As a "long" time player of 14 (Read: Since E5-8 / Ruby as the current EX). I have to say the difficulty increase is genuinely incredibly welcome. EW was incredibly easy, to the point I could probably fall asleep in a savage fight and wake up with it dead, DT is a very welcome bump in difficulty and interactivity, the only gripe I have, and I'll admit it's a minor one, is M3 is slightly annoying on Samurai due to his repeated insistence of being on the complete opposite side of the map repeatedly and my dash having a 10s Cooldown. (Admittedly a skill issue, I should be using Yaten prior to the first dash snapshotting to chase down better, but hey, sometimes I make mistakes). The insinuation that the normal modes are "As hard as Extremes" or "As hard as Ultimates" is frankly fucking insulting. Please improve at the video game. This goes doubly-so for any of the "MSQ" related activities people have whined and cried about in this thread, some people 'should' be skill gated out of being able to clear things, the point of a game is overcoming the challenges of it. Not to be an interactive movie.