If they tone down the game for NA I'm importing the japanese version.

Hey now. Turok was awesome back on the N64.

Hey! Turok is awesome whats your problem with it? One of the best FPS of the N64 era. Unless of course your talking about the so called "Turok" game that used the UE3 that shouldn't have even been called Turok.

Agreed, the more challenging games there are in the world, the better. Seriously, it sucks that it's so rare to pick up the controller these days and have a challenge on my hands. In recent memory the only times I've felt this are with Ikaruga, Ninja Gaiden, and perhaps playing through MGS3 on Extreme difficulty.

I've always enjoyed the fact that developers have put different difficulty levels into their games instead of just branding the game with a specific difficulty and then letting the player deal with it. Having just a single difficulty level can sometimes be a great strategy, like in Megaman 9 for example, most current-gen gamers get frustrated when a game is too hard, then drop the controller and move onto something less challenging; I realize that's a generalized statement and not entirely accurate, but I'm sure it happens more often than not.

Regardless, giving the player the option to play a game in a set of different difficulties can sometimes be a great thing. It gives gamers a chance to explore and experience a game in a more relaxed state, then play through it again to challenge themselves. I wish, for example, that Wind Waker had gone the way of Metroid Prime in offering a Hard difficulty after the first play-through, that would have rocked my socks even more than Wind Waker had been able to do so already.

Anyhow, I digress. I love seeing developers just making a game the way they want, releasing it and letting gamers deal with the difficulty. I believe that this just grooms better gamers in general.

I'm glad a post can be made about Demon's Souls that doesn't have tons of Wii owners whinging about how hard this game is, and how "stupid it is" because of it.

Again, it's not fake hard, and every time you die, it feels like your fault! It's very balanced.

Long as its not "cheap" hard where the level of difficulty is padded with insane not much you can do about it deaths. Ninja Gaiden 2 was fine on Warrior, but mentor and above started to overwhelm you with cheap projectile enemies. BEatable? yes Fun? Not at all.