How difficult is this game?

[Aeshi]

Looks interesting, but I'm not really that good at Platinum-style spectacle fighters if my past experiences with Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta are anything to go by.

[Scorpix]

It isnt so difficult on normal. If you it too much challenging you can change difficulty lvl in every moment.

[Pigeon Daddy]

I think this game's mad easy, tbh. I still absolutely love it though.

[Shin Dan]

Originally posted by Aeshi:

Looks interesting, but I'm not really that good at Platinum-style spectacle fighters if my past experiences with Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta are anything to go by.

sometimes an enemy will just instakill you.

sometimes it happens and you question your life's choices as a robot penis from a robo-songress just grabs you and bites you in half, doing a small chunk of health bar damage but apparently instantly killing you anyway because ♥♥♥♥ you.

sometimes a goliath will punch you high into the air, then grab you and slam you to the ground, resulting in an instant death you didn't see coming.

sometimes you eat a fish and that kills you for some damned reason.

I don't know why people made this game, I assume it was intended to be some form of torture, but i know for a fact that it's difficult.

[「Choobs」]

Playing on Normal, not difficult. It's hard to die unless you take multiple hits in rapid succession because you auto-heal after taking a certain amount of damage (the upgrade for which can be found at the start of the game). The pacing is great. I'm certainly taking my time with the game but I've encountered no difficulty spikes so far. In the end it's a game of dodge and counter, and your dodge is very lenient.

[Westman]

the game feels pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy on normal if your are not being careless but turns brutal out of the blue on hard where even the tiny enemies can two shot you

[karl-emil]

It's way too easy.

[cowinspace]

Originally posted by Aeshi:

Looks interesting, but I'm not really that good at Platinum-style spectacle fighters if my past experiences with Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta are anything to go by.

I'm in the same boat and I just play the game on easy. You get access to "auto" chips (different to the auto heal which auto uses healing items for you) which will attack/shoot/evade/special shot for you, but I've managed to uninstall them and am slowly learning to dodge correctly.

Maybe I'll bump it up to normal for my second play through but right now it is still fun to play on easy.

[Setnaro X]

Originally posted by Aeshi:

Looks interesting, but I'm not really that good at Platinum-style spectacle fighters if my past experiences with Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta are anything to go by.

You don't have to worry about that here. Yes, the combat pretty much falls in line with what you'd expect from PlatinumGames (dodging, countering, arial combos, etc.) but that isn't the actual main core of the game. This plays out a lot more like an RPG, just with the added benefit of PlatinumGames' core combat touches. You don't necessary have to be stylish here, or be quick on the fingers though it certainly would help. No, you'll be spending more time leveling up, customizing your abilities, equipping special quirks and whatnot, in order to deal with enemies better. Pretty much what you'd expect from an action RPG. If that sounds fun, go ahead and play it. It's fun. :D

[lPaladinl]

Skill lets you skip grind. Grind lets you skip skill. That's how NieR:Automata works.

That said don't be afraid to lower the difficulty. Easy and Normal are what they say on the tin, easy and normal. Hard is actually quite hard and anything beyond that is brutal.

I imagine most people would have to purposefully try to lose playing on Easy.

[HELP ME!!! HELP ME!!! HELP ME!!!]

norm is pretty easy i cant say anything for anything higher tho
i wanna see if its as hard as people say when i finish norm

[LoboFH]

On Easy or Normal is stupid, nothing can kill you unless you slack hard.

On Hard everything 1S1K's you until you farm some chips and organize them to avoid the cheap damage mechanics in this game. Then you dodge spam to oblivion (no stamina) and use 99x3 healing consumables instantly and Hard becomes Easy.

This game is really bad in combat and balance design, yes, flashy and spectacular but terribly shallow, can't believe this was done by Platinum, masters of the hack'n'slash genre, they tried to make a Dark Souls clone but never understood why the Miyazaki's games are so good.

A poorly balanced and designed RPG, a mess. And let's not go into the storytelling, fanservice for weebs and nerds, sadly. Or missions, ugh, intoxication of fetch quests.

[awanderingswordsman]

Hard is hard for like 5 hours until you farm up money for hp chips. Once you have 50% bonus hp it becomes normal 2.0 and is a complete breeze. Even without farming chips (or playing on VH) its pretty easy to avoid getting hit entirely in most areas by just kiting and shooting.

The AI is just not designed to combat the techniques the characters have available. If you run and try to play it like a hack and slash ignoring the rpg mechanics than hard and very hard will be brutal (and pretty much the same difficulty since everything will oneshot you).

I've won the majority of my fights on hard motionless while holding down RB (the shoot button) while 9S tanks the enemies. Your allies are invnicible so they can tank indefinitely with no cost so you can generally just stand there and shoot on anything but bosses. Also catching 12 fish is enough to buy 198 healing items which can be used instantly with no cooldown mid combat while you pause the game.

[黒猫]

Easy on normal. I will play with hard difficulty when I finish second ending (and I want to do it ASAP).

[Zefar]

I've only died to instant kill crushers because I decided to just rush through them and one time against the singing boss that started a spin attack that I couldn't dodge out of. I had full health on normal and it kept hitting me until I died.

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by LoboFH:

On Easy or Normal is stupid, nothing can kill you unless you slack hard.

On Hard everything 1S1K's you until you farm some chips and organize them to avoid the cheap damage mechanics in this game. Then you dodge spam to oblivion (no stamina) and use 99x3 healing consumables instantly and Hard becomes Easy.

This game is really bad in combat and balance design, yes, flashy and spectacular but terribly shallow, can't believe this was done by Platinum, masters of the hack'n'slash genre, they tried to make a Dark Souls clone but never understood why the Miyazaki's games are so good.

A poorly balanced and designed RPG, a mess. And let's not go into the storytelling, fanservice for weebs and nerds, sadly. Or missions, ugh, intoxication of fetch quests.

You haven't played Platinum's other games beyond Bayonetta or MGS:R, have you?

Or rather, anyone who holds them on that pedestal hasn't. They've made some not-so-great games in the past, such as their licensed Transformers game.

I like Platnium generally speaking, but people treat them like they're gods who can do no wrong when making heir games. Not everything they touch is Platinum.