Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Hello and welcome to season nine of Retrograde Amnesia, featuring Skies of Arcadia. In the first (of three) background/information episodes, we'll be talking about the game as it relates to shipping on two GD-ROMs, refusing to appear on modern digital storefronts, becoming crushed by reality, combining World War I & II military ships with the Age of Discovery, communicating with wind, citing influence from Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Dragon Quest III, building the world around six colors, refusing a travel budget, blatantly referencing Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe, forming the Hottie Production Committee, dynamically adjusting the music, eliminating baby talk, "throwing away the Japanese text," and un-mysterying the misdirection. Realism may not be acceptable for an RPG just yet.
00:00:00 Lost Time 
00:01:55 Intro
00:02:54 What Is This 
00:04:47 Release Information
00:09:31 How to acquire and play Skies of Arcadia in 2026
00:12:13 Atsushi Seimiya
00:18:15 Shuntaro Tanaka
00:27:20 Reiko Kodama
00:49:31 Soundtrack
00:53:37 Localization
01:03:28 Unsubstantiated Claims
01:09:04 Real Net
01:14:09 Outro
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This is it! Now we determine Algo's future... our future! Before we sleep in peace, we'll be jumping into the hole, replicating a sick 1994 screensaver, appreciating an efficient end game dungeon, fighting differently colored jobbers, producing a disgusting sound, inventing Lavos, predicting a god-christ form, blowing it all at once, breathing in sword dust, entering a protective bubble, speculating the genesis of Phantasy Star V, demanding a hopeful ending, saying everyone's name, and deciding to stay home. And now the curtain rises on a new age. Join us next week for season nine: Skies of Arcadia.
00:00:00 Is This it
00:01:01 Intro
00:03:09 The Edge
00:09:45 The Profound Darkness Phase I
00:16:07 The Profound Darkness Phase II
00:18:15 The Profound Darkness Phase III
00:20:37 Victory
00:28:49 A More Promising Future
00:34:54 Epilogue
00:38:57 Staff Roll
00:46:39 Real Net 
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Wouldn't I be of some help to you? It wouldn't hurt to listen to us talking about taking party members to new planets, auditioning the fifth friend, "holding space" for a suicide pill, pinning the latest civilizational blight on the Black Energy Wave, rockin' with Raja, performing the inaugural Sad Battle, beating up my dead mentor, wailing and lamenting for an illusion, refusing to seek the power in an obvious test of morality, thinking of the biggest hole, making Only Fans content, and talking to dead people. Done-in people. I'm not going to be a nuisance.
00:00:00 Fun Factor
00:01:36 Intro
00:03:05 Motavia Spaceport Greetings
00:09:20 The Fifth Party Member
00:14:23 Anger Tower
00:27:22 WORLD TOUR Piata
00:33:02 WORLD TOUR Piata Academy
00:36:17 WORLD TOUR Krup
00:36:40 WORLD TOUR Tonoe
00:37:15 WORLD TOUR AIEDO
00:37:46 WORLD TOUR Monsen
00:38:06 WORLD TOUR Mile
00:40:31 Real Net 
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Wouldn't I be of some help to you? It wouldn't hurt to listen to us talking about taking party members to new planets, auditioning the fifth friend, "holding space" for a suicide pill, pinning the latest civilizational blight on the Black Energy Wave, rockin' with Raja, performing the inaugural Sad Battle, beating up my dead mentor, wailing and lamenting for an illusion, refusing to seek the power in an obvious test of morality, thinking of the biggest hole, making Only Fans content, and talking to dead people. Done-in people. I'm not going to be a nuisance.
00:00:00 Fun Factor
00:01:36 Intro
00:03:05 Motavia Spaceport Greetings
00:09:20 The Fifth Party Member
00:14:23 Anger Tower
00:27:22 WORLD TOUR Piata
00:33:02 WORLD TOUR Piata Academy
00:36:17 WORLD TOUR Krup
00:36:40 WORLD TOUR Tonoe
00:37:15 WORLD TOUR AIEDO
00:37:46 WORLD TOUR Monsen
00:38:06 WORLD TOUR Mile
00:40:31 Real Net 
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Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social
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But what use is an invisible planet? It's not like material planets could aid us in realizing the lore is a Piccolo Situation, sealing off dimensions, returning a secret planet every 1000 years, referencing other ages of heroes, determining who/what has been "born," refusing to accept reality, realizing our hero is out over his skis, depending on Chaz to fight, rejecting an order from god, accessing Luts' memory piece-meal, meeting another talking sword, referencing past protagonists, and creating a future free of terror. To tell you the truth, I don't know what's going on.
00:00:00 XCOM 2 
00:02:27 Intro
00:04:20 The Age of Fables
00:33:59 Esper Mansion
00:37:18 Elsydeon
00:43:55 Dezolis Spaceport
00:44:58 Real Net
00:51:02 Outro 
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