It's still hard. It didn't start off that difficult at all but when I got to the music store dungeon it went way up. I was even way over leveled for it but it doesn't matter. Apparently you are supposed to get a bunch of different personas and use one for different monsters. But that's stupid because it is random encounters and you can't change Personas in a battle. It also takes forever to get the cards you need to summon Personas. I would know none of this without looking at the guides. I can't imagine how anyone figured this shit out. I tried playing it blind and I figured out how to progress and how to talk to some of the monsters but it was a pain on the ass.