Talk:Challenge Pack: A Trial for Adventurers/@comment-24148161-20131109101113/@comment-85.157.76.57-20131109101853

Switching to Hard starts from the beginning, because there are rewards for beating the entire game on Hard. It does that so you can't cheat by switching to Hard only near the end. Switching to Normal or Easy does not start the game again.

And yes, it can be used in case you just want to start the game from the beginning without beating it to do quests and collect stuff.