Just started the first game. 30 minutes in and it saves a checkpoint that is instant death every time. Does this happen constantly?

I'm in the "escape the castle" portion, and I got a checkpoint where after 1 second, a guard finds my mom and kills her. I try distracting the guards and leading her elsewhere, but she wont move, and eventually the guard will lose interest in my distraction and turn back to her, instantly killing her.

Is my only option restarting the chapter (and thus the game)? How much do you run into this? I may put this game down if I'm going to have to regularly replay 40 minutes of game because I threw a pot right instead of left.