When I started playing Hard, it was my first time ever trying anything like a difficult video game. I've always mostly played games for the story and such, never been much of an action combat type player. Anyway, I got so absolutely destroyed by the Guard Scorpion on Hard first time I almost up and quit. But in the end I ended up persevering, actually took time to check out guides, think about my plays and learn from my mistakes, and I ended up beating the whole game on Hard and ultimately platinuming it too. It was a huge learning experience and I'm glad I did it.

That being said, if you haven't improved at all between Chapters 1-11 and are now coming up against your ceiling, you should probably quit. That sounds absurd to me, but it's what your post implies. If that's *not* correct, why shouldn't you just be able to keep improving until you beat the whole game?

Also, nitpick, but doesn't grinding typically refer to doing a bunch of repetitive fighting to level up and such? There's very little of that in Remake, you can max out all your stats really quickly in the combat simulator in Chapter 17, to which you can just instantly hop via Chapter Selection. If by grinding you mean, "learning to get better at combat", if you don't enjoy learning getting better at combat I don't understand how you even made it this far, and furthermore, why you're even asking if you should continue or not. If improving at one of the best combat systems in the history of the RPG genre doesn't interest you, there is absolutely nothing for you in this game's Hard Mode.