The Twilight Realm scenario in the other two versions were actually fair and I beat them successfully quite easily on Easy, so Normal must've been a fair challenge

I managed to beat the original game's main within fair challenge

Finally, and most importantly, I feel like the missions are challenging but fun.

If you like the Zelda series and don't mind the Muso type gameplay style I highly recommend this game as it has a lot of content

At the end of the day, yes, it is a repetitive hack n' slash game -- but with leveling up all (25+) characters, weapons, costumes, the fairy system, multiple game modes (adventure mode!