Game difficulty breaks completely after the 12th shadow

[matija123123]

To start I went into the game on 2nd hardest difficulty because I heard that in p5 hard is the hardest difficulty and not merciless because of bunch of different factors so I assumed it's the same with this game as well.

And tbh game did start hard 1st boss in the train felt extremely hard and ones in the love hotel were brutal and early levels of Tartarus were okay with few difficulty spikes but after the hanged man I feel like the game becomes easy no matter on what difficulty you play.

Three main factors for this would be the following: number one you start reaching lvl 50 and ability to fuse Siegfried, two theurgies start becoming way too op at first they actually feel balanced but then ken shows up you know with his massive heal and both barriers on every teammate, but at least there is cool down right?

Yeah nah after you do some side stuff with him he starts recharging this rapidly, then there is obviously scarlet havoc which is Armageddon just unlocked at lvl 54, and then there is Armageddon but that one is unlocked basically near the end so I'll let it pass but I still don't like it

And last one being easy leveling you will quickly become over leveled and if you kill the reaper which is very easy to do now you will jump to level 90+ and the reason why I'm even mentioning all this is because I played somewhat casually I wasn't trying to make things ridiculously easy I wasn't min-maxing and the game still broke by itself and it really did ruin the last boss fight for me because when I played trough portable nyx actually felt impossible you had to struggle just to reach the last phase and in here you can auto most of the fight you will never take damage because of ken and if you do yukari will just be there to heal everyone if needed.

It is a amazing game that genuinely made me cry at the end but it just feels like they gave up on balancing and difficulty way too early and even going to merciless wouldn't fix that because slight increase in health won't matter while you are still doing 3x the damage of enemies health with brave blade and scarlet havoc while sitting protected from physical and magical attacks.

[Arifufu]

the final boss is only level 83, if you wanna actual challange do merciless and don't unlock Armageddon

anyway Elizabeth is the actual hard boss, you need a proper setup

[matija123123]

Originally posted by Arifufu:

the final boss is only level 83, if you wanna actual challange do merciless and don't unlock Armageddon

anyway Elizabeth is the actual hard boss, you need a proper setup

Well again it's really hard not to over level in this game and I didn't use Armageddon on bosses

For Elizabeth herself she is okay I saw the fight, I like how there is all these rules but one optional challenge doesn't change core problems with difficulty. I played SMT nocturne and even when I would think that I'm good now there would always be something to humble me even in p4 and p5 you would have to get a bit further into the game before becoming actually op and again I wouldn't mind p3 difficulty if last phase of nyx was 3x harder had more hp and wasn't nerfed because they removed some of her moves.

[Haru]

SMT Nocturne felt like the gold standard for difficulty, honestly. Maybe some of DDS and DDS2 that released within the same gen'. Some very memorable fights there.