I play this game like it's my job...seriously
Ridiculously fun, worked to build up my favorite characters, had to decide between my favorites. Tore at my heartstrings. But incredible. The amount of choices was enormous, and watching my characters slowly get to the point where a swordsmen could hit an enemy 5 times with his mastery skill almost made me cry with pride. This mode can actually be as easy as you want, especially at the end, as the game loads a bunch of overpowered characters on you in the final chapters...though I chose to play with my tried and true warriors. Either way, there's always easy mode.
After this, I had the ability to start my first hard mode playthrough which often made me tear my hair out (but with pleasure). This soon became so challenging that I started an easy mode playthrough to take a little break, but limited myself to only a select few characters.
This game has taken so much of my time...which I would say is its only flaw.
Get it.