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A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes.
We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, and Phantasy Star IV.
Yes, we will kill god.
We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, and Phantasy Star IV.
Yes, we will kill god.
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![Phantasy Star IV | E23: This Place is Brains [Garubek Tower]](https://s3.castbox.fm/14/61/1f/40c4baab8978bf77755eb78e36b2f46112_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Phantasy Star IV | E23: This Place is Brains [Garubek Tower]")
Your condition has improved considerably. You're feeling so much better, you can listen to us burning down the forest, making levels out of biology and doors out of guts, failing the reverse aniki maneuver, falling asleep to a bad smell, donning vestments, defending Alien movies, suggesting hunters were fake, admiring large sprites, blowing up a temple, selling an irreplaceable weapon, Lunar'ing the whole world, receiving new facts from an old guy, wearing a favorite hat (without any worry), and saying such unscientific things. Do you want to get whooped again? 00:00:00 Season Nine Is…. 00:03:44 Carnivorous Forest 00:04:52 Garuberk Tower 00:14:11 Dark Force 00:18:36 We Beat The Game 00:24:00 Reshel Redux 00:29:20 WORLD TOUR Raja Temple 00:29:37 WORLD TOUR Ryoun 00:33:07 WORLD TOUR Tyler 00:35:20 WORLD TOUR Zosa 00:37:29 WORLD TOUR Meese 00:46:29 Real Net 00:50:55 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Why are you reincarnated like that? It's an honest question, and one that can only be answered by begging to steal a torch, absconding with a special zippo to kill a guy, learning of an air castle in asteroid space, taking credit for killing an arch villain, telling a sir he's unsteady, cleansing the unclean, beat matching a sacred rascal, fighting dinosaur head pauldrons, refusing to fear the bomb, using magic the win important battles, coming back from Phantasy Star I, referencing ancient Virtual On forums, and bringing the torch home. What can't be, can't be. 00:00:00 Valueless 00:02:28 Intro 00:03:52 Gumbious Temple Invasion 00:13:03 Gumbious Temple Post Invasion 00:15:35 Spaceport 00:18:58 Air Castle Part I 00:33:43 Air Castle Part II 00:38:08 Lashiec 00:50:06 Returning the Torch 00:52:32 Real Net 00:56:03 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
There are things here that I have no clue as to what they are. Help us engage with these strange objects while we're worshipping the flame, putting an anti-blowing string in a hat, looking for lucky finds, acknowledging home invasion, wishing god would kill Chris' house, casually insulting religion, entering the conveyor belt dungeon, spitting out repair kits, merging faith with government, intending to remove a sacred relic, reducing to ashes all that is unclean, doing the complete suite of dew, and yearning for an empowering physical space What is Christ if not a hero from the past? 00:00:00 Pixel Project Radio 00:01:36 Intro 00:03:16 Leaving Esper Mansion 00:04:41 Jut 00:08:01 Jut Houses 00:19:12 Jut Fort Church 00:22:08 Weapon Plant 00:29:14 Gumbious Temple 00:38:22 Real Net Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
What a gentle looking face this statue of a woman has. And what gentle ears you have, listener, to hear us injecting life energy into sick people, confirming midi-chlorians, wearing capes from space, meeting a girl of exceptional courage, sexually harassing the nurse, spawning infinite trees that eat people, meeting another anime space princess, seeking Lutz who is also Noah, improving body and soul, blackening the earth, christening a special boy of destiny, and praying for your safety. Yes, we will make it a hospital. 00:00:00 Our Next Miniseries is… 00:02:23 Intro 00:05:14 Meese Sick House 00:14:46 Raja Falls Ill 00:20:56 Carnivorous Forest 00:31:26 Esper Mansion 00:45:48 Inner Sanctuary 00:56:06 Real Net 01:01:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
You shouldn't say such unscientific things. Let us us do it while we're somehow waltzing into another JRPG penguin town, "making improvements" to owls, creaming a guy, turning Chaz into a Hero Leader, buying a penguin follower, leading a breeder's life, slaughtering zombies, hearing word of man-eating trees, meeting Dark Element Lars, debating the relationship between monsters and computer, contracting illness, letting the kids go outside, and converting the inn into hospice. Rest in peace to those spirits who are victims of illness 00:00:00 Next Miniseries 00:02:35 Intro 00:05:26 Zosa 00:13:41 Zosa Houses 00:19:34 Climate Control Center 00:29:31 Reshel 00:30:43 Meese 00:35:13 Meese Houses 00:39:38 Real Net 00:45:30 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
My head is out of whack. Solve this neural distress with us as we're growing new hands, making sure vehicles don't get cut, admiring the galaxy map, solving the button mystery, shootin' goop, greeting a treasure chest, putting Satan in the computer, wishing for greater robot lore, pitch-shifting gak, contrasting red and black, failing to fix climate chaos, keeping a special car in space, busting through ice in our new car, speaking with cats, feeling a fond remembrance, and discussing the unparalleled beauty of badminton equipment. I am living a real life version of a life simulator. 00:00:00 Real True Videogaming 00:05:14 Dezolis Spaceport 00:09:23 Kuran 00:18:04 Dark Force 00:29:07 Zelen 00:35:48 Myst Vale 00:43:31 Real Net 00:48:02 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Two fists is the best situation. But you can also use two ears to hear us speaking with fire, curating creamsicle outerwear, admiring the JRPG snow town, humping a rock, speaking an untranslatable pun, identifying foundational videogame farts, going hard on Tic Tacs, huddling tight on winter nights, looking at this lot with suspicion, buying armor we already have, blowing hats off, thinking of our favorite Tyler, installing a grandfather in every town, respecting father and mother, freebasing Pez, and expecting to see a spaceship buried under the snow grave cave. Trust that body to us. 00:00:00 Coach Dad Update 00:02:47 Intro 00:05:12 Ryuon 00:18:41 Ryoun Houses 00:25:16 Ryoun Bar 00:34:52 Tyler 00:41:09 Tyler Houses 00:50:34 Tyler's Grave 00:52:52 Below the Grave 00:56:41 Real Net 01:03:10 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
What a flamboyant landing! Embrace the reentry glitz as we're always feeling like something is wrong, confusing Marvel Chrises, becoming divided over robots wearing cloaks, shorting out, feeling safe with Wren, witnessing a procession of absurdities, destroying an important temple, dragging an old man around with us, taking a "pleasure trip," guarding what's left of this place, summoning the pocket rover, and wondering if you can make soap dirty. How strange, it's raining machines. 00:00:00 Chris Promotes Goat Soap 00:03:07 Intro 00:05:10 Uncomfortable Space 00:08:21 Red Alert 00:12:50 Crash Landing 00:17:06 Dezolis - Temple of Raja 00:31:10 Dezolis World Map 00:38:24 Real Net 00:46:10 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Thank goodness you've revived. Now you can listen to us raising a spaceport out of the sand, losing another party member, investigating the dorms, caring for another's child, running out in a tab, remaining an influencer, sorting out the estranged families, falling into crack, slaying ooze, going to SPACE, looking at space, curing the problem, denying weather control, revealing a second teacher, extending the problem we cured, meeting up offline, and digesting gas station pills. Perhaps he was talking about the end of himself. 00:00:00 Bad Break Up 00:01:46 Intro 00:03:10 A Spaceport 00:05:35 Missing Student (Guild Quest) 00:09:29 Kadary Revisited 00:21:49 Fissure of Fear (Guild Quest) 00:29:47 Spaceport 00:32:55 Zelen 00:43:54 Real Net 00:45:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Everyone's mothers are congregating and looking sad. They're listening in as we're investigating a deadly premonition, becoming an honorable adult, withholding emotions through dark eyes, innovating narrative pain and agony through manga panels, revealing a dark backstory, checking Rune's stats, encouraging Hahn to leave, recalling videogame graves, getting inside the nucleus, making sure a robot carries the gun, doth seeking the power, assuming the battle was death-rigged, using weapons as items, putting a robot into the computer, and telecommuting with a guy in space. From now on, you have to carve out your own destiny, by yourself. 00:00:00 Seven Hour Sonic Adventure Podcast 00:02:12 Intro 00:04:44 Her Last Breath 00:14:07 Post Mortem 00:20:01 Krup: The Next Day 00:24:58 Saya's Schoolhouse 00:31:46 Return to Zio's Fort 00:38:56 Zio 00:46:58 Aftermath 00:52:54 Real Net 00:57:40 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
I can smell the urge to fight in you. With such pungency, you're aiding us in contracting pink eye, wasting MP on a robot, naming a kid "gunner," fearing the mono-eye robot, adapting weird machine parts for androids, refusing to look at naked robot, watching Gryz express facial emotion, worshipping a heroine of yore, aggressively referencing Phantasy Star I, locating the depraved daughter, putting our feelings in metal, rapidly blinking eyes, dying recovered, eliminating another jobber, and fearing her last breath. Put your adversary down by force. 00:00:00 Bubblegum 00:02:23 Intro 00:04:52 World Mappers 00:06:10 Plate System 00:21:00 Termi 00:27:05 Termi Houses 00:31:10 Laeda Tower 00:39:08 GyLaguiah 00:44:59 Real Net 00:49:32 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Do you like this kind of treatment? Audio injections of us imagining what Krup "tastes like," saying mighty cheeky things, emerging from the ground, freely restoring HP/MP, worrying about Dark Force, keeping a car in our pocket, fighting things with the car, looking all over the world for a fat dog, locating the secret bakery, dealing with earthquake surge pricing, recalling 9/12/2001, learning more about sinkholes, enshrining a heroine of yore, realizing this guy has a cuck chair, stealing joy from children, and refusing to buy into the immersion. Would this constitute some kind of clue? 00:00:00 Caught in the Act 00:02:04 Intro 00:05:17 Krup 00:09:48 Machine Center 00:14:16 Land Rover 00:20:25 Tinkerbell's Dog 00:28:19 Monsen 00:40:04 Monsen Houses 00:50:42 Real Net 00:59:19 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Only after destruction can we create a new world. Become reborn with us as we're playing in the cave in the church, living in idleness, filling pauldrons with puss, walking the red carpet, falling through a hole, obliterating a jobber, mistaking knees for ass, pulling more characters out of Bubblegum Crisis, showcasing medical power, taking a look at our own evil selves, confronting Zio, losing a rigged battle, applying healing magic that doesn't work, manifesting a car, and wondering if Phantasy Star IV invented primary protagonist incapacitation. School work is so stupid. 00:00:00 Robots In Disguise In Disguise 00:02:04 Intro 00:03:46 Kadary Church 00:12:39 Zio's Fort 00:19:18 Juza 00:21:45 Demi 00:27:35 It's Zio! 00:38:42 Krup Regroup 00:52:19 Real Net 00:57:08 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Do not run on the floor. Instead, run your ears on observing infinite lives, hearing about the troops, declining a free drink, enriching lives, rendering pixel ass, making sure they're bug ladies and not bunny ladies, splitting the cave-computer binary, tying into Phantasy Star III, decaying orbit, merging two guys into one guy, rejecting the M.E.T.A. meta, becoming annoyed at the cultists, uniting christ with computer, and blacking out at either snake church or tongue church. Purge the souls of the fools. 00:00:00 Coach Dad 1-0 00:02:23 Intro / Mechanical Man 00:05:41 Hunter's Guild 00:15:09 Hunter's Guild Back Room 00:18:43 The Ranch Owner 00:22:05 Wreckage 00:34:08 Passageway 00:39:56 Kadary 00:49:46 Kadary Buildings 00:58:04 Real Net 01:03:45 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
We're ex-convicts, no one will marry us now. We're doomed to a life of observing the need to fix bridges, inhabiting a dead town, fearing dentist technology, bowling alone, refusing to trust the neighbors, Wet Banditing our own house, vomiting all over the wall, observing a fluid town, stealing husband's secret savings, losing a lot in translation, interpreting a poster, panty-raiding ourselves, sneaking out of an inn, refusing to tell a fortune, and drinking to numb the pain. I don't seem to be in good shape today, come back some other time. 00:00:00 The Server Has a Tattoo 00:04:14 Intro 00:06:22 World Map 00:09:32 Nayla 00:13:01 Nayla Buildings 00:28:37 Aiedo 00:36:54 Aiedo Buildings 00:45:43 Big Market 00:57:12 Jail 00:58:28 Real Net 01:02:20 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
What on earth are you, and what is this place? To figure that out, we're doing it in the Birth Valley, re-entering the Techno Drome, expanding Chris' vocabulary, touring the Porsche factory, mixing monsters with machines, creating a bioactive environment, enjoying the Professor Holt bit, referencing Nei, citing sexy lady anime, determining the cat girl origin point, upsetting mother nature, stacking computers, breeding harmful monsters, meeting a computer child, and carrying the will of Seed. Sterilization treatment completed; please follow the line on the floor. 00:00:00 Marathon Man 00:03:06 Intro 00:04:32 Return to Birth Valley 00:05:45 Bio-Plant 00:21:32 Rika 00:31:44 Seed 00:45:57 Fresh Air in Zema 00:49:24 Real Net 00:56:20 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Somehow the body has become lighter. With your new carbon fiber ears, listen to us fading white, hiding Grandfather in the back, favoring the monger, reading lady numbers, deploying a custom animation, separating charge and information, making dirt wet for too long, accepting a Motavian party member, resolving the stone mustache, separating tears from sweat, violating a sacred area, knowing our limitations, and wearing sweat pants to church. The old man doesn't have any bad intentions. 00:00:00 On the Beach 00:02:29 Intro 00:03:46 Tonoe x Grandfather 00:16:17 Warehouse Basement 00:24:52 How Old Is ______ 00:27:18 Return to Zema 00:33:56 Igglanova Rematch 00:36:55 Exploring Zema 00:46:04 Real Net 00:51:24 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
What a pig this dog is! Before experiencing canine pork, we're finding Krup stuck in our teeth, lying about our academic career, telling people where I hurt myself today, spreading religion, leaving the cabinets open, embracing orange soda genericism, disinheriting a son, harnessing the power of CRBN, teaching kids in the home, figuring out if we're using magic, shooting meat ropes, banishing the natives to one town, sitting lost in thought, and welcoming the owl folk. It's about the only thing I'm capable of doing. 00:00:00 Sonic Speed Simulator 00:04:01 Intro 00:06:12 Rune-inations 00:08:19 Krup 00:11:48 Krup Houses 00:23:49 Saya School 00:36:57 World Map 00:37:40 Valleymaze Entrance 00:40:27 Valleymaze 00:42:50 Tonoe 00:47:12 Tonoe Market Stalls 00:50:07 Tonoe Houses 00:53:30 Real Net 00:59:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
Well, Chaz, your brain seems to work a little bit. At least enough to listen as we're speaking with the beardy-guy-vestman, swallowing a town with quicksand, adding morality to terraforming, pounding Zima, performing a community raking service, experimenting with macros, stoning everyone in town, refusing to help orphaned children, discussing mustache petrification logistics, grifting Hahn, comically tugging our collars at the sight of cum, standing and thinking while caped, sporting a winning chin, losing a fight with a stance, and calling bullshit on Rudy (1993) and Rudy (1944). What a stupid name. 00:00:00 Dragon Quest I & II via Chris 00:02:24 Intro 00:04:36 Mile 00:15:11 Mile Houses 00:21:32 World Map 00:25:36 Zema 00:30:34 Birth Valley 00:37:17 Return To Zema 00:38:25 World Map 00:40:04 Molcum / Rune 00:52:24 Real Net 00:59:34 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
This monster business is no mystery after all. As we uncover the secrets, we're wondering if manga can be in color, installing headquarters in the basement, dropping multiple fishies, fingering to win, sweating to lose, producing the Venn diagram of veins and ticklers, conducting numerous brain activities, breeding monsters in the basement, teleporting before your eyes, hiding the basement situation, connecting the parcel to the monsters, and combining a bad guy haircut with a science robe. It seems like these are signs of something to come. 00:00:00 Chris Is Steamed 00:03:13 Intro 00:04:16 Principal's Office 00:10:43 Hahn Mahlay 00:18:44 Piata Clean Up 00:20:24 Basement Dungeon 00:35:15 Reporting To The Principal's Office 00:45:17 Wrapping Up Piata 00:46:32 World Map 00:48:49 Intro To Mile 00:49:15 Real Net 00:54:54 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com
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"my personal nightmare is-" had me rolling, very true lol
I was woefully unprepared for the cacophony of La's at the end lmao
I wish we could have seen the game they really wanted to make, no hate.
I think the term "will to power" also includes the will to keep fighting and not giving in to cynicism. having power means fixing problems and putting your will into action
good luck, and may the force be with you
two gun theory proved in Wild Arms 3
I think it's farmer and his daughter.
next time you LAN try out Rise of the Triads, that's another interesting doom clone.
Virgil is definitely voiced by that guy who voices Sanosuke Sagara from Kenshin. cool
the A.G.W.S need the 100 series for their Gilbert effect. fuckers went to war with a gun that has no bullets