Umineko Golden Fantasia: Arcade Hard ~ Battler & Beatrice

On Hard mode, Black Battler will come out to play if I can clear all the matches without continues. The question is, could I actually beat him on my first try? Princess controls simplify things immensely, but at least the harder difficulty I'm playing on kinda makes up for it. My thumb joint got really red and sore from using the standard controls with an Xbox d-pad before... I wish the game had mapped the controls to the thumbstick instead. I kinda get the feeling a really good player would do better with Normal controls than anyone can with Princess controls, but I'm not quite at that level anyway, and I don't want to mess up my thumb again. (For real, if I play with Normal controls again I'm hooking up a different controller.)