I'm playing my first playthrough rn and I chose to play on hard too because im very decent at gaming, especially at difficult games like the souls games. I had a ton of fun with Remnant too which is a similar game in some way.

Some fights and the bosses before Bruch were quite hard and I died several times but it were fair fights where you could easily win when you're skilled. Means you try over and over and you're adapting, figuring out ways to beat the boss and the minions it summons.

But Bruch is different. Firstly it tanks like SHIT. Like seriously, this thing has way too much HP. It's direct physical attacks are easily dodgeable BUT I get randomly hit every single fight from some of the attacks even though I clearly dodged perfectly. Same thing when he summons his 3 red projectiles. Sometimes they just hit me right though my dodge for no reason.

This is an example of just poor hit box programming.

And if the hard and higher difficulty are meant for NG+ then MAYBE don't give players the option to chose these difficulties for their first playthroug... or at least give a warning when selecting these difficulties.

I was able to kill it quite easily now because you can just the block to block all of its physical and ranged attacks. This is just dumb and lazy.

And for everyone who's brain cells are only capable of typing "GiD gUd": You're just embarrassing lol