Easy mode?

[Josh]

I've heard this game is pretty tough, I usually play RPGs for the story....when I look ar options for difficulty it only had Normal and up? No easy mode?

[Stabbey]

Just play on Normal and you'll be fine. Trails games on Normal are fine. The games are not known for their combat difficulty.

They're only hard on Hard/Nightmare because the difficulty changes are stat boosts for enemies, and those were not part of the original release, but added in for the PSP versions.

The complaints about Hard/Nightmare are mostly for SC, and only at the start because of how limited your options are at the start for equipment and items.

[EdgarAllenSwole]

Normal is very beginner-friendly.

[Josh]

Great, thanks guys.

[Dragon]

Yes you should play in Normal mode.

But there is also an additional "easy mode" in addition to that, even though it's not technically a difficulty mode.

To access that "easy mode," you have to turn on the option called "Retry Offset."

Then if all your characters get knocked out, you can press the "Retry" button to restart the battle.

Every time you do that, the enemies become nerfed more vs. how strong they were when you just got defeated to them.

So you can do the Retry trick 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 times in a row, and the enemies will keep getting weaker each time. But you probably won't need to use it that much if you choose Normal mode in the first place.

My point is, the Retry Offset feature makes sure you won't ever get stuck due to the enemies being too hard.

[Josh]

Yeah I knew about the Retry feature. I've only played this game for a few hours and it puts FF games to shame.

[Legendary Mr. Tiddles]

The sequels have easy difficulty settings, should you feel the need.

[Stoibs]

Just picked this up from Nuuvem's sale and I was sort of wondering the same thing.
I hate it when lengthy RPG games don't let you change difficulty half way through and you end up getting an annoying experience at either end of the spectrum when you blind guess a difficulty setting (I've had to outright quit some Kingdom Hearts games that were too hard for me; and more recently I'm finding the Tail end of Fire Emblem: Three houses a bit of a bore and a slog for being waaay to easy..)

I think I just went with normal for this, I only discovered this series recently and I figure if I've got about ~6 games to get through here then I may as well pick the quickest and easiest mode that won't roadblock me too much :P

[Smauler]

If you want to overlevel a bit, you can farm shining poms with shadow spear too.

[Dragon]

It's not possible to 'overlevel' in this game since the game automatically stops you from being able to overlevel.

Farming shining poms is always a good idea and everyone should do it every time new ones are available. But that's not overleveling. That's just leveling up to the level your characters are supposed to be for that zone.

[korytoombs]

I discovered the overwhelming power of Chaos Brand in the final battle at the arena.
It seriously won the battle for me.

[Berahlen]

Yeah Chaos Brand is completely broken in the first game. SC and 3rd it's still very useful and powerful, but you can't just hit everything up to and including most bosses with it anymore, lol.

It's even funnier on Nightmare, because its brokenness scales directly with how strong the target is. Enjoy watching those two pikemen just completely murder each other.

[foubou]

There is a trick to modify the difficulty during a game. You just have to modify a value by editing your savefile. Let me some time to remember how it can be done.

[foubou]

And there is an easy mode in FC, but it is...well...very very easy. You can access it by editing a value in your save file.

[Josh]

Originally posted by foubou:

And there is an easy mode in FC, but it is...well...very very easy. You can access it by editing a value in your save file.

and whats that value?