Quote Originally Posted by Estevo View Post
Thread got too long, just going to keep the tl;dr


TL;DR Game could use more individual skill, don't sacrifice creativity in the name of balance, when no matter what you do, you'll have to re-balance things anyways. Also people they don't have a demographic in mind, they just want people to play and enjoy, there are interviews where they say this. Party based encounters being the only difficult content is not enough IMHO.
If you sift through some posts from Yoshi-P, you'll find that he wants the game to be "simple at first" and then as time goes on he'll introduce more "complex" content.