Take me at my word when I say this: If anyone out there decides to get Legend of Mana in this day and age (I still say that it's a GREAT game to play, I think it's available on the PS4 Shop) be warned: If you go into No Future Mode [The Most Difficult setting of the game: All monsters get to level 99, cause Status Ailments more often and more] you should do a few runs through the game at Nightmare and look up Weapon Tempering and Armor Altering Recipes online. You'll need ALL the bonuses you can get and a good pet to boot. There are 2 bosses in the game that you CANNOT just kill by beating on it. They let you cut off their arms then you beat on the flower monsters that drop, and after the arms respawn it takes off a small chunk of the health bar. It's VERY slow on No Future as the monster has roughly 10+ bars of HP. VERY dangerous boss unless you know what you're doing and have a proper weapon to back you up. It'll take you a few play throughs to get the most important material: Mirror Shards. It's a fantastic game, great system that rewards you for forging your own weapons over buying them, same with armor as well as Magic is dealt with in another way too: Musical Instruments fused with the power of Gods.

Aside, I have beat No Future and the ONLY monsters that gave me trouble were the 2 bosses I explained above. Other than that I still had an easy time... and as I had the strongest Attack Tech's with my weapon I could OHKO even the No Future bosses. Just stupid fun since No Future also made REALLY rare items drop more often. But I was prepared and also I was playing with another Handicap: Normally you do have the ability to naturally heal, I had a set of cards on my Armor that Negated my healing but SUPER Buffed my defense. So at the cost of 'risk it for a biscuit' I bit the bullet and thanks to this game being a Free Movement Battle RPG and that my level was Max due to multiple play throughs: I dodged about and stun locked most monsters when I could.

So yeah: No Future isn't hard, you just got to be prepared for what's to come.

Take care all, and hope things are going well for all.