Interesting story! It somehow gave me Halo Reach final mission vibes.
Gameplay and story are not so tightly integrated - I feel like I should want to fight as hard as I can each time, but once I figured out I was meant to lose and would get upgrades, I just let myself die the next two times (then progress reset and I got annoyed).
Yeah so, your goal is still to win, just you need your memories first. You get a "different ending" if you kill him before restoring your memories where the narrator says Resfin can no longer stop you from wrecking havoc etc. Not perfect but that's the challenge of the theme :) The loss of upgrades after an extra death was not intentional, sorry about that! Commonly reported bug.
