When I opened Werdna's Lair on the tenth floor of Wizardry and saw the message "The Monster's Surprised You" . I had been taking all of my previous permadeaths, drawing maps, etc, but that was absolute bullshit and the game finally broke me. I hit reset, tried again and won. It felt like a hollow victory and I started a new party and level grinded the entire next day and won legitimately. Now when I play Wizardry I use save states, but my original permadeath run coming to an end at the end thanks to bad luck after months of work was very painful, but was even more satisfying after completing the game.