Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

Hi. For our third and final Background Information Episode, Ty and Aidan, the hosts of Fun Factor, join us for an hour to flip through magazine reviews of Skies of Arcadia! All four of us are capping out RPG visuals at 8/10, receiving Golden Man location information, misunderstanding Duke Nukem's wants and needs, running the triple negative olympics, borrowing ideas from Final Fantasy, gibbering like mad fools, doing british accents, lamenting 128 bits, harkening back to early days, forecasting typos signaling prestige, disenchanting sourpusses, teetering on magnificence, creating Scott Steiner, and wondering if Nintendo Power was on the take. The remainder of the episode features your normal hosts hacking out random battles, cameoing in other games, teasing a modern release, learning some optimization tricks, sharing memories, laying out expectations, counting stuff, and wondering if Nintendo Power was on the take. Skies of Arcadia was easily the best RPG in the year 2000 for Dreamcast. Please check out Ty and Aidan's podcast Fun Factor, either here (https://funfactorpod.com) or wherever fine podcasts can be downloaded to the telephone.
00:00:00 Meeting New People
00:02:52 Intro
00:04:30 Contemporary Reviews (Featuring Fun Factor)
01:04:48 Modern Takes
01:07:11 Fan Fiction
01:08:23 MODS
01:12:17 Sequels & Cameos
01:21:44 Memories
01:23:53 Expectations
01:26:32 How Are We Playing This In 2026?
01:30:32 What Are We Counting?
01:34:09 Acknowledgements
01:34:38 Real Net
01:43:38 Outro
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Well, it's time for part two (of three!) of our background information blast for Skies of Arcade. To become legends, we're detailing Skies of Arcadia's promotional media, finding a romantic and unreadable font, changing our reputation, kicking ass by the boatload, debating the pronunciation of "Valuan," riddling the skies with danger, adapting the story into manga, producing a $460 figurine, selling an elaborate music box, desiring a Skies of Arcadia candle, recruiting up to 22 crew members, censoring content for the ESRB, and begging you not to put this Dreamcast disc into your CD player. Everyone will respect you.
00:00:00 Patreon Promo
00:01:19 Intro
00:03:14 Commercials
00:06:20 Print Ads
00:14:57 Strategy Guide + Manga
00:20:17 Light Novel
00:22:47 Radio Drama
00:25:25 Toys
00:27:10 Soundtrack(s)
00:29:00 Demo Disc
00:31:52 Dreamcast Game Box
00:39:24 GameCube Game Box
00:43:41 Cut Content
00:49:25 Real Net
00:54:01 Outro
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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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Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia
E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com
Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com