As I said, the game's hard. No tears. I just finally lost patience in this case, because 1- I was killed not by a lack of skill, but by two different absurd game mechanics that combined to render me helpless, and 2- it was going to take a huge chunk of real life time to get back to square one, so I finally said @#$!. Been playing it for dozens of hours, the hard way, so I don't feel too bad.