It's been a couple years since Bloodstained Ritual of the Night came out as the Spiritual Successor to Casltevania: Symphony of the Night. Contrary to that statement, game-play wise, Ritual of the Night is actually a Supercut of the creator's best ideas from the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS games, appended onto Symphony of the Night's general level and story structure. I wouldn't call it a perfect game, but it's a lot of fun.
This Mod Load Out re-balances the game to be played on Hard difficulty. You can skip directly to hard by creating a save file with the name NIGHTMARE. The load out unlikely to change as the modding community has more or less settled down since the game came out.
Game Re-Balance:
Improved Gameplay (No Hard Module) - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/136
Difficulty Re-Scale: https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/137
Less Grinding:
Improved Crafting - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/65
Drop Rate Boost (Shard and Item 20% Module, 1% becomes 21, 50% becomes 70) - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/108
Quick Tech Mastery - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/60
Graphical and Clean Up:
No Scarves Visual - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/36
No Accessories Visual - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/32
Remove Money is Power Graphic - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/4
Remove Detective Eye Graphic - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/2
Improved Item Descriptions - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/68
Cheat (if abused this will make the game way too easy):
Increase Item Stack - https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodstainedritualofthenight/mods/33