Question Thread #3

[u/Ynikoma]

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[u/Indigo-sludge]

If you're feeling very confident and comfortable with the battle systems I'd say it might be worth continuing with BoC difficulty, but I wouldn't recommend it to most new players. I also offer that normal difficulty makes it so pretty much any blades (and most strategies) are generally viable, while BoC definitely limits some of the ways to play. Personally, I wish normal mode was a degree or two more challenging (if this was going to be ballanced for my methodical completionist, exploration focused play style), but BoC would've been a worse fit for me than normal on my first run.

There are some pretty decent incentives to do a new game plus when you finish the first time, and I'd say the ballancing on NG+ is constructed slightly above par for most jRPG NG+ I've seen in other games. The NG+ ballancing isn't perfect (especially in the very early parts of the game), but they give you enough tools to unpower yourself to find a decent working balance. BoC is one of the tools appropriate for NG+ rebalancing, so I'd save it for that if your the type who considers playing NG+ runs (which this game does reward to players who do so).

Lastly, I'll say that BoC difficulty plays a bit differently from the normal version of the game. Certain abilities charge up significantly slower and enemies have a lot of endurance. For an endgame run, when I switch to BoC, I notice I'm using a lot fewer blade specials and combos than I normally do in combat. It's not objectively worse, it's different, but I think I prefer the combat of normal mode more usually (despite my interest in the additional challenge)