Pokemon is on the easier scale for me quiet some time, same with Final Fantasy and few other JRPGs. Typically I find Dungeon Crawlers to be the most challenging, so if I had to make scale between 1 (which is what I find Final Fantasy on) and 10 (What I find some dungeon crawlers on), I give this between 0-2 sometimes borderline babying you, and sometimes it picks up towards the end but never game over.