I'm new, so part of this is on me, but it seems like there is a major gulf between "easy" and "normal". I can easily win on "easy" mode, and I'm learning the techniques fairly well, but when I try "normal" mode I get clusterf'd pretty quickly. Would be cool to have 4 difficulty levels, so one could be a little more challenging than "easy". I dunno how hard that would be to put together, but I'll assume it's not going to happen....

i do like the game but i've been playing for at least 4 hours or so on easy (not a long time but enough to gauge this) and many of the achievements are way outta reach. you devs have to realize that if you require the player to sit and grind and grind and grind to attain additional game items (achievements) that make the game more fun and more interesting you gotta offer those rewards in a little more realistic timeframe. i mean look at this: 83 out of 500, 25 out of 1000 (give me a break!), 0 out of 1...

He has incredible amounts of armor and HP even at Easy difficulty, and he spawns monsters as fast as you kill them.

How do I use a bow on the original leader, for instance?

So my first run, made it to the end zone. Was doing great up to then. Only lost one guy the whole way. Then I get into fights with multiple uber yokai doing 3-5 damage, paralyze, and those cheating guys who punch through armor... and just got wiped out in that one battle. The ones up to that, no problem. That seems like a rather insane jump from one battle to the next....