don't take this offensively but this game does have some annoying flaws!
for example, sometimes pressing an arrow key in the menus counts as 2 inputs, leading me to sometimes click Exposition in the menu or sparing in the fight and wasting a turn. you could fix this or just make it so, like in the real game, theres a second window and clicking spare doesnt do it immediately. another annoying thing is that everytime you die in the chase or fight, you go back to the menu, and the two inputs problem still applies. so maybe a Retry and Return to Menu buttons would be appreciated!
now, about the difficulty, i will say it's rather hard, and dying to friend has you retry the whole chase again. if repeating the chase isnt an intentional thing to boost difficulty, i feel like the game would be much more enjoyable without it!
overall i really like the textures, concepts and the lore of this game, although i can't get past friend's first attacks. it's very good !!!