Rest easy, you can save anywhere you want any time.

I have to post a warning here because the "save anywhere, any time" post lead me to buy Pine.

You can save anywhere, any time to pre-defined checkpoints. You have no idea where these checkpoints are until you load a game; in one case it was in an entirely different region within the game. (I loaded a save in the Fexel village in Wedgewoods and found myself back at Home village, the starting area, with a convoluted trek back to where I'd saved.)

You also have to save to 3 unnameable save slots distinguished uniquely only by a time/date stamp. If you want to return to a specific point in the game, you have to have kept a diary and hope you still have the save in one of the 3 slots.

Perhaps it's supposed to be cute 'retro'. It certainly reminds me, as do almost all games I play now, of the limitations imposed by hardware in the '80's, such as saving to cassette on a ZX Spectrum. In the 21st century it's just not good enough and I wouldn't have bought the game if I'd known.

Along with other issues it's now been added to the growing pile of games I'll never finish.