The time has come! Thank you for your support. Now, choose our dark, cruel destiny.
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The man from the van has given us a plan. Through these fucked trenches we’re rubbing out a background, unconsciously slaying a vile crustacean, finding a special lady in the ice, blinking out of existence, body hoppin’, getting a First Departure-exclusive party member, copping a feel, acquiring a cat, jibbing the jabber rabbit, melting down loaned weapons, tying no encounters to an unlikely source, making gems through alchemy, and listening to clues disguised as sentences. There is alway...
2021-11-17 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello,
After careful deliberation, we have landed on a very surprising and very interesting list for season four. Thanks for all of the great nominees, it was very painful to cut some of these games. As usual, we will vote on this list within the next few weeks so we can prepare our hearts and minds for the next challenge.
If you'd like to listen to the deliberations, we've posted them. Otherwise, read on!
Hey everyone,
We typically like to get our voting process started for the next season after about halfway through the current season. You never know, but it seems like the Final Fantasy VIII series is going to run just over 40 episodes.
Thus, we are ready to begin accepting nominations for the season 4 game. From the nomination list, we will select three games and then allow you to vote on our next dark, cruel destiny.
Let us know what games you'd like to see us cover in ...
How did I sleep? Yes. Across these cursed dreams we’re taking down the king’s agrocrag, solving impossible door puzzles, explaining demon door rules, telling other kings we know about their secrets, surfacing a secret wife, giving Cius money to steal weapons, emerging from the crowd to fight a gladiator, accepting a monk werewolf, building snow people, throwing shit out the window, pumping a door’s location out of king, and hearing rumors of another featherfolk. If you keep thinking you...
2021-11-10 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If I can see it, it’s a drink. Through these blessed sacraments we’re staring down the Crimson Shield, expressing a newfound sense of jealousy, finding a sister who isn’t a sibling, embodying a beer snob, assuming women can’t drink, suspecting someone is not dead and also not alive, hearing about the Mirror of Incarnation, doubling the party, learning to write, becoming a violin salesman, following up on some earrings, thinking we can just talk to the president, and cutting a deal wit...
2021-11-03 02:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Strength, itself, has no meaning. On this one we’re detaining an angel boy, drowning in towns, watching a spaceship fall out of the sky, allowing an angel into a bar, questioning the need for violence, sequence breaking Milly, wondering who crashed this damn ship, chowing down on a sea squirt, denying the implication of hanky panky, questioning Marvel’s identity, meeting Joshua’s foster father Foster, and taking Foster’s sacred possession as payment. Let’s do all the liquor content ...
2021-10-27 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You’ve totally been sealed off by the temporal axis. Today we’re presenting a demon head, transmogrifying from goo to man, denying nepotism, turning our back on Fear, telling the Olds to stay away from games, meeting an angel boy, flashing back to the Crimson Shield, teleporting all over the god damn place, slaying red dogs, finding items not of this planet, meeting some myths and legends, and agreeing never to return. You give off some mega funky vibes.
00:00 Intro | 03:48 Dart...
2021-10-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi. For the second episode of our Pod Kompression patreon-exclusive series, we’re covering Chocobo World, Final Fantasy VIII’s original Sony PocketStation minigame. The second half of this episode covers Eric World, seven on-location segments Eric recorded outdoors around the city. Come to learn about Final Fantasy VIII’s weirdest minigame, then stick around to hear Eric tell personal stories about public places while physically in those open spaces.
00:00 Intro | 04:20 Choc...
The only people who listen to this are adventurers and drunks. We did three, and we’re recovering an ocarina, celebrating pirate genocide, drowning a man for offering a drink suggestion, looking Fear in the eye, assuming the afterlife is on the physical plane, playing games with Puffy, beating up monsters & men for sport, murdering cave guards, observing sibling beef, visiting our washed dad, staging a homicide, and slaying a darth. Heaven? That’s what we call space.
It’s a hunk of shit. Today we’re talking about mouth sounds, waking up with the waves, wearing space clothes in the past, securing a normal outfit, finding the opposite of Cool, failing to comprehend skills, beating up a scummy weapons seller, buying earrings for a failed romance, working on our swordsmanship, cooking nasty beans, wishing Mary could have a parfait, plomping a big stonker on the table, proposing a barbarian slaughter, and then doing the barbarian slaughter. I’M ALIVE FOR...
2021-10-06 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dag Nabbit. Today, we're beaming up to a spaceship, assuming men are gods, getting in a space MRI machine, engaging in virtual reality, fantasize about a tail, isolating microbes, looking for patient zero, feeling the enhancements of copper blood, leaving home forever and then going back, accepting a music box, negotiating with terrorists, sipping drinks, streaming the planet styx, summoning the Time Guardian, and slipping through a hole. A computer is a machine that helps us out.
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2021-09-29 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I love premium podcast miniseries, doing them. To do that, we’re talking to everyone in town, doubting sparkle magic, feeling power flowing within, rejecting modern boredom, passing through the dirt floor, crunching sound effects, reading a cursed letter, denying our vulnerability to a contagious disease, finding a casually crashed spaceship, watching dad get hard as a rock, denying the inevitable, blaming the bird, meeting people from space, cramming words into mouth flaps, violating a tre...
2021-09-22 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, welcome to our premium miniseries covering the Super Famicom’s Star Ocean and the Nintendo Switch / PlayStation 4’s Star Ocean: First Departure R. This time we’re breaking away from Wolf Team, sharing staff with Terranigma, using the SDD-1 chip, ballooning to 48 megabits, flexing our voice driver, adding anime, wearing sunglasses in space, and going on patrol. Let’s do some Private Actions.
00:00 Intro | 06:14 Star Ocean Development Overview | 19:53 First D...
2021-09-15 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Dissidia Final Fantasy. All the lines that the heroes and villains say to Squall and Laguna. All the lines that Squall and Laguna say to the heroes and villains. One podcast.
For our first Final Fantasy VIII bonus episode, we're talking some Dissidia Final Fantasy through the lens of Final Fantasy VIII. In this episode, Eric peppers Chris with one-hundred and nineteen (119) questions (and accompanying audio) related to the battle banter from the two Final Fanta...
2021-09-01 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Our appearance on Resonant Arc's Xenogears Story Analysis series has brought a new influx of listeners and patrons to Retrograde Amnesia. Thanks to everyone for your support and thanks to all the new folks who saw us on Resonant Arc that decided to check us out. For those new around here, I occasionally try to give folks an update of what we're working on and where we are at with various productions. So...
2021-08-25 18:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
After a vigorous discussion, we have narrowed the nominees down to the following three games: Final Fantasy II [Pixel Remaster], Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, and Star Ocean: First Departure.
A couple of notes:
Hey everyone,
We are going to do another miniseries to add to our, uh, portfolio of premium series offerings. The general guideline for an eligible miniseries game is 1) it is a JRPG (or, close enough) and 2) It is a bit shorter than the standard JRPG (at or about 25 hours long). Accessibility is a consideration, too, but it's still fair game to go for deeper cuts.
So, let us know what game you nominate for the next miniseries, and we'll come back in a while...
2021-08-10 20:56:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I've mentioned that future pods will only be on the RealNet feed, but I've made a slight course-correction to also add bonus stuff to the Patreon site to help with visibility and awareness of what we're releasing.
The early access feed and future miniseries will still be exclusive to the RealNet feed, but the random bonus and one-off stuff will appear here as well.
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Let us pursue another dumb idea that turned into a good idea.
As we've casually mentioned ...
2021-08-03 13:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The time has come for us to do what we were born to do: explain this videogame to our significant others.
In this episode we love you so much, and that is why we must smash you to bits. Join us as we bury our Chrono Cross experiences at sea, and say goodbye to the videogame that has occupied these last forty weeks. Victory music.
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 ...
2021-07-05 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for your support through another great season of the pod. We're not going to write you a heartfelt letter this time, but we've been working hard on season three and have completely produced fifteen episode that are ready for release.
If you're not subscribed to the RealNet Edition
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 Be...
2021-06-28 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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...
2021-06-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe’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 Ja...
2021-06-14 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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...
2021-06-07 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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 Chronopol...
2021-05-31 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The pods of fate are turning once again. After a rigorous selection process, we are happy to unveil the ultimate character tournament for Chrono Cross. We took our 64 favorite characters and pit them against each other in an all-out whimsical battle of wits and gumption. Victory music.
2021-05-26 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 ...
2021-05-24 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Starting with Season 3, we will be publishing all content on the new Patreon RSS feed powered by acast. The new Patreon/acast integration is a bit easier to manage than the regular Patreon website which... is not great.
If you became a patron after January 11, you probably don't have to do anything. Just check your subscription in your podcast app and make sure it is titled Retrograde Amnesia: RealNet Edition. If so, you're good!
If you've been around awhile and have ...
2021-05-21 19:23:53 +0000 UTC View Post