@higanbana @rq @mja @prettygood You have not played TGM3 so you have absolutely no idea what I'm referring to. Yes, the game has an "Easy" mode (TGM2 also had Normal), but even assuming you're using ARS, three previews + hold along with I floorkicks trivializes a lot of things compared to the earlier games, and the things they add to make up for it (accounts and the COOL/REGRET system) only do so much to counteract that. When it comes to simple survival, TGM1 is probably the easiest GM to achieve followed by the original TGM2, TGM3, and then TGM2+. And actually time attacking, TGM1 is probably the hardest one to optimize with TGM2+ not being far off. Really, most of the reputation TGM3 has is basically just people seeing the Jin8 video and going "wow, this guy is inhuman" when the reality is much more complicated. Also when I say TGM3 is loved by more casual players, it's the natural migration path for Guidelines players because of WORLD rule and the majority of scores for it are done on that mode.