MrPopo wrote:I ended up doing the demo on Classic mode (which puts it on Easy mode as well, unfortunately) because I don't want to be mashing the attack button. I had mixed results; it's hard to tell if the AI is taking it easy or if there's a cooldown that needs to be respected that you aren't seeing. But I never felt threatened. As for dodging attacks, I don't think it's actually intended that you can Paper Mario your way through and dodge everything. I think it's there to give players a sense of agency, and the main things you want to dodge are large attacks like the laser (and if you had trouble dodging that then you are going to have a ROUGH rest of the game).
I never got hit by the big tail laser; it was the missile barrage that always got me. Dodging didn't work so I tried guarding and that lessened the damage but not consistently. I was playing on normal mode. Maybe I'll try classic and see how that goes.
There's one very "important" part of the game I am not seeing people discuss online: Don Corneo. Will we get HD cross-dressing Cloud?! That will be hilarious if so.