How hard will this game be, you think?

[Helgis]

Just wanted your take on it.

[Gwynbleidd]

its harder than Persona imo on the demo, but its too early for now, maybe even on par with SMT or higher.

[Starchild]

Not very. Atlus games have never really been difficult

[Niras]

hard to tell


If difficulty will be exacly as in the demo:
I was playing on normal, dungeons will be a breeze while bosses will be quite challanging. Boss in the mines required 5 tries for me to beat him and I've heard other ppl had problems with it (including SMT vets) in ~2h timed preview they got.

Keep in mind there are also many possible Archetypes combinations you can have in your party so it's not that easy to balance and your mileage may vary depending on your setup.

e.g Healer is strong in next dungeon
Mage provides additional explotations of enemy weaknesses
Warrior have perrty intresting synergy which you can find out in later levels.

[Mr_Murphey]

I think most of the difficulty in the game will come from messing up and getting slapped by a monster in the overworld.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Hoping SMT 3 Maniac level hard on Regicide.

[Aldain]

Originally posted by Starchild:

Not very. Atlus games have never really been difficult

Ever play Etrian Odyssey?

Usually not too bad, but every now and then somebody at Atlus must release 1% of their boundless hatred for humanity and that shows up in certain bosses that I'd wager feel exactly like testicular torsion.

[jalipeno97]

i want the game to kick my ass i love that about most atlus rpgs. if only tactics were usable in regular fights instead of being exclusive to auto battle, i loved them in p3 welcome change of pace

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Starchild:

Not very. Atlus games have never really been difficult

They are compared to the average JRPG, especially the MegaTen series.

[ShockedHearts]

from experience with persona 3-4-5. this game is harder than all 3 of those combined.

Hard is our highest difficulty as of now (regicide being the hardest) and HARD alone is harder than merciless etc from the persona games. Regicide is probably a hellscape and im looking forward to it.

I will say the game is bad at portraying difficulty, like the first optional dungeon you get access to is easily something you should approach at level 15-20, but you get access to it at level 8ish. and will easily get WHOOPED purely based off stats.

[KuroneR]

Harder than Persona... close to SMT

[Aragorness]

A turn based game is or is not hard depending on how much you understand the mechanics and how dumb you are. For real every SMT is considered hard by many, but at the end of the day you just need to use and abuse weakness, buffs, debuffs and prepare a little for each boss. The only "hard" stuff is when the game has random encounters and you constantly get surprised. In this game this isn't impossible if you don't let the monster hit you in the "action" part. Asides from crazy stupid full enemy team crits. The game will probably be easy for some and hard for many. Also take this more like a joke but.... The game also has the easy difficulty if you are a pulssey.

[Sylastin]

Grind for lever, grind for ultimate weapon ==> easy win

[borizb]

Originally posted by Helgis:

Just wanted your take on it.

It has several difficulties, so why not pick the one that suits your style?

[Chaser324]

On Normal, it seems like they're aiming for something between Persona and SMT difficulty.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Aragorness:

A turn based game is or is not hard depending on how much you understand the mechanics and how dumb you are. For real every SMT is considered hard by many, but at the end of the day you just need to use and abuse weakness, buffs, debuffs and prepare a little for each boss. The only "hard" stuff is when the game has random encounters and you constantly get surprised. In this game this isn't impossible if you don't let the monster hit you in the "action" part. Asides from crazy stupid full enemy team crits. The game will probably be easy for some and hard for many. Also take this more like a joke but.... The game also has the easy difficulty if you are a pulssey. :papyruswacky:

Every single player games are like that.

Devs should keep them challenging tho.