I decided normal difficulty was so braindead easy that I bumped up to core difficulty in order to understand what everyone was talking in regards to the difficulty balance about before initiating the end of chapter 1 dungeon, though I also turned off extra enemies.

...It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It did force me to think quite a bit, but I may have decided to bump up the difficulty right as I got viable answers to a lot of things. Fighting the demons would have sucked on core difficulty before finding cold iron gear, for instance. At the same time though, I did have quite a lot of foresight having participated in the beta.

I think I'll stick with Core for the rest of the playthrough and see how it goes.

Last edited by Saito Hikari; 05/09/21 10:25 AM.