Make it checkpoints, you can learn to balance this if you put your mind to it.
When I play games, and I find a hard hard area that I die a lot in, the checkpoint is usually far away like on Jak 2. Learn from that mistake by doing this. Place checkpoint in places where it is nessecary in a very difficult part, like a section of the game where you start getting chased.
If they start all over, and it's a large game than your making people more mad. Don't worry about making it 'too easy' just make challenging puzzles and find other obstacles to add but with reasonable checkpoints near by but not too many. |