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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.

Apr 15, 2024

Hello! And welcome to the sixth season of Retrograde Amnesia, where we’re covering the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics and The War of the Lions. In the opening, information-loaded episode, we’re determining who is playing which version, ignoring Tactics Advance, pronouncing “Ivalice,” buying the mobile...


Apr 8, 2024

Kindness is something I don’t want or need. In the final episode for season five, we’re doing all this for Rubedo’s sake, simultaneously blaming Rubedo for everyone's sake, installing Sonic Adventure’s Chaos as the final boss, tormenting for fun, consulting Brady, detaching subcompartments in one whole minute,...


Apr 1, 2024

I’d accompany you to the very depths of hell. That task includes making sure we have company approval, wondering if Junior or KOSMOS is a bigger liability, god blessing the dungeon music, shifting bridges to solve a puzzle, celebrating the voiceless cut-scene, observing a hologram, locating satan, prototyping Dora,...


Mar 25, 2024

You know what awaits you if you are defeated in a gunfight, boy? Consequences include detailing the Dumb Virtual On, coming to terms with CCG’s, checking in with some folks one last time, nabbing the final robot part, drinking to cope, realizing friendship is the key to building the Erde Kaiser, maturing into a man,...


Mar 18, 2024

We were made to discover the true form of the universe. You were made to discover us asking masked men relevant questions, amnesia’ing away Virgil, realizing Junior has failed, summoning even more fucked up shit out of space, going way off villain plan script, hallucinating heroines, ejecting a science lab into...