In NORMAL mode, is this game just as hard as it's NES counterpart? I'm up to the Earth cave right now on the PS1 version, and it just seems a little bit easier... I don't think I've even died once, and I've only done the back and forth leveling up for 10-15 minutes, I remember having to fight ogres for HOURS on the NES version. (Although I think I DID get lucky with astos, my 2 mages went down in 2 rounds, and he just couldn't kill my fighters for some reason as I chipped his health down over about 10 rounds)