Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-35179677-20180402021802/@comment-31763506-20180405022801

Well, idiot is a very strong word. Like I said, it seemed intuitively unlikely to me that you'd get a save faster than you could replay. You won't catch me complaining about how good gaming was better back in the good old days before autosaving. (I prefer to wax poetic about the early NES days, when we had no saving at all, and to walk 16 miles through the snow to get our game cartidges, which built character, dagnabbit.)

It might actually behoove you to restart anyway if you got killed in the Merchant Camp, since this suggests your party is underpowered and you maybe should have been more careful about getting the available monsters for EXP.