As in loading back your save if you die? That changes the game into something different. Going back to the start is the whole point.Hard is a relative term, a lot of reviewers aren't very good at games to begin with so taking their word for it can be a bit tough. The game itself isn't overwhelmingly hard it's the length of time you have to play to get any progress saved that is the issue IMO. They could totally give the option of saving for people who want it or a setting with saves that only happen the way they do now. I couldn't care less how someone else decides to play a game although I do find it funny when people talk about playing on the hardest difficult level like it's some kind of brag. I suspect they are the people that will go buy a box of magnums and a bag of rubber bands together lol.