Dead Rising -- Stillborn?

I have spent hours with Dead Rising and I'm still on the first night. I do not know what to make of this game. It has moments of great fun and moments of infuriating stupidity. It's great fun to dispatch zombies in a myriad of creative ways. The story seems cool so far. Good voice acting brings it home. I'm interested to see how it goes. The game controls well enough. I want to like it a lot, but there are some serious issues going on here that make me want to scream. I seriously have to wonder what was going on in the minds of the designers when they decided on some of these very questionable design choices. Why the bloody hell do the convicts respawn? What is the logic in that? How the hell am I supposed to escort the extraordinarily retarded NPCs through the park when the convicts are always there? Why is there no record or log of the scoop information when the text is hard to read and pops up and off the screen in a flash? Why do I have to constantly have to fight through the elevator again and again? The respawn issue is crippling the game for me. Maybe it's because I'm pissed off, but I can't think of another design choice as stupid as this. Right now I'm questioning if I'll even be able to make it through this game.