>The first Siren is one of my favorite games. I'm trying this for the first time and so far it feels like a babyfied, idiot-proof Unsharted edition of the first game without any suspense or dread
You are wrong. This game saves your archives/secondary objectives when you get to a checkpoint but other than that it's as hard as 1. It also has tons of cool locations and the Yamibito are one of the best things about the series