{"podcast":{"title":"Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective","slug":"retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014","podcast_index_feed_id":816014,"rss_url":"https://retroam.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.retrogradeamnesia.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/0/b/1/d0b1c666e3e6c89a27a2322813b393ee/RA_3000.jpg","author":"Chris Stone & Eric Layman","episode_count":363,"summary":"A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, and Phantasy Star IV. Yes, we will kill god.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014"},"episode":{"title":"Phantasy Star IV | E23: This Place is Brains [Garubek Tower]","slug":"phantasy-star-iv-e23-this-place-is-brains-garubek-tower","published_at":"2026-04-13T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014/phantasy-star-iv-e23-this-place-is-brains-garubek-tower","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014","url":"https://retroam.libsyn.com/phantasy-star-iv-e23-this-place-is-brains-garubek-tower","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/retroam/S8E23_PhantasyStarIV_GarubekTower_final.mp3?dest-id=1546262","summary":"Your condition has improved considerably. You're feeling so much better, you can listen to us burning down the forest, making levels out of biology and doors out of guts, failing the reverse aniki maneuver, falling asleep to a bad smell, donning vestments, defending Alien movies, suggesting hunters were fake, admiring large sprites, blowing up a temple, selling an irreplaceable weapon, Lunar'ing the whole world, receiving new facts from an old guy, wearing a favorite hat (without any worry), and saying such unscientific things. Do you want to get whooped again? 00:00:00 Season Nine Is…. 00:03:44 Carnivorous Forest 00:04:52 Garuberk Tower 00:14:11 Dark Force 00:18:36 We Beat The Game 00:24:00 Reshel Redux 00:29:20 WORLD TOUR Raja Temple 00:29:37 WORLD TOUR Ryoun 00:33:07 WORLD TOUR Tyler 00:35:20 WORLD TOUR Zosa 00:37:29 WORLD TOUR Meese 00:46:29 Real Net 00:50:55 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky : @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com","meta_description":"Your condition has improved considerably. You're feeling so much better, you can listen to us burning down the forest, making levels out of biology and do…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3361,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014/episodes/phantasy-star-iv-e23-this-place-is-brains-garubek-tower/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective-816014/phantasy-star-iv-e23-this-place-is-brains-garubek-tower.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}