I don't think the first game was too easy.
Easy to clear, yes. Easy to excellent anything, no.
By the time people reached class SS, they've easily spent $400.
Sure cost me about $250 to get "ALL SS" title.
The difficulties got re-worked, level 8 in Ripples is equivalent to level 9+ in the original.
So no surprise if you think it's got harder, but if you "translate" the difficulty back to the original it's about the same. |