Difficulty

[Texus]

If I understood it correcctly or at least remember it right, you are forced to play this on normal which might be to easy for those experienced in anything like Shin Megami Tensei or Persona?

[Smugleaf]

You're able to choose Hard mode at the start. There's four difficulties - Safety, Easy, Normal, and Hard.

[Arifufu]

as mentioned above, you can choose between 4 difficulties
however safety is free DLC so you need to claim that first

normally 3 difficulty if you don't want play this game with DLC:
Easy, Normal, and Hard.

But HARD can only be choose at the start of the game, if you turn down difficulty to Normal or Easy in the middle of the game then you can't change back to Hard again.

My little advice, if you are willing to play this game multiple times just choose Normal so you can go hard on NG+, but if you someone like challenge and don't want to replay this game then just go with Hard, this game mean to be played multiple times though

on top difficulty, whenever you play another NG+ the game will ask you:
Newborn: play MC as level 1 again and carry over some items
Reborn: play from your previous MC level, carry over most of your items
Godborn: same like Reborn but every enemy will start at level 150, but this mode locked behind certain superboss

[Texus]

So godborn let's me challange some super bosses?, I did read that right?
So what was all that talk about then? I remember the typical, its easy talk.

[Ranger_Arion]

Originally posted by Texus:

So godborn let's me challange some super bosses?, I did read that right?
So what was all that talk about then? I remember the typical, its easy talk.

You have to defeat a certain super boss before you unlock godborn, also quick fun fact, you aren't completing the compendium unless at the very least, you start a godborn run

[Texus]

Okay now and I hope I didn't just forgot about it because of the stress I have right now, I just want to know how difficult you think hard actually is.
I know it's a more or less simple battle mechanic, but I also heard people who are used to these mechanics are just better at it and just think it's easy.
I'm trying to find a reason to join this game soon, not every SMT fits my taste but I played one of the main games already, but only the 3DS part, otherwise it was something like devil survivor or Persona.

[thefollowingcharacters]

Hard mode is hard. LIke all RPGs, the difficulty is not in your mechanical skill, but in knowledge. Lower difficulties punish you less for not having knowledge. Hard punishes you pretty hard for not having knowledge. So while you're figuring things out, mistakes hit harder and for some, this makes when you figure it out all the more sweeter.

Of course, if you use a guide its all easy. If you know what's coming and what to expect, you have the knowledge, therefore you win. Most people who say, "Hard is easy" are those who probably use guides.

[HRHV87]

Difficulty comes from knowledge checks. In the easier difficulties you can win by just using weaknesses and doing minor adjustments, in Hard things are much tankier and kill you almost instantly so you need to prepare accordinly to avoid certain death. This becomes painfuly obvious in the first boss fight which is a breeze in Easy or can obliterate your entire party in a single turn if you didn't prepare enough in Hard.