Wow this game is like... god tier Dark Souls level hard... You die... and the game goes HAHA and sends you back to the main menu. No continue, no nothing. GFG.
PSA; Don't play on Hard or higher before you get to the first save point... there's no autosave and we're back to manual save point saving. Regular enemies hit for more than half your health at the beginning portion, even on Hard mode, which is one up from Normal mode. And the first mini boss can literally one hit you... so yeah. Unless you want to be playing the tutorial for like a million times. Stay on normal.