Hard difficulty?

[dagoo7]

So still wondering if anybody has tried hard to any extent. Just for simple test, I went through tutorial on normal and then hard.

On normal, I kill the boar in a couple of hits and take like maybe 5-15% damage. This is just using dagger autoattack and no training.

On hard, it takes many more hits to kill the boar and I end up almost dying by taking like 90% damage. Once again, just using autoattacks.

This would seem to imply that hard is significantly harder by several orders. Is this how it plays out in the full game as well. If so, hard may be so difficult it makes the game way too tough.

Once again, would love to hear someone's experienced input on this.