How hard is this game?

[Normandia]

I am looking for a more casual history driven gameplay, not sure if this is for me

[matt612]

You can choose a difficulty level. There are easy, medium and hard difficulty settings in the game

[Kamamura]

It's not hard, it's just badly designed and unfair. As a result, it's tiring and not even the victories feel satisfying.

[HunterXCooL]

there is easy difficulty... but bloody whisker is very hard... some bosses and mobs are just unfair

[TomBombGames]

I find it very hard! Most encounters take me 10 tries to get through, on normal mode!

[Kiwachu]

Feels nearly unfairly difficult, imo. I'm enjoying the game, but it's starting to wear on me having to fight the 3rd boss repeatedly (because I can't figure out how to beat him).

[CapAp]

It's not "hard" as much as it's just lazily designed. Animations do not telegraph attacks and timing windows are irregular, so when you lose to a boss, you don't feel like "oh I learned what I have to do to beat this guy" you just kind of keep bashing your head against the wall until the game grants you a victory. Wait for a sale if at all.

[topolskiego]

Originally posted by Normandia:

I am looking for a more casual history driven gameplay,

Game on normal is really hard. I don't know about easy difficulty but I would guess it's still challenging as it's soullike game.

[Bear]

Wish I had read this before getting the game. Bought it a while ago and just now playing and its too late to refund.

[NoFriction]

Originally posted by Bearricade:

Wish I had read this before getting the game. Bought it a while ago and just now playing and its too late to refund.

ditto, I guess it's on me for not doing enough research

[Bear]

Originally posted by Secret Spy:

Originally posted by Bearricade:

Wish I had read this before getting the game. Bought it a while ago and just now playing and its too late to refund.

ditto, I guess it's on me for not doing enough research

I switched to easy mode and it made the game playable. On easy mode it actually became a really good game. Dissapointing they have hard mode achievements so I cant 100% it. Just beat it on easy mode and it was pretty fun.

[Dedmoin]

I am finishing another game, which is souls like (just to note I am by far not very good but i know how those games work and enjoy them).

Now I bought me Tails of Iron and I love the arts and I am really enjoying it. After getting how combat works, encounters were not a big deal (actually a bit easy).
... until I met my first toad with this strange pink circle special attack. I could not even figure out how to counter those attacks with the training dummy. Double tap dodge... some direction? back and forth? away? into the enemy? lol nothing worked with the dummy and I just manage to end the training by spamming the dodge button.

So coming to my first real enemy with this special attack I constantly lose the fight since it hits me while dodging and it jumps across half of the screen.

It is really a shame but I am going to refund

[Serpiko82]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

I am finishing another game, which is souls like (just to note I am by far not very good but i know how those games work and enjoy them).

Now I bought me Tails of Iron and I love the arts and I am really enjoying it. After getting how combat works, encounters were not a big deal (actually a bit easy).
... until I met my first toad with this strange pink circle special attack. I could not even figure out how to counter those attacks with the training dummy. Double tap dodge... some direction? back and forth? away? into the enemy? lol nothing worked with the dummy and I just manage to end the training by spamming the dodge button.

So coming to my first real enemy with this special attack I constantly lose the fight since it hits me while dodging and it jumps across half of the screen.

It is really a shame but I am going to refund

I understand you're stuck at the first toad boss, the one that smashes in through the castle gate.

It is, indeed, a tough spike in difficulty.

What I took WAY too much time to realize, is that red circle attacks are splash area attacks from above. Those CAN'T be blocked and WILL damage you if you get caught inside the target area, even while dodge rolling.

That guy will always make 2 jump attacks in a row.

Although it isn't an universal rule, it's generally recommendable to stay CLOSE to bosses during fights. Because most of the times, their unblockable attacks are better avoided by rolling towards them and behind their back, rather than rolling back away.

[mahaavalokitesvara]

I just finished that on normal difficulty, the only enemy which really was difficult was Thor, everything else is midly hard. And I am terrible with soulslike games!

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by Serpiko82:

I understand you're stuck at the first toad boss, the one that smashes in through the castle gate.

It is, indeed, a tough spike in difficulty.

Yeah, that first toad is nasty and made me worried that I wouldn't be able to enjoy the game later; but it does get better (not easier, but superior equipment helps a ton) after that.

Late-game spoils.
Once I got the gun ranged combat is extremely useful for wiping out weaker enemies right away or cutting a nice chunk out of a boss's healthbar.

I think the first toad is particularly difficult because we still have terrible equipment when we encounter them and for new players the challenges have been relatively easy in comparison.

[Hotel Security]

I just started it myself on the hardest difficulty and made it through a couple bosses. I've died on a few fights and of course on the bosses but nothing too outlandish...I don't think it's been more than ten deaths against anything. It did feel like enemies took a lot of hits to kill but, after just a few weapon upgrades, I feel I'm already killing enemies a lot quicker. The enemies pack quite a punch and some can 2-hit me but there's also a decent amount of healing and I can refill my health to max at least twice per fight if my bug juice is at max.

What makes it even easier are the checkpoints...they're basically everywhere. I can fight any fight and save and maybe even refill my health reserves after most brawls. This makes the difficulty a lot more bearable since I'm usually reloading right before whatever fight I just died on. I've yet to see any section that feels like a marathon where you have to survive through a bunch of fights before a save or a refill.

So, yeah, if you can handle some dying then start on the hardest mode. And, if what people say is true, the game will get easier as I get more upgrades and better weapons...