Anyone hear anything about the best difficulty?

I plan on playing on Normal and then trying missions on the harder difficulty later.

I played through it once on Hard, beat it today actually. I'm going back for an even harder playthrough.

Very Hard + No magic + Ghost + No kills + No upgrades.

It's going to be a bitch.

I'm playing through on normal. It doesn't seem very difficult but man you really have to be careful with the combat. It takes very few hits to empty the life bar.

@Twitchey: Is that an xbox achievement of some sort or a personal one?

Normal.  Planning on doing a Platinum run.  Ghost, Clean Hands, and Mostly Flesh and Steel are going to be fun but probably frustrating to no end, probably do all those on Hard 

I'm playing it on hard, and I'm finding it a bit too easy.

Any game with a high emphasis on stealth should be played at max difficulty, i find. I played it at the highest difficulty and focused on stealth which made the game fairly easy for the most part but if i was spotted i'd get slaughtered pretty quickly.

I play on easy to get the hang of the mechanics and combat, if I enjoy the game enough I bump up the difficulties, just how I always play games because I prefer to enjoy the story and such and once I get that I bump up the difficulty and can listen to music or a podcast while I play, it keeps me relaxed as harder difficulties can get to me quite quickly.

Normal, I don't want the AI acting aggressively until I complete it.

Playing on hard.. and so far it's not to difficult

I've beat the game on normal and now I'm playing it on Very Hard mode. I'm not trying to kill anyone, because this time I want the good ending.

@david3cm: There's one for no upgrades, one for no kills, one for not being detected, and one for beating it on very hard. So 4 trophies in one playthrough.

Very Hard! I mean I'm playing stealth so I shouldn't actually ever have to engage in direct combat so honestly the difficulty should be a moot point for me.

Played it on normal, didn't have time for hard and I didn't feel like doing easy.