This deals with late in Suikoden V, so I'll enclose the post in a spoiler tag: [spoiler] I'm virtually at the end of Suikoden V, which concludes with a trek through an ice dungeon. You split up into 3 groups and navigate through, flipping switches to clear the paths for each other. The game has random encounters, so you have to deal with those along the way. You have to fight a boss battle with each group. Done and done, without incident, although it doesn't really make it clear that the battle is a boss battle as it occurs as a random encounter. I thought I would have to take a couple tries with a group or two, since it lets you restart the battle if you lose, but I managed to win all first-time. No save point through all of this. So after that, you choose a new single group to move on. One of the last remaining enemies, Dolph, is blocking your way to the final battle, and you have to do a duel with him. One of the characters, Lyon, says she wants to take care of him, so I agreed and you take control of her instead. In a duel, you choose Special, Attack or Guard in a Rock/Paper/Scissors style combat, and you choose based on the taunts of your opponent (agressive or docile). Well, Dolph basically gives no clues. He'll say the same thing nearly word for word and chooses two different actions. So I lost that battle and you (the Prince) step in to take him on. In the story Lyon has a longtime feud with Dolph and I wanted to see that scene instead. Also, Lyon naturally appeared injured and I could definitely use one of my strongest characters for the final battle. I threw the fight with the Prince to start the scene over--except it just gives a Game Over screen and sends you back to the title screen. Every other battle in the game give you the choice to Continue, except this one after an hour of crap to get there with no save points. *Checking some sites, there are random instances in the game where it will just end if you either choose the wrong sequence of answers or lose certain fights. Worse, though, is that you apparently only get the "good" ending if you recruit every possible person, which is stupid because you can't possibly support them all. [/spoiler]