Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

One. Two. Free. While we listening we're visiting the muppet house, observing a haunted island, getting lore injections from Toma, stalking a nocturnal mermaid, hopping aboard a kitschy cruise ship, calculating interest in coffee money, watching a magician do actual magic, dealing with post-divergence trauma, disclosing lineage, hovering with fishness, smoking, and losing a rigged game. I want to walk through your body. 01:08 Intro | 03:07 Hermit's Hideaway | 04:19 Marbule Ghost Infestation | 14:40 S.S. Zelbess Top Deck | 18:38 Zelbess B1 | 24:27 #AD | 26:50 Sneff's Magic Show | 34:40 Sage's Sadness Closet | 36:20 Fargo's Afternoon Confessions | 43:25 Casino Ultimatum | 46:28 Real Net | 47:36 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We need a boat. Today we're digging through the rubble at Viper Manor, feigning ignorance, wondering if plumbing has been invented, appreciating dynamic light sources, blowing any chance at deception, learning about the Dead Sea, getting an awful boat, acquiring a baby talking baby dragon, absorbing Guldovian trade ethics, getting depressed across dimensions, breathing underwater, schooling fish, fighting and befriending a space alien, and ripping a laser gun out of a fish. Dragons have small arms. They can't build shit. 01:08 Intro | 03:20 Viper Manor | 09:21 Hello, Norris | 19:16 Gotta Get Draggy | 27:13 Guldove Home World | 35:18 El Nido Triangle | 39:08 Gotta Get Starky | 47:38 Arni's Alien Gun | 51:18 Real Net | 52:24 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at :[email protected].

HEY LET ME SEE THAT MUSHROOM. This time we're learning about Wazuki, beating the shit out of the village elder in front of his community, turning a man into fungus, exploring a muted Termina, not recognizing our mushroom father, making our own legends, training to be like Norris, cooling the forge, looking for the rainbow, covering for my father's economic anxiety, shaking my savings, and adding a child with no fighting experience to our elite squad of world warriors. Do you enjoy watching family disputes? 01:13 Intro | 03:20 Father Flashback | 06:35 Radius & Rabble Rousing | 14:16 Fossil Valley | 15:43 Shadow Forest | 22:27 Occupied Termina | 34:22 Termina Shrines | 39:35 Termina Blacksmith | 50:10 Van's House of Shit | 01:03:43 Real Net | 01:06:50 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Hey! It's another review episode. Eric reviewed Persona 5 Strikers for digitalchumps.com. So, we're going to talk about Persona 5 Strikers.

Who won!?

Am I dead? I guess we're looking back at the beach, waking up in dimensional vortex, tripping balls, befriending a shape-shifting creature of myth, sorting out reality, fighting against two dimensions, jumping in a warp zone, partying with Sprigg, failing to teleport, kicking ass to the moon, experiencing severe xenophobia, frightening the locals, and sleeping in my bed that isn't mine. I can't afford to lose you just yet. 01:07 Intro | 03:20 Temporal Vortex | 14:27 Dimensional Tower | 23:04 Total Chaos | 29:00 Hydra Marshes | 32:50 Opassa Beach | 34:00 Return to Arni (Home World) | 47:00 Real Net | 48:50 Outro

Life and death, love and hate, they are all the same. This time we're deluminating crystal monoliths, facing north, getting an ankle sprain, changing the order of head body and tail, battling beast mecha, inserting Skelly, glooping glop, receiving a kissy wissy from a son of a gun, stumbling upon an incubator, reliving a prologue, trapping Elements, vomiting ourselves, eliminating co-conspirators, talking as a silent protagonist, and facing ourselves at the edge of death. Now, let love bleed darker and deeper than the seas of hell. 01:09 Intro | 03:52 Entering Fort Dragonia | 06:54 Red Obelisk | 10:46 Yellow Obelisk | 13:19 Green Obelisk | 18:07 Blue Obelisk | 21:09 White Obelisk | 25:37 Black Obelisk | 33:40 Showdown | 41:53 Oblivion | 55:30 Real Net | 58:55 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Don't tell my bro, but I've got good stuff he don't, baby. Today we're getting a loogie hocked on our face, meeting the witch doctor, selling wares in a hot tub, watching a dragon sleep, turning lava to ice, debating diggity dogs, killing Solt with Peppor, getting dragons stuck in earth, fighting a tiny dragon, identifying unique dialogue, whooping the asses of overconfident devas, learning new techs, turning back after the point of no return. Not bad lad, I'm sure I'll see you again. 01:13 Intro | 02:34 Exploring Marbule | 17:00 Mount Pyre | 23:32 Spice Boys | 27:30 Fire Dragon | 32:15 The Acacia Dragoon Devas | 38:10 Harle's Warning | 39:10 Entering Fort Dragonia | 41:47 Real Net | 44:25 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Welcome son of man, now come to me. Today we're assuming ourselves bound by fate, getting the plot on track, acquiring our depressed doctor, defining shot, encouraging brother fights, riding lilly pads, killing all the dwarves again, deliberately letting Rosetta die and live, admiring and also destroying the dwarf tank, not using the dragon platform, and finding a link to Lucca. Wilt thou change the world, or wilt thou change thyself? 01:03 Intro | 02:54 Guldove (Another World)| 15:13 Chris stops by Termina | 17:09 Opassa Beach | 17:40 #AD | 18:20 Water Dragon Isle (Home World) | 27:20 Dwarf Genocide Study Questions | 30:40 Encounter with the Water Dragon | 33:40 Fairy Debrief | 34:49 Serge and Kid, Silent Confessions | 41:53 Real Net | 42:40 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Head into the fog? This time we're treasuring skeleton fantasies, aligning character motivations, revealing a ghost ship as a pirate ship, wearing Fargo shorts, dancing to diegetic music, blowing whistles and hitting gongs, fighting big birds, inventing a new ho, doing jellyfish tranqs, fighting skeletons with skeletons, ignoring safety protocols, and beating up a Dead Head. I'm the bone. 01:05 Intro 05:14 | Aboard the Ghost Ship | 20:11 In the Hold #AD | 23:06 - Foggy Deck Invasion | 24:06 - Escape the Hold | 31:50 - Pip! | 35:06 - Top Deck Showdown | 43:10 - Real Net | 45:44 Outro

I am playing Chrono Cross, and I am alone. After going down the humour hole, we're scouring the dregs of Viper Manor, assimilating into our party, finding sacred artifacts, getting our Safety Gear, eliminating sentient beings, reluctantly accepting NeoFio, watching Glenn give the game away, breaking down the fourth wall, speaking with the fairies, acquiring all of Skelly, fighting clowns in the woods, and meeting a familiar old man. And he doesn't have a toilet. 01:05 Intro | 02:43 Shadow Forest | 03:39 Viper Manor Redux | 16:25 Hydra Marshes | 24:46 Termina | 31:08 Mel's Bargain | 33:19 Water Dragon Isle | 38:53 Isle of the Damned | 43:24 Hermit's Hideaway | 59:00 Real Net | 01:00:40 Outro

Hi ho. Today we're dividing our time, teleporting across worlds, exchanging poetry, letting Leena meet Leena, getting poisoned, blowing the Beeba Flute, busting up the sacred Wingapede, murdering Pentapus, liberating Razzly, wiping out Dwarfs, making the Hydra extinct, healing Kid, watching Mel rob Kid, and sorting out a rookie thief. Go away, beeba off. 01:05 Intro | 06:14 Opassa Beach | 08:11 Home Arni Paradox Testing |14:37 Hydra Marshes (Home World) | 23:45 Pentapus | 29:10 Dwarf Screed | 32:29 Hydra | 36:53 Guldove, Kid's Recovery | 45:20 Mel! | 48:43 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

I have not seen the light, amigo. Today we're thinking of party members as coworkers, seeking advice from governing mystics, listening to dragon god legends, receiving a green tinkler, overlaying theme music, using alcohol as a bribe, psychically annihilating groupies, confessing to the florist, visiting Skelly's house, cashing in a bet, confirming Pierre, and marveling in the absurdity of the Luchador Priest. Glenn is no cop; he's got morals. 01:00 Intro | 03:30 Guldove's Shaman | 11:45 Dragon Lore | 16:94 Orlha's Bar | 20:07 Termina (Another World) | 22:50 Magical Dreamers | 25:30 Main Street Termina | 35:00 Smithy | 36:37 Vahn Redux | 37:35 Enter Greco | 44:56 Termina's loose ends | 51:50 Real Net | 52:38 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Ripples and waves make sense. This time we're shaking off a massive fall, requiring extinct medicine, choosing Kid's destiny, taking/refusing advice from horny clowns, channeling The Witcher 2, engaging in local commerce, drinking away insecurities, identifying "Applebees Punk," alienating Korcha, stealing a secret dress, and becoming the wind. Au revoir, mon ami. 01:00 Intro | 04:29 Waking up in Guldove | 08:01 Doc's clinic | 22:44 Guldove overview | 29:50 Orlha's motivational workshop | 33:10 Residential Tower | 41:17 Real Net | 44:13 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We're not here to play jacks. Instead, we're extracting more lore from Karsh, misunderstanding ghosts, opening a chest with the power of persistence, enjoying a moonlight bridge, wrecking Marcy, getting freshman philosophical, seeing my mom in my sister and then fighting her, getting horny with a clown, meeting a menacing Lynx, making cat puns, taking hostages, and making leaps of faith. Come to me, the assassin of time, THE CHRONO TRIGGER. 01:07 Intro | 02:30 Karsh Interrogation | 12:13 Library | 16:31 Outer Space JPEG Lore Dump | 22:35 Versus Marcy | 25:18 Harle Encounter | 29:35 Viper's Office | 41:41 Balcony Showdown | 47:05 Real Net | 48:00 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Too Bad. Wrong. Sucker. On this episode we're letting go of Pierre, dodging pointless spotlights, feeding hungry dragons, literally falling in a trap, suspecting Glenn might be an idiot, questioning the general competence of Viper's dragoon, beating up robots, looting the vault, literally falling in another trap, releasing a cute monster, missing attacks, and gaining respect for Zoah. Feed the nobles to the dragons. 00:46 Intro | 02:25 Viper Manor Exterior | 07:10 Dragon Stables | 14:19 Inside Viper Manor | 20:19 Dining Room | 24:06 Barracks | 28:32 Guest Room | 30:11 Treasure Vault | 32:02 Luccia's Laboratory | 35:34 Armory | 38:23 Zoah Interrogation | 43:09 Real Net | 45:27 Outro Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We shall age another year while you shall remain the same in memory. This time we're lifting weights at Greco's, feeling sorrowful with Glenn and Riddel, restarting the sword forge, instantly finding the Hero Medal, understanding misunderstood artists, suffering Pierre's limitless idiocy, slaying Ketchop, boating with Korcha, ascending perilous bluffs, beating up expensive monsters, singing to forest creatures, hypnotizing aroma blobs, and staring in awe at the amazing tree leaping beefcake, Zoah. But is it art? 00:51 Intro | 02:24 Termina's shrines | 12:10 Zippa & Zappa's Smithery | 19:32 Van & Gogh's Pretentious Emporium | 27:00 Pierre's route | 38:37 Guile's route | 48:49 Nikki's route | 01:03:38 Real Net | 01:06:54 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

You're not dead or anything, are you? On this episode we're learning how to pronounce "acacia," running short on Bellflowers, admiring coastal architecture, thinking about Glenn, polishing my Viper statue, getting framed by an invisible guy, observing potential toilets, working too hard, ordering squid guts, encountering demi-humans, constructing wistful sea metaphors, cutting through groupies, busting through carnies, and buying churros. You might just be the key to the destruction of this entire planet. 00:51 Intro | 03:30 Welcome to Termina | 11:28 Chatting up the locals | 20:54 Termina's Inn | 23:47 The Dragoon's Tail | 29:52 Lisa's Shop | 33:16 Termina's port | 39:20 Grifter's/Vendor's row | 46:34 Real Net | 49:59 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Boogum! This time we're finding our own grave, kicking our talking dog off a cliff, enduring spice puns, gaining a star level, meeting a girl named Kid, sleeping in my dead boy room, obtaining Mojo, becoming exorcists, conversing with a jolly talking skull, taking the big egg, re-fighting the spice boys, and reading character fun facts. Nobody can take anything away from him. Nor can anyone give anything to him. 00:51 Intro | 03:04 Cape Howl | 06:50 Showdown at the sunset cliff | 17:08 Return to Another Arni | 19:15 Kiki's dad's hell basement | 24:00 Fossil Valley | 30:52 Showdown with Solt & Peppor | 33:49 Character bio catch-up | 40:12 Real Net | 41:15 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

What are you doing here, man, this is my island. On this episode we're learning lessons from choices unmade, dancing the tokage, dressing the battle set, observing weird weapons, remembering Nu, acquiring Komodo Dragon scales, killing the dragon mother, getting sentimental with Leena, waking up at the beach, admiring the beautiful face of the Opah Fish, getting horny at posters, changing music in the middle of Arni, feeling love and affection from Mojo, and dying but still existing. Think about it, my brother. 00:54 Intro | 03:04 World Map | 03:54 Lizard Rock | 06:32 Let's talk about battles | 13:37 Chasing dragons | 18:42 Opassa Beach | 22:04 Gentle rapture | 25:20 Another World Map | 28:35 Another Arni | 33:09 Cafe Fluer | 36:41 Kiki's house...of horrors | 40:14 Another Leena's house, another Serge's house | 43:35 Chief Gonji's house | 45:08 Pier | 48:38 Real Net | 51:34 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Come on sleepyhead, get up. On this episode, we're deleting music from the game, standing up to Leena through extended slumber, talking to everybody in Arni Village, learning super duper lizard secrets, reminiscing a life of gutting fish, unlocking Satellaview secrets, reciting more poetry, appreciating Poshul's lisp, learning how to fight, reading mega-babe posters, and remembering the days of yore. Don't tell grandma I was looking at the jiggle. 00:40 Intro | 02:01 Capturing hot sounds | 04:28 Good morning, Serge | 07:21 Arni, outdoors | 12:22 Leena's house | 14:03 Kiki's house | 20:32 Belcha's kitchen | 28:59 Radius' field | 34:50 Radius' house | 37:57 Arni Pier | 41:31 World Map | 42:09 Real Net | 44:07 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com

Let us begin a fantastical exegesis of Chrono Cross. To kick off our second season, we're talking about who made Chrono Cross, discussing accent tools, denying community, marveling at efficiency, reciting poetry, devouring the intro CG movie, calling songs different names, invading a stone fortress, and foreshadowing doom. We hope you enjoy this radical dream! 00:50 Intro | 01:53 What is this podcast? | 03:35 Development overview | 14:25 Millennium reflections | 20:00 Power On / Attract Mode | 32:19 Cold open, Dragon Fortress | 38:18 Top of the tower | 41:50 Real Net | 47:20 Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

The wretched will makes us experience sadness and loss. For the final episode of season one, we're meeting our real imaginary savior in space, speaking to ghostface killa, rationalizing villainous activity, getting high off god fumes, spilling soup, accepting fate, rejecting fate, seeking connections, determining the power of love through battle, forgiving genocide, favoring humanity over divinity, running through the dimensional shift, collapsing space time, falling to earth, and screaming in Japanese. Now, there is no more god. 00:51 - Intro 02:51 - Fei went to space (music sample, "The One Who Bares Fangs at God") 12:57 - Imagined reality 26:50 - Krelian's determinism 29:52 - Fei's counterargument 32:32 - Xenogears versus Urobolus 36:33 - Elly's liberation 45:33 - Anime / ending dissection (music sample, "Small Two of Pieces") 01:09:25 - Post credits 01:11:55 - Real Net 01:19:20 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]

I have been playing Xenogears for eight months. In the penultimate episode of season one, we're conducting inadequate preparation, incompleting a map, beating up angels, falling through laser tunnels, flipping tedious dungeon switches, observing basement bass, fighting fighting orbs, sealing divine abilities, time travelling to 1999, intershifting dimensionality, breaking our Gears, destroying fate, and killing god. Yes, we have killed god. 00:52 - Intro 02:15 - Final dungeon prep 05:14 - Exploring Merkava 16:55 - Approaching Deus 20:43 - Marlute 21:40 - Sundel 23:30 - Harlute 25:30 - Metatron 29:48 - vs Deus (music sample: "Awakening") 39:48 - Oh god we killed god what now 46:30 - Xenogears 51:56 - Real Net 53:26 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Have you ever taken a side quest to another episode of a game that will never exist? Today we're not appearing on the world map, recreating 90's cityscapes, fighting walking dragons, marveling at asphalt, manipulating Zeboim culture, using war as a solution to infertility, reading insane lore magazines, winning NBA grand slams, buying Joe-brand parts, purchasing drugs, living through another year, getting outrageously upset at dinner, concluding it won't work, making it work, producing a nanomachine child, and growing into a nanomachine adult. I am a creature waiting to become extinct. 00:48 - Intro 03:20 - Lighthouse / Zeboim 06:32 - Zeboim street monsters 10:08 - Zeboim ND News TV Studio 21:08 - Convenience Store 30:05 - Big Joe's shop 37:09 - Subway excursion 39:20 - Kim & Elly celebrate New Year's Day 42:49 - Kim & Elly have a tense dinner date 48:13 - Kim's bedroom reflections 50:09 - Kim's lab 52:28 - Emeralda's transformation 56:23 - Real Net 59:21 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We'll catch you in the static between sounds, right before we kill god. Today we're investing in Golden Vests, declining Franz' hot sounds, rejecting Margie's advances, locating Chu-Chu, getting bad info from a wiki, comparing hot sauce, beating up Sluggers for no reason, battle rapping dune men, extracting a sword from bones, playing human plinko, fist fighting Wyrms, banging big, changing our jukebox's face plate, and feeding a dog. #HammerDidNothingWrong 00:53 - Intro 02:06 - World Map: Expectations & Reality 07:02 - Yggdrasil: Bridge 10:14 - Yggdrasil: Gun Room 12:28 - Yggdrasil: Doctor's Office 13:49 - Yggdrasil: Margie's Room 16:20 - Yggdrasil: Gear Hanger (music sample: "Stairs of Light," from Creid) 26:22 - Citan's House 29:00 - Taura's House 33:18 - Duneman Isle 43:15 - Kislev Battle Arena 53:26 - Real Net 57:00 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We can actually play this game now. While we're surviving the apocalypse, we're also merging flags, buying scam birds, burning books, digging up a jukebox, alienating our dolphin stepson, going down with the ship, fantasizing about The Captain, becoming a landlubber, accepting forgiveness, not adding Ramsus to our party, confirming reality with Zephyr, forging exactly one legendary weapon, and stealing precious Chu-Chu wares. Ding ding, good job. 00:43 - Intro 03:20 - Snowfield hideout lobby (music sample: "Shevat - The Wind is Calling," from Myth) 14:06 - Man Digging Room 15:44 - Room of Cats / Command Room 18:12 - Room Behind The Bar -OR- O Captain! My Captain! 33:54 - Prison Room 38:61 - Snowbank Room 42:48 - Dan & Midori 45:50 - Zephyr reflections 47:32 - Ramsus' revival 55:04 - Room Behind Gear Shop 57:26 - Chu-Chu Room 59:28 - Real Net 01:03:24 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

The system is awakening. Today we're getting lore from a Jesus cross, contacting the fourth dimension, tapping into the god universe, adventing into this world, instilling a mother's will, nursing an Oedipus complex, dealing with a paradox, playing the Undertaker's Theme, fighting dad as well as my transmigrated ancestor, giving birth to humanity, destroying our remaining advanced military equipment on insane tactical gambles, and awakening Deus as a direct result. Perception is reality and also I'm god. 00:53 - Intro 03:30 - A blue pulsing puddle, a fluctuating void 21:35 - New Gear, old Grahf 29:10 - Xenogears versus Alpha Weltall 35:40 - The Genesis of Humanity 39:40 - Excalibur tactical conference 44:00 - Bart's got an idea 49:30 - Real Net 55:09 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Face up to the reality that you don't want to see. This time we're abandoning our child's weaknesses, visiting the room of the coward, losing our home, suffering abuse by the will of our transmigrated mother, forcing psychic contact, imagining the hell dimension, mentally and physically fighting our father, being different people, watching ourselves watch ourselves, sharing our feelings with ourselves, receiving centuries of memories, and considering "live" as suspect advice. Even if I go to hell I will live until the end of this world. 00:56 - Intro 03:07 - Fei blue screens 06:25 - Movie theater memory party 12:19 - Fei Fong Wong, involuntary human test subject 18:53 - Khan's ignorance 24:38 - Id versus Khan II 27:15 - Grahf / Khan / Lacan / Karen / Miang / Fei / Id / Anime 32:19 - Id and Khan hash it out 34:20 - Unification of Fei 42:17 - Abel & Elly 44:25 - Live! 50:40 - Real Net 57:36 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

This videogame is now a visual novel with boss battles. Today we're opening our fists to hold people, becoming a symbol, twisting Sophia's words, fading away, seeking power to treat depression, crying in carbonite, walking through snow fields in big robots, sealing away the very meaning of Existence, practicing Contact consciousness, shedding skin, showing down with the Demon of Elru, unifying personalities with Wiseman, and taking a fist full of memories. If only you had power, you could have saved her. 01:02 - Intro 01:50 - Krelian cockpit 02:54 - Sophia's sacrifice 07:56 - Krelian's god paradox 13:30 - The fall of Lacan 21:05 - Dan shits in 25:53 - Zohar 9999 27:22 - Id will not allow Fei to go any further 32:40 - Spelunking surprises 35:54 - Versus Weltall-Id 38:15 - Wiseman intervenes 47:22 - Real Net 51:52 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

You live. You Die. That's all. Before that we're worshipping weapons, falling behind in rapture ascendance, freezing someone in carbonite, dealing with Solaris, watching heroes fall to villainy, defining the Zohar, dissociating identities, going for it, meeting old beefcake Fatimas, offending divine providence, interpreting smiles, delivering triple Bro's, and waiting for Krelian's final creed. I just wanted the game with the big robot on the cover. 00:47 - Intro 04:40 - God awakens 09:20 - Carbonite redux 12:00 - Backdoor dealing 16:20 - The fate of two men 25:22 - Purple prison projections 33:09 - Bonds of Sea and Campfire 37:56 - Reading books makes me smart 40:00 - Bonds of Sea and Campfire II 42:03 - Portrait of a lady 52:11 - Lacan's shame & Krelian's game 54:10 - Doctor's office 01:00:08 - Real Net 01:04:44 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

I am fated so as not to be able to kill myself. On this ecstatic episode we're visiting the Ark Park, warning the Elements, imagining nanomachine battles, falling between sculptures, clinging our fists, insulting science experiments, reducing ourselves to one hit point, gazing upon eyeball baskets, detaching Anima relics, not killing immortal villains, shooting our friend, extracting genetic factors, and jumping in a magic pool full of glowstick fluid. Adeiu, boys. 00:43 - Intro 02:29 - Entering Merkava 07:53 - The origins of religion 11:45 - Ramsus' intimidation gambit 14:54 - Karen 19:00 - Versus Amphysvena 23:34 - Versus Opiomorph 29:00 - Miang & Krelian's Lore Ceremony 31:26 - Ramsus' purpose 34:44 - Elly Explains It All 40:05 - Miang etymology 43:07 - Real Net 48:05 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Girl, that hurt. Today we're crucifying machines and Chu-Chu, negotiating with Krelian, finding our precious birds, doing sick combos, doing even sicker combos, doing the sickest combos, listening to Omen, wondering why we were left alive, deleting digital existence, looking fleshly, aligning pronouns with nanomachines, not going to Cracker Barrel, refusing to listen to reason, and blaming my problems on my girlfriend. Your feelings must be in the right place. That is strength. 00:58 - Intro 03:06 - Elly arrives at Golgoda (music sample: "Ship of Regret and Sleep" from "Myth") 10:55 - Fei meets with Krelian, says the wrong thing 14:58 - El-Regrs vs. Mugwort & Rattan 21:04 - Elly's Checksum & Grahf's Second Motivational Workshop (music sample: "My Village is Number One" from the 20th Anniversary Concert) 28:20 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XVI (final) 42:39 - Wiseman's Motivational Workshop 48:34 - Real Net 52:33 - Outro 55:26 - Ninja Turtle Pies 58:28 - The Wrath of Jesus 59:52 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater: Quarantine Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Don't worry, I won't die. Today we're being a man and confronting the problem, performing an anime kiss, becoming one body, having awkward sex in Maria's room, embracing feminism with Margie, experiencing reincarnation through remote viewing, losing our transformer, paying off references from sixty hours ago, recognizing strange faces in scary places, inheriting instincts, halving hit points, soft-locking with Deus, finding the unthinkable when accessing the data, optionally losing to Alpha Weltall, denying wrath, losing hope, regulating, and reaching our moment of supreme bliss. When wrath appeared in your heart, the system responded, did it not? 00:54 - Intro 05:40 - Fei makes an apology 17:35 - Lady discussion on the Nisan Talking Bridge 23:00 - Approaching the floating continent, Mahanon 27:53 - Deus 37:26 - Razael's Tree 44:30 - Krelian's Glee 49:48 - Grahf's Motivational Workshop 54:14 - Nisan reflections 56:25 - Elly stops by Shevat (Proud Boys' lament) 01:03:53 - Real Net 01:06:10 - Outro 01:10:55 - Happy birthday, Chris Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at mailto:[email protected].

Let us unravel the mystery of Shakespearean demises with our animal friends. This time we're checking in with disc 2, genociding the Croaker Tribe, solving arcane riddles to put rocks in holes, discovering ancient murals, falling through other holes, getting crushed by the ceiling, measuring water levels, suffering the tragedy of Hammer, glitching out, viewing clone violence, being logic and using logic as a logic lord, pissing off the Fake Net, elevating slumbering ships, meeting at dawn, and arguing with our girlfriend in front of all of our friends. Whoever controls it becomes the true dominator of the world. 00:40 - Intro 02:11 - Anime Relic Quest #2: Dripping Dungeon 06:52 - The Room of Pillars 12:50 - The Secret Hole Room 14:22 - The Sky Falling Room 15:43 - The Water Math Puzzle Room 18:57 - Rico gets an Anima Relic 20:31 - Team Fei vs. Punished Hammer 29:44 - Ramsus, Cain, & Krelian 33:43 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XV 41:30 - Mahanon rises 44:39 - Fei Fong Wong: Asshole 49:39 - Premature termination 52:07 - Initializing Real Net 56:53 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Let us join together as we unravel the mystery of interdimensional chair sitting. On this episode we're getting deposited in dungeons, meeting Shopkeeper Johnny, eating death, replacing fuses to open lock A, solving arcane puzzles to open lock B, enjoying the sound of steam bolt locks, acquiring god technology, fighting teen girl squads, watching their Gears combine into one larger Gear, hitting our rivals with psychoanalysis, conspiring to kill Cain with Cain, wishing we could actually see Ramsus' raid of Nisan, being told a fetus can crawl through trash, and suffering verbal abuse by the Gazel. The only way to secure the anima relics is with the power of mathematics. 00:52 - Intro 02:47 - Anime Relic quest #1 overview 07:43 - Blue dungeon blues 18:14 - Encountering the Anima Relic 22:31 - Team Fei vs. Elements (ground) 31:40 - Team Fei vs. G-Elements (Gears) 39:34 - Deconstructing Dominia 42:23 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XIII 45:59 - Ezekiel eavesdropping and lunatic plotting 49:23 - Elly narrates her violent encounter with Vendetta/Ramsus at Nisan 58:21 - Is love something you take? 59:33 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XIV 01:04:20 - Initializing Real Net 01:06:23 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at mailto:[email protected].

If only you didn't exist. This time we're continuing to dream, imposing a total sentence of ten years, reacquiring Knight of Fire, shattering Ramsus' absolute confidence, launching nanoparticles into the atmosphere, battling Solarian super weapons, realizing government buildings are ships and robots, mutating into abnormal forms, eating god's apostles, subverting the Gazel, constructing monsters with organic compounds, cinematically merging Elly and Sophia, watching anime for the first time in six months, sharing blood, and torturing AI with pink lightning. They stood like tombstones. It was a graveyard for a people who destroyed each other over pride and arrogance. 00:52 - Intro 01:55 - Weltall-2 vs. Vendetta 07:49 - Activating the Mass Driver (music sample, "October Mermaid," from Creid) 14:12 - Solaris Mobile Surface Supremacy Weapon vs. Transformer 24:09 - People begin to grossly mutate 26:24 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XI 29:37 - Krelian & Miang conspiracy update 35:33 - Soylent refugee regroup 41:59 - Anime: Sympathy for the Sufal (music sample, "Lost, Broken Shards," from Myth) 49:28 - Elly X Sophia 52:23 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part XII 58:25 - Initializing anima relic goals 01:00:57 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at mailto:[email protected].

Please insert Disc 2. This time we're literally and virtually sitting in chairs, unpacking our own existence, spending quality time painting our partners, exploring our interiority through our reclaimed souls, loving the same soul across epochs of time, exploring the duality of dreaming, waking up naked, forgetting our names, worrying our comatose girlfriend might forget us, controlling Id with a System, debating the path of fate, listening to Mitsuda music from different games, telling women they look like tired mothers, becoming translucent, and threatening digital entities with deletion. Find us on AOL Instant Messenger as xXxDemiUrge69 and Christ420Aeon. 00:48 - Intro 05:55 - A man. A man who has lived before. And a chair. Dreaming. 09:13 - Painting Sophia, Lacan's perspective 19:52 - A woman. A woman who has lived before. And a chair. Dreaming. 23:40 - Painting Sophia, Sophia's perspective 28:49 - Consciousness, nudity, and Taura's hideaway 35:34 - Elly & Fei's rooftop woodland chat 37:58 - Mass Driver mission and Shevat Emissary obstruction 45:55 - Look at my cool Weltall-2 action figure 49:06 - Debrief with Citan, Elly, and Emeralda (music sample, "Radical Dreamers, Unstolen Jewel") 55:34 - Crickets & a special guest at Taura's house 57:42 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part X 01:02:39 - The Real Net 01:05:30 - Outro 01:10:46 - "Barry Burton" Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Let's go, Fei. In this episode we're acting on Emperor Cain's directions, concluding managers are no longer needed, denying mental health issues exist, selecting Ramsus as our favorite tool, realizing we're our own subordinate, registering as tenants in the room of cowardice, using our girlfriend as brain armor, defining The Coward and The Bully, encasing dangerous friends in carbonite, participating in apologetic group therapy, dismissing logic lords, downgrading to Steel Giant, and reading Grahf's sorrow. Don't acknowledge me when I put my headphones on. 00:49 - Intro 03:24 - Citan apologizes for everything 05:36 - Cain and Citan wrap things up in the JPEG Room 15:02 - Yggdrasil Confessions 18:50 - Citan versus Id 25:09 - Shevat consortium -or- The Fei Problem 31:42 - Knives out in the Shevat computer room 37:45 - Incarceration resolution 44:56 - Gear hanger reconciliation 47:46 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part IX 50:15 - Digesting the latest Gazel Gossip 57:35 - Ramsus psyches himself even more up 01:01:15 - Vendetta versus Weltall 01:05:09 - Shot down 01:08:20 - Outro 01:11:45 - Interviewing twin four year olds about Super Smash Bros, Part II Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

Chris didn't know Tears for Fears is a real band. On this episode we're telling Ramsus we're in different situations, putting four people in our party, realizing Emeralda is the original Bayonetta, meeting all of our friends again twice, declining to use our Jugend training, fighting Grahf in person, bungling a sacrifice play, replacing death with the next dimension, unmasking the Executioner, blowing up a bridge, and sorting out intense identity issues. You had no time to say goodbye but, don't worry, we'll meet again on the other side. 00:57 - Intro 03:21 - Meeting with Citan & Jessie & Ramsus in the gunfire lobby 08:25 - Reunion Room 15:10 - Krelian's lazy maze 16:34 - Tragedy at the Solaris hanger 22:35 - Enter Grahf & Executioner 27:44 - Erich intercedes 32:42 - The Gear is moving by itself in the hanger 36:32 - Krelian & Executioner and the aftermath 42:48 - Where's Fei? Calm down 44:10 - Transformation 46:45 - Id and Elly's Yggdrasil showdown 53:01 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroam, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

God has given us a right to rule over the universe. This time we're identifying our assholes, getting imprisoned in a CRT Danger Room, suffering betrayal, citing Arch Angels, arking artifacts, enduring an MRI, awakening some other inner-selves, reading three books a day, discovering the urobolus ring, nursing an obsession with our 500 year old girlfriend, defining damn it, fighting for a place where we can belong, going on drug benders, and blinging our sword. Now is not the time to contemplate morals. 01:02 - Intro 03:44 - Gazel Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part VIII 08:59 - ...a lot to unpack 23:20 - Elly's MRI in Krelian's arts & crafts room 33:30 - Citan stops by Fei's television prison 40:25 - Ramsus, unhinged and high as a kite, stops by to say hello to Elly 45:17 - The boys bust Fei out of jail 51:40 - The boys bust Elly out of the MRI 52:27 - Outro Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

We're opening our minds and drinking the purest form of nutrition; people. This time we're getting sucked up in a dust chute, destroying ventilation infrastructure, gluttonously gobbling up idle foodstuffs, hacking another computer, eating Soylent in real life, manufacturing memory cubes, liberating mutated prisoners, murdering mutated prisoners, challenging the Bloody Bros, missing with magic, learning facts from holograms, and asking Citan questions he doesn't like. This is reality. Let's go. 00:43 - Intro 03:51 - The Solaris Dust Chute Adventure 09:32 - The Food Processing Plant Adventure 13:56 - Our heroes and Charlton Heston and ourselves and suffer the effects of eating Soylent 24:41 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure 28:30 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: Memory Cubes 31:02 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: Opiomorph 33:18 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: Demi-Human Experiments 39:20 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: Stasis Chamber 44:25 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: The Quest for the Sound Password 50:50 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: The Hologram Room 53:52 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: The Door that Won't Budge 58:03 - The Krelian's Lab Adventure: Elly's Inquisition 59:53 - Outro Find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

This is better than Doc's bathtub! In these two chapters, we're loving raw sewage, wrecking security cubes, walking into wealthy Solarian's houses with poop-stained clothes, predicting soylent, telling our girlfriend her mom is hot, putting a shower in our rooms, getting a psycho rod from the maid, hacking our father's computer, desiring a trash chute, reporting our daughter as a burglar, punching out windows, walking out on our girlfriend, @$&%$#!, and evading death squads. Every time my dad caught me doing something I wasn't supposed to, "Fuse" started playing in my head. 00:50 - Intro 02:31 - Xenogears' third trip through the sewers 06:19 - Elly's sanctuary neighborhood 09:29 - Meeting funky cold Medena 14:00 - Elly's room 20:25 - Exploring the Van Houten residence 25:00 - Erich calls the cops 32:50 - Leave the military; thanks for everything (Lone Wolf) 36:32 - Citan saw us on Birdvision 41:00 - We fall into a garbage dump and Elly saves the day/plot 47:30 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at mailto:[email protected]

We're entering Solaris to beat up all the fascists, kill their leaders, and save the world. Our discussion and activities include wondering why Krelian let Emeralda go, denying the compulsion to adopt Maria, worrying about Hammer time, getting in shipping containers, realizing most of the fictional Solarian hellscape is 2020's actual hellscape, escaping with Samson, removing Samson from the physical plane, engaging The Chewbacca Defense, Entrenstrolling, either killing or returning to Mother God, dying our hair blue, and listening to government propaganda. Our friends will be disposed of in the Soylent System to revive the Gazel of old. 00:47 - Intro 02:07 - Extraneous NPCs and existential dread 07:34 - Maria flies the gang to Solaris 13:16 - Fei winds up in K Block 22:50 - Fei, Elly, & Samson weasel out of K Block 32:09 - Infiltrating Solaris' second class level (music sample: "Solaris - Eden of Heaven") 41:39 - Bouncing around the second class apartments 45:49 - The Dedication Ceremony, Cain's speech 51:57 - Nisan flashback 57:20 - Krelian's speech 01:01:15 - Fei doesn't understand covert operations 01:04:00 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]

How do you do? This time we're concluding Drunk Elevator Guy is an assigned position, breaking the Fake Net, obtaining underwater gear for our Gears, getting physically wrecked by Mermen, getting mentally wrecked by Rattan, substituting wings for arms, meeting Kim (who is Fei), revealing Solaris from the ether, having moments in the sky, and choosing our own path. You will be hurt. They will also be hurt. If you take their side I'll kill you without a doubt, even from the back. 00:39 - Intro 02:59 - Modding Gears at the Thames 08:31 - Diving into Sargasso Point 17:50 - Confrontation at Gate 3 (music sample: "June/October Mermaid," live 20th Anniversary Concert) 24:00 - Rattan. Dude. 27:50 - versus Crescens 32:26 - Fei is Kim 36:20 - Telegram from Shevat re: Solaris 38:09 - Shevat check-in 41:30 - Citan & Yui & Swords (music sample: "The Treasure Which Cannot Be Stolen," live 20th Anniversary Concert) 49:34 - Jessie issues an ultimatum to Citan 52:58 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]

Here's the results and announcement show we recorded as we revealed the results to ourselves, recorded on May 4. Thanks to everyone who participated! We are looking forward to the conclusion of Season 1 (which will take 55 episodes to completely cover Xenogears) and a new beginning with Season 2! What game will we cover? Listen to find out!

Calm down, your pants are too loud. In this episode, we're worrying Chu-Chu might be out of unique dialogue, witnessing the effect of monarchy's dissolution on the local non-playable populace, eating fish out of an aquarium, fantasy equipping Ramsus' speedo, decimating Elements, appreciating Kelvana's professionalism, missing incredibly important laser shots, solving imaginary union disputes, not knowing where Solaris is, extracting data from nanomachines, and spreading panic to Etrenank. Once you get the robot you don't have to fuck your cousin. 00:47 - Intro 02:46 - Yggdrasslin' 04:07 - Dazil check-in (music sample: "Dajil," Xenogears Cried) 09:06 - Bledavik check-in 16:15 - Nortune check-in 19:47 - Return to Babel Tower (music sample: "Omen," live 20th Anniversary Concert) 26:28 - Dominia & Kelvana try and stop us at Babel Tower 30:18 - Tolone & Seraphita try and stop us at Ft. Jasper 33:20 - Who is the most union-busting racist in Xenogears? 36:09 - The Elements all try and stop us again 41:08 - Map triangulation meeting 46:10 - Gazel Ministry Theater, Part FIND 58:43 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected]

And now, for something completely different. Released in North America on May 1st 1999, R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 closed a generation—and a millennium—with character and class. Namco's signature racing series, once defined by its garish spectacle and manic energy, finally relaxed into a state of confident sophistication. This podcast is a complete retrospective on R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 written and narrated by Eric Layman.

A boss battle and a plot device; let's go. We're missing glowing red buttons, observing Grahf's technology and Gate technology, noting Shakhan is a jerk and a punk, not getting it up, blessing up our Big Boy, min-maxing Elly and destroying god, crashing our PlayStation Classic, creating a republic, having sex out of sects, cultivating dread, tolerating Rico's bad ideas, de-committing from Chu-Chu, and trashing Ramsus' trash-ass. Margie's not in this chapter. 00:57 - Intro 03:14 - Ambush at the Hermit Hole 07:03 - Showdown the Gate Generator 18:40 - Bart upends the monarchy 25:34 - Bart asks Maison and Sigurd about Sigurd (music sample: "Balto," Xenogears Cried) 34:10 - Battle Dinner 40:00 - Gazel Ministry Theater, Part VI 46:46 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].

You're really acting absent-minded chu-day. This time we're listening to half the soundtrack, "burning ass" back to the Yggdrasil, committing to Chu-Chu, fighting on a stage set, collecting our thoughts on a bridge, not robbing an abandoned store, exploring an actual spaceship, using our ancestral eyes to open sacred doors, lamenting the mausoleum's whack-ass dungeon, deathblowing each other, bonding pilots with robots, flying saucers, suggesting clergymen should commit suicide, and controlling Gears with our brains. Peace to all of those who come here. Use this giant weapon to murder everything. 01:00 - Intro 02:40 - Globe-trotting NPC check-in (music sample: "Shevat - The Wind is Calling," live 20th Anniversary Concert) 16:22 - Nisan under siege (music sample: "Stage of Death," live 20th Anniversary Concert) 27:08 - Heroes' vengeance meeting 36:25 - The gang goes to the mausoleum 46:58 - Ft. Jasper is a spaceship 51:41 - Gear's on a throne, man (music sample: "The Treasure Which Cannon Be Stolen") 57:16 - Bart fires a giant gun & Shakhan arrives 01:05:31 - Fatima blue eyes 01:11:45 - Neo Etone Bone Zone 01:15:01 - Big team meeting in Nisan 01:20:18 - Outro Find us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at [email protected].