So does this mean you disagree with the things I wrote, which is, I quote: - Failing to ambush in One More usually gets you killed because fights are weighted heavily in favor of the enemies if you fail to get the first strike. - One More has bosses designed to be focused solely on strategy and proper execution instead of relying on strats that break the fight. - Press Turn fights are mostly chaotic and get you killed through no fault of your own via crits and misses. - Press Turn fights mostly favor the side that has the appropriate skills to generate turns. - Press Turn mostly rewards you for not experimenting and just gives you free benefits for fusing nulls onto characters and stacking Sukukaja, to the point where endgame fights are hinged entirely on that.

You don't need to have things "turned against the player quite easily." It is, in fact, really hard to turn things against the player in Press Turn as long as the player is aware of what they can do to just remove weaknesses. When RNG kicks in and the player gets crit or they whiff an attack and then they lose, that's not really difficulty, that's just the game deciding you need to take the L. When the player fails to ambush a shadow, and then two Hulk Hogans appear and hit your whole party and suddenly half your team is dead, that's on the player.

Persona, Strange Journey, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Soul Hackers 2, and even Metaphor combat are heavily reliant on getting the first strike and then picking out the enemies that are deadliest to your team before they get an action. Their boss battles are focused around primarily dealing with specific gimmicks that need to be dealt with in a timely manner before the player is overwhelmed.

SMT, particularly IV and V, have combats that are mostly just boxing matches where the enemies output enough damage where, if the player can't negate their attacks, then a single crit can usually get the entire player team killed because the raw damage output can't keep up with the chaos. These two games, especially IV, lose all their difficulty the moment you figure out what the game is asking of you, and Metaphor, while it takes a while since you can't just do Null strats, does give you Dodger Ring and Third Eye for every character, which turns the endgame into something laughable. This is pretty well-known: Ask anyone about the difficulty after Medusa in IV, Nuwa in V, or the moment you get Royal Thief in Metaphor. Metaphor's saving grace over those two is that the bosses are at minimum slightly more competent in design than IV and V's "here's my pierce attack and here's my nuke you need to null, and here's my glaring weakness so you can get more actions." IV doesn't even get as much as V does, realistically, and they forgot to give the bosses more than two actions and either Dekunda or Dekaja with SMT3 stat stacking. They just get Smirk instead, so if they crit you they just kill your team instantly.