I was being bullish and charging in trying to go for the quick kill. It almost worked the half the time but somehow my power thrust would do no damage and he would gran me by the throat and kill me.
It's not that he was hard, it's that I wasn't paying smart, I was just rushing in head first without thinking. One time I power thrusted him about 8 times in a row without him getting up and it almost killed him, so I kept thinking I cold just power attack my way through it and be done.... I was wrong.
The only other time I've died was when riding the truck during the quicktime events. There was one part where it just said push A, and I pushed it immediately on several attempt and it just wasn't registering, so I kept dieing, it almost got to the point of frustrating.
Everything else so far hasn't been hard at all, but I'm glad I didn't put it on hard since I'm still having issues with the damn thing not swinging some times. Just regular swings that work when not in combat are not working while in combat. He will just stand there while I'm swinging away or trying to do a finisher move when the enemy is down.