Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post

Want the challenge and the story? Run Savage
Don't care for the challenge but want the story? Run Normal
Static broke up/taking a break but you REALLY want to see the story through? Switch to running Normal.

I see no real loss in letting both kinds of players get what they want out of it. But having to run normal for the story, then Savage for just challenge and gear felt disjointed. I think that's another reason we look back on Coil with pleasant nostalgia. The story was a reward, not just something to slog through on the way to Savage.
I always thought it would have been cool to have extra scenes from the savage raids, personally, things that fleshed out the story and added to it that one couldn't get in normal. I remember a game that had different endings based on the difficulty you picked, but for now I think of Kingdom Hearts II ReMIX, where on the hardest difficulty you were guaranteed the extended ending.