Also, this game has a pretty good rank system - the better you fight, the harder the enemies get - die or take a few hits and the difficulty drops.
Easy doesn't let it go past level 2 and Hard has it on the highest difficulty all the time.
Never played it on easy, normal is manageable even though I have never played it before.
It's a seriously fair game, plus it has a ton of simplifying strategies like cancels or luring the enemies 1 by 1. And then you have the ridiculously cheap moves :V