QUALITY OF LIFE PROBLEM: Game over screen does not allow reload/replay.You literally have to quit the screen and reload the game/page every time you want to try again!
if you get to the checkpoint room with the merchant it loads from there
That doesn't address OPs concern at all, and I'm getting the same issue
The problem is, if there is no savepoint the game doesn't know what to do. This issue stops happening the first time a checkpoint is reached.
