Originally Posted by Roq
I think the death mechanic is a potentially interesting idea. The take one step, save, rinse and repeat method in most single player games is something that surely could use some alternatives other than iron man modes, which tend to be too extreme. You can't ask them to innovate and then scream when they actually do something a bit differently .

Well… as has been remarked, they're not actually innovating. I'm willing to bet that if it hadn't been for PS:T, they would have gone with a regular death mechanic.