Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Retrograde Amnesia

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (171)

Since Sep 2019

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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.

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Recent Episodes

S9E1 Skies of Arcadia | E1: Chasing Romantic Dreams [Development History]

Jun 08, 2026 1h 22m

Hello and welcome to season nine of Retrograde Amnesia, featuring Skies of Arcadia. In the first (of three) background/information episodes, we'll be talking about the game as it relates to shipping…

S8E30 Phantasy Star IV | E30: Perfect Cosmic Horror [Finale]

Jun 01, 2026 59m

This is it! Now we determine Algo's future... our future! Before we sleep in peace, we'll be jumping into the hole, replicating a sick 1994 screensaver, appreciating an efficient end game dungeon,…

S8E29 Phantasy Star IV | E29: Lifeforms Around the Hole [Planetary Tour]

May 25, 2026 47m

Wouldn't I be of some help to you? It wouldn't hurt to listen to us talking about taking party members to new planets, auditioning the fifth friend, "holding space" for a suicide pill, pinning the…

S9E29 Phantasy Star IV | E29: Lifeforms Around the Hole [Planetary Tour]

May 25, 2026 50m

Wouldn't I be of some help to you? It wouldn't hurt to listen to us talking about taking party members to new planets, auditioning the fifth friend, "holding space" for a suicide pill, pinning the…

S8E28 Phantasy Star IV | E28: I'm Not Gonna Fight for No Mission! [Rykros, Part II]

May 18, 2026 55m

But what use is an invisible planet? It's not like material planets could aid us in realizing the lore is a Piccolo Situation, sealing off dimensions, returning a secret planet every 1000 years,…

S8E27 Phantasy Star IV | E27: Inching Into the Gnosticism Zone [Rykros, Part I]

May 11, 2026 56m

It looks like we're really free from any problems now. And yet we still find ourselves fondly recalling Syphon Filter, completing phase 2 of the Reshel Revival, confusing asteroids with islands,…

S8E26 Phantasy Star IV | E26: Consequences All Over the Place [Silver Solider, Soldier's Temple]

May 04, 2026 1h 3m

The things we do seem to have consequences all over the place. One day, we will pay for the sins of slaughtering servants, traumatizing the traumatized kids with robots, blowing up mermen, getting…

S8E25 Phantasy Star IV | E25: Head Honcho [Guild Quests]

Apr 27, 2026 54m

My son is convinced that he is going to die. But you, you must live and listen to us cleaning a dirty kitchen, making wild assumptions about rice farming, comparing geographical educations, eatin' up…

S8E24 Phantasy Star IV | E24: I Want to Know About Rick Ross [Gumbious Tower, Guild Quests]

Apr 20, 2026 56m

If you're happy, try everything. Everything we tried to make us happy includes getting close to feet, seeming downhearted, reducing the cost of sleeping, refusing an apology, not wanting to get…

S8E23 Phantasy Star IV | E23: This Place is Brains [Garubek Tower]

Apr 13, 2026 56m

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…

S8E22 Phantasy Star IV | E22: Non-Rascal Variety [Air Castle]

Apr 06, 2026 1h 3m

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…

S8E21 Phantasy Star IV | E21: Pope Hatted Out and Whatnot [Jut, Weapon Plant, Gumbious Temple]

Mar 30, 2026 48m

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…

S8E20 Phantasy Star IV | E20: You Can Suck and Be a Wizard [Esper Mansion]

Mar 23, 2026 1h 8m

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,…

S8E19 Phantasy Star IV | E19: Have Penguins, Have No Problems [Zoza, Climate Center, Meese]

Mar 16, 2026 56m

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…

S8E18 Phantasy Star IV | E18: When Satan is in the Computer [Kuran]

Mar 09, 2026 52m

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,…

S8E17 Phantasy Star IV | E17: The Androids are Dating While Everyone Else is Hunting Bears [Ryuon and Tyler]

Mar 02, 2026 1h 9m

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…

S8E16 Phantasy Star IV | E16: A Flamboyant Landing [Dezolis]

Feb 23, 2026 55m

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…

S8E15 Phantasy Star IV | E15: Absolute Unit [Zelan]

Feb 16, 2026 1h 1m

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,…

S8E14 Phantasy Star IV | E14: Anime Shadow Sadness [Nurvus]

Feb 09, 2026 1h 4m

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…

S8E13 Phantasy Star IV | E13: The Person of Lordly Caliber [Plate System & Ladea Tower]

Feb 02, 2026 56m

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…

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