Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

We've got our Serge boy body back. With that we're populating the island of misfit toys, dreaming of vegetables, resonating a sword, changing animations, divining dragon falls, industrializing Marbule, marrying mermaids, creating an iridescent super axe, grand slamming Janice out of the fighting pit, and getting some story-based third techs. Dreams exist in the temporal vortex. 01:30 Intro | 02:59...

Blushing, I walk the royal carpet. This time we're answering riddles, introducing Orcha to himself, forgetting to save, recruiting ghosts as techs, fighting Evil Serge, learning the history of the world, absorbing reptite lore, transforming and getting naked, and receiving the title of the game. When you're a boy you're no longer in the dark middle chapter. 01:13 Intro | 03:24 Criosphinx | 12:11 G...

Listen to the planet's woes, humans. As we consecrate our dragon destiny, we're also wrecking creatures of legend, watching Orlha kick ass then kicking Orlha's ass, referencing a dimensional twin, receiving a Dragon Emblem, jumping in odor holes, receiving Snakes & Orbs, discovering a man with retrograde amnesia, uncovering his problematic relationship, thirsting for blood, sating on blood, wearin...

What powers doth thou seek? While we scour the world for relics, we're jumping in the sand boil, breaking down the Fossicker, blowing up local wildlife, combining philosophy with destiny and violence, observing the sacred pilfering percentage, stealing plates, getting Chris the Beeba Flute, riding bugs to islands, facing land anger, conscripting more children, playing the Jurassic Beat, and murder...

Aye, landlubber…!? This time we're reforming Fargo, motivating mistreated laborers, missing metaphors, conducting a speech synthesis play, dissecting stage plays in RPG's, exterminating all monsters in Marbule, listening across dimensions, recruiting a dancer, barely animating a dragon, and killing the village mascot. I bet the dreamer is ten times as nasty as this nightmare  01:03 Intro | 02:25 F...

Join us for a review of a brief retrospective on the original NieR and a review of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... 

You are Lynx-kinds. Well, ok. Today we're playing the Yggdrasil's theme, Kidding with Marcy, protecting Riddel from scum, tracking down the Spice Boys, spitting exclamation points, flashing back to adolescence, accepting friend flowers, failing to express admiration, proposing marriage, possibly potentially killing Dario, fighting our friends, making a celebrity cameo, combining magicians, bullshi...

The ground here is hot. This time we're confronting Radius with Radius, rubbing a child's head, getting in a real time turn based fight, boarding the reflection bridge, churning resolution from flashbacks, putting everyone in this game in our party, reflecting our image on the mirror of truth, finding out Marcy is nine fucking years old, hearing Harle's plot legends, telling space aliens about tea...

We are the Chrono Crossers. Today we're jailing the Fake Net, playing bad cop bad cop, standing by in the parlor, putting Norris on Norris, making the Hell Cook, unmasking the spy, turning valves in the sewers, fighting a big gross bug, freeing prisoners, fighting a quaffid seed addict, fighting a cyborg, fighting a mech, refighting a mech, and trampling poor Porre officers with dragons. I have no...

Ye be me!? Today we're meeting a realistic dragon, acquiring Denadorite, shewing away shadow cats, taking refuge at Gonji's, finding our living dead dragon mother, hearing Home music in Another world, suspending economic activity, experiencing a mushroom crisis, identifying the Drakehorn grass boy, shutting down Grifter's Row, not remembering our friends, meeting ourselves again, giving our rich f...

The vengeance of the future we killed is about to begin. Today we're comparing melodies, evaluating Y2K futurism, speculating machine sentience, finding Johnny, spec'ing Zappa, hacking lore with Norris, shopping at the mannequeen mall, missing Doc's tech, going over Tragedienne's dialogue, meeting the dragoons in oblivion, watching familiar ghosts, entering the Enertron, denying inevitability, dea...

Express your intent to the Einlanzer. On this episode we're using a crab to quell a storm, knocking on death's door, debating the morality of a sword, going hard in the paint on the Masamune, flashing back to Dario's final days, using a keepsake mirror to trick trick mirrors, normalizing old bosses, surviving the sadness wave, mending the tragedy of the Masamune, dematerializing into the ether, an...

Rockin, I knew you'd come. This time we're taking stock of the Zelbess, becoming semi-permanent felines, hurting our back, observing a remorseful pirate, sneaking through a crow's nest, learning about the power of song, disabling cheaters, confronting Father, falling into a monster fighting pit, stalking a sage, clearly telegraphing a magic concert, recruiting a magician, and befriending a mermaid...

Yes, we did a The Bouncer one. 01:11 Intro | 02:12 Development Overview & Personal History | 12:12 Prologue | 21:12 Fate Bar | 37:58 Central Square | 41:21 Train Station | 44:24 MSD Cargo Train | 53:26 Emergency Exit | 55:01 Air Carrier | 57:36 Hanging Garden | 01:02:54 Crystal Dome | 01:14:00 Sion Stage 9 | 01:23:51 Kou Stage 9 | 01:26:55 Volt Stage 9 | 01:28:55 Executive Room | 01:31:20 Rocket T...

One. Two. Free. While we listening we're visiting the muppet house, observing  a haunted island, getting lore injections from Toma, stalking a nocturnal mermaid, hopping aboard a kitschy cruise ship, calculating interest in coffee money, watching a magician do actual magic, dealing with post-divergence trauma, disclosing lineage, hovering with fishness, smoking, and losing a rigged game. I want to...

We need a boat. Today we're digging through the rubble at Viper Manor, feigning ignorance, wondering if plumbing has been invented, appreciating dynamic light sources, blowing any chance at deception, learning about the Dead Sea, getting an awful boat, acquiring a baby talking baby dragon, absorbing Guldovian trade ethics, getting depressed across dimensions, breathing underwater, schooling fish,...

HEY LET ME SEE THAT MUSHROOM. This time we're learning about Wazuki, beating the shit out of the village elder in front of his community, turning a man into fungus, exploring a muted Termina, not recognizing our mushroom father, making our own legends, training to be like Norris, cooling the forge, looking for the rainbow, covering for my father's economic anxiety, shaking my savings, and adding a...

Hey! It's another review episode. Eric reviewed Persona 5 Strikers for digitalchumps.com. So, we're going to talk about Persona 5 Strikers.

Who won!?

Am I dead? I guess we're looking back at the beach, waking up in dimensional vortex, tripping balls, befriending a shape-shifting creature of myth, sorting out reality, fighting against two dimensions, jumping in a warp zone, partying with Sprigg, failing to teleport, kicking ass to the moon, experiencing severe xenophobia, frightening the locals, and sleeping in my bed that isn't mine. I can't af...

Life and death, love and hate, they are all the same. This time we're deluminating crystal monoliths, facing north, getting an ankle sprain, changing the order of head body and tail, battling beast mecha, inserting Skelly, glooping glop, receiving a kissy wissy from a son of a gun, stumbling upon an incubator, reliving a prologue, trapping Elements, vomiting ourselves, eliminating co-conspirators,...

Don't tell my bro, but I've got good stuff he don't, baby. Today we're getting a loogie hocked on our face, meeting the witch doctor, selling wares in a hot tub, watching a dragon sleep, turning lava to ice, debating diggity dogs, killing Solt with Peppor, getting dragons stuck in earth, fighting a tiny dragon, identifying unique dialogue, whooping the asses of overconfident devas, learning new te...

Welcome son of man, now come to me. Today we're assuming ourselves bound by fate, getting the plot on track, acquiring our depressed doctor, defining shot, encouraging brother fights, riding lilly pads, killing all the dwarves again, deliberately letting Rosetta die and live, admiring and also destroying the dwarf tank, not using the dragon platform, and finding a link to Lucca. Wilt thou change t...

Head into the fog? This time we're treasuring skeleton fantasies, aligning character motivations, revealing a ghost ship as a pirate ship, wearing Fargo shorts, dancing to diegetic music, blowing whistles and hitting gongs, fighting big birds, inventing a new ho, doing jellyfish tranqs, fighting skeletons with skeletons, ignoring safety protocols, and beating up a Dead Head. I'm the bone.  01:05 I...

 I am playing Chrono Cross, and I am alone. After going down the humour hole, we're scouring the dregs of Viper Manor, assimilating into our party, finding sacred artifacts, getting our Safety Gear, eliminating sentient beings, reluctantly accepting NeoFio, watching Glenn give the game away, breaking down the fourth wall, speaking with the fairies, acquiring all of Skelly, fighting clowns in the w...