My forehead hurts. Today we’re waking up, passing concussion protocol, pronouncing Quistis, foreshadowing a lady, collecting a student, moping through class, blending into the background, showing favoritism, sorting through our desk, developing paramagic, building the school-to-military pipeline, questioning friendly fascism, and meeting Selphie before she’s Selphie. Stop trying to be cool. 01:15 Intro | 03:36 Infirmary | 11:57 Quistis & Squall | 18:31 Classroom | 31:40 Study Panel | 46:00 G...
Aug 02, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Trailer for Retrograde Amnesia
Jul 29, 2021•1 min
Hey, it’s season three of Retrograde Amnesia. For the debut of our Final Fantasy VIII coverage, we’re clarifying release dates, questioning the budget, identifying developers, reading Famitsu interviews, challenging the staff, mispronouncing everything, regretting misogyny, exploring the demo, plagiarizing music, fantasizing about Chocobo World, appreciating the commercial, sorting through 21 year-old memories, remembering gamer sins, dissecting the prologue, and translating Liberi Fatali. Peopl...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Give us all the liquid substances you have in this box. On our final episode of season two, we’re fast forwarding time, finding a future as a fisherman, cutting Lynx to ribbons, bickering over Serge’s attention, experiencing diarrhea, losing the tickets, mascoting an indigenous race, being a cat about town, sallying forth, facing the music, becoming FATE, starting the Viper Youth, fleecing marks at a bar, staining the planet with the blood of humanity, and talking with the folks who made Chrono ...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Everything exists for this one moment. Tonight we’re fighting the Dragon God, descending to nihilism, listening to final boss music, talking to sacred ghosts at the beach, dealing with destiny, identifying true father, talking with everyone about the Final Gate, using the power of music the save the world, spewing idioms, spreading life, birthing a universe, exposing the Turnip realm, and waiting for Kid to find us. Chrono Cross is real. 01:03 Intro | 02:32 Terra Tower Apex | 10:24 Belthasar Lor...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 39
It is your will to choose destruction. This time, I guess, we’re beating up sentient jelly, cheesing out with the Grandream, enduring a sadness wave, visiting ethereal Viper Manor, listening to the sage of reason, chatting up the Chrono Kids, ignoring sonic hints, getting blown, seeing Mothership, and mining additional unique dialogue. Chris is recreationally echoing because of a production boner, it’s not a bit. 01:06 Intro | 03:01 Terra Tower | 17:07 Pyrotor | 20:53 Belthesar | 34:30: Anemotor...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 38
We’re forever your friends, no matter which timeline this is. Today we’re getting a letter from a dead scientist, alluding to a secret heritage, leaning into Magus lore, believing in a glam rock king, breathing underwater for antigravity technology, getting weak to red, creating an oxygen forcefield, installing alien artifacts in a maritime vessel, bending time, and looking at some final techs. There’s a dead Starky somewhere. 01:00 Intro | 02:56 Luccia’s Lucca Letter | 09:39 Janus | 19:45 Nikki...
Jun 28, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 37
The dragons ate each other. Today we’re meeting with plot relevant characters, turning Mojo into Mojoy, questioning the nature of Maiden Faith, actualizing the Chrono Cross, preparing for time travel, freeing children from fire, obtaining button codes, disappearing from the past, finding a little Kid, and making a transdimensional promise Gato is here and he has been fucked. 01:04 Intro | 02:37 Dragon Debrief | 07:35 Sailing Errands | 15:56 Divine Dragons Falls | 23:40 Hermit’s Hideaway | 25:20 ...
Jun 21, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 36
We are bound by fate to ingest copious amounts of lore. This time we’re egging time on, initializing wormholes, doing a phase metastasis, staring into the sea, installing memories, radically dreaming of a different life, personifying Fate, braining mother, registering as arbiter, unfreezing a flame, listening to a villain speech, meeting an old friend, moonwalking, dying off, resurrecting geography, and eating each other. What the bloody hell is going on? 01:18 Intro | 02:32 Chronopolore | 11:00...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 35
This time it’s about time. That means it’s time for ghost lore consultation, tracing the counter time effect, looking at anti annihilation energy, killing the police, controlling a sewer drone, inputting binary code, rhyming DNA with musical notes, learning about Lavos, and questioning the nature of fate. Humans will always use knowledge to corrupt the earth. 01:19 Intro | 02:45 Chronopolis Lobby | 16:19 Robot Sewer | 18:20 Coffin Room | 23:00 Map Room | 31:40 West Lab | 38:32 East Lab | 45:16 R...
Jun 07, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Please insert disc 2. This time we’re closing out characters with third techs, jumping on a tombstone, giving a book to a homeopathic surfer, eating children, pushing blobs for butterflies, kicking turds, visiting our doomed dimensional twin, diseasing opponents, cooking with a brother, inspiring a mermaid, pushing through fate distortions, and unloading Fate lore. Eric is the fake net in this one. 01:07 Intro | 02:58 Tech Bonanza: Greco | 09:00 Tech Bonanza: Doc | 11:10 Tech Bonanza: Funguy | 1...
May 31, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 33
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 Turnip | 11:20 Einlanzers | 15:40 Divine Dragon Falls | 17:05 Marbule 2.0 | 34:14 Hammer Time | 37:...
May 24, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 32
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 Guldove Emblem Showcase | 19:33 Return to Fort Dragonia | 27:06 Planetarium Light Show | 32:00 Chrono...
May 17, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 31
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, wearing plates, meeting Doreen, and obtaining the GrandDream. Things make sense logically. Emotionally...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 30
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 murdering awful dinosaurs. We sure do seem to be living in troubled times, man. 01:07 Intro | 02:44 Earth ...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 29
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 Fargo v Fargo | 10:25 Magically Dreaming | 21:54 Concert Debrief | 32:09 Home Marbule Ghost Mission | ...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Join us for a review of a brief retrospective on the original NieR and a review of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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, bullshitting a Revive from the sewers, and canonizing Zoah as gay. We hope to see you again, sometime, some...
Apr 19, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 tears, solving snake statue puzzles, and finding the true bastards. The ground here has cooled down. 01...
Apr 12, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 26
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 time to be listening to your idealistic theories. 01:02 Intro | 04:00 Viper Manor Exterior | 06:25 ...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Here is a slice of our Patreon exclusive miniseries on Parasite Eve. The full version includes full background info on the game, movie, and novel. Go to www.patreon.com/retroam to get the rest.
Mar 30, 2021•31 min
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 father a seashell, finding a secret room, and befriending some Devas. Prepare thyself for anguish and...
Mar 29, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 24
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, dealing in quantum currency, fighting to return the distortion, and becoming salt for the dead sea. May...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 23
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, and killing a magic sword. I cannot imagine that spectacle of what lies ahead. 01:04 Intro | 03:00 Dea...
Mar 15, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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. Welcome Iron Man. Might is Right. Fighting Spirit. 01:07 Intro | 04:12 Sneff’s Cat Trick Redux | 1...
Mar 08, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 21
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 Tower | 01:32:44 Rocket Tower Basement | 01:37:21 Rocket Tower Deck | 01:43:15 Air Carrier II | 0...
Mar 05, 2021•2 hr 17 min
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 walk through your body. 01:08 Intro | 03:07 Hermit’s Hideaway | 04:19 Marbule Ghost Infestation | 14...
Mar 01, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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, fighting and befriending a space alien, and ripping a laser gun out of a fish. Dragons have small ar...
Feb 22, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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 child with no fighting experience to our elite squad of world warriors. Do you enjoy watching famil...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Hey! It's another review episode. Eric reviewed Persona 5 Strikers for digitalchumps.com. So, we're going to talk about Persona 5 Strikers.
Feb 09, 2021•53 min
