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LAST DAY TO VOTE! Vote for the Season 4 Game!

The time has come! Thank you for your support. Now, choose our dark, cruel destiny.



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Star Ocean 10: A Big Stonker [Ancient Ruins and Muah Treasury]

Star Ocean 10: A Big Stonker	[Ancient Ruins and Muah Treasury]

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, acquir...

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We made the list for Season 4.

Hello,

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 ...

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Let's pick the game for Season 4

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 nominati...

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Star Ocean 9: Child Locks on Your Dimension [Labyrinth of Champions and Silvalant]

Star Ocean 9: Child Locks on Your Dimension [Labyrinth of Champions and Silvalant]

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 ...

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Star Ocean 8: Mouth Notes and Earthy Tones [Van Kingdom]

Star Ocean 8: Mouth Notes and Earthy Tones [Van Kingdom]

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, heari...

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Star Ocean 7: All the Liquor Content at Once [Journey to the Van Kingdom]

Star Ocean 7: All the Liquor Content at Once [Journey to the Van Kingdom]

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, ...

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Star Ocean 6: Purgatory Accessories [Purgatorium]

Star Ocean 6: Purgatory Accessories [Purgatorium]

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 ...

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Pod Kompression II: The Chocobo World Travelogue

Pod Kompression II: The Chocobo World Travelogue

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 le...

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Star Ocean 5: That's What We Call Space [Astral Kingdom]

Star Ocean 5: That's What We Call Space [Astral Kingdom]

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 ...

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Star Ocean 4: I'm Alive for This One Cup [Kraat to Portmith]

Star Ocean 4: I'm Alive for This One Cup [Kraat to Portmith]

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 ...

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Star Ocean 3: High Tension and Worms [Calnus to Planet Styx]

Star Ocean 3: High Tension and Worms [Calnus to Planet Styx]

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, accepti...

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Star Ocean 2: The End of Cool [Kratus to Mt. Metorx]

Star Ocean 2: The End of Cool [Kratus to Mt. Metorx]

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 contagio...

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Star Ocean 1: Sunglasses in Space [Introduction]

Star Ocean 1: Sunglasses in Space [Introduction]

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 megabi...

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Pod Kompression 1: The Dissidia Final Fantasy Quiz Show

Pod Kompression 1: The Dissidia Final Fantasy Quiz Show

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 ...

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Hello! Here are some pod updates.

Hello! 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 ...

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ENDING SUNDAY: Let the voting begin for the next miniseries!

Hello!
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
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Let's do another miniseries

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 ...

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GOD BLESS THE RING | Double Dragon & Double Dragon II: The Revenge

GOD BLESS THE RING | Double Dragon & Double Dragon II: The Revenge

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 ...

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Pods of Fate 8: Explain Chrono Cross to Normal People

Pods of Fate 8: Explain Chrono Cross to Normal People

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 occu...

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Chrono Cross 40: Another Exciting Nightmare is About to End [New Game Plus]

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 ...

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Get ready for the next season of Retrograde Amnesia

Thank 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 th...

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Chrono Cross 39: Large Baby's Descent to Nihilism [The Dragon God + Darkness Beyond Time]

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 sav...

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Chrono Cross 38: Daughter Moon Dot Com [Terra Tower]

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 Mothersh...

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Chrono Cross 37: Starky in my Parky [Lucca's Letter + El Nido Triangle]

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 for...

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Chrono Cross 36: The Final Fifteen Silver Points [Orphanage]

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 litt...

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Chrono Cross 35: Chrono Conbobulator [Chronopolis, Part II]

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 f...

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Pods of Fate 7: Chrono Cross Character Tournament

Pods of Fate 7: Chrono Cross Character Tournament

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.

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Chrono Cross 34: A Different Mall of the Future [Chronopolis, Part I]

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 na...

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RealNet Edition RSS feed!

Hello!

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'...

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