>>718151102
CE CS or PS CS? CE CS is the same as HM's hard mode since they backported the difficulty changes, PS CS is its own beast. If you're coming from PS CS then it's enormously easier, if you're coming from CE CS it's the same thing.

Either way HM still requires you to get PlatinumSukamon/Numemon and TacticianUSBs ASAP so you have decent characters, and endgame is still penetrators being the only thing that's viable, but there's only like two side quests where the enemies are nonsense (One was TyrantKabuterimon and ShineGreymon who do nothing but spam your party with one-shots, and then the other I forgot the Digimon but they're at the end of the game). In the main story only the third-to-last boss can cause issues but you can literally just one-shot him with Accel Boost + Lilithmon. In the postgame only the Abyss Server is slightly bad and that's only because of the final boss if it picks one of the more annoying versions of the fight, but both times I fought it I walked into it with a team I forgot to reorder and it still worked out. The Master Cup is also a joke, I had zero issues on Hard.