u/GhastlyBespoke

I recovered an accidentally deleted save file yesterday (yes me in another post) and have been roaming around in the endgame. I have just >!gone to teleport to the eastern vault (I think at least - the teleporter to the far right that needs the dash from the main nexus) but when I try to teleport my screen just turns white and shows the UI. There is no way to bring up the menu or anything else and I have to ALT-F4 to close the game.
I've reloaded to a previous save and it's consistently happening when I teleport to that location!< Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm assuming this is related to the data recovery messing up previously. I can see a ton of jumbled characters towards the end next to a >!'permanently dead' or something like that (spoiler tagging since I don't know what this means) !< - is that meant to be there at the end of the file when opening it in notepad? I'm a bit scared to look into the file more since I can see people saying there are spoilers saved in there in plaintext.

Thanks!

I just started playing the game and got hooked over the weekend, putting in about ~10 hours. I've just >!restored my body from all the hero's graves, and have found a handful of fairies and the completion page. So naturally I'm going around and trying to find some more and clear off that completion page before going back to rematch the heir.!<

This is where it gets annoying - I started playing the first two hours on my steam deck, then switched to my main PC - last playing on Sunday night. My deck must have been disconnected from the internet at some point so the updated save didn't sync.

Flash forward to this morning when I try to play on my steam deck on the train and when I launch the game I enter back into my 2 hour save file. I just assume I'll need to sync when I get home and reconnect to wifi... but when I get home steam sees the deck files as more recent and overrides my cloud saves everywhere. Deleting my 10 hour save file.

I download a file recovery program to recover the deleted file and brawl with steam cloud sync over and over before finally getting back to my old save... >!but something is weird now and there's a second 'File 2' with 999 hours in my list. Considering I'm dicking around recovering deleted files I assume that means something here is corrupted and repeat the process a ton more times but it keeps coming back no matter how many times I delete.
Imagine my shock when I finally google it and find out it's an intended in-game mechanic. I've spent an hour pulling my hair out going insane because I think my save is borked but turns out the game was just gaslighting me. 10/10 move but please pick better timing in future game.!<