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Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

349 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings

A comprehensive podcast covering classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Yes, we will kill god.

Season 1: Xenogears | Season 2: Chrono Cross | Season 3: Final Fantasy VIII | Season 4: Suikoden & Suikoden | Season 5: Xenosaga Episode I

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Final Fantasy Tactics E1: Class Warfare [Introduction]

April 15, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 87 MB

Hello! And welcome to the sixth season of Retrograde Amnesia, where we’re covering the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics and The War of the Lions. In the opening, information-loaded episode, we’re determining who is playing which version, ignoring Tactics Advance, pronouncing “Ivalice,” buying the mobile version, leaving Quest en masse, framing Tactics as another attempt at an Ogre, adding a sense of swashbuckling heroism, valuing 60fps, calling Matsuno for help, canceling a sequel, ...

Xenosaga E33: Narrative Malpractice [Finale]

April 08, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MB

Kindness is something I don’t want or need. In the final episode for season five, we’re doing all this for Rubedo’s sake, simultaneously blaming Rubedo for everyone's sake, installing Sonic Adventure’s Chaos as the final boss, tormenting for fun, consulting Brady, detaching subcompartments in one whole minute, worrying Chaos, denying Ziggy his need to kill himself, justifying an incomplete arc, setting a Christ Denial Record, deploying Joanne twice, seeing with our heart, gender bending The ...

Xenosaga E32: Will to Power, Bad? [Proto Merkabah, Part II]

April 01, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes - 55.8 MB

I’d accompany you to the very depths of hell. That task includes making sure we have company approval, wondering if Junior or KOSMOS is a bigger liability, god blessing the dungeon music, shifting bridges to solve a puzzle, celebrating the voiceless cut-scene, observing a hologram, locating satan, prototyping Dora, relieving goods, blacking out Lost Jerusalem, growing arms out of a head, refusing parent-child abomination transfers, engaging in a classic elevator battle, and revealing the pow...

Xenosaga E31: God Slayers vs. Tanks [Odds and Ends]

March 25, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

You know what awaits you if you are defeated in a gunfight, boy? Consequences include detailing the Dumb Virtual On, coming to terms with CCG’s, checking in with some folks one last time, nabbing the final robot part, drinking to cope, realizing friendship is the key to building the Erde Kaiser, maturing into a man, knocking all the boxes off the truck, building back the community, saluting child labor, concluding the saga of Johnny and Mina, no-selling an exploding car, battling a goth gnos...

Xenosaga E30: Father, Son, and the Holy Sh*t [Proto Merkabah]

March 18, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

We were made to discover the true form of the universe. You were made to discover us asking masked men relevant questions, amnesia’ing away Virgil, realizing Junior has failed, summoning even more fucked up shit out of space, going way off villain plan script, hallucinating heroines, ejecting a science lab into space to rebuild a knowledge daughter, throwing dangerous items into the abyss, losing it over the idea of a double black hole, rebuilding the Death Star, forcing a time-based ultimat...

Xenosaga E29: Suffering of Robot Based On Lecherous Jealousy [Song of Nephilim, Part III]

March 11, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Don’t be vague in the Y data. Join as as we’re crystal clear about slicing the head off our statue throne, suffering a Momo asset swap, receiving a cheese massage, longing for reality, reconsidering Nietzsche as a “little bitch,” inserting hands into jellybellys, regrowing another head, blaming nanomachines (son), exploring brain memories, laughing until it makes sense, engaging in an energy battle, drawing “super sonic” out of Junior, entering a third beam in the energy wars, drawing out Mo...

INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier]

March 06, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes - 31.9 MB

Our second episode of Infinite Perfect finds the intersection between the bizarro world of film negatives and the fantasy zone of Space Harrier. It's the same place at the same time, and one cannot exist without the other. Ride the cycloptic mammoth through the checkerboard pastal wastes to figure out how in the hell Eric believes all of this must be true.

Xenosaga E28: Her Brain Items [Song of Nephilim, Part II]

March 04, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Why is she trying to sell stuff when she has nothing to sell? Join us as we’re (well, Albedo is) abusing a robot child for information, clarifying additional censorship, arguing over if dad can save daughter or if boyfriend can save girlfriend, receiving weapons in email, blowing up vending machines, learning about space graves, wondering if robots can be as illogical as humans, implying Tonyism, dragging out memory mind consciousnesses, becoming catatonic, solving an elevator box math puzzl...

Xenosaga E27: Poisoned by the Holy Spirit So Hard [Song of Nephilim, Part I]

February 26, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

Are you worthy to shed such tears? Cry with us as we’re cackling incessantly, letting Momo out of our sight, wasting vital shuttle transports, arguing about where Momo is, seeing a false daddy, friending a dead sister, blaming Helmer, rebuilding Sakura as a robot, performing a memory hand transfer, experiencing robot depression, defining an uncomfortable anime moment, wondering who has a soul, speculating if dead robots are corpses, cutting off seemingly vital body parts, maintaining a peach...

Xenosaga E26: Die in the Trash [Attack on Kukai, Part II]

February 19, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

My goodness, this feels like a dream. This episode feels like we’re welcoming Hyper Assistant Scott, remembering Angels and Elements, flexing while wasted, playing with toys too hard, vibrating the water, shaking off premonitions, preventing gnosis incursion, blooming Luty’s flower, sliding down a roof, turning city sectors into people puzzles, presuming cats have innocent souls, getting in the robot, losing to a boss over and over, and settling a dispute between The Professor and Assistant ...

Xenosaga E25: The Christ for Robots [Attack on Kukai, Part I]

February 12, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Well, it looks like we all managed to make it back. Now we’re relentlessly drawing a connection to Xenoblade 2, laughing through illusory worlds, existing in the subconscious, fighting energy with energy, vaporizing a gas giant, issuing the many worlds theory, pasting in a picture of space, disarming subconscious domain protection, denying a hug, earning a three-way, crying in a graveyard, giving Allen exclusive access to the future, passing out after the sex, showing feet, monologuing in be...

INFINITE PERFECT 001: Watch it Move [Burning Rangers]

February 07, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes - 44.6 MB

Hello and welcome to Infinite Perfect, a new periodic Retrograde Amnesia podcast series built to assemble the devastating anecdotal happenstance that connects one of the hosts to their favorite games. Our debut episode covers the Sega Saturn's Burning Rangers, a game that is either horrendous to the senses or dazzling to the eyes. It all depends on your point of view.

Xenosaga E24: The Time for Feasting Has Come [Old Miltia, Part II]

February 05, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 66 MB

Joyful memories form only one half of the whole. Form the other half by becoming child soldiers, shooting Udo with machine guns, interpreting blood spatter, living a robot’s genetic memory, witnessing Kevin’s sacrifice, blowing a head off, returning to sewer, passing through train cars, quoting Revelations, flaming out, extracting soda from mechanical carrots, drawing a false head, finding a common resonance in memory, confusing illusion with reality, finding Feb, barreling through Shion’s s...

Xenosaga E23: The End Comes Beyond Kevin [Old Miltia, Part I]

January 29, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

Would you shut up for a second, I’m in the zone right now. Get in your zone as we’re speculating Gundam names, shulking to ourselves, requiring only scenario guys, alluding to Udo and Zohar(s), losing nukes, deepfaking a space battle, figuring out how to edit truth video, fetishizing a cyborg knockout, finding strength in gloves, spotting a cop at the craps table, equating thunder to Kevin trauma, leveling up in the dream, building robots from father, and killing platypus helicopters. Thanks...

Xenosaga E22: Theologically Problematic [Kukai Foundation, Part III]

January 22, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

This place permeates some kind of fondness for the past. Permeate your present by answering trivia questions from a kiosk, vibrating with kinky excitement, learning dream fragments are robot parts, demanding a lady’s measurements, introducing new sunglasses guys, equating the Y Data to a McGuffin, lore diving for Simeon and Nephilim, sharing perverse tastes, exposing songs that drive us to madness, binding a wallet chain to a bullet, showcasing an ominous auditorium, arguing over government ...

Xenosaga E21: There's a Ludonarrative Dissonance in This Town [Kukai Foundation, Part II]

January 15, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

Mom doesn’t understand how a man feels. But we feel like revisiting the world map concept, observing the global hum, cranking off, reading the signs of an obvious dungeon, getting high off of explosions, dumpster diving, loading a bar with fuckheads, assigning virtue to Purple Hunchman, understanding King to be a farce, chatting up Pink Bug, extracting the fish detector, engaging in work-related familial conflict, thinking of expensive books, and spawning an Allen ghost head. I’m always tell...

Xenosaga E20: Central Bottom Hole [Kukai Foundation, Part I]

January 08, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 62 MB

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 ...

Xenosaga E19: Identity Diffusion, the Eternal Dilemma [Durandal, Part II]

January 01, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes - 54.6 MB

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....

Xenosaga E18: The Bodies of Jesus Christ and His Superstars [Durandal, Part I]

December 25, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

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 Founda...

Xenosaga E17: Ethical Consumption [Cathedral Ship, Part II]

December 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

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, failin...

Xenosaga E16: A Miserable Pile of Nucleic Acid [Cathedral Ship, Part I]

December 11, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 54.8 MB

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 f...

Xenosaga E15: This Game is Apolitical [Dock Colony]

December 04, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 56.2 MB

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 ...

Xenosaga E14: Don't Sext Your Kaiser [U-TIC Battleship]

November 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

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...

Xenosaga E13: Anime Moment of the Lord [U-TIC Attack]

November 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MB

There is no need to divert more personnel to this location. At our location, we’re figuring out if Andrew Cherenkov is a character, performing sick tricks in the space column, skittering off the column wall, avoiding obligations for either a tunnel shooter or a crane game, counting on Allen, recognizing Chaos’ interest in souls, misunderstanding Boost, wondering if Hammer and Tony will ever make out, assuming Naruto has anything to do with this, watching Hammer’s shit roll downhill onto Alle...

Xenosaga E12: The Wrath of Jesus [Still on the Elsa]

November 13, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 53.3 MB

We have scenarios, so we have to have keys. The keys to this episode include disappointing the real human robot child, wondering where the Y Data is hidden, sealing off space, realizing there is an even higher council, hiding the map from Tony, receiving correspondence from Kazuya, performing the wrath of Jesus, wondering if the UNM lady is a robot, slamming the brakes on a spacecraft, playing hardball with Shion’s boss, offloading busywork to Miyuki, and reminding Allen that he is made of s...

Xenosaga E11: Eating Neatly [Back on the Elsa]

November 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

Now, where does the real you exist? As we exist, we’re applying the rules of characters to our characters, sharing curry instead of a campfire, noting the lack of estrogen as applied to sexist stereotypes, sleeping with food, witnessing Allen go down in flames, crawling with mutants, directing eyeballs, throwing guns all over the bed, rubbing couches for secret items, potentially pulling a Shinji on a sleeping robot, killing everyone, firing an invisible arrow from an invisible bow, failing ...

Xenosaga E10: The First Dad Game [Pleroma]

October 30, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Machines like you exist to be used. Machines like us exist to talk about entering the Android Discourse with Margulis and Momo, requiring mommy to take us back to the lab, aborting any reasonable attempt at stealth, burying cult figureheads in child robot brains, merging our cult base with its previous religion, unrealty’ing a mere phenomenon, decoding Pleroma, baptizing our new daughter with her selected name, loving the back toss, passing the Life Recycling Act, buying our son a robot dog,...

Xenosaga E9: 2000 F*cked Up Guys [Elsa, Part II + SOCE Meeting]

October 23, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

It’s the same for me. It’s just something I can do. What you can do is listen to us talk about double-momming Allen, wondering if Captain Matthews cuts Chris’ lawn, seducing Shion with wine, firing 9MM bullets in space, excelling over others in one specific skill, going full Gendo Ikari, hearing Willhem introduce more vocabulary words, introducing another masked man mystery, watching a planet disappear, preparing Plan 31, sitting in obelisk chairs, talking about Councils of Fucked Up Guys, d...

Xenosaga E8: Meta Gel [Elsa, Part I]

October 16, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 54.4 MB

Let’s meet the space junkers. Let’s also make sure we’re owing money to the Kukai Foundation, presenting as another nerd class, warning others of our addictions via head-based apparel, disrespecting space corpses, expressing interest in space necrophilia, punching a spaceship window, trying to make meaningful contact with someone, shitting in a refrigerator (???), deploying the authority hand, threatening suicide to compel to robot into action, manifesting an anime boy, touching a lady’s sho...

Xenosaga E7: A Finitely Bound Realm [Gnosis Attack, Part III]

October 09, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 54.9 MB

KOSMOS has the capacity for being sassy. We don’t, but we’re debating the rules of Gnosis-touching, engaging the Hilbert Effect, cutting sausage goblins, fiddling with the menus, demanding our deaths mean something, wondering of Asimov’s laws of robotics apply here, death rattling “Feb,” once again seeking god in the machine, typing on the computer while the world ends, wondering when physicality came back to games, reporting in to a Scenario Guy, laughing like Bryan Fury, and riding an esca...

Xenosaga E6: Baphomet Feet [Gnosis Attack, Part II]

October 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

The company says we can’t free the slaves. While you’re in our company, we’re pounding human meat into bloody shit, violating privacy agreements, sucking a Gnosis out the airlock, dying like it’s our job, moving randomly, citing divine intervention, running around like an idiot, looting a dead man’s key, going awol during battle, going down with the ship, faking death to escape death, suffering fuel Eric explosives, citing facts and logic as we kill fake real people, and resigning from life ...

Xenosaga E5: Crestfallen Coffee Face [Gnosis Attack, Part I]

September 25, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

Cosmos is pronounced differently than KOS-MOS. This time we’re treating DME addiction as a casual hobby, jamming to the Seraphim Sisters, wondering if Realians deserve equal rights, not delivering the sexy murder robot project on time, hiding a mysterious phone call, acquiring the M.W.S., video chatting with a mysterious bad guy, indulging in the old ways to spite our sister, wishing this wouldn’t happen again, distorting space time, suffering an assault from ancient space fish, and standing...

Xenosaga E4: A Weird, Shakespearean Creeper [Realian Lab]

September 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MB

Better safe than curry. On this episode we’re diagnosing problems with Realians strapped to inversion tables, writing Realians off as infants, equating fables and proverbs to myths and legends, driving free will out of a machine, finding ourselves addicted to the consumption of body tissue, moralizing cannibalism, referencing some kind of disaster in Miltia, locating Mr. Driller, investigating planetary disappearances, thinking about Ninja Assault, playing tag money matches, and hanging out ...

Xenosaga E3: God is Decentralized [Woglinde, Part II]

September 11, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB

Who is the most human character in Xenosaga, and is that individual even human? To figure that out, we’re chatting up our Vector co-workers, diagnosing Allen’s patheticness, discussing Jung’s origin of all shit, refusing to ask out our boss, confessing sins while we beat up our subordinates, reminisce enduring thoughts, ding-crossing with a ghost girl, slacking off because of bimbos, referencing multiple “incidents,” and committing to fix the Realians outside of union rules. Don’t have feeli...

Xenosaga E2: Dancing Around to Move the Sh*t of the Universe [Woglinde, Part I]

September 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MB

Can robots experience emotions? Can we? Listen to use try as we’re advancing time by 40 centuries, obscuring facial details, losing our minds in technobabble, looking for scientific evidence of the human soul, dancing around to move the shit of the universe, entering virtual reality, reluctantly wishing our robot weapon was our real friend, entering U.M.N. Mode for some tips, seeing enemies on screen, generating blood smoke, kicking off our sci-fi game in an industrial wasteland, holding R2 ...

Xenosaga E1: Let the Saga Take You [Introduction]

August 28, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 57.1 MB

Hi. Welcome to season five of Retrograde Amnesia. As we let the Saga take us, we’re talking about when and where Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht came out, observing the will to power, establishing Xeno-links, finding inspiration in pornography, resolving to finish the soundtrack, treating cut-scene length like a threat, losing to Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, socking the doorknob for spoilers, agreeing Xenosaga was the most important thing to ever happen, forecasting an existential...

Suikoden II E43: You Can Just Leave [Finale]

August 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MB

This the final farewell. On our final episode for season four, we’re closing the loop on a humiliated Lucia, owning the shit out of Han Cunningham, licking the carpet, rattling death over Seed and Culgan, thinking killing is a good thing, breaking up with my adopted kid and dead wife, filling our pockets with stolen death coins, crumbling the palace, denying the responsibility of creating a new country (Riou Country), escaping all forms of responsibility, purchasing some mannequin piss, retu...

Suikoden II E42: All F*ckers Reporting for Duty [The Siege of L'Renouille]

August 14, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

Would you like me to sheathe Odessa in you? While the boys hot me up in the mouth, we’re taking a ton of baths, waxing heads, foreshadowing Kelley, observing a knight paradox, suffering rune exhaustion, stabbing my wife in the stomach, sloshing water around, betting the farm of a fire card, cutting promos as the world burns down, dispatching Viktor on a dirty job, calling off the sacrifice play, shedding gun blood, insulating the populace from politics, and returning to our hometown. Living ...

Suikoden II E41: Riding the Rails to Totalitarism [Retaking Matilda]

August 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

Since we are risking everything, it’s a big gamble. Risk your time and listen to us rejecting a cruel unicorn’s thesis, peer pressuring Kiba into death, completing group math problems, receiving the divine power of destiny, yarring, merging for the kill, forging citizen soldiers, combining Capture The Flag with murder, invading Rockaxe Castle, double-ko’ing a battle, separating from the main party, suffering from Rune addiction, dodging bolts with critical input timing, forgiving signs with...

Suikoden II E40: Fully Destiny-Pilled [Retaking Muse]

July 31, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB

It makes my heart soar like an eagle to see your face again. Hear our voices again as we’re debating pregnancy, switching Greenhill’s music, loving a lady like a sister, locating some lost clay, reuniting the musical trio, recruiting another cave-dwelling misanthrope, reuniting the two best dandy fops ever made, saving Pesmerga for last, living by the way of a level 14 sword, containing truth inside of lies, marching the troops outta here, listening to Jowy’s idiot plea to run away, cleansin...

Suikoden II E39: Why is Yuber? [Retaking Greenhill]

July 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

I am your death. With the rest of our life, we’re confronting an invader, casting earthquake in my bedroom, visiting the narcissist garden, choosing to fight, waiting for battlefield reports, returning the Greenhill’s forest, pleading ignorance over a severe war crime, deferring the sins of the father, assigning Yuber to the rune police, teleporting to hell, keeping Teresa’s promise, knowing the Knightdom would submit to fascists, deciding it all with a cook off, making a fucking mess in the...

Suikoden II E38: Succession of Dogmen [Recruiting]

July 17, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB

I vow to aid you with all the strength in my worthless hands. After pissing all over Neclord, we’re adding eight consecutive stars of destiny to our army, never cracking a smile, founding a coven, concealing true feelings for Anabelle, disservicing worms, recruiting a literal kraken, practicing kraken monogamy, swearing to Georg that we won’t give up, developing a presence, literally pushing Gantetsu around, diverging into a new dog, switching to a new aggression, wishing Riou could join the...

Suikoden II E37: The Sin of Tricking Me [Neclord and Not Running Away]

July 10, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Now is the time to destroy the demon. As we reset reality, we’re declining the temptation of abdication, breaking our sister, following orders into hell, acting on bad information, soft-locking inside Gustav’s house, tunneling with Neclord, stating the need to seal a soul, shipping Sierra and Klaus, tricking promising youngsters, hating the self that cannot die, ethically sucking off, assembling a golem out of sprites, cutting a promo on Neclord, confirming Jesus, lamenting the zombies’ effe...

Suikoden II E36: I've Had it with Lords [Running Away]

July 03, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

When the need arises, it’s these muscles that will come in handy. On this one we’re calling into Coast to Coast AM, rendering Jess a surly dickhead, accusing town guys of being creeps, reliving Annabelle’s death, watching Leknaat have a stroke, learning that kids shouldn’t kill people, abandoning ship with Nanami, leaving shit in the hotel room, allowing zombies to engulf dirt towns, living for true meaning and promises, killing off a Star of Destiny, slapping the shit out of Riou, retreatin...

Suikoden II E35: Items are Nouns [Tinto]

June 26, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Speak with your fists while we talk with our mouths about running an obstacle course, gathering intel from mountain bandits, observing the town well, conjuring a bicycle, bringing water for it, refusing to pay for another meal, brandishing Window Sets, reading every available town item, unionizing mine work, hauling the dirt away, learning the secret of scroll making, smoothing out Tinto’s political situation, commenting on arm size, telling Marlowe he’s not up to the job, and questioning th...

Suikoden II E34: Ill-Feeling Left [Return to Muse]

June 19, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MB

This is a gift from my heart, I hope it will help with throwing down over the Sindar, spreading rumors of peace, becoming old enough to get lost, regressing portraits, adapting nuclear bomb logic, pumping Jowy’s dialogue into Teresa, denying Jowy anything and everything, using Pilika as human collateral, stacking up war crimes, having ill-feeling left, realizing Neclord has resurfaced in Tinto, allowing Lester to restore Hai-Yo’s confidence, tickling Gremio, validating onomatopoeias, calling...

Suikoden II E33: You Got Some Complaint Karen? [South Window, Radat, and Kuskus]

June 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

If it’s in your mouth, it’s good. And what’s in our mouth? How about sightseeing in South Window, wondering how Max got even worse, trying to pay for food with songs, farting through our stomach, singing silence, following the trail of the Sindar, selling out Alex, slapping Alex, remaining drutherless, recruiting a Riou impersonator, dancing with Karen, solving another conflict with a cookoff, examining defeat, marrying children to each other, presenting a peace treaty, fumbling the sacred m...

Suikoden II E32: My Republican Throne [Tir McDohl Quest]

June 05, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

Whether it’s a gift from the heavens, or simply destiny, I don’t know. What I can tell you is that we’re realizing Shu pulled a move from The Art of War, sleeping for a week, demanding Simone bark like a dog, allowing Antonio to pep up Hai Yo, appealing to Gremio’s weakness, witnessing the soul still burning inside of Tir, getting a little kid abducted, hatching out of a worm, stepping back from the republican throne, gentling ribbing our war buddies, shooting our shot with Cleo, acknowledgi...

Suikoden II E31: The Human Power of This Human Monster [Luca Blight Battle]

May 29, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

I want to believe I am brave enough to accept fate. Until then, destiny entails massaging Luca’s ego into self-destruction, surrounding dog units with man units, sharing a face with Luc, realizing Tsai is an ugly deadbeat dad, getting our life together, caring about breeding, designating ambush positions, winning a war battle way too early, thirsting for blood, creating three tactical units, preparing our eyes for darkness, violently arrowing dudes to death, beating the holiest of shit out o...

Suikoden II E30: Blessed White Lady [Recruiting]

May 22, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.9 MB

With you, I think I’ll be able to hear many new sounds. Listen close as we’re relearning about the Gate Rune War, realizing Badeaux has the shine to him, listening to the heart, wondering if everyone here only has three fingers, defending a good monster, taking up two slots, feeling the charge between Valeria and Anita, defining “maiden” for a pervert fantasy horse, blessing a white lady, recruiting a werewolf, learning more about The Group, getting Harmonia into the theater of war, piercing...

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