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First playthrough for me is always normal. If the devs have done their job properly, that should be the tightest way to play. Sometimes if I loved the game, I'll replay on hard, but very rarely.

Reviewers should state which difficulty they played through on. And in the case of games like Wonderful 101 where they marked a game down for being too hard, they should say what the other difficulties are like (or better yet, give the game to someone who can actually play games).