Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30771283-20180317032411/@comment-1327106-20180317060752

At this point, unless a reviewer has directly said something about it, I'd wait until after the game is out and visit gaming forums specific to the Attack on Titan 2 game (like the sub-forums on Steam or GameFAQs, where the only point to visiting is specifically regarding the game).

While I've been able to answer questions for the first AoT console game here, I don't plan on playing AoT 2 anywhere near release because I have way too many games in my backlog and I'm trying to pare that down before I play anything new.

That said, even though they've talked about the difficulty increasing, I doubt that the game will be a giant leap in difficulty. It's still a media tie-in game, which means that there are a lot of casual players who bought it specifically because they like Attack on Titan and not because they hone their skills playing hardcore games.

I hope it's more that individual Titans are harder to kill, because they were pretty stupid in the first game. If you think about it, the game got hard in the later chapters not because the Titan were smarter, but because the game designers added more to each mission, so you'd end up killing 50+ Titans on a single map. If they have 10 smart Titans instead of 50 stupid Titans that are only difficult because of their sheer numbers, you could have a much better time even if each individual Titan requires more focus to take down.