Is the game difficult

[Simplejack]

I understand the game is good but is it difficult? Challenging I mean?
Turn based RPGs should be challenging otherwise it's no fun.
If it is, I might buy it.

[Kezo]

On my first playthrough, I overleveled all of the bosses every time just because I spent a lot of time exploring every corner of the dungeons and never skipped a random encounter. This made all of the bosses incredibly easy, I think the only time I died to bosses was at the final boss and one or two of the optional shrine bosses.

On my second playthrough, I obviously had to do a lot less exploring, and I also switched party members a lot more often, which made many of the fights actually challenging and require strategy. So I'd say if you try to finish all the chapters before your characters exceed the recommended level, it can be pretty challenging. Also, as the game allows you to play the chapters in any order you like, if you want even more of a challenge, you can go ahead and do the later chapters before you got a full party, as everything beyond chapter 1 is balanced for a full party.

[Chester]

Originally posted by Kezo:

On my first playthrough, I overleveled all of the bosses every time just because I spent a lot of time exploring every corner of the dungeons and never skipped a random encounter. This made all of the bosses incredibly easy, I think the only time I died to bosses was at the final boss and one or two of the optional shrine bosses.

On my second playthrough, I obviously had to do a lot less exploring, and I also switched party members a lot more often, which made many of the fights actually challenging and require strategy. So I'd say if you try to finish all the chapters before your characters exceed the recommended level, it can be pretty challenging. Also, as the game allows you to play the chapters in any order you like, if you want even more of a challenge, you can go ahead and do the later chapters before you got a full party, as everything beyond chapter 1 is balanced for a full party.

This. I enjoy a challenge in games like this too. Due to the nonlinear nature of the game, you're able to directly control difficulty with what order you handle things. The "Evasive Maneuvers" skill can help with this - if you find your level is starting to get a little high, just use that skill. Or use it all game, that'll bump the difficulty a good bit.

[Aseng]

This game is one of the hardest JRPG around imo, but i like it. You have to go all out even in random battles.

[Brigadeos]

Not really that hard. if you dont avoid any encounter and explore, you will be fine most of the time. I played following the level recomendations without grinding at all and it was cool, some bosses are kind of hard and others not so much like all rpg. THE LAST BOSS THO.

[Chester]

I wouldn't rate it high on the spectrum of difficulty but it does provide a challenge. You can try Trails in the Sky if you want a jrpg with extreme difficulty - crank it up to "Nightmare" difficulty setting and prepare your ass for thorough kicking.

[Emerald Triangle]

I found it somewhat challenging. Everyone was saying to drop Tressa, but I kept her around and used her as a BP feeder, and I enjoy the character in general. I think the game would be easier without me using Tressa, and only use her to farm gold to buy stuff.

Edit Reason: Usually if you are finding it hard, then you are doing something wrong. Also, Every time you go into a new village, you should always use Cyrus Or Alfyn's ability to talk to the villagers, then you steal what you can, then you use Tressa to purchase stuff always in that order.

If you are finding the game a bit too hard another trick is which I didn't do is to save the game before trying to steal something that has a very low % chance to steal. Then when you get your 4 strikes, just reload the game and try again.

Being a turn based RPG it is more about using your turns wisely and somewhat strategically and then it shouldn't be too hard at all.

[WarWeeny]

The game is piss easy, people who say it is hard do not understand how a turn based rpg is played.

If you want a hard turn based rpg, look for games like etrian odyssey or the shin megami tensei games.

When i played on the switch i never died, not even once, and i was not really over-leveled either.
Biggest downside is that after chapter 1 you will hardly have any variety in terms of combat, it is doing the same thing over and over and over again. Just imagine playing a final fantasy game, but have flare and meteor right at the start of the game, there is literally no progression until you are level 50 and get 3 more moves and that is it, you have seen everything the game has to offer.

[Simplejack]

I tried it for 1 hour before refunding it. Didn't seem hard but I only did the cave with Tressa. I hope it gets more difficult. I crave for something like darkest dungeon difficulty

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

I played 6 hours, done 4 chapter 1 stories now, my first game over came at my 4th dungeon boss, ofc when I replayed it I finished it easy.
I messed up and thought the boss was too easy and forgot to heal and replenish SP and suddenly boss summoned minions that did like 70% dmg and had 3 of them, and next time I was ready for that and could take them out super fast. so, it wasnt really hard but if you mess up or dont take it serious you can go down very fast on these bosses. Also, the bosses, after you dont 2 chapters seem to be very "tough" in terms of health, probably took me 15-20 min ...

[Chester]

I would really recommend against save scumming peoples' path actions, it can really break the game's difficulty.

[Chester]

Tressa can actually make the game a lot easier, she's a pretty good choice. She can support most parties but if you wanna throw her extra money around she can use Hired Help to smack around tough encounters. The top speedrun of the game abuses this. And (without spoiling too much) by endgame, depending on how you've loaded out her skills, she can be incredibly useful.