Catherine isn't too hard, it's perfect

[gunner1905]

I don't know why many reviewers and other players say that Catherine is hard, it's fair and quite forgiving. I started on normal difficulty thinking that it would be too hard and I'll have to switch to easy in the end, but in my experience it is as hard as a normal difficulty should be. I died a few times, got 1 gold trophy and a few silver trophy in my first run through without any help or guides, I didn't even need to buy any items from that fat bastard sheep.
I really do feel that the difficulty in Catherine is just right, maybe they could even turn it up a bit by cutting down the retries because I reached 99 retries without any exploit.
Any other Escapist member feel the same as me or feel that it was too hard? I'm talking about the normal difficulty of course.

 

[ZeroMachine]

I've yet to play the actual game, so I can't really judge, but little bit of an ego boost here- maybe you're just really good at it.

 

[Elysis]

Darn it, this game needs to come to Europe NOW.
But yeah, maybe you're just good at it! Some people excel at puzzle/platform games, others kick ass at shooters!

 

[Eric Staples]

Try it on a harder difficulty.

 

[natster43]

It is definitely more difficult than most games I have played recently on Normal. But it is not that bad. I was able to beat it and the only parts I got stuck on were the 3rd boss, and the last boss.

 

[TehCookie]

I found it hard, even on easy. I enjoyed it though since it wasn't impossibly hard. It's the kind of game that is frustrating, but it makes victory that much sweeter when you achieve it.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I beat it on Easy. The difficulties scale like this to me: Easy=a high end Normal difficulty in other games, Normal=Hard in other games, and Hard=Fuck you.

 

[funguy2121]

I beat it on Easy. The difficulties scale like this to me: Easy=a high end Normal difficulty in other games, Normal=Hard in other games, and Hard=Fuck you.

Sounds more like a No More Heroes difficulty: Fuck You. Love it.

 

[gunner1905]

Try it on a harder difficulty.

I know it's going to be harder on the hard difficulty. I'm just saying the normal difficulty is, well, normal, even though many people say it's hard.
And that normal is, I feel, how hard normal on other game should be.

 

[Akihiko]

The only thing that really annoyed me on Normal was the random effect. Like a monster block could move and it would screw your climbing, or the boss could destroy a block you need, things like that. In certain cases undo can sort the problem out(Unless it's the final boss which can kick and kill before you can move out of the way straight after undoing)but it was still a tad annoying. However, other than that I didn't think it was too difficult.