r/Falcom • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Quick Questions Thread

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u/meltenvy 7d ago

Been having an alright time on Hard Mode Trails 1st Chapter, at around Chapter 3. Realized I missed a couple of things so on the second run around I'm planning a NG+ on Nightmare. How is the difficulty on it for anyone who's tried it? Is it particularly unfair, should I do it on an NG File instead, is that hell I'm walking into, etc.

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u/Terramagi 7d ago

Remake, or original.

Because the original, speaking from experience, Hard is perfectly doable for FC on a NG. SC on the other hand, is particularly fucked. There are some bosses that are brick walls, and Nightmare is even harder than that, so I can't even imagine getting out of the tutorial unscathed.

If it's the remake, I have to imagine it's perfectly doable. The games get easier as they go on, to the point where everything in Cold Steel is basically a "hold down the confirm button, receive sepith" simulator on anything lower than Hard. So a game that was designed after the 12th game is going to have 12th game difficulty ethos built into it.

The general rule is that the series didn't even have difficulty levels until Zero and Azure. As such, the first 3 games are a hodgepodge of "we didn't test for this" moments.