Yeah I know about the back-up thing. I did it at first (Cyseal part is really hard on tactician difficulty), and drop it once Cyseal was done. It was quickly annoying to download/upload the save data, and I really didn't see the point to simply make tactician mode more annoying (but not more difficult). Like I said, honour mode felt really cheap to me. It's the level 0 of 'how to artificially increase a game's difficulty'. I guess balancing another difficulty mode was too much work (and, btw, tactician mode wasn't really well balanced...), so, hey, let's just delete the save after a game over

. Nice idea.
Some aspects of the game (like the RPS minigame, which determines so many things based on mostly luck) felt unfortunately badly designed.