Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Cosmos is pronounced differently than KOS-MOS. This time we're treating DME addiction as a casual hobby, jamming to the Seraphim Sisters, wondering if Realians deserve equal rights, not delivering the sexy murder robot project on time, hiding a mysterious phone call, acquiring the M.W.S., video chatting with a mysterious bad guy, indulging in the old ways to spite our sister, wishing this wouldn't...

Better safe than curry. On this episode we're diagnosing problems with Realians strapped to inversion tables, writing Realians off as infants, equating fables and proverbs to myths and legends, driving free will out of a machine, finding ourselves addicted to the consumption of body tissue, moralizing cannibalism, referencing some kind of disaster in Miltia, locating Mr. Driller, investigating pla...

Who is the most human character in Xenosaga, and is that individual even human? To figure that out, we're chatting up our Vector co-workers, diagnosing Allen's patheticness, discussing Jung's origin of all shit, refusing to ask out our boss, confessing sins while we beat up our subordinates, reminisce enduring thoughts, ding-crossing with a ghost girl, slacking off because of bimbos, referencing m...

Can robots experience emotions? Can we? Listen to use try as we're advancing time by 40 centuries, obscuring facial details, losing our minds in technobabble, looking for scientific evidence of the human soul, dancing around to move the shit of the universe, entering virtual reality, reluctantly wishing our robot weapon was our real friend, entering U.M.N. Mode for some tips, seeing enemies on scr...

Hi. Welcome to season five of Retrograde Amnesia. As we let the Saga take us, we're talking about when and where Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht came out, observing the will to power, establishing Xeno-links, finding inspiration in pornography, resolving to finish the soundtrack, treating cut-scene length like a threat, losing to Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, socking the doorknob for spo...

This the final farewell. On our final episode for season four, we're closing the loop on a humiliated Lucia, owning the shit out of Han Cunningham, licking the carpet, rattling death over Seed and Culgan, thinking killing is a good thing, breaking up with my adopted kid and dead wife, filling our pockets with stolen death coins, crumbling the palace, denying the responsibility of creating a new co...

Would you like me to sheathe Odessa in you? While the boys hot me up in the mouth, we're taking a ton of baths, waxing heads, foreshadowing Kelley, observing a knight paradox, suffering rune exhaustion, stabbing my wife in the stomach, sloshing water around, betting the farm of a fire card, cutting promos as the world burns down, dispatching Viktor on a dirty job, calling off the sacrifice play, s...

Since we are risking everything, it's a big gamble. Risk your time and listen to us rejecting a cruel unicorn's thesis, peer pressuring Kiba into death, completing group math problems, receiving the divine power of destiny, yarring, merging for the kill, forging citizen soldiers, combining Capture The Flag with murder, invading Rockaxe Castle, double-ko'ing a battle, separating from the main party...

It makes my heart soar like an eagle to see your face again. Hear our voices again as we're debating pregnancy, switching Greenhill's music, loving a lady like a sister, locating some lost clay, reuniting the musical trio, recruiting another cave-dwelling misanthrope, reuniting the two best dandy fops ever made, saving Pesmerga for last, living by the way of a level 14 sword, containing truth insi...

I am your death. With the rest of our life, we're confronting an invader, casting earthquake in my bedroom, visiting the narcissist garden, choosing to fight, waiting for battlefield reports, returning the Greenhill's forest, pleading ignorance over a severe war crime, deferring the sins of the father, assigning Yuber to the rune police, teleporting to hell, keeping Teresa's promise, knowing the K...

I vow to aid you with all the strength in my worthless hands. After pissing all over Neclord, we're adding eight consecutive stars of destiny to our army, never cracking a smile, founding a coven, concealing true feelings for Anabelle, disservicing worms, recruiting a literal kraken, practicing kraken monogamy, swearing to Georg that we won't give up, developing a presence, literally pushing Gante...

Now is the time to destroy the demon. As we reset reality, we're declining the temptation of abdication, breaking our sister, following orders into hell, acting on bad information, soft-locking inside Gustav's house, tunneling with Neclord, stating the need to seal a soul, shipping Sierra and Klaus, tricking promising youngsters, hating the self that cannot die, ethically sucking off, assembling a...

When the need arises, it's these muscles that will come in handy. On this one we're calling into Coast to Coast AM, rendering Jess a surly dickhead, accusing town guys of being creeps, reliving Annabelle's death, watching Leknaat have a stroke, learning that kids shouldn't kill people, abandoning ship with Nanami, leaving shit in the hotel room, allowing zombies to engulf dirt towns, living for tr...

Speak with your fists while we talk with our mouths about running an obstacle course, gathering intel from mountain bandits, observing the town well, conjuring a bicycle, bringing water for it, refusing to pay for another meal, brandishing Window Sets, reading every available town item, unionizing mine work, hauling the dirt away, learning the secret of scroll making, smoothing out Tinto's politic...

This is a gift from my heart, I hope it will help with throwing down over the Sindar, spreading rumors of peace, becoming old enough to get lost, regressing portraits, adapting nuclear bomb logic, pumping Jowy's dialogue into Teresa, denying Jowy anything and everything, using Pilika as human collateral, stacking up war crimes, having ill-feeling left, realizing Neclord has resurfaced in Tinto, al...

If it's in your mouth, it's good. And what's in our mouth? How about sightseeing in South Window, wondering how Max got even worse, trying to pay for food with songs, farting through our stomach, singing silence, following the trail of the Sindar, selling out Alex, slapping Alex, remaining drutherless, recruiting a Riou impersonator, dancing with Karen, solving another conflict with a cookoff, exa...

Whether it's a gift from the heavens, or simply destiny, I don't know. What I can tell you is that we're realizing Shu pulled a move from The Art of War, sleeping for a week, demanding Simone bark like a dog, allowing Antonio to pep up Hai Yo, appealing to Gremio's weakness, witnessing the soul still burning inside of Tir, getting a little kid abducted, hatching out of a worm, stepping back from t...

I want to believe I am brave enough to accept fate. Until then, destiny entails massaging Luca's ego into self-destruction, surrounding dog units with man units, sharing a face with Luc, realizing Tsai is an ugly deadbeat dad, getting our life together, caring about breeding, designating ambush positions, winning a war battle way too early, thirsting for blood, creating three tactical units, prepa...

With you, I think I'll be able to hear many new sounds. Listen close as we're relearning about the Gate Rune War, realizing Badeaux has the shine to him, listening to the heart, wondering if everyone here only has three fingers, defending a good monster, taking up two slots, feeling the charge between Valeria and Anita, defining "maiden" for a pervert fantasy horse, blessing a white lady, recruiti...

I would like to sound good to me. If that sounds good to you, we're getting rid of various portraits, observing replica Tir clothes, forging an State with you, dropping dots like Humphrey, recognizing special boy eye glimmer, picking between Kasumi and Valeria, borrowing the Blinking Mirror, frittering time and money away, picking up Lorelai off the street, making 50,000 potch from Celadon Urns fo...

Gentleness has becoming a sin in this world. Handle us with care while we're finding Sheena up to his old assaults, boiling water at high altitudes, setting aside time to wack off, feeling inspired by the Toran Republic, pushing that inspiration into admiration, picking Freed Y to form an alliance, climbing rope for celadon urns, reflecting on Lord Granmeyer's folly, getting Clive shot to shit, me...

Content warning (sexual assault) from 22:29 to 25:46. I love a good challenge, it's what keeps me going. As we go into battle with no strategy, we're respecting our opponents, alienating the dog race, getting married and knighted at the same time, recognizing the wine of fealty, poisoning a blood beverage, rearranging units, performing racism as a ruse, equating ceremonial decapitation to a waste...

What's wrong, don't you think it's beautiful? As we try to control our emotion, we're witnessing a doubled-headed spectral wolf suck souls off, projecting filth, distrusting illegitimate blood, blinking out like a Mad Gear gang member, telling Knight Father of war crimes, debating a knight's honor, quitting my job, getting my boys to quit their job, pulling Leon out of the ether, suddenly deciding...

If you're lying, they'll kill you. In our search for truth, we exploring cop land, blowing off a mustache, refusing to sing a song, abandoning our milk slinging duties, rejecting army recruiters, filling Kent's head with dragon fantasies, beating up a harpy, listening to a tremendous beating of wings, finally hearing about Lord TcDohl, finding a big egg in a gravy pool, christening Bright, helping...

Whack to your heart's content. After we pickle up, we get down to employing a new voice, founding and then quitting the Jeanies, losing sheep in the woods, picking up a healthy chick, depositing books in the library, checking suspicious characters, washing GenGen in a wooden basket, recruiting even more children, making one of them a groupie, telling my lunatic boss I want to marry his sister, bea...