Edit: Is Hard Reset too...well. hard? Or those it have a difficulty in which a layman player like me could conquer?
If you find it too hard, it's probably that you didn't pick up the correct upgrade choices. That's kind of a sad gameplay mechanic, but late in the game I realised I would have been fucked if I didn't pick some weapons like the railgun (for the airships) or the immobilizing shotgun pellets (for the chargers).
Well this is not a very good game anyways.