Yeah, so aparently where I lost my save earlier was right before one of the endings. It actually only took me about twenty min to get back there since I'd already ran through the puzzles and could skip the dialogue. Finished it, awesome...time to go for a different ending.
The concept they have there is pretty cool. Text/adventure game where you can only gets bits of the story at a time for contextual reasons. Play through multiple times to figure out what was going on. Neat. Skipping cuts down on the monotony of doing so and new puzzles are always interesting.
So, I'm rolling through my second play through and some of the new conversations I'm having are taking a turn fort the fucking stupid and weird. Like, expanding on themes that I guess I just glossed over initially, but now I can't because they're the only real themes that keep on coming up. I think I know where this is going and I may heed Idol's warning here: I'll probably save myself ten hours and just read a plot synopsis or something.
But seriously, why can't anyone (Japanese) just have a cool fucking mystery game without all this weird bullshit in it? Fuck you, anime.