Of course there isn't a "surefire" way to help. Things aren't that easy. And sometimes there isn't anything you can do, and someone is going to get hurt no matter what.

But that doesn't mean you can't still try, and it doesn't mean it won't help, some other times. The problem with this game wasn't that either you or him had to die and you picked you and he didn't let you. The problem was that you decided you weren't even going to try to get through it with both of you alive. This wasn't like the balloon game, where half the units had to die no matter what. If the points had balanced out more, no one would have died. You sabotaged yourself.

I know it's hard, to keep feeling like there's anything you can do when you've messed up a lot, and when sometimes there just isn't. Like... in the princess game. But I'm here to tell you you can still make a difference.