The difficulty of the game is hard, but fun. The gym leaders are no pushover. They'll kick your butts if your not careful. I like a challenge in a pokemon game. I like how the game is mature more. I love the setting of the game. In the game. I swap out alot pokemon because of the level caps. Which is also a challenge for me, which I love good challenges, something the main games doesn't have. The main games are too easy now a days, but this game is hard and fun. I also never level grinded so much in my life before, but this makes me level grind.
I'm at the third gym, but I need to train for awhile. Strategy won't be enough to beat the third gym leader. Even with a strategy, Florinia still beat me to a bone. I barely made it out alive in the battle with her.
The negative parts of the game is level grinding. I spend three hours raising a Zubat to a good level to challenge Florinia, only to find out Golbat wouldn't listen to me who was level 26, which was my strategy for her was confuse ray her Cradily, and have Manectric use leer on her Cradily, but because of the level cap, Manectric didn't listen to me. So the battle with her was pure luck.
I just hope I can beat third gym leader with my strategy.