In Breath of Fire II for SNes there's this part where you have to use the Monkey. And I hadn't used the Monkey and I saved past a point so I was stuck grinding the monkey. I never came back to it. I started playing it on the GBA cause I heard the grinding wasn't so tedious, but I haven't reached that point yet. That's the only time I can think of that a game beat me. I can get really stubborn when it comes to that stuff. I beat Phantasy Star, I drew maps.