This guy knows what time it is, if you know what I mean. If you get what I’m saying, we’re rescuing Fitcher from the townies, inciting violence to prevent worse violence, feeling the pull of destiny on Nina’s love of Flik, hearing a skittering ghost, finding a hidden passage through a secret door, discovering a cabin in the woods, m’ladying out of control, getting hype as fuck for my spider sword, turning refugees on citizens, searching for humanity, killing cops in front of school, delivering h...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 45
I’m thinking about what to drink tonight. While we pretend to be students, we’re making up aliases, desiring more flying squirrel friends, aspiring to own a warm hearth, perverting thine eyes, tee-hee’ing with Jeane, fantasizing about taking classes, admiring a wad of hair on a man, immediately blowing our cover with Emilia, declaring our regularity, inspecting Nanami to gain a competitive advantage, harassing local business owners, bumping in the night, and loving a sword instead of a teenager....
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 44
For us, the forest and village are one. As that unification increases our power, we’re mistaking Elza’s identity, looking to get stronger by beating ass, busting up a puzzle, recruiting another gardener, accusing Tony of being a dirt fetishist, upgrading from house to tent, entering the jam vs butter rivalry, regressing Tengaar to damsel status, dispatching Hix on a bullshit quest, realizing that bullshit is real, henpecking for life, stumbling into a wild ass cooking minigame, devaluing human l...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 43
I AM NOT A TOOL FOR FIGHTING. After a four month break, we’re strategically firing Fitcher, buying fried tacos in bulk, becoming toasty, fantasizing about a sauna, installing a kitchen, measuring bird weather, losing a foot race because we didn’t escape enough times, playing that cursed bowl dice game, further emasculating Hix, piling on the mutants, recruiting a misanthropic goth bully, shitting pants, creating graves for fish, following the call to adventure, and running into a trickster in tr...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Your lies won’t save you this time. In search of salvation, we’re meeting a buff dogman, allowing Fitcher to get his ass whipped, brandishing the Bright Shield Rune, meeting the plenipotentiary, forgetting to eat dinner, considering the plight of the Winger, chasing Chaco through raw sewage, finding Sid behind a sewage fall, eliminating a demon rat pest, winding up in the kobold village, intercepting a communique, wishing Klaus to eat shit and die, ordering reinforcements, meeting the mystical m...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 41
The bigger you get, the stronger you’ll be. As we widen, we’re meeting men of the sea, getting a reference, keeping the children toasty, using a Gameshark to time travel, recruiting a well-informed old lady, getting robbed by a flying child, hiring an idiot armorer, tasting meunière, observing black water, swallowing warm fish heads, overloading on puns in the dog village, finding respect for Gengen, and speculating the nature of foul pie contents. They wouldn’t trust you much if you were with a...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 40
I ain’t got too much brains but I always been stronger ‘n piss. During our recruiting drive, we’re lying to Fitcher about everything, observing moving NPC’s, leaving our husband to run storage, leaving our wife to go fight, manifesting a boat, marrying Kimberly, demanding Freed respect his wife, wielding a naginata, calling out a rigged coin toss, paying Richmond to investigate himself, beating the shit out of Amada (again), gambling on rock climbing, declaring a boring life to be meaningless, e...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 39
If you don’t trust me, perhaps you should leave. While you stay, we’re discovering that relaxation time is heart softening time, killing three horses for no reason, conscripting the elderly and the children, seeing potential in Freed Y, burning off my expendable unit, becoming the herald of victory, assuming a leadership position, finally flashing back to the fall of Genkaku, acquiring friend strength, selecting a name for our castle, and once again accepting the curse of Luc. Don’t believe in m...
Feb 13, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Good morning. After we get out of bed, we’re entering a rich guy’s house, finding out he’s the worst kind of capitalist, failing to recruit him anyway, prostrating ourselves in front of him, finding a hard-boiled noir detective in the water margin, hearing of a risky trade, opening a plot debate, throwing a coin off a bridge, beating up a grown man, sifting through mud, and forging a much needed alliance. I already know what you want, but go ahead and tell me anyway. 00:00 ODE | 02:10 Intro | 03...
Feb 06, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 37
I know that once a person is dead, they’re gone forever. Before we go, we’re challenging Suikoden II’s treatment of Suikoden, embracing a child rune, pushing baphomet, denying the dirty vampire’s tricks with violence, clicking a sword, slaughtering an abomination, chopping off more than one head, deciding we need to use a strategy to win, learning of a brilliant expelled student, failing to protect women, accepting a bartender into destiny, remembering Pohl, and hearing all about Shu. That’s rig...
Jan 30, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 36
This is punishment for what you did to my body. Through our pain, we’re forgetting Pohl ever existed, formally accepting Flik and Viktor, wondering why Freed has a last initial, repeating Suikoden’s vampire subplot, dragging Pilika along, remaining oblivious to the concept of sex, raising the dead, missing our magic talking sword, beating up rocks, mounting a forehead rune, solving a rock pushing puzzle, finding Kahn in the middle of a damn cave, using a doppelganger secret, insulting the talkin...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Anyway the wind blows, the dice rolls. Before we blow our roll, we’re profiling Jowy, forcing destiny through chinchirorin, leaving Sheena behind, suppressing Rina’s subplot, questioning the apple trade, waiting for Karen to dance, slinging some Josh (derogatory), confirming Viktor as a loud guy, conducting business with Clive, rejecting the sugar trade, touching a bonsai and receiving a crystal, filling slots with candles, rejecting the mayonnaise barrel, and getting ready to meet all of our fr...
Jan 16, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 34
What do you want? Are you from around here? While you figure that out we’re assigning light and dark to different destinies, meeting secret ninjas in secret places, stopping by to share some wine, complimenting the wine’s bouquet, inventing demolition sex, desaturating Muse, smashing a wine glass, escaping from a crime scene, assuming unchangable fate brought us here, fantasizing about running away from life, meandering about a fishing town, and meeting up with our favorite weirdos. Your life? I...
Jan 09, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 33
My face is proof of my identity. While you find proof of yours, we’re running up that hilltop, failing facial recognition, belly bumping a lady, suffering surly knights, channeling Elden Ring’s intro narrator, testing the Jowston State Agreement, calling a false flag, reading into the dots, bloodying their nose a little, turning Gilbert’s coat and also sometimes killing Gilbert, furthering Jowy’s disillusionment, plotting an escape, lying to Pilika, cutting in with Suikoden 1 lore, asking Anabel...
Jan 02, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Don’t worry, I’ll show you a good trick. As we debate the merit of how good that trick was, we’re putting on our dead friends’ uniforms, speculating Rowd’s Joke Character potential, accidentally holding a princess hostage, seeking the power, slapping the shit out of a city official, screaming at the chamberlain, admiring the gorgeous dusk sky, begging a child to take my place, embracing a friend, and chatting up everyone at the bar. Perhaps you’d like to leave now? 00:00 Intro | 03:39 Infiltrati...
Dec 26, 2022•51 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Can you shoot, gunner? After we wake in jail, we’re looking older and tougher, observing war’s effect on the citizens of Muse, holding on to a stranger’s contraband, feeling the bullets whiz by our face, becoming infantilized again, realizing Anabelle knows Genkaku, falling prey to idiot war schemes, conscripting a child to be a field medic, doing Anita’s bidding for a date, demanding access to make an accurate map, loving non-romantic romantic usage, watching teammates change clothes, and dress...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 30
It’s medicine. Eat it. While we decide what’s most dear about this, we’re being denied entry to Muse, winding up at an inn in the woods, absorbing the ravings of a treasure obsessed husband, helping find treasure to get an entry permit, collecting shapes, placing those shapes in holes to open doors, fearing Mr. Venus, engaging a nifty contraption, slaughtering a two-headed snake, throwing away an herb, finding our wife passed out on the floor, reviving her with that fated herb, role-playing away...
Dec 12, 2022•58 min•Season 4Ep. 29
We have looked into your hearts and witnessed your character. As we shift into a new genre, we’re deploying turn-based tactics, lighting people on fire, fighting a war right after we fought a war, slaughtering a spineless worm, exposing a traumatized child to even worse trauma, throwing munitions into a furnace, making a pact for Muse, venturing into the forbidden cave, leveling up Touching Theme, looking for power, flashing back to our friendship’s origins, peeping thomas, receiving the power r...
Dec 05, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 28
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, scream-crying at the ashes of parents, meeting Apple (of all people), seeking the godfather of all mercenaries, rediscovering Odessa’s legacy, recognizing Tsai as the counter-Mathiu, burning ...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 27
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 at the town exit, interrogating everyone at the Merc Fort, recruiting a hungry samurai, paying a 3000 potch bar tab, looking for a lost pet, debating Man of the Woods vs. Prepper, recrui...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 26
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 disown me, recruiting a flying squirrel, letting my sister beat the shit out of me, and learning all kinds of secrets about all kinds of characters. You should run away, there’s nothi...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 25
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 map, pissing pants with fear, conversing with street performers, fetching flour that might be gunpowder, wiping the floor, getting rescued, standing in the principle’s office, bargaini...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Welcome to part two of season four of Retrograde Amnesia! As we kick off our coverage of Suikoden II, we’re going over release history, development staff, contemporary reviews, modern reflections, and our personal history & expectations. Then we press start, and we’re loading Suikoden I data, hearing both side’s case about war & peace, running with a dust cloud, putting on main character clothes, exploring at night, running through a massacre, escaping to the north, fighting for our live...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Can’t something be wrong, and priceless? On season four, part one’s final episode, we’re investigating bathing dynamics, pretending Sanchez isn’t a rat, allowing Leknaat to lore dump all over us, wasting our only resurrection spell, sending monsters back to hell, executing Ain Gide, engaging in a rooftop showdown, accepting shame from former colleagues, suffering rune rejection, faking indoctrination, performing a murder/suicide, escaping the crumbling castle, reading every ending, creating expe...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 4Ep. 22
This is no time to be distressed, we have a job to do. As we ingest the envy of angels, we’re learning Mathiu and Humphrey were on opposite sides of a massacre, brewing our finest tea, preventing adults from having consensual sex, writing Hix off as a forever dumbass, wishing the old would die instead of the young, making 500 boats out of fucking ice, telling our dad’s girlfriend why he’s dead, tipping the oil pots too early, defiling a human being, listening to the plight of the betrayer, cover...
Oct 17, 2022•53 min•Season 4Ep. 21
I dislike myself intensely when I am fighting. As we experience classic RP Games, we’re being infiltrated by a spy, realizing it’s not just a drill, rejecting breakfast and surrender, failing an execution, contriving subterfuge, applying a ruse, invading a castle, resting on a guy, busting our boys out of jail, auto-joining man servants, calling upon the city states of Jowston, forcing Kasim into non-violence, utilizing a narcissist, citing Don Quixote’s influence, and telling Mathiu his ideas a...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 20
We’ve had a rough time getting here, and we’re taking this stuff. Before that caper, we’re romanticizing a studio apartment, wondering if sleeping poison is really poison, foreshadowing the third ingredient, locating the final blacksmith, shattering sentient crystals, obtaining moonlight weed, sorting through another Ted dilemma, fading from existence, picking a big flower, encountering a sober emperor, excommunicating from dragon club, wishing Krin was dead, and deciding exactly one rich guy is...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 19
In this special episode, we sit down and chat with Aidan Moher on his upcoming book, Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy , Dragon Quest , and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West. We talk about the writing process, the history of the JRPG genre, and the pioneers and innovators who created the games we love. For more on the book, go to www.fightmagicitems.rocks and follow Aidan on Twitter (@ adribbleofink )...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 54 min
Wishy washy, aren’t we? As our glorious island fortress levels up for the final time, we’re moving Kimberly in with Tai-Ho, pondering the beef between Mathiu and Leon, explaining Plate Armor, befriending a centenarian cultist, lucking out with Clive’s spawn, suffering a denial of service at the Dragon’s Den, paying for a dine & dash, sneaking into a cave, discovering the secret of sleeping dragons, obliterating our very presence, and poaching everyone cool at the Dragon Knight’s Fortress. Th...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 18
What’s wrong? Is there something on my face? After the talking sword sends us to the past, we’re meeting Ted in boy form, damning the damned, charing a village, encountering the enigmatic Yuber, cursing Ted with a sorrowful fate, accepting the Star Dragon Sword, recruiting a librarian, reading Old Books in front of a simulated live audience, impressing recruits with our recruits, installing Window in our castle, observing vampire invitation rules, naming a sword to join a party, dramatically pla...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 17
