Mueslinator: I decided to try the EA out for myself (just finished it on Hard as well), and that has been my experience so far as well. In fact, I left behind a fair few soul tethers because they simply were not conveniently placed, and I could not be assed to backtrack "just so I can save". Which makes the decision to go with limited saves... weird.

From my perspective, they do not have any tangible benefit on game play (contrasted with Alien Isolation, the one game I know that does limited saves really well, in my opinion), and in fact, kind of detract from the game. Oh well, it's not a major issue.

I died once to one of the "executioner traps" - where you go through a door, an executioner crashes right into your face, and the door behind you closes. Over-all, I do agree on this point as well, though: Health and ammo on Hard is plentiful. I mean, maybe I am underestimating my skill level, but I am old and rusty when it comes to fast-paced fps games, and I found Hard a good bit too easy.

Additionally, a lot of the difficulty did not come from good game play ("I could have avoided that"), but seems to be from relatively unavoidable damage, e.g. the aforementioned executioners and the widows - both of which have "hitscan" melee attacks, i.e. they damage you as soon as in range, even if their animation has them still swinging.

Apart from that slight cheese, I really like it so far. Well, maybe they could make the Undercroft level a bit more graphically distinctive in parts, because it reuses a lot of textures, styles and assets, which makes orientation harder than it needs to be, and exhausts the brain.

edit: Also, thanks for the link and the thorough explanation how levels/hubs will be handled in the full release. Seeing how expansive the first two levels are, I think that should result in a plenty rich game.