So I FINALLY started really digging into Trail's From Zero.
When Lloyd Bannings is assigned to Crossbell's Special Support Section, he and his new teammates must prove themselves as they fight to overcome the injustice of a city gripped by corruption.
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Now i'm gonna be legit, I always follow a guide for Trails games because missables are a nightmare in this series and even without Steam Achievements (I bought it on EGS and don't use the client lol) the game has built in records for NG+ so they still matter
Point being that the guide I started following suggested playing on Hard or Nightmare for a starting difficulty comparing it to other games in the series and saying the combat was easy...I have to disagree to the fullest extent here, even playing on Normal with some combinations of quarts that give me spells I cant even cast yet due to MP limits i'm finding the battles in this game to be gruesome, particularly in the early stages
Idk if they played all japanese releases and the difficulty got toned down in the US or they just forgot how easy some of the earlier games were like the Sky series, or I just did alot more grinding in that era...but I found myself needing to plan level gains before big enemies and such to get my MP refilled and things like that during the parts I've been playing lately...not to say I never did that for previous games, but this one always has me feeling like I could get killed by a generic random encounter (of which theres ALOT), so i'm finding this to be one of the harder games in the series so far, a damn good game, but not the easiest IMO by any means.