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Terranigma 9: Charging Children Rent [Freedom + Nirlake]

Terranigma 9: Charging Children Rent [Freedom + Nirlake]

We’re joined tonight by a stick of bamboo. Along with that we’re being abandoned by our split dimension girlfriend, meeting Black people, doing sick-ass skateboard tricks, buying lotto tickets, charging rent to children, meeting historical american inventors with interpersonal problems, feari...

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Chrono Cross 6: Doodle Suits [Terminia + Three Routes to Viper Manor]

We shall age another year while you shall remain the same in memory. This time we’re lifting weights at Greco’s, feeling sorrowful with Glenn and Riddel, restarting the sword forge, instantly finding the Hero Medal, understanding misunderstood artists, suffering Pierre’s limitless idiocy, s...

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Chrono Cross 5: A Real Demagogue [Termina]

You’re not dead or anything, are you? On this episode we’re learning how to pronounce “acacia,” running short on Bellflowers, admiring coastal architecture, thinking about Glenn, polishing my Viper statue, getting framed by an invisible guy, observing potential toilets, working too hard, ...

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Terranigma 8: Reinstall Colonialism [Litz + Sylvain Castle]

Terranigma 8: Reinstall Colonialism [Litz + Sylvain Castle]

  

Welcome to my room, you will enjoy a dreamlike time. On this episode we’re looking for a fever-curing herb, finding Jesus, Royding up, assuming historical data from photographed paintings, fighting skeletons, reading poetry, putting our hand in a water hole, jumping in a diff...

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Chrono Cross 4: Kiss the Moons [Cape Howl + Heading North]

Boogum! This time we’re finding our own grave, kicking our talking dog off a cliff, enduring spice puns, gaining a star level, meeting a girl named Kid, sleeping in my dead boy room, obtaining Mojo, becoming exorcists, conversing with a jolly talking skull, taking the big egg, re-fighting the s...

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Nominations for the Next Minipod

Our Terranigma series is now halfway complete. Now, it's time to begin thinking about what game we want to feature for our next minipod. Terranigma was a bit of deep cut for some folks. We picked it on a whim! 

This time around, we're throwing out some non-binding criteria to consider ...

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Chrono Cross 3: Toking with Lizards [Opassa Beach + Another Arni]

What are you doing here, man, this is my island. On this episode we’re learning lessons from choices unmade, dancing the tokage, dressing the battle set, observing weird weapons, remembering Nu, acquiring Komodo Dragon scales, killing the dragon mother, getting sentimental with Leena, waking up...

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Terranigma 7: The King Can't Believe This Shit [Norfest + Storkolm]

  

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To make an infant walk and grow requires humans called geniuses. This time we’re using the Protect Bell in a fiendish forest, pseudo killing a CRT, removing bats from Meilin, pacifying Saberdogs with strategic frequ...

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Chrono Cross 2: Ocean Metaphor [Arni]

Come on sleepyhead, get up. On this episode, we’re deleting music from the game, standing up to Leena through extended slumber, talking to everybody in Arni Village, learning super duper lizard secrets, reminiscing a life of gutting fish, unlocking Satellaview secrets, reciting more poetry, app...

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Chrono Cross 1: The Start of All This [Intro]

Let us begin a fantastical exegesis of Chrono Cross. To kick off our second season, we’re talking about who made Chrono Cross, discussing accent tools, denying community, marveling at efficiency, reciting poetry, devouring the intro CG movie, calling songs different names, invading a stone fort...

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Season 2 Patreon Benefit Updates

Yo.

The Chrono Cross series is extremely warm in the can and its cool, breezy ocean sounds are heading your way. We would like to announce some additional value-adds to the patreon benefit (all tiers) starting with this series.

Two Weeks Early Access: This is an exper...

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We each wrote you a letter today

Hello today. I don't know that I can accurately convey the level of surprise and satisfaction I have that this podcast turned into This Podcast. Like of course Chris and I are putting in the work and constantly coming up with ways to improve production, but I have never really been a first-person...

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Xenogears 55: Fei, Dick Out [Epilogue]

The wretched will makes us experience sadness and loss. For the final episode of season one, we're meeting our real imaginary savior in space, speaking to ghostface killa, rationalizing villainous activity, getting high off god fumes, spilling soup, accepting fate, rejecting fate, seeking connect...

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Terranigma 6: Ready to Eat the Rich [Loire]

Terranigma 6: Ready to Eat the Rich [Loire]

I recorded the sounds. Those sounds detail how we’re not kidnapping heathen children, passing through an obtuse desert maze, hearing about White Wind, hearing about art from Matis, meeting an economist, getting scammed by an asshole, galavanting over to the castle to become a groom, getting a l...

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Xenogears 54: Old Testament [First and Last, Part IV]

I have been playing Xenogears for eight months. In the penultimate episode of season one, we're conducting inadequate preparation, incompleting a map, beating up angels, falling through laser tunnels, flipping tedious dungeon switches, observing basement bass, fighting fighting orbs, sealing divi...

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Xenogears 53: The War on Christmas [First and Last, Part III]

Have you ever taken a side quest to another episode of a game that will never exist? Today we're not appearing on the world map, recreating 90's cityscapes, fighting walking dragons, marveling at asphalt, manipulating Zeboim culture, using war as a solution to infertility, reading insane lore mag...

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Time of the Bonus 11: Explain Xenogears to Normal Person(s)

Time of the Bonus 11: Explain Xenogears to Normal Person(s)

Ah, yes. Today is the one year anniversary of this podcast. 

We have a gift for you to thank you for your support along the way. In this episode, we attempt to explain the entire plot of Xenogears to our life partners while maintaining our own composure – and absolutely missing nothi...

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Terranigma 5: You, Ghoul Girl [Lhasa + Louran]

Terranigma 5: You, Ghoul Girl	[Lhasa + Louran]

We’re skipping straight to the genius. We’re also waking up after a three year sleep, exploring contradictions, seeking guidance from Lord Kumari, talkin’ about poop, meeting Meihou, chasing Meilin through a sandstorm, decoding Heydn, hearing out Temjin’s worry, connecting Yomi to Xenogea...

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Xenogears 52: Re-Obsessed with Viscera [First and Last, Part II]

We'll catch you in the static between sounds, right before we kill god. Today we're investing in Golden Vests, declining Franz' hot sounds, rejecting Margie's advances, locating Chu-Chu, getting bad info from a wiki, comparing hot sauce, beating up Sluggers for no reason, battle rapping dune men,...

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Xenogears 51: Men of the Sea Never Say Die [First and Last, Part I]

We can actually play this game now. While we’re surviving the apocalypse, we’re also merging flags, buying scam birds, burning books, digging up a jukebox, alienating our dolphin stepson, going down with the ship, fantasizing about The Captain, becoming a landlubber, accepting forgiveness, no...

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Retrograde Amnesia is now part of the Greenlit Podcast Network

Retrograde Amnesia is now part of the Greenlit Podcast Network


As of September 7, Retrograde Amnesia is now part of the Greenlit Podcast Network.

The Greenlit Podcast Network is a coalition of creator-owned podcasts that have teamed up to elevate their content and extend their reach by working together under the banner of Greenlit Content. Co...

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Terranigma 4: This Goat Are Sick [Zue + Canyon + Eklementa]

Terranigma 4: This Goat Are Sick [Zue + Canyon + Eklementa]

Even if you grow old you still face the pain of betrayal. This time we’re getting back in the bird sack, growing grass at Zue, dealing with goblin shamans, descending to hell, speaking with a monkey scientist, taking a lion cub on an escort mission, hucking rocks at a deceptive mud demon, deter...

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Xenogears 50: Bear with Me Here, Oedipus [Xenogears Wakes]

The system is awakening. Today we're getting lore from a Jesus cross, contacting the fourth dimension, tapping into the god universe, adventing into this world, instilling a mother's will, nursing an Oedipus complex, dealing with a paradox, playing the Undertaker's Theme, fighting dad as well as ...

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Special Preview: Our First Chrono Cross Episode

Special Preview: Our First Chrono Cross Episode

Hello! As many of you know, we're hard at work on our upcoming Chrono Cross series. 

Here's the first episode! It'll be re-released as the series launches in a few months, but for those who want to take a peak, have at it.

Thanks for your continued support!

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Xenogears 49: My Teenage Bedroom [Fallen Star, Part II]

Face up to the reality that you don't want to see. This time we're abandoning our child's weaknesses, visiting the room of the coward, losing our home, suffering abuse by the will of our transmigrated mother, forcing psychic contact, imagining the hell dimension, mentally and physically fighting ...

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Future Factors of FATE, or An August Update

Hello,

We're currently working on the upcoming Chrono Cross series. We've got four episodes recorded, with another few planned for this evening. We've already been able to get the first one edited and finalized, so you cool people on the $3 tier and above will get a...

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Terranigma 3: Mode Sevening [Ra Tree + Grecliff]

Terranigma 3: Mode Sevening [Ra Tree + Grecliff]

Nothing will happen if you don’t take action. On this episode we’re waking up on Mars, meeting the Ra Tree, observing red farting mushrooms, descending a long root, speaking to plants, swimming, playing Whack-a-pede, accepting orders from plants, walking from South America to Colorado, destro...

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Xenogears 48: Fist Imagery [Dreams, Part II + Fallen Star, Part I]

This videogame is now a visual novel with boss battles.  Today we're opening our fists to hold people, becoming a symbol, twisting Sophia's words, fading away, seeking power to treat depression, crying in carbonite, walking through snow fields in big robots, sealing away the very meaning of ...

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Xenogears 47: Hitherto Presentiment [Dreams, Part I]

You live. You Die. That's all. Before that we're worshipping weapons, falling behind in rapture ascendance, freezing someone in carbonite, dealing with Solaris, watching heroes fall to villainy, defining the Zohar, dissociating identities, going for it, meeting old beefcake Fatimas, offending div...

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Time of the Bonus 10: The Gazel Ministry

Time of the Bonus 10: The Gazel Ministry

One of the sacrifices we made with Retrograde Amnesia was to deliberately not spoil elements of Xenogears as we produced the fifty-five episode run of our first season. This made it approachable for listeners who wanted to play along for the first time, but not optimal for Xenogears veterans who ...

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