Good day.

This bonus podcast is a fun one-off episode as well as a way for Eric to rationalize doing nothing else for two weeks. Podcasting about things is now a release equal to writing about things. This won’t replace any scheduled pods, it’s just a thing we’re doing. For fun.

This podcast is intended for those who already have a familiarity with Persona 5 and will likely be incomprehensible if you have not played Persona 5.

Check out Eric's review on digitalchumps.com.

It’s an answer to the question of “Should I play this if I have already played Persona 5?”

This episode may spoil Persona 5, will not totally spoil Royal beyond the premise of new content.

Are you strong? This time we're dealing with the implications of Citan as party leader, finding Zeal in Xenogears, developing some suspicious Dan suspicions, meeting Id and wondering gosh what the heck is an Id, watching heroes come out of the rafters, LOOKING AT STONE'S FACE OR LACK THEREOF, clarifying a "fake awakening," questioning Grahf's motivations, doing bong rips with Citan, desiring a Jessie manga, laughing at Stone self-identify as an incel, noting the absurdity of suicide Gears, and observing the second amendment. All of this power is fake.

00:41 - Intro 02:19 - Citan's decisions & Solarian factions 07:37 - Showdown at Zeboim's glass bridge 24:42 - Watching scoundrels escape, wondering about nanomachines 28:50 - Where's Fei? 31:04 - Alkanshel approaches 34:44 - Do you want the power? 41:48 - Citan is high 47:00 - Jessie Canon 53:55 - Regrouping on the Yggdrasil deck (music sample: "The Valley Where the Wind is Born (live 20th Anniversary Concert)") 1:01:04 - Gun Room revelations 1:03:44 - Outro

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Oh god. We're missing our dead friends, determining the info line on Chu-Chu, keeping pictures of our house in our house, numbing our fear of Reapers with booze, ratioing/radioing Grahf with Miang, spending a lot of time in hallways and staircases, computing some math problems, watching nanomachine colonies assume human form, organizing the hierarchy of conspirators, figuring out what "yoke" means, and meeting some new Elements. Religion can only be used for wrongdoing. Drunks love to fight. It's ruined now, like some empty and hollow dream. I'm right, and you're the fucker here.

00:46 - Intro 03:10 - MIA Protagonist Syndrome / dicking around the Yggdrasil (music sample: "Fuse") 11:19 - Returning to the devastated Thames (music sample: "Thames: Man of the Sea") 23:50 - Getting into the Ethos Dig Site 27:29 - An Intriguing Underwater Monitor 30:57 - Zeboim and its bitmap bridge 34:30 - Battling monsters in Zeboim (music sample: "Stage of Death") 36:34 - Terminal flashbacks 41:03 - Zeboim lab —or— it's different if you bring Elly (music sample: "June Mermaid") 48:02 - Stone finishes the sentence 56:14 - Tolone & Serephita (music sample: "Knight of Fire," "Fuse, live 20th Anniversary Concert") 01:03:59 - Fei is a scientist and Fei is gone 01:07:14 - Outro

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Burning Desire, Burning Souls, Burning Rangers. It's been exposed. We spend our time stealing our father's gun, realizing you can't have separation of church and state if the church is also the state, uncovering Solaris' global meddling, watching dying people cough up blood and plot, shattering faith, enduring Bond villain soliloquies, watching Bishop Stone overdo it, and sitting through escalations of lore and plot devices. Current Xenogears toilet count: 2.

00:43 - Intro 02:50 - Yggdraslin' around 05:04 - Sidequesting around the orphanage 06:24 - Returning to the Ethos H.Q.... (music sample: "Fuse") 13:28 - Liberating some curious prisoners in the basement 16:18 - The gang hacks the Gibson and lore dumps all over us 24:00 - Verlaine shoots his mouth off 27:05 - Bishop Stone shoots Verlaine's mouth off 31:39 - The fate of the Thames Fleet 33:24 - Ministry Technosphere Theater, Part III 34:58 - Everyone's done with the Ethos 36:31 - Aboard the Ezekiel...with Krelian 42:49 - Outro

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Retrograde Amnesia is a comprehensive discussion show where we re-live a classic JRPG -- chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Through these conversations, we re-experience our lost memories of treasured classics and discover why these stories have become so precious to us and so many others. Season 1 covers Xenogears (1998).

Thank you, my good man. As we board the Transport ship, we're speculating the nature of father and son ethical considerations, telling our garbage sons to quit their bullshit jobs, embracing for sex acts with blood relatives, identifying Bishop Stone as Billy's Citan, pinpointing silence as an indicator of wisdom, selling our bodies to perverts, laughing at Bart's Sideshow Bob-ass running animation, explaining the holy man violence paradox, busting down doors at full speed, and making our monster grow. If God wants me to kill, must I kill god?

00:44 - Intro / Xeno 02:25 - Big Joe: Revelations 05:46 - Jessie's hangover recovery program 10:00 - Yggdraslin' around 11:10 - Billy tells us how to play as Billy, experiences flashback (music sample: "Tears of the Stars, Hearts of the People") 21:51 - Billy as a commodity 26:04 - Billy & Company aboard the Transport Ship 30:05 - Battle Priest Appreciation 34:20 - Bloody boss fight, muddy localization (music sample: "The Blue Traveler") 41:43 - Billy's Buddy saves the day (music sample: "Fuse, live 20th Anniversary Concert") 45:46 - Giant Wel boss fight and its growth gimmick 48:37 - Outro

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It's happened. We've come to value the meaningful and the meaningless information relinquished by Xenogears' localization. We're also justifying Margie as a manager, wondering why machines are gendered, watching the Ripper digest and disappear party members, identifying Ether Doubler acquisition methods, uncovering some ulterior motives at Etone H.Q., questioning Hammer's retention, referring to our biological father as "that man," expanding our nationalistic beef awareness, discovering mystery circles with Henry Mingus, pocketing used toilet paper, and refusing to touch a large turd. We wish happiness to all people of the world, even the house of sinning hermits.

01:14 - Intro 05:52 - Yggdraslin' our favorite NPC's (music sample: "Yggdrasil") 11:15 - Seafaring in Aquavy (music sample: "Emotion") 17:27 - Speaking to eleven monks at the Ethos H.Q. (music sample: "Ship of Regret and Sleep") 31:00 - Yggdraslin' II: Heathen Charity 34:40 - Kids say the darndest things at Billy's orphanage (music sample: "The Sky, Clouds, and You") 42:45 - R E D R U M R E D U X 46:04 - Billy confidently monologues about indoctrinating children 47:38 - Sigurd, who can exist outside the Yggdrasil, knows Billy 52:40 - Bishop Stone deploys Billy to do religious violence 55:34 - Old Elements: Wasted 58:25 - Outro

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Ramsus attacks in this chapter, but so does Dominia. And so does Jessie, but only with his words and only at Bart. We're also questioning the ethical responsibility of GameSharks, admiring pirate and salvager bonds of sea and fire, expressing rage with quick camera cuts, missing every mother fucking X attack, noting the time/space error by the Yggdrasil's depth charges, not paying attention to Ramsus' Mirror Stance, conjuring an NPC Doctor Academy FanFic, jerkin' off with Bart, outlining Nisan sect and Etone god compatibility, and discovering what a butt kissin' talker looks like. We will kill god, but can you crucify an invertebrate?

00:45 - Intro 06:17 - Yggdraslin' as a Mass Effect progenitor 10:19 - Honor among pirates (and defectors) 13:15 - Enter Dominia (music sample: "Steel Giant") 19:06 - Ramsus & Miang redux (music sample: "Knight of Fire") 25:00 - Classic Protagonist Incapacitation Sequence (music sample: "Lost, Broken Shards, live 20th Anniversary Concert") 30:34 - Bart and Elly seek an Etone on the Thames (music sample: "Thames - Man of the Sea") 32:50 - Margie interrupts some human trafficking and we meet Jessiah and Primera 36:58 - Our new friend and plot device, Billy Lee Black(music sample: "Ship of Regret and Sleep") 47:28 - Outro

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It's true; Xenogears and Xeno-adjacent podcast may be our own dark cruel destiny. This time we're dissecting idioms, unlocking abilities through the power of narrative, expressing surprise at some casual abduction, picturing "Malibu Bart," remembering Hammer is on this blasted ship, fantasizing over non-erotic Old Maison fan art, determining the current villain tier list, continuing our adoration of portrait-less doctors, and dabbling in some hypno-programming. You shouldn't play pranks in an unknown land.

00:51 - Intro 02:30 - Resetting on the Yggdrasil amid dramatic conflict (Music sample: "Fuse, live 20th Anniversary Concert") 06:50 - Talking entitlements with Dominia 11:36 - Weltall, Brigandier, Vierge versus Haishao 15:29 - Yggdrasil attendance check-in 21:02 - Remember Nisan? / Strapping pirates 22:53 - Hey, Margie (Music sample: "Singing of the Gentle Wind, live 20th Anniversary Concert") 29:10 - Wild shit aboard the Gebler airship 36:50 - Yggdrasil treasures 39:18 - Big Joe, mi amore 42:08 - Bart tattoo speculation, Hans sobriety check 43:23 - Our Lady seems to have returned 45:42 - The cost of betraying 50:33 - Outro 51:59 - Presenting Chris' Super Smash Bros interview with his twin four year olds

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We. Are men. Of the sea. Or at least we try to be. Between the shards of these emotions we're discovering men who love to drink, clarifying the way to say words, debating more origin species of demi-humans, talking through the safety of combining inebriation and work assignments, learning a new card game, seeing what happens when antagonists are consumed by rage, and recognizing that treasure and people are both treasures. We don't know if the Captain is dosing his crew but we do know that you should never get wasted in an elevator.

00:40 - Intro 06:12 - The Thames! How are we pronouncing "Thames?" 07:50 - Hans has salvaged us (Music sample: "Thames: Man of the Sea") 14:29 - Rescue rationale aboard the Armor Ground 21:26 - Speed dealing in the Supply Entrance 28:47 - Sick Bay and its irritable doctor 30:00 - Observing the human wreckage at the Beer Hall 32:40 - Seeking authority at The Bridge 38:23 - The Captain, drinking, lays out the code of the Men of the Sea 41:36 - Under the sea with Elements old & new 46:00 - Men have courage. And have appetites. 49:09 - Outro 50:54 - Presenting Mark Shepherd's full cover of "Thames: Man of the Sea"

Citations: Xenogears and Xenosaga Study Guide

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