Retrograde Amnesia is a deep-dive video game podcast dedicated to exploring classic Japanese Role-playing Games (JRPGs), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. The show blends structured narrative analysis, humor, and immersive production to guide listeners through the worlds, characters, and themes of the genre’s most beloved and strange stories.
Praised for its thoughtful pacing, encyclopedic research, and a blend of sincerity and irreverence, Retrograde Amnesia offers a cozy look back for players who want to engage more deeply with their favorite games within the medium. Play along with the hosts or reminisce your enduring thoughts as we trek through the stories we grew up with.
Each season covers a single game in exhaustive detail, using a a meticulous scene-by-scene format to reexamine every moment. Whether it’s dissecting the political intricacies of Final Fantasy Tactics, or unraveling the existential dread of Xenogears, the show approaches every game with a balance of critical insight and deep appreciation for the medium.
Listeners have described the show as:
“One of the best out there”
“If you love retrospective type podcast this is one of the best out there. They pick great games and take their time going through them. Just the perfect type of podcast for me. It’s like getting to live through these games from my childhood again without having to play all the way through them. Great job guys, I hope there are many more episodes to come.”
— SIumlord, May 27, 2024“What a gem”
“Discovered these guys when I was searching up stuff on Xenosaga, and saw a back catalog of amazing games. Started with [Final Fantasy VIII] and am about to do the next season. Chris and Eric are hilarious, insightful, and worth your time to listen to. Also Fakenet will you marry me.”
— laser canon death sentance, January 23, 2024“Witty, smart, and highly detailed”
“Chris and Eric rock. They play off each other super well, it’s like hanging out with a couple guys with a bottle of whiskey and even though you never have a chance to get a word in, you don’t really want to. Thoughtful and interesting with hilarious in jokes they are more than happy to bring you in on.”
— alinktreetothepast, October 19, 2023
Since 2019, Retrograde Amnesia has been a destination for thoughtful JRPG fans seeking to reckon with the games they grew up loving — while learning to love the ones they missed.
Retrograde Amnesia is hosted by Eric and Chris — two old pals who have been thinking about JRPGs for multiple decades.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…