Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective – Details, episodes & analysis

The game is over but the game is not over. One our final episode for season seven, we're smelling the ocean on the breeze, losing all MP, putting faith in our strength, spending our brains out, affirming Ghaleon's insanity, declaring Jessica Day, requesting an adult, creating an open door policy, realizing Luna has no idea what the hell Ghaleon was trying to do, starting Jessica's domestic education, causing weird vibes, engaging in scat play, talking to Kyle too many times, raiding Luna's unmentionables, and realizing Victor made the game (multiple interpretations). Season 8, featuring Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, starts next week!

00:00:00 Slop Children
00:05:39 Intro
00:09:04 Friends Assembled
00:12:56 Meribia NPCs
00:20:59 Meribia Houses
00:41:26 Black Rose Street NPCs
00:49:07 Goodbye, Nash & Mia
00:59:17 Black Rose Street Houses
01:05:51 Meribia Port NPCs
01:07:37 Mel's Mansion NPCs Part I
01:10:28 Goodbye, Kyle & Jessica
01:23:48 Mel's Mansion NPCs Part II
01:27:46 Phacia!?
01:29:15 Tempest! Fresca!
01:30:49 Epilogue Finale
01:35:57 Wrap It Up
01:42:34 Real Net
01:53:33 Outro

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I am disgraced yet again. Season seven continues with us listening to a death rattle, making sure the Ocarina is in Alex's pocket, assigning jealousy as a motive, dumbing ourselves down for women, desecrating her sanctum, fighting for the ones we love, getting a little action, wishing for stronger hints, realizing girlfriend might be a bomb, confirming girlfriend must stay god, winning with the power of idealism, telling a lady that we're destined to be together, mutating after turning evil, censoring nudity, and receiving permission for Wheaties. Just go home and resign yourself to mankind's fate (another episode).

00:00:00 Please God Let It End
00:01:21 Intro
00:02:37 Magic Emperor: Defeated?
00:07:10 Pre-Stairs Friend Pep Talks
00:16:22 Alex & The Staircase
00:23:47 Staircase Friends
00:31:06 Ascension
00:35:08 Confrontation Anime
00:42:31 The Gang Regroup
00:45:18 CG ANIME CUT SCENE
00:47:56 Sega CD Ending
00:59:14 Real Net
01:04:56 Outro

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What's up pixel perverts? Today we're blighting the surface for undesirables, rapidly switching discs, realizing the guards can hit, scraping metal out of the dirt, locating the only doctor in the world, experiencing goblin poetry, refusing to serve drinks to miners, dreaming of D Block, goofing into a slur, beating the prisoners, staring down a moral choice, changing hearts and minds, rushing the goblin narrative, playing with piss, and producing an unforgivable font mistake. In the absence of god you must have medicine.

00:00:00 Clair Obscur
00:04:10 Intro
00:05:42 Arriving at The Frontier
00:12:32 Talon
00:16:00 Talon Indoors
00:34:40 Talon Mines
00:39:38 Mid-Cave Miner Hangout
00:49:40 Graveyard
00:53:16 Hostages
01:02:55 Real Net
01:07:22 Outro

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Hey, who's an illegitimate son? Maybe it's us, maybe it's you, maybe we're inserting the Durandal in the bottom hole, wondering of space flower cities are common, as you know'ing to oblivion, finding another palm tattoo guy, A-posing like an asshole, hinting at an anime ability, debating beach anxiety, admiring a soviet pistol, failing to comfort Shion, proposing a chaotic chaos theory, brining a screen to the beach, challenging DNA, freaking out at thunder, and wondering if the madman made more emulators. Fuck it, I guess.

00:00 All the Downloadin' | 01:53 Intro | 04:13 Approaching Kukai Foundation | 09:09 Gaignun Kukai | 16:25 Gaigun + Jr Office Chat | 25:13 Sad Sack Shion | 28:17 Launch Pad | 30:32 Beach Day | 33:41 Kevin Dissociation | 35:38 Beach Bastards | 46:35 Gaignun Calls Helmer | 54:08 Goodbye Beac\h | 56:26 Real Net | 01:00:55 Outro

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Identity diffusion: the eternal dilemma. Diffuse your identity with us as we're wondering if child robots are programmed to hate a biological dad father, running like a big goober, bombing a pick-up line, discovering a gambling-addicted populace, begging for dig-b abuse, stealing signage, considering a fan club, telling Momo that robot fireflies are good actually, entering the Pinocchio zone, and throating the military balance. The truth that exists here may have been a bit too much for her.

00:00 New Chris | 03:00 Intro | 04:58 Where's Momo? | 09:31 Dock | 12:25 Residential Area | 25:14 Bridge | 27:51 Hangar | 30:26 Park | 43:32 Further Exploration | 45:27 Real Net | 50:32 Outro

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Will feeling pain make me complete? Complete your own pain and listen as we're not supplied for a gnosis attack, freaking out on the bridge, dialing up the KOSMOS contemplativeness, talkin' bout momma, scanning transfection course, deciding it's Kevin's hand at work, failing the yearly review, wondering if computer mom has a virus, falling into a hell void, exposing the devil hand, telling our friends where we keep dangerous items, showing off our emulators, concocting a perfect Kukai Foundation real-world analog, reducing to salt, and insulting the biological father of our future robot girl girlfriend. No cum, just satan.

00:00 Marathon Recap | 03:15 Intro | 05:13 Asymmetrical Space Bridge Panic | 11:28 Technobabble Word Salad World Championship | 16:36 KOSMOS' Gnosis Eradication Methods | 23:37 Pleroma Check In | 25:19 Durandal Bridge | 32:28 Miltia Flashback | 36:09 Zohar(s) | 45:46 Betty | 56:34 Real Net | 01:05:50 Outro

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I alone can take humanity to its next natural state of evolution. Together alone, we're inducing a tilt-shift effect, defining PS2 ladder controls, going to the mall, curing women's diseases with herbs, softening the hardness of mother, running a doomed op, hallucinating wife and child wife, meeting Hamburger Hook, suffering the ultimate sense of peer rejection, getting anime crucified, going Gargoyle Mode, living with contradictions, embracing the arts, lusting after the great reset, failing to develop any hobbies, feeling left behind, and finding the greatest solace in slowly fading away. Everything is the Third Impact. That's how anime works.

00:00 Intro | 02:56 Cathedral Ship Exploration | 12:45 Dirty Zohar | 14:28 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov IV | 17:53 More Cathedral Ship Exploration | 24:33 Golden Zohar | 37:11 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov V | 44:09 The Beach of Nothingness | 53:28 Existential Crisis | 56:23 Real Net I 59:38 Outro

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Why? Why not joins us as we're sleeping in our work clothes, steaming the breath, defining "ghost shit," foreboding ominously, penetrating the space column, spreading the Hilbert Effect to Ultra Wide, estimating our 10K times, staring down a door, honoring goldfish, becoming a brand new person, igniting the forehead glyph, fetishizing the aquarium, adopting a husband, denying a legacy, suggesting Demolition Man sex, dehumanizing the remixed man, slaughtering a clone, and reclaiming garbage for villainous objectives. I've always wanted to be a type Z man.

00:00 Intro | 03:19 Port to Miltia | 04:01 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov I | 09:54 Shion's Grayscale Zone | 12:57 Elsa in Hyperspace | 15:59 Cathedral Ship Arrival | 19:52 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov II | 24:04 Exploring Cathedral Ship | 29:03 The Ballad of Andrew Cherenkov III |47:25 Margulis' Dog Rescue Program | 50:27 Real Net | 54:05 Outro 

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Are you enjoying life? We're certainly enjoying reading the obvious signs of an apolitical game, inventing more things to haunt Cherenkov, cleaning to impress men, dunking on Allen, hiding the fish detector, threatening members of the military, turning and coughing, weighing ourselves, making it weird in the basement, getting our asses kicked in an alley, activating the forehead glyph, rejecting nanosurgery, lying about secret forehead ankh powers, detesting this old body, and wondering why women can't work on me. It's because of those good for nothings that I live like this now.

00:00 Intro | 02:57 Elsa at Dock Colony | 07:16 Ygdrasslin' the Elsa | 14:31 Dock Colony Exploration | 19:27 Dock Clinic | 25:34 Talk To Me | 30:24 The Adventures of Andrew Cherenkov | 31:32 Lower Dock Colony | 35:40 Cherenkov Debrief | 41:43 More Adventures of Andrew Cherenkov | 44:06 Yggdrasslin the Elsa II | 46:05 Real Net | 49:49 Outro

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Pierce me with your hatred. Pierce your ears as we're referencing The Wizard of Oz, activating false memories, introducing a southern belle and a goth princess, making a sword into a spaceship, suspecting Momo's abduction was an inside job, wondering if —they— will come, determining Albedo's whole deal, debating AWGS vs mech, killing the Woglinde again, engaging condition zebra, subchanneling to a high velocity cannon, foreshadowing T-elos, meandering through a dungeon, plugging a cable into our heads, jacking into everything, and pondering the combination of short man syndrome combined with large guns. Penetrate the port side and prepare for combat.

00:00 Intro | 03:25 Enter Jr. I 15:16 Aboard the Durandal | 19:16 Margulis' Manipulations | 31:26 Jr and Mary: Salvagers | 36:18 Durandal vs UTIC | 40:57 Jr's Mission | 52:16 Sisterly Data Transmission | 59:07 Real Net | 01:03:11 Outro

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