So, I'm trying to play Final Fantasy VII remake for the first time as a brand new player. I have never played any Final Fantasy game or even anything like Final Fantasy at all. I considered choosing to play on the "easy" difficulty, but I decided to give the normal difficulty a shot in the hopes of maybe learning as I go and hopefully improving. A quick search suggested that normal mode is not necessarily "hard" so I figured I'd be fine.
That being said, I get into the game and I'm going through the tutorial level, learning new mechanics and such. I attack and defeat multiple generic soldiers, and learn to use my potions to heal up. Eventually, I get to the first boss (scorpion sentinel) and predictably struggle. The character dialogue guides you on how to fight it, but it's a lot to process while you are in combat. So, I learned what the proper strategies for this fight were (Barret's thunder magic, focusing the shield generators and then the legs etc) and I managed to beat the boss on my second try.
However, after this fight, both of my party members were at incredibly low HP, and I had no potions left. Immediately following this fight, you are presented with an escape sequence and given a timer to escape the facility. I begin to run out, but then I'm confronted by MORE enemies. Barret is telling me to heal up, but I'm out of potions because I needed all of them to beat the boss. I die immediately and get a game over screen. I'm presented with the option to start over from the last checkpoint, or start over from the last battle. I was hoping that if I chose the checkpoint option, I would at least be able to restart the escape sequence, and maybe do a better job at fighting the weaker enemies, even at low HP. But instead, the game is making me redo the entire scorpion fight, even though I already beat it. That was incredibly frustrating.
I feel really discouraged because even if I did replay the whole boss again, I'd assuredly need all of my heals again to do so, and die again afterwards. I will acknowledge that I am not really that great at this kind of game, and if I was better, I'd probably be able to beat the boss more easily - this is a "skill issue". Maybe I shouldn't have used any potions BEFORE the boss, but I didn't know there was going to be a boss, and the game kept prompting me to heal.
But I want advice. I want to play this game, but after failing so miserably on what seems to be the tutorial level, I am worried I won't be able to enjoy it properly due to being so bad at it. Is there some strategy I can use to save my heals or beat the Scorpion easier, and I should stick with normal mode to get the "authentic experience"? Should I switch to easy mode, or maybe classic mode (which I understand makes the gameplay different)? Or is this game just not for me?
Pls help!