Cloud1992 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I played the demo, and I have to say I liked it. But, I'm curious if the retail game would be an easy enjoyable 1000 ? Any thoughts ? PS: The puzzles were kinda annoying, but they got me to thinking! Plus, every time I got to the "Nightmare" world. I wanted to finish it to see the real world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi273 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The game is supposed to be incredibly difficult to 1000. That is the rumor at least. Gold might be impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pants Party Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The game is supposed to be incredibly difficult to 1000. That is the rumor at least. Gold might be impossible. To be fair, they released a patch for the Japanese version that lowered the difficulty and have confirmed that the US release would be even easier than that. But, it will still be quite difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullmetalx07 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 To be fair, they released a patch for the Japanese version that lowered the difficulty and have confirmed that the US release would be even easier than that. But, it will still be quite difficult. Make the Game even easier for the U.S. Damn, I wish they would put in a option to play the Original Japanese Difficulty, because I want to see how Hard it is. It would be nice personal achievement if I can complete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrenis Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I always take it personally when they lower the difficulty for the American audience, because the targeted audience for this game is probably going to be the groups of people who would enjoy that sort of challenge! There's less joy in victory when you know your opponent changed the game because he thought you wouldn't be up to the challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElusiveOne96 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The truth is hardcore gamers who really like a very difficult challenge are only a tiny minority of players. Making a game too hard alienates the majority of players and business-wise that's never a good decision if you want your customers to keep purchasing your titles. If the Japanese market was complaining about the difficulty level, it's probably not a bad thing to include an easier mode in subsequent releases. Also keep in mind they're leaving the hard mode in, just adding a new easier one on top of the existing modes (from what I understand anyway). Personally, I like a decent challenge, but I'm into gaming for the fun of it mostly (the stories, the gameplay, the visuals, etc). I don't much care for overly difficult segments, in fact I usually just find them infuriating. Another example would be my girlfriend: she'd probably enjoy the story and characters, even the puzzles without the action element, but as soon as you put in too much stress and quick reaction times she'll start to dislike it. I think that making an easier mode really allows to reach a broader audience... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoldenReaper Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I heard the easy difficulty on this game was comparable to that of an average game's hard difficulty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Keezy Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Even on easy I have a gut feeling this game is going to ramp up the difficulty pretty fast. But regardless of difficultly, no I don't think it will be an easy 1000. There is a 100 point one that requires you to unlock all 8 of the games endings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opiate42 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 (edited) Even on easy I have a gut feeling this game is going to ramp up the difficulty pretty fast. But regardless of difficultly, no I don't think it will be an easy 1000. There is a 100 point one that requires you to unlock all 8 of the games endings. Agreed. They may make the Easy difficulty easier, but I can only imagine the Hard difficulty still being mind-melting. They should add a 4th difficulty for the traditionalists: Japanese Sadist Version. Basically the original Hard difficulty. If I get my hands on this game, I think I may do a couple of the endings, but 8!?!? Damn. Grinding out the 4 endings for Nier was torture enough. Wonder what the "a life without regrets" ending means? Vince goes and breaks up with both of them or the girls reconcile, make up and all three go menage a trois? Edited July 18, 2011 by Opiate42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbear. Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Make the Game even easier for the U.S. Damn, I wish they would put in a option to play the Original Japanese Difficulty, because I want to see how Hard it is. It would be nice personal achievement if I can complete it. Honestly I don't know much about what they are doing but from what I was lead to believe they are leaving all the difficulties exactly as they were. They are just adding a new difficulty that is "below" easy. Again, I don't know if that is actually what they are doing that is just what I heard. To the OP: If it has "Complete this game on X difficulty" achievements all the way up to the toughest difficulty this will be anything but an easy 1000 from what everyone says. Japanese gamers are complaining about how hard the easy and normal modes are and Japanese gamers are known to play tougher games/difficulties then Western gamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepEmRolling Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Honestly I don't know much about what they are doing but from what I was lead to believe they are leaving all the difficulties exactly as they were. They are just adding a new difficulty that is "below" easy. Again, I don't know if that is actually what they are doing that is just what I heard. To the OP: If it has "Complete this game on X difficulty" achievements all the way up to the toughest difficulty this will be anything but an easy 1000 from what everyone says. Japanese gamers are complaining about how hard the easy and normal modes are and Japanese gamers are known to play tougher games/difficulties then Western gamers. That was what I thought as well. They just added the easier difficulty, and the others are still in the game. I have to say, after playing the Japanese demo, this game on the hardest difficulty will be a monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillermo316 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 No it probably won't be easy or hard. It will be impossible . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrVan77 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I played the demo last night and enjoyed it, but I think I'll give the retail version a try on PS3 first so I can get an idea of how hard it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xMANNY FRE5Hx Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osakamitsu Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 well gamespots review has a con for: Intimidating difficulty. source: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/catherine/review.html?tag=summary%3Bread-review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoomKvlt Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the NA achievements are different from the Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saruthelemur Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the NA achievements are different from the Japanese. Nope, they're exactly the same....really really hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakahashiDemon Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Theres a patch to make it easier, I played the Japanese demo, and found it easy enough, but that was like only the first few stages, and it took me awhile to figure out how to move the blocks, I was pushing them instead of pulling them towards, made it difficult/impossible to get to the door at the top as you're messing up the blocks at the top that can't be moved (ones with faces on them). But no, I dont think it'll be an easy 1000, might be easy, but it'll be long as you have to play through the game several times for all the endings or just play a few times and make different saves at points, I would try to full 1000 this game though, I'm dreading the Hard Mode though.. makes towers taller etc, bosses probably will be impossible too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime8 Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Getting all gold medals on Hard mode will probably be the deal-breaker on whether or not you can 1000 it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakahashiDemon Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Getting all gold medals on Hard mode will probably be the deal-breaker on whether or not you can 1000 it. Yup, I can see those being maybe the only 2 I have remaining.. getting gold on Normal might be hard enough, since the demo (Japanese one) only lets us play on Easy, so theres no real way of telling actually how hard this game is.. until its out, which be tomorrow in US I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nia333 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 I beat the Demo on Easy and thought it was way to easy. But it was only a demo so its bound to be alot harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verdinial Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Can't wait until this becomes avalible where I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeLizP Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 You would have to be outside your mind to think this game would be an easy 1000. As many have already brought out in this thread, even the Japanese have complained on the level of difficulty for the games puzzles and they're gaming gods! Thankfully it has been patched making the Hard mode puzzle challenges more feasible. Not sure if anyone has played Catherine yet but the puzzles get much harder, longer, and the block styles change. There are slippery ice blocks and even some with bombs and spikes on them. It's no doubt a 10/10 difficulty game as of now. Outside of that there is Babel mode where the blocks drop randomly, they may also prove testing since there are a few achievements related to that. Everything else is story/side quest/ random task-related so only like 3 or 4 achievements will truly be difficult. Achievement guide will be posted in a few, just got to add some finishing touches to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordbrett Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 This game is hard as hell. I'm stuck on lvl 4 currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeLizP Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 This game is hard as hell. I'm stuck on lvl 4 currently. lol I tried to tell you guys. It's going to take experience and patience. The Babel Stages take up to 20min to complete each! It's difficult but not impossible. The Achievement Guide & Roadmap is up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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