Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-138.162.128.53-20130402193902/@comment-5166842-20130402200343

Man was Hard Mode ever disappointing. It's just what the game needs, and I was so excited about it, I ran up to my first Goblin with my DF'd Carnation expecting him to take some real damage before going down, but BAM, 1-shot. I couldn't believe it when I learned they didn't increase enemy HP.

It should be called Inconvenient Mode, because massively increased stamina usage is the only real change. So you'll spend most of the playthrough just using your weapon's standard attacks, and unless you like going into the pause menu over and over you won't want to climb much, either.