Please let us increase difficulty past "Hard" after starting the game

[Hearts™]

I hate difficulty settings in games so much and this is a big reason why. "Hard" is, sadly, pretty easy by the end game.

I love Persona 3, and I even love the remake, but they seriously didn't balance the difficulty in this game properly at all. If anyone's reading this and hasn't started the game, I implore you, set the game on the highest difficulty setting if you even remotely care about having to think about the game.

[Arifufu]

not everyone like you who wanna challenge from a game, i meet some people who actually run easy or even peaceful difficulty because they only care about the story (they don't even care optimal persona build), myself was playing on normal, but suddenly i found out there's a reward only if player finish this game in merciless diff, so i replay the game.

[Hearts™]

I'm not even a person who wants a huge challenge from a game, though. I picked "Hard" because I wanted the game to at least put up a fight. But once you get a good persona build going, you just faceroll everything in the late game without thought or effort. I have started just skipping all the random battles (they run away from me), playing solo without party members, and only doing the boss fights, because every random battle is over in 1 turn and the only incentive I have to play them is, well, even more power, which I no longer need. I don't think this is the intended experience.

[Mescalite]

yeh i chose hard, to not be destroyed in merciless.
but I am deceived that this is waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy.
So i totally would have loved an increase option

[ken_deep]

Originally posted by Arifufu:

not everyone like you who wanna challenge from a game, i meet some people who actually run easy or even peaceful difficulty because they only care about the story (they don't even care optimal persona build), myself was playing on normal, but suddenly i found out there's a reward only if player finish this game in merciless diff, so i replay the game.

Its not about game offering easy mode thats annoying, giving players options is good and dandy. But I've started playing on the highest difficulty and I'm pretty glad that I did that, because the difficulty I chose was what I expected "hard" to be. "Hard" is not hard, hard is what shouldve been the average experience.
And that wouldnt be an issue tbh if you were able to just jump back to merciless whenever you wanted to. I love that you can switch difficulties on the go. But that merciless is exempt for that is just weird.

[Tracido]

Originally posted by Hearts™:

I hate difficulty settings in games so much and this is a big reason why. "Hard" is, sadly, pretty easy by the end game.

I love Persona 3, and I even love the remake, but they seriously didn't balance the difficulty in this game properly at all. If anyone's reading this and hasn't started the game, I implore you, set the game on the highest difficulty setting if you even remotely care about having to think about the game.

Cheat Engine table fix here, https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?p=332820&sid=ab79ca3219d8d42ac83de33dad05deef#p332820 select Pointer Base (Money), open it, then select the new box that appears called Difficulty," and change it to your desired level.