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Phantasy Star IV | E8: Bubblegum Crisis [Bio-Plant]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Release Date: 12/29/2025

Phantasy Star IV | E10: Cave or Lost Civilization [Guild Hall, Wreckage, Kadary]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Do not run on the floor. Instead, run your ears on observing infinite lives, hearing about the troops, declining a free drink, enriching lives, rendering pixel ass, making sure they’re bug ladies and not bunny ladies, splitting the cave-computer binary, tying into Phantasy Star III, decaying orbit, merging two guys into one guy, rejecting the M.E.T.A. meta, becoming annoyed at the cultists, uniting christ with computer, and blacking out at either snake church or tongue church. Purge the souls of the fools. 00:00:00 Coach Dad 1-0 00:02:23 Intro / Mechanical Man 00:05:41 Hunter’s Guild...

Phantasy Star IV | E9: A Fluid Town [Nalya, Aiedo]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

We’re ex-convicts, no one will marry us now. We’re doomed to a life of observing the need to fix bridges, inhabiting a dead town, fearing dentist technology, bowling alone, refusing to trust the neighbors, Wet Banditing our own house, vomiting all over the wall, observing a fluid town, stealing husband’s secret savings, losing a lot in translation, interpreting a poster, panty-raiding ourselves, sneaking out of an inn, refusing to tell a fortune, and drinking to numb the pain. I don’t seem to be in good shape today, come back some other time. 00:00:00 The Server Has a Tattoo 00:04:14...

Phantasy Star IV | E8: Bubblegum Crisis [Bio-Plant]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

What on earth are you, and what is this place? To figure that out, we’re doing it in the Birth Valley, re-entering the Techno Drome, expanding Chris’ vocabulary, touring the Porsche factory, mixing monsters with machines, creating a bioactive environment, enjoying the Professor Holt bit, referencing Nei, citing sexy lady anime, determining the cat girl origin point, upsetting mother nature, stacking computers, breeding harmful monsters, meeting a computer child, and carrying the will of Seed. Sterilization treatment completed; please follow the line on the floor. 00:00:00 Marathon Man...

Phantasy Star IV | E7: Idiots are Special [Tonoe, Tonoe Basement]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Somehow the body has become lighter. With your new carbon fiber ears, listen to us fading white, hiding Grandfather in the back, favoring the monger, reading lady numbers, deploying a custom animation, separating charge and information, making dirt wet for too long, accepting a Motavian party member, resolving the stone mustache, separating tears from sweat, violating a sacred area, knowing our limitations, and wearing sweat pants to church. The old man doesn’t have any bad intentions. 00:00:00 On the Beach 00:02:29 Intro 00:03:46 Tonoe x Grandfather 00:16:17 Warehouse Basement 00:24:52 How...

Phantasy Star IV | E6: The Invention of Sephiroth [Krup, Valley Maze, Tonoe]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

What a pig this dog is! Before experiencing canine pork, we’re finding Krup stuck in our teeth, lying about our academic career, telling people where I hurt myself today, spreading religion, leaving the cabinets open, embracing orange soda genericism, disinheriting a son, harnessing the power of CRBN, teaching kids in the home, figuring out if we’re using magic, shooting meat ropes, banishing the natives to one town, sitting lost in thought, and welcoming the owl folk. It’s about the only thing I’m capable of doing. 00:00:00 Sonic Speed Simulator 00:04:01 Intro 00:06:12 Rune-inations...

Phantasy Star IV | E5: Stoned After Dinner [Mile, Zema, Birth Valley, Molcum]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Well, Chaz, your brain seems to work a little bit. At least enough to listen as we’re speaking with the beardy-guy-vestman, swallowing a town with quicksand, adding morality to terraforming, pounding Zima, performing a community raking service, experimenting with macros, stoning everyone in town, refusing to help orphaned children, discussing mustache petrification logistics, grifting Hahn, comically tugging our collars at the sight of cum, standing and thinking while caped, sporting a winning chin, losing a fight with a stance, and calling bullshit on Rudy (1993) and Rudy (1944). What a...

Phantasy Star IV | E4: Another Brain [Academy Basement]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

This monster business is no mystery after all. As we uncover the secrets, we’re wondering if manga can be in color, installing headquarters in the basement, dropping multiple fishies, fingering to win, sweating to lose, producing the Venn diagram of veins and ticklers, conducting numerous brain activities, breeding monsters in the basement, teleporting before your eyes, hiding the basement situation, connecting the parcel to the monsters, and combining a bad guy haircut with a science robe. It seems like these are signs of something to come. 00:00:00 Chris Is Steamed 00:03:13 Intro 00:04:16...

Phantasy Star IV | E3: Beyond Rudy [Piata, The Town of Learning]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

I’ve always wanted to go to a Town of Learning, so we can learn to make a podcast of listening. We’re talking about throwing away a cake, tolling the bell, fearing The Computer, Chaz’ing a Rudy, erecting character sprites, rendering a world beyond the Genesis, locking up books, flipping through options, buzzing off, measuring the dew point, learning Chris’ biggest scholastic achievement, falling victim to a strange religion, setting the table for the dirty kitchen, jumping in the fountain, and doing a bunch of that dust. Stop wasting time, there’s nothing here. 00:02:24 Intro...

Phantasy Star IV | E2: Genesis Mystique [Contemporary Reception & Legacy]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

On the second episode of our Phantasy Star IV background info, we’re watching commercials in Japanese, realizing “cels” and “panels” are not interchangeable, looking at print ads, riding for Rick, revealing the dark phallus, appreciating the work of Boris Vallejo, speaking perfect french, traveling beyond history, citing The Cutting Room Floor, pacifying fans, filling batchin’ samples, sleeping walking with thumbs, declaring Earthworm Jim “The Skyrim of Platformers,” leaking prototypes, reading from zines, glitching level 99, pounding burger and cola, completing Phantasy Star,...

Phantasy Star IV | E1: Love and Friendship Around the Stars [Development History]

Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Hello and welcome to the first episode of our eighth season! We’re covering Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium for the next 25-to-70 weeks. On this two-parter of an intro episode, we’re peeling the skin off the Fake Net, buying children a $212 videogame, charging more money for more megabits, realizing the Mega Drive was online in 1990, de-making to the NES, creating a million ports, overthinking world details, not just plagiarizing Dragon Quest, building love and friendship around the stars, making something no one else was making, loving Star Wars, having snacks with the staff,...

More Episodes

00:00:00 Marathon Man
00:03:06 Intro
00:04:32 Return to Birth Valley
00:05:45 Bio-Plant
00:21:32 Rika
00:31:44 Seed
00:45:57 Fresh Air in Zema
00:49:24 Real Net
00:56:20 Outro

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