What difficulty anons? I'd normally go for the very hardest

It's either too easy or too hard. Take your pick. It doesn't matter though because you can change it whenever and there's no rewards associated with difficulty modes.

>>376961942
You're meant to increase the difficulty as you get better. Start on Normal, beat the tutorial, transition to hard once you've figured out how to not get hit, transition to very hard when you are given control of 9S (otherwise hacking is a boring joke)

Easy
>Too Easy with auto pod attack and other auto mechanics

Normal
>More difficult but ideal way to play the game

Hard
>1 power hit KO, 2 if you're lucky. R2 button will be gone by the end of the run

Very hard
>Don't even OP

Normal my first time around. If I replay a game or people say the game is too easy on Normal (ALA Kingdom Hearts), I up the difficulty to Hard.

>>376961942
The only "hard" part about hard are the shmup and twinstick segments where a single bullet deals 80% of your health. Once you unlock emil's shop or you forge up a +6 or higher melee defense chip the game feels about right on hard. Anti-chain damage + overclock chips are the most broken shit in the game. Always focus on defense chips more than offense.

All the hacking chips are useless except for combust.

>not playing the highest difficulty on every game

Get a new hobby, faggot.

>>376962415
Hard is very manageable if you allot most of your memory to defense/support. The only offense chip worth using is shockwave. Anti-chain damage, overclock, melee defense, and that chip popola sells that slows down bullets near you make it impossible for your character to get 1shot and when you do get hit you have a window to get out or use healing items or you can just chain perfect dodge into pod counters for easy damage.

Adjust the difficulty in accordance to how much enjoyment you are getting.

>>376962912
Did you beat NieR Automata on the highest difficulty anon?

>>376962062
>there's no rewards or achievements associated with difficulty modes.
I kind of like this because I can go my own pace, but when it's like this can you clear the game on the hardest difficulty and your friend does it on normal or easy and you have the same achievements to show for it, you feel a little cheated.

>>376963780
Achievement are a mistake. Thank you based Taro for making fun of these autists by making every single achievement buyable.

>>376964125
I find that they're good for telling which of your mates are shitters or liars. I had a mate who wouldn't stop raving about the ending to MGSV despite him not even having done the code talker mission.

>>376961942
I figured that normal is the difficulty setting the devs design the game around, so I always play on normal my first time around.