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Suikoden E19: Another Ted Talk [Seek Valley]

We’ve had a rough time getting here, and we’re taking this stuff. Before that caper, we’re romanticizing a studio apartment, wondering if sleeping poison is really poison, foreshadowing the third ingredient, locating the final blacksmith,…

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Suikoden E20: Fury, Chaos, and Anger [Northern Checkpoint & Moravia Castle]

I dislike myself intensely when I am fighting. As we experience classic RP Games, we’re being infiltrated by a spy, realizing it’s not just a drill, rejecting breakfast and surrender, failing an execution, contriving subterfuge, applying a ruse,…

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Suikoden E21: Sanchez, Prepare to Die Edition [Floating Fortress of Shazarazade]

This is no time to be distressed, we have a job to do. As we ingest the envy of angels, we’re learning Mathiu and Humphrey were on opposite sides of a massacre, brewing our finest tea, preventing adults from having consensual sex, writing Hix off as…

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Suikoden E22: Sovereign Right to Be a Dragon [The Final Battle]

Can’t something be wrong, and priceless? On season four, part one’s final episode, we’re investigating bathing dynamics, pretending Sanchez isn’t a rat, allowing Leknaat to lore dump all over us, wasting our only resurrection spell, sending…

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Suikoden II E1: Suikoden Means War [Introduction]

Welcome to part two of season four of Retrograde Amnesia! As we kick off our coverage of Suikoden II, we’re going over release history, development staff, contemporary reviews, modern reflections, and our personal history & expectations. Then we…

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Suikoden II E2: If You Don’t Work, You Don’t Eat [Mercenary Fort]

Wake up, or I’ll throw you in the river again. After we survive a swan dive, we’re opening our eyes to familiar strangers, sleeping in a storeroom jai cell, performing unpaid labor, rainchecking the knowledge of sex and alcohol, meeting a kobold…

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Suikoden II E3: Ask Your Doctor About Mukumuku [Kyaro]

What is homesickness, if not nostalgia? Between adult conversations, we’re getting roped into a knife-throwing exhibition, letting the carnies join us, trading sex for safe passage, slaying the Mist Shade, alienating my hometowns folk, learning…

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Suikoden II E4: Viktor, Get My Nuts Out of The Fire [The Rescue]

It looks like your path to success took a detour. As we find our way, we’re stealing heirloom vases for running-away money, reuniting with Rowd, waking up in jail, appealing to an ineffective princess, failing the prophecy of our final sunset,…

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Suikoden II E5: Act Like a Pig [Luca Blight’s Attack]

I’ve got no time left. And yet we’re admiring shirtless men at work, discovering Joey is an uncle, wondering if knights are cops, staring down the big holiday door, entering the tekken, meeting Pilika and her family, venturing to Muse for an…

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