[YoshL]

normal is how the game was intended to be played, hard is /actually/ hard

how many times do you get a game where you play on normal, and it's too easy, so you have to go to hard for even a semblance of challenge? It's nice that hard is legitimately hard, giving the people who do those lvl 1 jrpg challenges an actual challenge

edit: so there's a crapton of people who have been beating the game with having random encounters turned completely off