A Plague Tale: Requiem

1. Set the difficulty level to easy, it doesn’t affect the difficulty of the enemies, but you get a lot more resources and knives. I passed on average, it was my mistake. This way you will upgrade both your equipment and skills much faster. Yes, and it will be easier to stealth.
2. I found all the collectibles myself, just carefully searching every corner. By and large, the game is very linear, but sometimes you can accidentally catch a checkpoint with a point of no return. There is a very useful guide , it shows collectibles, golden chests with loot, and knives. Even trophies are missable. It will be useful, and there are no spoilers there. Although I personally found more chests with loot than in this guide.
3. After leveling up your equipment, you can reach the fifth chapter and not spend anything, and then level up each position and roll back the checkpoint, then level up another one. But I wouldn’t recommend it if you go for platinum, you’ll level up 90 percent of everything on your first playthrough, but on easy difficulty you can level up everything. So start leveling up right away to avoid missing out on loot.
My tips for leveling up: first of all, download the tool for processing, in the tools section. This way you can recycle everything that does not fit into elements for pumping. Then there are hidden pockets in alchemy so that you can fit more. Next, we completely download the equipment branch so that you can have two knives, otherwise in the 9th chapter you will not be able to open the second chest. Afterwards we download the crossbow branch completely, the most useful thing in the game. Then you will understand the game and download what you want. In fact, the tools branch is the most useless, we download it last, since there are a lot of workbenches and tools in the game and the ability to download everything on the go with an eternal tool is quite mediocre. Alternatively, it is better to upgrade the second branch of alchemy in order to kill with a pot of fire. Or a double sling. But in any case, one way or another, you will have upgraded almost everything by the end of the game.
4. When leveling up your skills, it’s better to upgrade the first stealth branch, on easy difficulty it will take less time, especially where there are 20 enemies, just carefully read the tips for the trophies: the quiet one, the villain and the fighter, the point is how many enemies died in the location, and It’s not whether you killed secretly or not. By the end of the ninth chapter, you will have completely improved it. Next, I advise you to download the device, until the end of the game there will be about 2/4. In general, there are locations where no matter how you progress, you will only be given experience for a certain branch. This is done so that by the end of the game you have 1/4 of the skills in each tree. For example, there is a location where there are five enemies, but three of them are armored and two are not. Accordingly, there is no crossbow and pots of fire, you will not kill them in any way. So you can only kill 2 and one with a knife, and you won’t be able to get aggression at the location no matter how much you want. As a result, by the end of the game you will have improved stealth, half of your adaptations and 1/4 of your aggression. Let's start a new game+. There, by default, the hardest difficulty level will be turned on, but other than limited resources and quickly burning sticks, it is no different from the others. This is where we download the easiest branch - aggression. Having reached somewhere around the seventh chapter, where there are 20 people on the coast, like Arno’s lessons are called, I pumped it up completely and the 3/4 device branch was pumped up by default. Next, we roll back these same lessons from Arno through the selection of chapters and go through this battle of adaptation. After one or two more battles, you will have fully upgraded this branch. That's all, platinum in your pocket. In the new game you can also achieve what you didn’t achieve in the main playthrough.

I advise you to download the device first because... the third skill is quite useful - you get 1 material when making consumables.