The game is too hard

[Vayne]

Belega corridor...early dungeon and enemy hit 50% of my hp, run out mp fast....did the dev test this game?

[MeltingPotOfFriendship]

Originally posted by Vayne:

Belega corridor...early dungeon and enemy hit 50% of my hp, run out mp fast....did the dev test this game?

It's not that hard. Play Persona 5 Royal, then come back here.

[scoobythedoo]

Originally posted by nakamura88:

There's not really a reason to play the game on higher difficulty levels because enemies become sponges that drain your MP

this is true, it's just for the sweaties to make them feel good

[Klinestife]

Originally posted by Andy Wankski:

Originally posted by Vayne:

Belega corridor...early dungeon and enemy hit 50% of my hp, run out mp fast....did the dev test this game?

It's not that hard. Play Persona 5 Royal, then come back here.

the easiest persona in the series? lol.

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Originally posted by Andy Wankski:

Originally posted by Vayne:

Belega corridor...early dungeon and enemy hit 50% of my hp, run out mp fast....did the dev test this game?

It's not that hard. Play Persona 5 Royal, then come back here.

Persona 5 royal is much easier than metaphor. Not that metaphor is hard, but the job system actually makes you strategize a bit.

[prezes_08]

Originally posted by baptizedbybongwater:

Originally posted by Andy Wankski:

It's not that hard. Play Persona 5 Royal, then come back here.

Persona 5 royal is much easier than metaphor. Not that metaphor is hard, but the job system actually makes you strategize a bit.

Both games are simple as long as you go through the tutorial without skipping

[arta]

my party full of dps you need have any desent healer skills too game for sure harder then persona becouse how limted is you mp

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Originally posted by prezes_08:

Originally posted by baptizedbybongwater:

Persona 5 royal is much easier than metaphor. Not that metaphor is hard, but the job system actually makes you strategize a bit.

Both games are simple as long as you go through the tutorial without skipping

I know. The person i was replying to was acting like persona 5 was in some way hard.

[MeldinX2]

Yeah well and Persona 5 Royal was WAY too braindead easy. This is more forgiving then SMT and is a good middleground since it respects my intelligence to make good choices in battle. It's a turn based combat game, it should require thinking and planning. And it should be challenging.

If you don't like it being hard you can change it to Easy or even Storyteller. So you have options.

[Ryan Gosling]

Early game in all the Atlus games has always been harder than late game, the game becomes almost trivial once you get the 4th party member. And once you got to actual end game it really does become so easy I struggle to beat the game just because how boring the fights become, I killed the super boss in like 3 turns on hard mode. In fact I would recommend anyone to not use the endgame archetype and to not do any sort of grinding to unlock them to actually have a good time playing this game

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Frostlight Inc.:

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

It is a question of lacking experience or expertise with the game mechanics.
In jrpgs understanding the mechanics is where a lot of the skill is located. This is especially true for turn-based jrpgs.

For example in this case: characters in the back row take half damage from melee attacks.
You can guard to further reduce damage taken. Higher endurance (character and Arch-type stats) and defense (equipment stats) also reduces damage. You can buff your defensive on top of that. Furthermore, if a character has a weakness to the damage-type they will take more damage but if they have a resistance to the damage-type they will take less damage.

Players shouldn't need "expertise" with the combat system at the beginning of the game on Normal difficulty.

Normal (regular) players do need experience to get used to new mechanics.

[Dosidark]

skill issue

[Dailao]

Originally posted by RamenL:

the early game dungeon was a bit weird.. past like the second dungeon i dont think you have this issue anymore.

Yeah for some reason it seemed quite hard at the beginning, but now that I'm in the third region I go up some bosses and kill them in the first two rounds without ever being in any danger. Granted I play on a lower difficulty, but the progression to difficulty relation seems to be a little unbalanced in the other direction now.

[Oinkpiggy]

Originally posted by DreamCore.SwE:

Originally posted by Ancient Toaster:

I hate to say it but....Skill issue bud.

Turn the difficulty down to Normal or Easy.

Not a skill issue. You're obvious a teen trying to flex his e-peen. The difficlty of this game is obviously broken. Whole party can get one shotted in one turn even on Normal difficulty. I was level 16 on the optional boss in the first optional dungeon and he one shotted whole party 3 times before I gave up.

It literally is skill issue. I played the entire game on hard and had no issues whatsoever with any of the bosses. No idea how y'all are getting one-shotted in normal??? If you're engaging with the game's mechanics, then there shouldn't be any issue. If you're getting one-shotted in normal mode, then you're clearly doing something wrong.

[Tegridy Farms]

Originally posted by baptizedbybongwater:

Originally posted by Andy Wankski:

It's not that hard. Play Persona 5 Royal, then come back here.

Persona 5 royal is much easier than metaphor. Not that metaphor is hard, but the job system actually makes you strategize a bit.

I don't know if it's actually "harder" i'll reserve that judgment until i'm done with the game. I will say though i do like how i'm actually using all the archtypes in this game instead of just loading up 2 or 3 persona with all the skills i need to beat the whole game.

[ShockedHearts]

try lowering the difficulty.

alternate option > get better at the game (its more than possible on hard)