LogFAQs > #962354175

agesboy posted...

general consensus i've seen is that any difficulty higher than normal becomes a slog without at least some dlc, not necessarily out of difficulty but out of number tuning

This is completely false and the DLC titles make only a very minimal difference. It's still super fucking lame that the DLC titles have bonuses you can't get without them but the game feels like it was designed around not having DLC.

CP is only an issue in the section between early and mid game where the dungeons start lengthening but you can't yet buy orange gels. As soon as you can buy orange gels, CP is never an issue again.

In the very worst case, where you make it like 80% of the way through a mid game dungeon and run out of CP, you can warp out, and then just avoid all the battles till you get back to where you were. It's very easy to avoid 95% of the fights. You shouldn't even need to do that but if you mismanage everything poorly, that's the only punishment.

EDIT: for clarification I played through once on hard and once on mania or whatever the hardest option was that they patched in and I didn't have the DLC.