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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.

Oct 31, 2022

Welcome to part two of season four of Retrograde Amnesia! As we kick off our coverage of Suikoden II, we’re going over release history, development staff, contemporary reviews, modern reflections, and our personal history & expectations. Then we press start, and we’re loading Suikoden I data, hearing both side’s...


Oct 24, 2022

Can’t something be wrong, and priceless? On season four, part one’s final episode, we’re investigating bathing dynamics, pretending Sanchez isn’t a rat, allowing Leknaat to lore dump all over us, wasting our only resurrection spell, sending monsters back to hell, executing Ain Gide, engaging in a rooftop...


Oct 17, 2022

This is no time to be distressed, we have a job to do. As we ingest the envy of angels, we’re learning Mathiu and Humphrey were on opposite sides of a massacre, brewing our finest tea, preventing adults from having consensual sex, writing Hix off as a forever dumbass, wishing the old would die instead of the young,...


Oct 10, 2022

I dislike myself intensely when I am fighting. As we experience classic RP Games, we’re being infiltrated by a spy, realizing it’s not just a drill, rejecting breakfast and surrender, failing an execution, contriving subterfuge, applying a ruse, invading a castle, resting on a guy, busting our boys out of...


Oct 3, 2022

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...