Depends on the game, but Normal usually if I don't have experience with the game or anything like the game. For Tales games I usually play on the second highest difficulty available, whether that's hard, chaos, maniac... iunno the one that isn't straight the hardest.
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What difficulty do you usually play your games on?

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