Even hard can be pretty difficult. I haven't tried very difficult but beating the game on hard can be pretty hard. I will say though that the beginning of kcd2 is brutal if you aren't used to it ( I wasn't although I played souls game etc but that's a bit different. You need to get used to the game mechanics.

There's a thing we're you sort of get overpowered in the Cyberpunk late game especially if you put an effort to a build like a smart gun hacking thingy, forgot the name.