Codie: I think you can save anywhere on the world map.

CB007, among the hardcore DMC community, easy-auto mode is pretty much a "no no." But you might like it better than Normal. For someone like myself and Crawl (who consider challenge to be the most important part of a game) I'd suggest sticking to normal. But from what I know of you, challenge isn't a paramount aspect of a game. I've never played easy-auto, but Crawl's played through some of the game on that level before switching to normal. You might be able to find the old game progress topic where we talk about it. But from what I hear, easy-auto and normal are worlds apart.

For myself, my curiosity got the better of me and I started a new game + of Parasite Eve. I mainly wanted to see the new area. I'm not sure I made the right choice. It's basically 77 floors of randomly generated maze. Each floor has an item room full of cool items. But it's rather tedious to find the room and then the stariway. It's broken up into sections of 10 floors with no save points. Each 10th floor is a boss that gives you a key good for the elevator to previous floors. so far, it takes about an hour to go up 10 floors. I think the mazes get mroe complicated, too. Maps won't help if you die, because the maze will change when you retry. So...this could be a nightmare. But because I tend to stick with things I start, I'll keep at it. The items are good enough to make the thing somewhat worth doing.