I started playing this game again when enhanced edition was released, although I didn't go further than dying in the lighthouse in the original version. The hard difficulty was indeed hard and I went to play something else and totally forgot the game, until now. This time I had decided to man up and face the challenges on the new tactician mode since it seemed very exciting, and I truly it was, for 10 levels. The challenge effectively ended right after that.
The first 10 levels felt amazing, I had to focus and give 100% to all fights, think how to use my spells, grenades, scrolls. I felt the monsters around me always had the upper hand, but then by some miracle I still survived at the end, this was totally thrilling experience and I loved it. After killing Braccus Rex I quickly noticed I wasn't using any of my scrolls, grenades or even potions anymore, I was just simply "saving them for a rainy day" which never came. I was hoping more challenging groups to appear, but after I got a hold on one or two master level skills I noticed my group was totally dominating every single group and boss there was. I realised game went from hard to very easy quite fast and it was like that to the end.
I really hoped I could have felt the thrilling experience from 10-20 aswell. Honestly I was expecting things to get even harder as the game progressed. Alas, I was disappointed!