The balance is simply positive. There is little to discuss.
If you just want to follow up with the plot, put the game in easy and move on.
Hard mode must be "hard mode". Path of the Damned should be "Path of the Damned."
Initially, the difficulty level has been enjoyable.
At level 8 (hard mode) with a party of 6, I should not even use spells, and hardly anyone dies. Not good, not fun to click like a monkey and go forward.