What is your favourite difficulty mode?

I like to play every game in standard a few times and then I work my way up the latter.

Standard. Better to take things as they are, in my opinion.

I usually prefer Standard. I think it takes the fun out of the game if I keep getting stuck and can't finish a story. 

Proud mode, definitely. I usually only do critical mode after I beat proud mode. 

Proud cause it's available from the start.  

Never took the chance to try Critical, but I prefer default runs on Proud.

o.o I made the mistake of doing DDD on Critical while SKIPPING Proud mode... -_- Boy, did I regret that when I came to Young Xehanort's battle.

 

But overall, I'm probably more of a Proud person, I hardly ever play Critical until I know the game forwards, backwards, and in loop-de-loops. Which is decently often.

Standard. Not too easy, not too hard.

I choose standard. I don't want to suffer for hours just trying to beat a boss. I also don't want to feel like a noob on beginner. If a game is too hard it makes me unable to enjoy the story.

I wanted to say Beginner, but you can't see the secret ending. So Standard...

Beginner because then my sister can play along and we can laugh at the game.

I think the obvious choice would be critical. Even when fully leveled, it's still a little challenging when facing the data organization members. Also It's fun to try and beat the game at lv1 in this mode. If your "hardcore" enough, haha!

Critical for me.