This a hard game?

[DESTARD]

I never played the first but like the animations watched a little youtube of the last game.

[Dr.Disaster]

Depends on which difficulty you choose.
Like in LoG1 there are three difficulties: easy, normal and hard. From my experience as beta tester i can say this:

LoG2 Easy is similar to LoG1 Normal
LoG2 Normal is similar to LoG1 Hard
LoG2 Hard is .. Ouch!

[DESTARD]

Thanks just picked up both games with the bundle looking fowards to this game more then any game on my wish list.

[mbpoblet]

Originally posted by Dr.Disaster:

Depends on which difficulty you choose.
Like in LoG1 there are three difficulties: easy, normal and hard. From my experience as beta tester i can say this:

LoG2 Easy is similar to LoG1 Normal
LoG2 Normal is similar to LoG1 Hard
LoG2 Hard is .. Ouch!

Petri (one of the developers) posted this in another thread:

Originally posted by petrih:

I had a really hard time myself with some of the toughest boss fight in the game on normal difficulty, but I'm not the best Grimrock player on earth. There's also Hard difficulty which really means hard. And for the hardest among the hardcore players there's Ironman Mode which allows only saving at crystals and Insane Ironman Mode which makes the crystal one time use only.

And later...

Originally posted by petrih:

Heh :) Please let me know if you can beat the game on Hard and Insane Ironman Mode. I'm pretty sure I can't do it myself.

[Lengray]

Thank you. I'm looking forward to dying.

[mbpoblet]

On rereading that, "insane ironman mode" does sound insane. :D

[Lars 'Freeze']

Originally posted by SlipGate:

I never played the first but like the animations watched a little youtube of the last game.

Play the first game, it's really good! :)

[Keeper]

If I remember correctly, I beat the first game on normal/medium difficulty and it was not too difficult. The biggest challenge was actually figuring out certain puzzles, which I have to admit became a bit dull at some point. I was much more interested in the universe, plot, and combat.

[ron1n]

I found party//race/class composition had a big impact on the difficulty of the games combat.

The more you min/max your characters builds the easier the game becomes.

[Elvis]

Originally posted by ron1n:

I found party//race/class composition had a big impact on the difficulty of the games combat.

The more you min/max your characters builds the easier the game becomes.

Pretty much this.

If you start easy game with 4 farmers, all focusing on dex weapons, you will not have a good time. No matter the difficulty.

Make a balanced party, and if you are not completely horrible at secret finding and/or square dancing combat which are a part of RT Dungeon Crawlers you will have a pretty easy time with the game, except for the bosses, they made them quite hard, which is a good thing.

There are usually several good strats for each boss (which you can figure out). Just make sure you get a fresh save (I played on Normal Ironman mode first time) before you test them for the first time. When you are about to face a boss is usually quite obvious (from notes, location and whatnot).

I 1 or 2 shotted most bosses except for The Master (took me 4 tries).

A few tips:

Play on easy if: You don't like: Looking around for everything, min/maxing chars, reloading if a fight went slightly worse then it had to too conserve consumables.

Play on normal if: You don't mind finding at least 50% of the secrets. But if you are going for the true ending, you will need to still be conservative with consumables and find a lot of the good stuff.

Play on hard if: You really enjoy the combat (I'm not a huge fan of this myself, the exploring and puzzles are what gets me into these games).

Tips for balanced party:
Only focus on 1 weapon type per character & party (light weapons have both dex and str based weapons, so 2 could focus on light weapons one for dex and one for str).
Get at least one alchemist AND level 5 alchemy in your party (I regret not having either by the time I had to face The Master).
Only have 1-2 heavy armor focusing guys (I recommend one), 1-2 light armor and 0-1 without armor skill (based on the best gears you find in the game).
Only 2 stats matter on your characters. Their main stat (str, dex or wis) and vitality.