Legacy of Kain: Defiance -- FATAL FUCKING ERROR.

There has been a change of plans and I won't be talking much about the puzzles and story of Legacy of Kain: Defiance as I've encountered a fatal error. A fatal error is when something in the code causes a glitch in the game that you can't get beyond. In the game, I'm supposed to deliver the Heart of Darkness to the corpse of Janos Audron. I obtained the heart via a cinema sequence at the end of which you must hit the A button on the message confirming you've picked up said item. I play on. Save the game. Come to play it the next day. Play on. Get through all the puzzles in Vorador's mansion to finally get to the crypt where the body of Janos is at rest. I walk in, and a great nothing. There is obviously supposed to be a cinema scene. I check the menu, and the directive listed is to resurrect Janos. One would do that by returning his heart. So I go back to the game, and walk all around him looking for the trigger. Nothing. I try hitting the buttons. Nothing. I look at the screen again, maybe I actually have to use the heart even though nothing has had to have been used this way previously, it's all been automatic. It's then I notice the heart isn't located in the artifacts section. It's just not there. The key to the trigger of the scene isn't there. Well, I better make sure. I check a FAQ. Yep, it's what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to just return here and a scene will play on its own. So it looks like I'm fucked. I load the only save I have, no backup. Work my way back and nothing. I power off, reload the game and save, check the inventory and nothing. Well, I better be sure, so I make my way back, and fucking nothing. Holy shit am I pissed off about this. The games have been notoriously glitchy since the second in the series, I manage to make it through all five of the games up unto the very goddamned end of the final one. According to the FAQ, I was very near the end. The scene results in me being whisked to the final location of the game where a battle and a scene happen. I would switch over to Kain, make my way there, and the final boss battle would take place. The end, but no. I'm fucked twelve hours in with just twenty minutes left to the whole thing. I was able to unlock what's called the Dark Chronicle with a code. It has all the cinema scenes in the game, and I was able to watch the one I couldn't trigger, the two after, and the ending. I was able to gather the actual events in-between from the FAQs, I just didn't get to play them out myself. I am too angry to start over, and I will be for a great while. Bah!