Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

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

You must not die here, don't waste the life Gremio gave you. As we determine the logistics of the Soul Eater, we're receiving intel from Kasumi Ninja, mulling over the ethics of fighting our fathers, falling fast to armored cavalry, letting Pahn take one for the team, beating up our buddy's dad, hearing there are 27 True Runes, napping some inspiration, dredging up the Fire Spear idea, recruiting more children, observing open raw sewage, trading items around to do the laundry, becoming an idler, playing a fucked matching game, and sipping some stew to impress another chef. Now that I know these things, I cannot let them go. 00:00 S4 Bonus Content Outline |02:00 Intro | 04:20 Soul Eater Housekeeping | 05:27 War Room Debrief | 10:14 Battle Teo's Army I | 14:29 Pahn vs Teo McDohl | 21:20 Dreaming of Leknaat | 24:56 War Room Plotting | 29:54 Recruiting Trail | 38:05 Kirov | 48:49 Real Net | 51:55 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'm prepared to die and I won't miss this world. While we try to beat the rapids, we're escalating neighborly beef, kickstarting the industrial revolution, hauling an engine across town, confessing our lack of purpose to raise our death flag, visiting a hermitage, throwing an isolationist in prison, recruiting a secret illiterate, forcing Flik to fill Kimbery's cup, using Bugs Bunny tactics on a scrivener, cranking an opal out of a Nightmare, breaking Liukan out of jail, finding the right time to die, recruiting some narcissists, acknowledging corruption beyond control, finding a human casio, and choosing practicality over vengeance. I'll see you in hell. 00:00 HEALTH's Radhan Fest | 02:05 Intro | 05:15 Old Men & Power Boats | 16:13 Rikon & Regrets | 19:35 Liukan's Hermitage | 27:20 Toran Castle | 28:52 Kimberly & Tesla | 39:37 Forging the Letter | 41:58 Soniere Prison | 48:21 Spores | 55:71 Pity Party | 59:08 Esmeralda | 01:00:49 Battle at Scarleticia Castle | 01:02:29 Scarleticia | 01:11:25 Real Net |01:14:26 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

All I'm interested in are boats. Before we brave the rapids, we're squaring off against some jabronis at Garan, murdering 3000 soliders with the Lepant family, refusing a recon mission, inhaling poisonous pollen, foreshadowing Gremio's doom, wondering if pharmacists were invented yet, locating a guy who can appraise anything, denying imperialist town reclassification, accessing the Blinking Mirror, not needing old men, dancing on stage with Mina, robbing Antei of its merchants, slaughting feral creatures for an urn, locating Lotte's cat that is also called Mina, and telling three pirates to get their fucking lives together. We're all over. 00:00 Intro | 04:31 Battle at Fortress of Garan | 08:19 Garan Debrief | 09:58 Battle at Scarleticia Castle | 11:55 Scarleticia Castle Debrief | 18:52 Rikon | 24:35 Teien | 34:53 Toran Castle 3.0 | 37:53 Scarleticia Castle | 38:52 Antei | 50:37 Jabba & Lotte | 54:09 Pirate Fortress | 01:01:25 Real Net | 01:04:15 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 found our way here, to this mystery. As we pivot from military recruitment to cult assembly, we're playing Mark's voicemail, wondering if we've slaughtered Kuromimi's family members, separating choice from destiny, adding a bunch of elfes (elves), paying off a food debt, leaving children unattended in perpetuity, jumping ahead three months, butting heads with Flik, allowing the silent to speak, forcing animal friends to sleep outside, creating an alliance, naming a sword Odessa, and preparing to take on Garan. It'll be 30 bits per creature. 00:00 Happy Birthday Chris | 08:41 Pannu Yakuta Aftermath | 17:59 Kobold Village | 25:54 Lorelai | 27:21 Apple | 30:08 Toran Castle | 32:22 Flik's Back | 39:29 Toran Castle 2.0 | 42:52 Flik's In Kaku | 49:32 Garan Fortress Planning | 51:18 Real Net | 55:12 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

God? There is no god in these modern times. As we seek to shatter the Burning Mirror, we're discovering Kage is working both side's case, stealing a root to prove our worthiness, getting beat up because we're poor, solving an incredulous phone number puzzle, slaying Gigantis, commissioning a Firewind Cannon, delaying a proposal for dramatic effect, finally obtaining a map, idiotically submitting to a bounty, recruiting a talking dog, leaping into a full scale war, representing battlefield death with ascending angels, seeing the power of the science, resting with a lady, and surmounting the insurmountable. War is timing, and now is the time. 00:00 Intro | 04:50 Chief of the Dwarves | 08:19 Dwarf Vault | 15:56 Presenting the Water Root | 17:12 Elf Village Aftermath | 24:40 Kobold Village Confrontation | 33:22 Battle at Pannu Yakuta Castle | 45:20 Kwanda's Fortress | 50:56 Kwanda Rosman | 55:47 Kwanda's Fate | 01:01:31 Real Net | 01:04:31 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

Ho ho, you smell like humans. After we roll this wet elf out of our bed, we're recruiting more children into the army, throwing dice for another degenerate, sacrificing morals for money, slaughtering Christmas trees, recruiting a teleporting amnesiac, meeting a talking dog, receiving racism, counting chicken hearts, getting locked up, busting out of jail, fondly recalling abandoned twitter handles, marveling at circular dwarven windows, appraising a piss boy, and inventing electricity. It looks like I blew it. 00:00 Intro | 05:19 Recruiting Trail | 15:56 Great Forest | 21:28 Kobold Village | 24:57 Village of the Elves | 34:09 Elf Elder | 37:24 Elf Jail | 47:41 Dwarf Trail | 53:21 Dwarf Village | 01:00:17 Real Net | 01:04:50 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

Want to take a bath? You'll feel refreshed. While we refuse to discuss our trauma, we're escaping Lepant's fun house, stealing a named sword, refusing to get poisoned again, donning a skin cloak, threatening a man's wife, taking a man's life, dividing our will to kill, making a family fighting team, letting a cop in the squad, throwing a dinner party, dealing with a ninja assassin, storing our precious antiques in the hot tub, and finding a friend who swam here. You are no longer my wife. 00:00 Intro | 03:17 Wheel of Fortune | 06:25 Operation Lepant: Debrief | 12:18 Lepant Unleashed | 15:20 Kraze Showdown | 29:08 Pahn | 32:38 Toran Castle | 36:42 Banquet | 43:07 Toran Castle'n | 50:22 Elf | 54:46 Real Net | 57:43 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 liberating invention needs a liberated world. On the New Liberation Army's Founding Day, we're receiving a non-electronic tablet to coordinate destiny, starting a cult, being watched in our sleep, seeing stars, sleeping in the dirt chamber, uniting our recruitment efforts, installing an elevator in the castle, putting indie stores out of business, employing those we've made unemployable, hallucinating an elf, appraising question marks, stealing a sword to create a conversation, literally descending from the rafters, and smelling what Rock is vaulting. When the world is twisted, so are people's minds. 00:00 Intro | 03:08 Toran Castle Lore |05:05 Commander Tir |13:51 Stars of Destiny | 18:45 Toran Castle Exploration | 22:47 Recruiting in Kaku | 26:13 Recruiting in Kwaba | 28:13 Recruiting in Seka | 33:31 Recruiting in Garan | 36:32 Recruiting in Great Forest | 42:19 Operation Lepant | 48:00 Lepant Home Invasion | 55:54 Real Net | 59:14 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 the fixed version, we hope! Here we go then, too late for regrets. And too early for lining up great walls, declaring false identities, seizing the moment to fake a temper tantrum, blaming fate for problems, finding skilled professionals with no obvious means of employment, making Mathiu an offer he can refuse, confusing doctor with sensei, murdering soldiers in front of children, giving kids a year of homework, seeking a Headquarters, denying Camille's payment, throwing dice in a magic cup, scouring a haunted castle, and giving our castle a new name. That's what you get for acting big even when you're dead. 00:00 Intro | 03:20 Odessa Is Dead | 05:36 Kwaba Fortress | 14:07 World Mappin' | 18:25 Seika | 22:26 Mathiu's House | 41:20 Kaku | 44:46 Kaku Tavern | 50:01 Tai Ho | 54:40 Toren Castle | 01:03:18 Real Net | 01:08:58 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

In any case, we have to go up. Let's go. While there we're investing in dad lore, finding Child Ted on the battlefield, plucking facts off The Cutting Room Floor, hiking up a snowy mountain, trusting a man with a bowl cut, remaining ignorant of bitter, drinking a beverage that is clearly poisoned, expressing discontent and doing something about it, poking around an isolated community, bonding with Odessa in the middle of the night, gaslighting the blueprint ninja, engaging in sexual innuendo, walking all the way back home, killing men in the sewer, and saying goodbye to a heroine. Throw my body in the river. 00:00 Intro | 04:51 Suikoden Pre-history | 12:50 Mt. Tigerwolf | 17:27 Ledon | 32:20 Sarady | 38:15 Moonlit Night | 44:33 Morning | 47:02 The Lenankamp Debacle | 56:33 Real Net | 59:56 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

Everything's okay, make sure to hide your faces. Before we dry out, we're trusting the scoundrel Viktor with our lives, dining and dashing, shifting rows for better attack, sharpening weapons, attaching runes, daydreaming about murdering imperials, finding Odessa behind a clock, reaching the Time To Sewers, meeting our rebel conspirators, realizing we narc'd on comrades, censroing crucifixion, performing a casual arson, walking through a burning building and killing everyone inside, freeing/confusing Varkas and Sydonia, putting all of our faith in a Fire Spear blueprint for the secret factory. Father goes his way, I go mine. 00:00 Intro | 02:52 Cornered At The Inn | 08:24 Viktor Debrief | 12:46 Lenankamp | 18:18 Keyaki Inn Showdown | 23:52 Sewer Conference | 35:53 Rockland Reckoning | 38:23 Grady's Burning Mansion | 43:24 Return To Lenankamp | 50:23 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

Loneliness is a slow acting, but fatal, poison. Before we ingest the antidote we're taking a dragon to see a play, becoming tax collectors, watering the seeds of class warfare, cheating Marco out of a million bits, reading epitaphs, refusing to strike children, bullshitting a bullshitter, trapping the feds in ant holes, installing stairs in a mountain, fighting the unbeatable ant queen, performing some light colonialism, slaughtering bandits, murdering Imperial soldiers for the crime of child abuse, getting our bits stolen, using the Soul Eater, narcing on a friend, wandering for 300 years, and escaping through the kitchen. Never let your friends who like the cops go to walgreens. 00:00 Intro | 03:33 Return to Gregminster | 05:10 Kraze Debrief | 08:00 Tiny Characters Huge World | 11:21 Rockland | 23:13 Grady's House | 27:20 Mount Seifu | 32:39 Cave | 39:10 Varkas & Syndonia | 44:16 Return to Rockland | 47:04 Back to Gregminster | 51:53 Ted's Home | 01:05:08 Real Net | 01:09:48 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

Both magic sisters think I'm hot. While we admire ourselves in the floor, we're losing our father to a border crisis, reporting to a Krazy boss, hiring a magician who looks like my wife, auto-walking home, playing a real guitar, defining a Gremio, rifling through Milich's clothing, questioning the reality of Ted, keeping a food journal, dreaming in black and white, leaping in the elephant dragon's basket, fighting forest monsters, obtaining the emperor's astrology report, and opening the invitation to destiny. You must decide what is right, understand? 00:00 Intro | 02:47 Enter Tir McDohl | 06:10 Barbarossa's Court | 13:40 Royal Palace Exploration | 19:54 In My Father's House | 23:00 Exploring Gregminster | 33:23 Back In My Father's House | 46:23 Report To Kraze | 53:13 Magician's Island | 59:29 Leknaat | 01:04:06 Real Net | 01:11:20 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

In the first episode of our fourth season, we're talking when where and how Suikoden first released, basic pronunciation guidelines, how the hell to play Suikoden in 2022, finding inspiration in anime soccer, identifying hot sound smiths, reading a german magazine ad, digging up and then settling old scores, indulging in the instructions, watching the intro movie, and deciding what to name Tir McDohl. All of this has to happen so we can play Suikoden II in a few months. 00:00 Intro | 02:47 Release History | 05:59 Water Margin | 07:26 Development Team | 20:00 Promotional Media | 22:14 Contemporary Reception | 26:56 How We're Playing Suikoden | 32:49 Instruction Manual | 35:32 Suikoden Intro Screen | 40:42 Press Start | 44:53 Real Net | 47:00 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 only Squall permitted here is you. As we sort through computer generated cut scenes, we're trying to remember the power of friendship, completing the time loop, accepting sorceress power, talking to myself, wandering through the desert, collapsing in futility, finding our soulmate in the abyss, becoming a no winged angel, speaking without a voice, blowing feathers around, holding up wedding rings, staring at a headstone, shooting a home video, shoving hot dogs in the mouth hole, raising a finger in ambiguity, and finally watching our sad boy find his smile. Next week we begin season 4, featuring Suikoden and Suikoden II back 2 back. 01:20 Intro | 04:35 Post Battle Ethereal Chaos | 08:06 Matron's House | 17:00 CG Cut Scene | 39:27 Pre Post Credits | 45:03 Credits | 53:24 Final Fantasy VIII: Videogame | 59:40 Real Net | 01:05:45 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

Face my wrath for seeking thy sealed power. As we kompress time, we're multiplying save points and sorceresses, stepping over dead SeeDs on the beach, fastening wings to a castle, sealing our powers away, evaporating a rainbow, deducing latin paintings, weighing everyone in our party, turning blood green, slaying a fallen GF, meeting up with Xu and the CC Club, obtaining Proof of Omega, listening to an incoherent villain speech, fighting my ring, slaying a legendary beast, and facing off against the final sorceress. Get it over with, fight her now. 02:00 Intro | 04:03 Commencement Room | 10:53 The Castle | 12:55 Sphinxuar | 16:10 Tri-Point | 22:25 Trauma | 25:25 Red Giant | 29:58 Krysta | 33:50 Gargantua | 35:58 Catoblepas | 38:57 Tiamat | 40:30 Disc 4 World Map | 43:47 Omega Weapon | 47:48 Ultimecia | 01:00:18 Griever | 01:09:55 The Extreme | 01:18:28 | Real Net | 01:21:55 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 have a lot to tell you, unless you don't want to hear it. In which case I'll understand. After we put a bullet in the head of Triple Triad, we're identifying the father of the son, ramming Lunatic Pandora, parking our dragon at the base, quitting our jobs to go drink, telling my boy we're not a posse, killing the unkillable friend, wandering away to get kidnapped, swapping in disc four, junctioning a person to another person, mugging our imperiled girlfriend, and falling through compressed time. Hey hey, come on people. 02:30 Intro | 04:04 Ragnarok'n | 18:50 Fujin & Raijin |21:35 Return to Lunatic Pandora | 26:45 Seifer Showdown | 38:00 Seifer & Rinoa | 42:24 Adel | 46:45 Time Compression | 49:51 Real Net | 53:09 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

Man, you look way too serious. As the world ends, we're reaching max level, reading Selphie's Laguna webpage, breaking down the couch cars, meeting the President, being called a faerie, performing calisthenics at critical plot points, staying on a boat for ten years, flashing back to Laguna's rebellion, outwitting a sorceress, sending our problems to space, working too much to visit my dead wife, sending our body to the future, concocting a plan to visit the future in the past, believing in our friends' existence, and learning it's all about love, friendship, and courage. You guys are the ones who were inside my head, right? 02:00 Intro | 04:40 Sir Laguna's Page | 14:53 Esthar Panic | 20:37 Presidential Palace | 27:18 Where's Ellone? | 32:01 Why Are You The President? | 41:30 The Place To Defeat Ultimecia | 47:53 Ragnarok Regroup | 58:06 Real Net | 01:01:40 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

The world's over, man. While continuing to neglect our witch girlfriend, we're throwing rocks in a lake, humming to summon a shadow, receiving awful clues, stealing a crop circle, getting Piet fired, scouring the world for unique NPC dialogue, exposing the public to Ultimecia, gathering materials for supreme violence, cutting Rinoa out of magic pipes, conceding Squall to Rinoa again, yearning to be a sorceress' knight, lying about forgetting, and sharing a romantic dream. As long as you can work with your buds, it don't matter. 02:16 Intro | 04:16 Obel Lake | 13:07 Pupu | 15:54 Crash Site | 16:35 Timber | 16:57 Winhill | 17:45 Deling City | 22:34 Dollet & Balamb | 24:11 Fisherman's Horizon | 25:31 Ultimate Weapons | 27:55 Sorceress Memorial | 34:56 Ragnarok | 38:23 Matron's House | 41:00 Field of Flowers | 52:41 Real Net | 56:28 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 understand each other's thoughts and hearts. While ignoring Rinoa's imminent peril, we're wasting a day with Triple Triad, failing to move the Queen of Cards, sailing past 100 hours, playing Red Light Green Light, picking the hidden option, spelling blow wrong, brimming with passion, beating up the boiler room, battling Ultima Weapon, indulging in the ultimate GF, finishing Laguna's statue, diegetically playing an Irish jig, breaking up a Shumi spat, and being content with more morsels of NORG lore. It's our nature. There's no real reason. Maybe we were born only to fight 02:08 Intro | 04:42 Queen of Cards | 08:17 Deep Sea Research Center Exterior | 13:20 Bahamut | 22:39 Deeper Into Deep Sea Research Center | 33:19 Eden | 38:03 Return to Shumi Village | 44:07 Laguna Flashback | 54:02 Real Net | 57:10 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 not your mom. In truth, I'm denying romantic impulses, killing and re-killing aliens, scanning my girlfriend, using a radio for the first time, resisting any attempt at creating intimacy, accepting a sorceress' fate, descending from Hyne, revealing the sorceress inside me, not doing shit about anything, repeatedly dying inside, flying with exuberance, and adding a mascot and sentient haunted trains as guardian forces. You've missed out on all the good things in life, you've missed out on so much. 01:08 Intro | 02:35 Enter Ragnarok | 06:55 Propagator | 13:37 Exploring Ragnarok | 22:07 Eyes On Me | 32:20 Separation | 38:06 Ragnarok Regroup | 46:58 We're Flying | 49:42 Selphie Diary Check In | 50:32 Jumbo Cactuar | 55:11 Doomtrain | 58:35 Real Net | 01:02:18 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

Nobody ordered me to escape. Through the wineglass, we're using our girlfriend as our therapist, cashing out our cards, receiving a ghost punch, breeding monsters on the moon, crying those monsters onto the planet, putting on a space suit, meeting a panicky space gentleman, opening a space tomb, shoving a cowboy into a sunroof, finding out what happened at the end of disc two, riding a handlebar elevator, playing the worst minigame of all time, and finding a secret space spaceship in space. Only then shall the sorceress provide you with dreams again. 01:55 Intro | 04:51 Ellone | 11:41 Rinoa's Possessed | 14:56 Lunar Cry | 20:52 Rinoa Goes to Space | 26:33 Freeing Adel | 32:24 Rinoa Flashbacks | 42:11 Floating In Space | 50:00 Squall & Rinoa in Space | 55:52 Real Net | 59:26 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

This place sure is weird. Inside this swirling pastel Oz, we're smiling through the pain, performing unpaid labor, ensuring a moomba develops CTE, taking a gun to work, picking the weirdest guy as the leader of the #resistance, misunderstanding the meaning of "special lady," rescuing Ellone, relishing the presence of an adult, leaving Rinoa up for human experimentation to the guy we rescued Ellone from, using the healing station, and going to the mall. I want a device that allows me to scratch anywhere on my body, so I don't have to reach with my hands. 02:27 Intro | 04:09 Selphie's Diary Update | 06:01 Laguna & The Labor Camp | 18:22 Observing Odine | 21:26 The Resistance | 26:53 Confronting Odine | 29:36 Odin'e Lab | 36:15 Welcome to Esthar | 39:14 Presidential Palace | 44:58 Exploring Esthar | 01:00:45 Real Net | 01:05:02 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 like a swear jar, for meat. Inside the jar, we're waking up in the infirmary again, asking mom where the rest of her kids are, lying about why we want Ellone, listening to the legend of Hyne, denying responsibility of Rinoa, trading pornography for playing cards, stealing my girlfriend, talking to myself on the railroad tracks, loving only what I can't have, confessing to a body, adding mom to my party, running all over salty dinosaur bones, interacting with the glitch hole, and finding the magic city before we pass out. She's not dead, they just don't know what's wrong with her. 01:23 Intro | 02:50 Infirmary | 04:40 Matron's House | 07:25 White SeeD Ship | 13:52 Zone & Watts | 21:24 White SeeD Leader | 25:05 Balamb Garden | 28:04 Squall Abducts Rinoa | 32:34 Seaside Station | 38:38 Great Salt Lake | 45:14 Infiltrating Esthar | 49:30 Real Net | 52:39 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

Surrender soul, lose brain. After that, we're wondering if it's over, staring at an unconscious person, falling into a cold coma, closing out the SeeD candidates, cleaning up after NORG, refusing to remove my sorceress clothes, hearing the ultimate goals of Ultimecia, punching a wall, zoning out during a work meeting, believing Ellone is on the White SeeD Ship, passing out near a bed, debasing ourselves for money, using a gunblade as a prop, looking for Ellone in the past, and limiting our time power. You can't change the past, I just found that out. 01:51 Intro | 04:27 Squall's Solitude | 08:43 Gardening | 13:57 Matron's House | 17:42 Edea's Tasty Lore Splurge | 34:06 Gardening II | 39:13 Laguna Shoots A Movie | 46:11 Laguna x Ruby Dragon | 53:44 Rainy Orphanage | 59:08 Real Net | 01:01:18 Outro

FATIGUED. We're excessively caffeinated and we're rubbing Gardens, doing sick poses in unison, looking for Mark, improvising a fighting game, observing the Braveheart Effect, giving our special boy ring a name, combing through dorms, killing hockey monsters, meeting a Cerberus, confronting Seifer, missing gunblade pulls, rising like a broken puppet, drawing Alexander, and closing out disc two with a sorceress battle. We don't know what's going on anymore, ya' know? 01:16 Intro | 03:36 Bash Into Them | 07:04 Squall's Hovercraft Adventure | 11:20 Squall & Rinoa & Death & Destruction | 16:34 Galbadia Garden Keycard Adventure | 32:37 Seifer Showdown | 41:05 Edea Showdown | 47:38 Rinoa? | 51:56 Real Net | 01:00:14 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Yes, we will kill mom. In this uniquely arranged hell we're acquiring more depression in Trabia, betting on the MogMogMoogle Team, building a god-blessed glove, preparing a cursed motivational speech, cruising past a deer, taking our buddy's ring, fighting to prove we belong, launching motorbikes, holding onto a cliffside for two hours, ignoring the previous problem, manipulating the boy of destiny, and reclaiming authority with a good-actually speech. I just need about four more inches. 02:05 Intro | 06:12 Return to Trabia Garden | 13:55 EHRGEIZ | 16:47 Balamb Garden | 18:50 Invasion Preparation | 38:19 Motorcycle Brigade | 41:11 Zell's Squad | 49:53 Squall's Defense | 58:10 Squall's Speech | 01:01:06 Real Net | 01:04:06 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

A ball rolls onto the court. Today, on the baller's field, we're determining why the sorceress is the sorceress, enshrining Selphie in the party, questioning the use of violence, showing growth through command, shooting a free throw, gaslighting the whole party, becoming children, camping at the beach, hogging sis, misdirecting affection, forcing love, losing memories, forgetting pain, reframing the assassination attempt, being visited by the faeries, and telling Rinoa to come with us. The cowboy knew when the cogs of fate began to turn. 01:33 Intro | 04:38 Basketball Thoughts | 16:01 Irvine's Revelation | 20:16 Connecting Dots | 29:35 Beach Confessions | 34:11 Retrograde Amnesia | 38:51 Matron | 50:08 Real Net | 55:41 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

I don't think I have time for this. For this reverse paradox we're identifying sucking pouch technology, wearing SeeD clothes, learning arcane animal capture rules from Chocoboy, blowing a ChocoWhis, scattering chicobos, losing cards, defining the concept of Home, meeting Selphie's Friend, developing whatever, reading about Ehrgeiz, drawing zombie from a graveyard, fixing a computer terminal, installing stuffed animal surveillance, and telling our deceased friends about a dream that came true. See you at the basketball court. 02:11 Intro | 04:36 Pandemona | 07:34 Gardening | 14:11 Chocobo Forests | 25:54 Balamb Revisited | 30:23 Trabia Garden | 36:41 Whatever Facts | 41:21 East Trabia | 44:15 Trabia Classroom | 46:10 West Trabia | 54:25 Real Net | 57:00 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

You were just as attractive when you used to beat me up. On this instant anti-classic we're witnessing a cow abduction, mistaking chicabos for ghosts, speaking with a cat, locating table flowers, getting trucked by a chocobo, judging drop-outs, repairing dangerous roads, exchanging a vase for a rock, re-losing Georgie, saving a child from a train, lying to gain entry, manipulating dialogue boxes, stealing cards from children, dunking on Zell in his room, drawing Pandemona, and beating up or rival's friends. I'm looking for my feet. 02:03 Intro | 04:19 North Winhill Revisited | 15:36 South Winhill Revisited | 25:40 Timber Revisited | 29:36 Galbadia Area Revisited | 31:26 Occupied Balamb | 42:31 Big Bad Rascal Escape Plan | 44:41 Zell's Room | 48:03 Tracking Down The Captain | 53:49 Fujin + Raijin | 01:05:50 Real Net | 01:05:37 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

Specialist is surprised they let you in. Tonight we're going to an isolationist village, paying five G's for Ultima, going 323 meters underground just for fun, listening to diegetic Julia, reading at a bad time, finding a god damn Laguna statue, falling off another cliff, becoming what's in our hearts, working to earn anything, showing off my big open hand, punching an ass, and convincing Shumis to perform their talents. If you have come here, you must know Master Laguna. 02:07 Intro | 04:49 Winter Island | 09:04 Elevator | 10:39 Underground Outdoors | 13:31 Inn | 16:52 Artisan's House | 20:50 Workshop | 25:30 Elder's House | 32:20 Stone Quest | 42:01 Completing the Statue | 52:15 Real Net | 56:18 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Let's play for fun, from now on. This time we're becoming Commander, taking down Card Club cardsters, meeting the true CC King, piloting army school across the world map, surviving twenty minutes, observing an octahedral frame, appreciating lost art, drawing pain, placing eyes in concrete, putting numbers in magic fire, challenging a norse god, and slaughtering slow knife boys in order to summon their king. Those who defeat me will be granted august powers. 01:39 Intro | 02:36 Classroom Check-In | 07:42 Cid's Office | 10:48 CC Group Quest | 16:59 Big Dumbass School Boat | 21:47 Centra Ruins | 33:00 Odin | 40:20 Tonberry Genocide | 45:45 Real Net | 48:25 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

We must heal the trauma of war with music. On this one fourth of one hundred episode we're planning a show, arranging a score, selecting instruments, becoming the cowboy, watching Squall sleep, wearing our Sunday best, trapping our dick, absolutely fucking up the composition, sitting near porn, taking a swing at a date, saying anything to leave, confessing insecurities, crying in the rain, losing cards to a scrub, and wondering about NORG. Find your own Wimbly Donner. 01:33 Intro | 04:13 Concert Planning | 10:16 Tryouts | 14:29 Operation Irvine | 18:44 Selphie Blogs Vol 2 | 27:24 Surprising Squall | 35:15 Screwball Concert | 50:40 Bedroom Flashbacks | 51:24 Garden Check-Ins | 55:42 Real Net | 58:41 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

If you can drink every day, you must be in good health. This time we're visiting a sullen expatriate, apologizing to a pissy mayor, accepting we're beacons of violence, deducing cigarette etymology, watching diplomacy fail, calling for the Iron Clad, reuniting with our friends, feeling a feeling, stating the need for battles, resorting to both sides-ism, learning from a hologram, stopping Grease Monkey's harasser, planning a show, and naming a new leader of Garden. It is your destiny to lead the way in defeating the sorceress. 02:26 Intro | 03:53 Martine | 07:17 Dobe & Flo | 14:14 Galbadia's Invasion | 19:34 After Iron Clad | 27:43 Finishing Fisherman's Horizon | 33:21 Fisherman's Horizon Origins | 41:33 Triple Triad Tribulations | 42:50 Garden Festival Planning | 47:23 Cid's Office | 54:51 Bed Thoughts | 55:57 Real Net | 01:00:46 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Hi, I'm done crying. Today we're learning about a sea monster, listening to Selphie's thoughts, hearing the reality of Garden's origin, exploring the paradox of Edea's SeeDs, using Ellone to bridge time, toiling in bed, ramming our military academy into a hippie commune, meeting a master fisherman, lying to tourists, playing Triple Triad for keeps, driving an old man crazy with our fishing skills, and observing a Moomba doll. I'm done making my own booze. 01:34 Intro | 03:02 Leviathan | 07:20 Selphie Blogs Vol 1 | 16:32 Reporting to Cid | 22:21 White SeeD Ship | 26:44 Ellone | 31:32 Bed Reflections | 37:16 Garden Crash | 41:20 Fisherman's Horizon | 01:01:04 Real Net | 01:05:57 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

I sent my students to kill my wife. And yet, we're eliminating symbiotic organisms, transforming our school into our car, admiring the balcony vista, setting out to open sea, thinking too much, half-assing a tour of our school, experiencing retrograde amnesia, making a boyfriend promise, losing our temper, delivering our report to NORG, revealing a surprise marital connection, and murdering a capitalist overlord. It'd be heartbreaking to know I was forgotten. 01:12 Intro | 04:03 Mobile Structure Garden | 14:41 Squall's Mind Prison | 16:22 Rinoa's Garden Tour | 24:36 Solo Garden Exploration | 33:09 Garden Level B1 | 37:52 NORG | 51:39 Real Net | 55:38 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

What's on your mind, old man? Maybe it's loafing amid a crisis, fighting faculty members, doubting the dawn of time, refusing to swear an allegiance, having a meltdown, suffering hot dog denial, falling for a hologram, taking a knee, arguing missile survival tactics, exploring a dank oil stratum, refusing to trust friends with basic tasks, and beating up Oilboyles. This was just dad's basement workshop. 01:38 Intro | 05:00 Return to Balamb | 07:44 Garden Under Siege | 16:00 Infirmary | 20:43 Quad | 22:49 Cafeteria | 26:42 Parking Lot | 27:33 Training Center | 28:59 Library | 34:47 Cid's Office | 44:19 Garden MD | 58:40 Real Net | 01:01:30 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

I don't want to die, there's so much in life I want to enjoy. On this episode we're ramming a car into a mountain, leisurely ignoring imminent missile attacks, shaking down Caraway, bullshitting our way into a base, tricking idiot soldiers, killing those same soldiers off screen, mashing buttons to push things, hacking a computer, setting a self destruct timer, referencing the Hi Ho Tank, blowing up a tank, and spiraling into a hopeless depression. Did you put me on this team because you hated me? 02:32 Intro | 06:00 Deling City | 11:01 Fury Caraway | 16:31 Missile Base Entrance | 18:40 In the Missile Base | 28:56 Pushing Missile Pod | 33:11 Indoor Base Showdown | 39:56 Parking Lot Showdown | 44:46 Post Battle Blues | 52:35 Real Net | 53:01 Outro

It's time to play the action movie. This time we're following monsters to find Squall, fighting other monsters in jail, suffering exploration monotony, beating a man for his Battle Meter upgrade, improving Squall's humanity, concocting a ridiculous escape plan, heroically saving Zell, falling down stairs, splitting up to escape, realizing we're in a desert prison, not falling to our death, and splitting up to outrun missiles. Irvine's sin is unforgivable. 00:31 Chris Talks About Gundam ZZ | 03:56 Intro | 06:47 Prison Escape | 15:50 Rescue | 22:21 Awful Plan | 25:52 Cowboy Sniper Rescue | 31:21 Gunfire Combat Division | 37:01 Outside | 43:07 Desert Debrief | 50:51 Train Heist | 53:00 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

The dream is dead. On this episode we're waking up in jail, suffering from dipshit separation syndrome, remaining oblivious to Ward warping, moving cells, kicking Zell, surrendering to a Mean Cop, meeting small monsters, stating an obvious definition, receiving electrocution, using magic in jail, readying missiles for launch, submitting to globalist SeeD paranoia, tricking prison guards, growing to super size, and beating up our beautiful boys. I must live. 03:18 Intro | 05:31 Jailed | 13:30 Solitary Squall | 15:50 It's The Cops | 19:30 Seifer vs Squall | 20:58 Torture Chamber | 28:41 Still Jailed | 31:08 Interrogation II | 37:59 Escape Plans | 40:58 Weapon Recovery | 44:01 Monster Rescue | 46:13 Biggs & Wedge | 53:13 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Squall is dead. So we're Laguna. Today we're talking disc swap technology, taking refuge in a cozy cabin, lying to Ellone about mortal danger, finding solace as a Weird Uncle, boggling the brains of Kiros and Raine, learning Julia's fate, identifying faeries, showing Kiros around town, finding a curious map, watching life pass by, and finding family in a small town. They hate me, but I still have to shop. 01:26 Intro | 04:41 Good Morning, Laguna | 11:21 Winhill Courtyard | 14:50 Winhill Pub Chat | 32:20 Monster Patrol | 44:40 Eavesdropping Upstairs | 49:46 Real Net | 51:35 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Now that we're through Disc One and Squall is dead, we're going to try a little something different by bringing on some persons of lordly caliber to do some high-level recapping and high level bullshitting: Curtis and Karl from the Every F'n FF podcast, purveyors of everything Final Fantasy and staunch defenders of Final Fantasy VIII. Discussed: the Final Fantasy with Blackwater; Squall is an asshole, but that's okay; Rinoa is good; more Laguna should exist; exploitation of FFVIII's mechanics, Final Fantasy VIII is the best one; big dumb bullshit; fuckboi energy; and more! Listen to Every F'n FF at everyfnff.com or where ever podcasts are found. Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]. www.retrogradeamnesia.com