Can't continue after death

[icambron]

I died in a slightly embarrassing way: while fighting the ginger zombies in the school basement, I shot out a vent cover and it fell on me. But when I hit continue, it just sits on a black screen showing me hints forever, never actually putting me into the game. Restarting the game and selecting continue has the same effect. I haven't created an explicit save for a while, so that's a big setback. Is there a workaround?

 

As far as I can tell this is a completely separate issue than the "stuck on loading screen" one in the FAQ.

[anus]

try loading back to a savepoint before the fight via load new game (should be 3 of your latest previous savepoints available to choose from).

its often been suggested on here to fight the battle with a different buddy (ie if you used butters, switch to kenny and proceed through the fight that way).