 Vincent de Boule | 46:49 Maximillian | 51:54 Mathiu's Boat Plan | 54:46 Real Net | 01:00:29 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

We've had a rough time getting here, and we're taking this stuff. Before that caper, we're romanticizing a studio apartment, wondering if sleeping poison is really poison, foreshadowing the third ingredient, locating the final blacksmith, shattering sentient crystals, obtaining moonlight weed, sorting through another Ted dilemma, fading from existence, picking a big flower, encountering a sober emperor, excommunicating from dragon club, wishing Krin was dead, and deciding exactly one rich guy is honorable. I never thought I'd run into a flower thief on a sleepless night. 00:00 Intro | 03:34 The Joshua Negotiation | 11:46 Seek Valley | 17:41 Ted & Windy | 25:55 Dragon Knight's Fortress Regroup | 27:07 Futch's Big Adventure | 31:21 Futch Fallout | 38:45 Krin & Kasumi | 40:24 Taggart | 44:18 Mace | 47:16 Real Net | 52:26 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

In this special episode, we sit down and chat with Aidan Moher on his upcoming book, Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West. We talk about the writing process, the history of the JRPG genre, and the pioneers and innovators who created the games we love. For more on the book, go to www.fightmagicitems.rocks and follow Aidan on Twitter (@adribbleofink)

Wishy washy, aren't we? As our glorious island fortress levels up for the final time, we're moving Kimberly in with Tai-Ho, pondering the beef between Mathiu and Leon, explaining Plate Armor, befriending a centenarian cultist, lucking out with Clive's spawn, suffering a denial of service at the Dragon's Den, paying for a dine & dash, sneaking into a cave, discovering the secret of sleeping dragons, obliterating our very presence, and poaching everyone cool at the Dragon Knight's Fortress. There's still time to do the right thing. 00:00 Intro | 06:10 Tropical Bath | 07:49 Convening the War Council | 11:41 Leon Silverburg | 16:40 Pesmerga | 21:43 Crowley | 24:23 Clive | 29:07 Dragon's Den Entrance | 31:19 Antei Antics | 35:57 Return to Dragon's Den | 39:21 Dragon Cave | 43:07 Dragon Knight's Fortress | 51:21 Real Net | 55:53 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

What's wrong? Is there something on my face? After the talking sword sends us to the past, we're meeting Ted in boy form, damning the damned, charing a village, encountering the enigmatic Yuber, cursing Ted with a sorrowful fate, accepting the Star Dragon Sword, recruiting a librarian, reading Old Books in front of a simulated live audience, impressing recruits with our recruits, installing Window in our castle, observing vampire invitation rules, naming a sword to join a party, dramatically playing an organ, cutting off a head, and finally making a woman happy. May the birth of this new warrior be celebrated by all. 00:00 Ranking of the Virtuas | 01:58 Intro | 03:55 Village of the Hidden Rune | 08:44 It's Windy Here | 16:47 Bye Ted | 20:37 Talking Sword | 22:15 Return to Qlon | 24:20 Chris Reads All The Old Books | 31:18 Recruiting Trail | 36:14 Return to Warrior's Village | 40:20 Neclord's Castle | 46:20 Inside Neclord's Castle | 54:11 Vampire Slain | 59:12 Real Net | 01:03:13 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

We've killed our father. In our slightly-related quest to united rebel factions, we're tripping over fresh graves, investing in a murderer and executioner, dismissing a bloodsucking vampire lord as a rumor, hearing the word NECLORD, finally recruiting Marco, stacking blacksmiths, faking out a lore flashback, testing exactly one gender norm, losing a fight to a vampire, failing to express warrior-sanctioned masculinity, requiring yet another magic weapon, finding Zen and Morgan at a temple, and insulting a talking sword. We are destined to gather together under Master Tir's sign. 00:00 Intro | 03:43 Who Are We Fighting Next | 06:13 Lorimar Fortress | 12:58 Warrior's Village | 24:55 Zorak's Cabin | 32:08 Neclord Takes His Bride | 38:08 Vampire Hunters | 40:28 Qlon Temple | 46:26 Fuiken | 50:54 Cave of the Past | 53:45 Real Net | 58:41 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

Our father is a loser but we're still not winners. Before the rematch, we're wondering how many spears are on fire, entering a town that's a dungeon, finding trust in eyes, stopping the thieving dipshit network from harassing a tall lady, paying a freelance ninja, required boats for land transport, shaking Kun To down for those boats, burning down armored cavalry, battling father against son, denying decapitation, bludgeoning our father who will soon art in heaven, and receiving hell powers. What do you plan to leave in the wake of your battle? 00:00 Crisis of Chris | 02:52 Intro | 04:22 Beating Up Your Dad: Ethical Considerations | 05:58 Kalekka | 13:49 Secret Factory | 18:51 Inside Secret Factory | 24:56 Return to Kirov | 34:15 Toran Castle | 35:54 Major Battle: Battle With Teo | 37:71 Teo Aftermath | 43:06 Teo McDohl vs Tir McDohl | 44:06 Teo Regrets Nothing | 51:15 Real Net | 53:58 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

A special interview with Arnie Roth, conductor of Distant Worlds. Interview performed by ssdninja. Interview also viewable on our Patreon page (public post) Distant Worlds is a concert series centered around the Final Fantasy franchise. Produced by AWR music and debuting in 2007, Distant Worlds brings the music of Final Fantasy to audiences around the world. This year marks the 15th anniversary of Distant Worlds and the 35th anniversary of Final Fantasy. The concert series premiered in Tokyo, Japan on Aug. 6, with a North American premiere set for Chicago on Sept. 10. The Chicago performance will have vocalist Rikki performing "Suteki da ne" from Final Fantasy X along with legendary composer Yoko Shimomura in attendance. Arnie Roth is a Grammy-winning musician and conductor of Distant Worlds. Throughout the years he has continued to bring the music of Final Fantasy to fans all over the world. This short interview aims to discuss the past and future of Distant Worlds, along with recalling some memories along the way. Tickets are still available for the Chicago shows as well as other upcoming performances at ffdistantworlds.com/. Hironobu Sakaguchi, Naoki Yoshida, Yoshinori Kitase, Yoko Shimomura, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Naoshi Mizuta, Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu, RIKKI, Emiko Shiratori, Arnie Roth, and Kazuko Shibuya gather in Tokyo for the world premiere of the 35th anniversary of Distant Worlds. Photo courtesy of AWR Music