Xenosaga I

Xenosaga | E1: Let the Saga Take You [Introduction]

Hi. Welcome to season five of Retrograde Amnesia. As we let the Saga take us, we’re talking about when and where Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht came out, observing the will to power, establishing Xeno-links, finding inspiration in…

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Xenosaga | E2: Dancing Around to Move the Sh*t of the Universe [Woglinde, Part I]

Can robots experience emotions? Can we? Listen to use try as we’re advancing time by 40 centuries, obscuring facial details, losing our minds in technobabble, looking for scientific evidence of the human soul, dancing around to move the shit of the…

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Xenosaga | E3: God is Decentralized [Woglinde, Part II]

Who is the most human character in Xenosaga, and is that individual even human? To figure that out, we’re chatting up our Vector co-workers, diagnosing Allen’s patheticness, discussing Jung’s origin of all shit, refusing to ask out our boss,…

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Xenosaga | E4: A Weird, Shakespearean Creeper [Realian Lab]

Better safe than curry. On this episode we’re diagnosing problems with Realians strapped to inversion tables, writing Realians off as infants, equating fables and proverbs to myths and legends, driving free will out of a machine, finding ourselves…

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Xenosaga | E5: Crestfallen Coffee Face [Gnosis Attack, Part I]

Cosmos is pronounced differently than KOS-MOS. This time we’re treating DME addiction as a casual hobby, jamming to the Seraphim Sisters, wondering if Realians deserve equal rights, not delivering the sexy murder robot project on time, hiding a…

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Xenosaga | E6: Baphomet Feet [Gnosis Attack, Part II]

The company says we can’t free the slaves. While you’re in our company, we’re pounding human meat into bloody shit, violating privacy agreements, sucking a Gnosis out the airlock, dying like it’s our job, moving randomly, citing divine…

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Xenosaga | E7: A Finitely Bound Realm [Gnosis Attack, Part III]

KOSMOS has the capacity for being sassy. We don’t, but we’re debating the rules of Gnosis-touching, engaging the Hilbert Effect, cutting sausage goblins, fiddling with the menus, demanding our deaths mean something, wondering of Asimov’s laws of…

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Xenosaga | E8: Meta Gel [Elsa, Part I]

Let’s meet the space junkers. Let’s also make sure we’re owing money to the Kukai Foundation, presenting as another nerd class, warning others of our addictions via head-based apparel, disrespecting space corpses, expressing interest in space…

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Xenosaga | E9: 2000 F*cked Up Guys [Elsa, Part II + SOCE Meeting]

It’s the same for me. It’s just something I can do. What you can do is listen to us talk about double-momming Allen, wondering if Captain Matthews cuts Chris’ lawn, seducing Shion with wine, firing 9MM bullets in space, excelling over others in…

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