You can stick to your original decision if you want a challenge, but there is no shame or penalty at changing the difficulty to suit your needs. Some will find the game too easy, some will find it too hard, despite having the same settings. When starting playing a new game, players are usually experimenting, and figuring out how the gameplay feel to the player. Be aware that most cheats will disable obtaining any achievements.įinally, you are the one who is going to play the game, with your playstyle, your priorities. If you feel confident, you can also check the cheats and handicaps menu to further customise the dificulty (like adding a time limit per turn, increasing enemies resistances.
Those are used to unlock more areas with more equipment. If you already have lot of experience (especially if you played EBF3 or EBF4 before), you can consider epic difficulty (which have certain achievements only availible at this difficulty.
If you have some experience at RPG and believe you can understand the mechanics fast enough, you can try hard difficulty. If this is one of the first RPG you are playing and you don't know much about RPG, probably start at Normal difficulty. I think is also depend how much game knowkedge and experience you have persoally.