Me! I played the game for the first time on the 3DS and didn’t use any guides.

It was pretty challenging at times. I feel like I would’ve beat the game significantly faster if I had used a guide since there were instances were it wasn’t so much the difficulty that stumped me, but getting lost or not figuring out how to progress in certain spots.

As far as the final battle goes, I got lucky. I had actually gotten really lucky throughout the game with the Pray ability, so I always used it during boss battles. So when I used it during the final boss, I quickly figured out what I was supposed to do when praying triggered the first cutscene.

I imagine that if I had never used the pray ability before, I would’ve been stumped on how to beat the final boss for a long time lol