>>717844703
None of these games are hard. I just finished EO2 HD on Expert with two "bad" classes (Survivalist, Landsknecht) and it wasn't a serious struggle at any point. I honestly don't know where this reputation comes from.
Okay, I suspect it comes from the fact that if you build a horrible doo-doo ass team, you can possibly struggle quite a bit. Happened to me once, admittedly, in Untold 1. But literally every EO has an encounter-reducing skill that tanks the random encounter rate to below 10%, which trivializes the difficulty. Ariadne threads are cheap, so you can just warp out when things get hot.
It's a series of games about finding shortcut-checkpoints, teleporting, and restocking. Comfy games. Listen to a podcast or a history lecture while you're mapping, you can literally do this shit on autopilot because it's just the same repeated actions over and over and over again.