Should I be playing on easy?

[joj]

I just wanted a fun persona game. Not this SMT soul crushing crap

[Peter_Paradox]

I can safely say ive managed to get to.. the third segment of the game all whilst playing on hard mode. Its not been a good time, but its made the challenges more rewarding.. however, this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ octopus had me turn it down to medium. Honestly most of the difficulty comes from having the wrong thing equipped at the worst time.. It doesnt feel good, but utilize your restarts mid combat and meta knowledge where you need to in tougher fights to formulate a better strategy.. theres alot of moving pieces, and once youve locked in your stuck during a fight. Theres no shame in turning things down though, really.. youve nothing to prove to anybody my friend. Dont let your ego ruin what otherwise could be a fun experience for yourself.

[Liadz]

You should give it a try. If you like it, you like it.

[It's so splendid, high above you]

The devs didn’t add a difficulty achievement so I assume they just want you to play on whatever you feel you have the most fun on

[Jawsofwar]

Play what difficulty makes you happy it is not for us to judge.

[Niras]

You can always change the difficulty if it proves too hard/easy. There's no achievement for beating the story on certain diff.
Mind you storyteller won't allow you to switch back to higher diffs.

[MeldinX2]

The game kind of expects you to use the Rewind feature to make the fights easier. Aswell as changing archetypes depending on what you are up against. If a boss deal heavy fire based aoe damage to the party then MAYBE don't have archetypes that are weak to fire. Just an example.

[Fuhrer]

I mean if you're bad at video games, yeah, go for it. They include the options for a reason.

[OshinoArarougi]

Originally posted by joj:

I just wanted a fun persona game. Not this SMT soul crushing crap

Play the game however you want in whatever way you enjoy it the most. It's not a competition against other people who want to play on harder difficulties.

[Pigsnortcore DSP style]

it's pretty hard on normal until you get more skills/levels/gear later. Personally i got tired of grinding and just using trainer for leveling personas/one shotting mobs

[Tabe]

I've been playing on normal, 0 grinding or rerunning things and haven't had much trouble so far. It feels just about right, a good level of challenge. Make sure to but the information from informants for quests and setup your team to cover defenses and weaknesses.

[joj]

Im sticking to normal i just had to grind lol

[joj]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

I mean if you're bad at video games, yeah, go for it. They include the options for a reason.

or i jus dont like spongy enemies?

[RupderDucky]

Originally posted by Peter_Paradox:

I can safely say ive managed to get to.. the third segment of the game all whilst playing on hard mode. Its not been a good time, but its made the challenges more rewarding.. however, this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ octopus had me turn it down to medium. Honestly most of the difficulty comes from having the wrong thing equipped at the worst time.. It doesnt feel good, but utilize your restarts mid combat and meta knowledge where you need to in tougher fights to formulate a better strategy.. theres alot of moving pieces, and once youve locked in your stuck during a fight. Theres no shame in turning things down though, really.. youve nothing to prove to anybody my friend. Dont let your ego ruin what otherwise could be a fun experience for yourself.

I play on hard and spent about eight hours on that fight. I went online and found an archetype combination that kills him pretty easily however, it involves Strohl being a Wizard I think. I beat the fight on hard but I hated the way I did it so I started a new game- also on hard but now I'll be ready for that fight.

To answer the original question though, you need to learn how to use the various archetypes and which combinations are good for specific bosses. You'll also want to use consumable items regularly.

Also, there's a pendant you can buy for 40,000 Gold (I forgot the name of the currency) which allows the wearer to take two turns back to back. Buy that item and put it on the strongest party member for any given boss.

[Griever]

The difficulty seem perfect to me.
Normal is just challenging enough without being too hard or too easy.
Hard is definitely hard, and wasn't for me at all, it adds one turn for the enemies so you need to be way more strategic.

And easy is probably a story mode. If you want story go easy.
Personally I need a slight challenge to make the game and story impactful and satisfying, so I play on normal.

[arta]

bigest treat for end game become staus efects and allmight skills some bosses use mixed atacks