So I'm playing P4 for the first time with the Golden version and I think I screwed up my save.
First, I picked Hard difficulty because I kept hearing about how Normal was so easy. Well, it's fucking hard. I've no clue what to do. I absolutely cannot take down
because of the stupid Burn to Ashes attack and just generally being a massive damage sponge. Same goes for pretty much every other enemy in the dungeon. I hit them with skills of the element that they are weak against, they still take off maybe 1/8th of their health (weak! ...35 dmg...huh?). Meanwhile in many occasions I've gone from full health to
dead in one enemy turn if there are ~3 enemies in a battle. With the constant skill spam I need to make in order to even have a chance at beating regular enemies, everyone's SP drains to zero. I don't have enough money to buy that many SP recovery items because I can't clear really that many enemies. I've already left the dungeon once to rest up and buy the best armor from the armor shop guy and I'm still getting my ass beat.
I'm on the 7th floor of
, just the one below the boss, I have no escape-dungeon items, I can't beat the boss because it's ridiculously hard, and I can't beat regular enemies because they're ridiculously hard, and I'm running pretty low on items.
I think I've backed myself into an unwinnable state right now. I can't even lower the difficulty because it's my first playthrough. If I can't get out of the rut I'm probably going to shelve the game permanently because I'm 7 hours in and there's no way I'm going to restart the game from scratch and going through the painfully slow introduction again...