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Welcome to Retrograde Amnesia, a podcast where we cover classic Japanese Role-playing Games (JRPGs), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. Check out a complete listing of the works we have covered and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast provider. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroam.

Dec 26, 2022

Don’t worry, I’ll show you a good trick. As we debate the merit of how good that trick was, we’re putting on our dead friends’ uniforms, speculating Rowd’s Joke Character potential, accidentally holding a princess hostage, seeking the power, slapping the shit out of a city official, screaming at the...


Dec 19, 2022

Can you shoot, gunner? After we wake in jail, we’re looking older and tougher, observing war’s effect on the citizens of Muse, holding on to a stranger’s contraband, feeling the bullets whiz by our face, becoming infantilized again, realizing Anabelle knows Genkaku, falling prey to idiot war schemes, conscripting...


Dec 12, 2022

It’s medicine. Eat it. While we decide what’s most dear about this, we’re being denied entry to Muse, winding up at an inn in the woods, absorbing the ravings of a treasure obsessed husband, helping find treasure to get an entry permit, collecting shapes, placing those shapes in holes to open doors, fearing Mr....


Dec 5, 2022

We have looked into your hearts and witnessed your character. As we shift into a new genre, we’re deploying turn-based tactics, lighting people on fire, fighting a war right after we fought a war, slaughtering a spineless worm, exposing a traumatized child to even worse trauma, throwing munitions into a furnace,...


Nov 28, 2022

I’ve got no time left. And yet we’re admiring shirtless men at work, discovering Joey is an uncle, wondering if knights are cops, staring down the big holiday door, entering the tekken, meeting Pilika and her family, venturing to Muse for an amulet gift, running it, selling Jowy’s signet ring for no reason,...