Save point

The save point is adopted in Final Fantasy in addition to Inns as a place to save and heal up. The world map tends to be one huge save point, and healing up is not automatic in any way; a save point is simply a place to use tents and cottages and to save your progress. A save point tends to be placed right before a particuarly hard point in a dungeon, as a breather in a long run of battles, or before a boss battle.

In the portable Final Fantasy games, there is also a quicksave feature whereby the player can suspend gameplay and restart at any time. However, this is only a temporary save and is deleted when it is recovered (as such, if your party dies you will revert to your last save and not your last quicksave).