Selectable Difficulty Levels, oh god another topic from me Options

[Reshiram//Exe]

So, I thought 4 or 5 selectable difficulties would be a good idea. What I had in mind:

Beginner: The easiest difficulty. You recieve double bonus stats from defeating bosses, double EXP and all the enemy stats are halved. Bosses have their attacks downgraded.

Normal: The Normal Difficulty.

Hard: Enemies have slightly higher stats, 75% of your bonus stats, 75% EXP and enemies have their attacks upgraded.

Difficult: Enemies have even higher stats, 50% of your bonus stats, 50% EXP and bosses now have much more intelligent movelist AI.

Lunatic(only avaliable after beating the game once): Enemies have very high stats. You cannot level up. Skills take longer to level. Bonus stats however remain at 100%. Bosses will now do evil things like reducing your resistance to an element, then hitting you with the ultimate attack of said element.


Bonus stats are a special mechanic you get when you kill a boss. You get HP/SP/ATK/DEF/INT etc stats. It's the only way to increase your stats in Lunatic minus the consumable items, which are hard to come by unless you do 100% completion. Opinions?

[rewells]

I love the idea of difficulty settings, and some of your ideas are rather original. It may be difficult for you to balance out each difficulty level given all of those variables though. Also, I wanted to make something like this for my game but had no idea to change the amount of EXP monsters drop based on player choices. Do you?

If you're using an ATB, another difficulty consideration is speed of battle. I like games that allow me to set the speed which require me to make quicker decisions in battle.