RPGFan's Retro Encounter

Today we enter the realm of video game fantasies, but not Final Fantasies.

Remakes are a regular part of the video game release schedule in the 2020s, and here at Retro Encounter we have a few ideas …

E-I-E-I-oh boy I almost went to bed without watering the corn. Oh, hello. On today's Retro Encounter, we're breaking out the farm equipment and digging into the ever-growing farm simulation genre. Ma…

You would expect that first-party game releases for a system would dry up three years after its successor is released. But that certainly wasn’t the case with Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II! 

Released…

There are some first-party Nintendo games that became legendary franchises. This… is not one of those games.

Released in 1990 for the NES, StarTropics was specifically designed by Nintendo R&D3 with W…

There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man / And bring him to the ground.

Today we correct a podcast injustice, and publish Part 2 of Retro Encounter's Ogre Battle 64 podcast duology. One podcast ho…

Did this Ogre need a decoder?

Ogre Battle 64 occupies a curious part of RPG history, as a Quest game made after Yasumi Matsuno's departure from Quest, as a hybrid real-time strategy game and traditio…

"Do you think games are silly little things?"

Most RPGs aren't designed to be played multiple times. You take in the story, see a few numbers increase incrementally, fight a boss, and roll some credit…

Hey, at least there’s no gacha in today’s episode.

While we might not love gacha mechanics in RPGs, we sure do love the characters in the Xeno series, and for today’s episodes we gathered four of our…

Wild PODCAST appeared!

The 12 months from November 19th, 2021 to November 18th, 2022 were monumental for the most popular RPG franchise in the world. The Pokémon Company had three major releases in t…

"If fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?"

Today, Retro Encounter channels their inner Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn and discusses a few of the best and worst clothing choices made by RPG charac…

Should auld RPGs be forgot, and never brought to mind? No, that's why this show exists, and auld lang syne.

It's that time of year again, where Retro Encounter lives in the very recent past and goes …

It's a Xenomas Miracle!

Xenosaga is a game about humanity, starring a cast that rangers from an android unable to distinguish empathy from protocol to an artificial human clinging to memories of her …

KOS-MOS isn't a doctor, but she'll die-a-Gnosis.

Retro Encounter recorded episodes on Xenogears, Xenoblade, and Baten Kaitos several years ago, but what about the series that put Monolith Soft on the…

It's in the singing of a street corner choir / It's going home and getting warm by the fire / It's true, wherever you find love, it feels like Muppets. 

It's the Muppets episode! Three RPGFan podcast…

And now it's time to dive into something a bit meatier. Monolithsoft's latest game, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, finally dropped in July, and we gathered five of our biggest Xeno fans to discuss the gall …

Silversun Strip Apartments. When you're here, you're family. 

Mass Effect 3 was an RPG event when it launched in 2012, and underneath the vitriolic reaction to its ending and multiple waves of DLC bot…

I am the very model of a sci-fi shooter RPG! From Omega to Luna I'm the zenith and the apogee! 

2010's Mass Effect 2 continues the story of Commander Shepard's quest to save the galaxy, but with new c…

Back on our BioWare business. 

Mass Effect was one of the biggest phenomena in video games from the late 2000s through the early 2010s, and all three games in the original trilogy hold up as role-play…

Thank you for listening to Retro Encounter for a Quite Interesting seven years!

If you know two things about Retro Encounter, they’re probably that the podcast plays through great RPGs from every era…

This game is from 2022, but horny teenagers getting murdered at a summer camp is Retro as can be.

Happy Halloween! As far as Retro Encounter is concerned, Halloween begins in early September and last…