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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.

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,...


Nov 21, 2022

It looks like your path to success took a detour. As we find our way, we’re stealing heirloom vases for running-away money, reuniting with Rowd, waking up in jail, appealing to an ineffective princess, failing the prophecy of our final sunset, pulling chestnuts out of the fire, speaking to the items, reminiscing...


Nov 14, 2022

What is homesickness, if not nostalgia? Between adult conversations, we’re getting roped into a knife-throwing exhibition, letting the carnies join us, trading sex for safe passage, slaying the Mist Shade, alienating my hometowns folk, learning Jowy’s got money, hearing I look cool from a blind kid, watching my dad...


Nov 7, 2022

Wake up, or I’ll throw you in the river again. After we survive a swan dive, we’re opening our eyes to familiar strangers, sleeping in a storeroom jai cell, performing unpaid labor, rainchecking the knowledge of sex and alcohol, meeting a kobold in the first hour of the game, recruiting a child, admiring the world...