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tcaz2 posted...

So, the reason for this btw, is that the original PC versions of Sky only one one difficulty, normal. When they got ported to PSP, they added hard and nightmare difficulty modes. The games weren't balanced around the higher difficulties. 3rd was the first one in the series that was designed with hard and nightmare in mind.

As such, FC and SC (especially SC) are ludicrously hard on non-normal difficulties, while every other game in the series feels much better. If anything, I'd recommend at least hard if not nightmare for every game past Sky as the normal modes tend to be too easy.

I played 3rd on normal and I did think it was a little too easy (although the Leiston Fortress bosses made me sweat quite a bit). Probably should have played on Hard. Meanwhile, SC on Hard was so unfun I had to download a program to hack the file and edit it back to normal. And I did manage to get out of the prologue beforehand. But it was so grindy I just wasn't enjoying it.

Now Zero on hard has been pretty nice. Yes some bosses take multiple tries, and the recent hike to Armorica was tricky since it's hard to revive characters at this point. But I prefer to have a little frustration than none at all.