8 is hard if you make it harder. The Junction system is pretty easily exploited to make your characters powerful, and since enemies level up as the characters do, just keep your characters low-level and you won't have much of anything to worry about (not counting optional bosses). The trick to doing so is playing the card game....a lot....and refining those for magic to junction to your stats.
As for what game you should pick, I can't help you out there.
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