Choosing Difficulty + Poll

Yes, we have been talking about difficulty for a while now. And ideas are plenty. I urge everyone to take part in this thread:
How hard do you want Bloodstained to be? bloodstainedfanforums.com/thread/584/bloodstaineds-difficulty
if you want to talk about how difficult the game should be.

This thread is about how we decide the difficulty, if we have a choice.

Reason for this thread (that could be combined with other threads if you guys feel it is needed) are this: I saw this video - and about 24 minutes in, it came clear to me that the game chose the difficulty (somewhat) based out of the battle we had with Dracula as Richter in Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I never knew this. I do remember that I failed once and Maria came to rescue me, but that was only one time. Perhaps the first time I played it! They reveal in the video, which many of you probably already knew, that if you fail against Dracula, you become invincible and after the game really starts you have some changes to make the game "easier" or "different". This made me think about how they could make it interesting in Bloodstained.

Which one of these below would suit you BEST, no matter if it will be as such or not. I know some of the features below are almost impossible to make, but I want to give everyone the choice in requesting it in the poll. So here are a bit info on what I have been thinking.

Choose Difficulty: The Classic Mode Style
In Diablo III we have in that game let us choose between a whole variety of difficulties. From "easy", all the way up to inferno, torment levels. Each level, beyond normal adds bonuses, but makes the enemies and bosses being more aggressive and have more health and powerful attacks. It is very interesting and it even let the player change difficulty during game. The amount of "luck" in the game is also changed to over 1000% in drops, making the effort in killing "slow" a bit more rewarding. If we could have 3 or more difficulties, it would actually be nice to try them out one by one.

Secret Gear: The Code Style
There is only normal mode. But with "secret codes" - you change the game. It would perhaps work like gain starter items, like good weapons, armor and such in the beginning to make it easy. Or lock your character so you can't change more than your weapon (use standard armor all the way through). Or giving you minus on your stats right at the beginning, so you need to work harder to NOT DIE and so on.

Meet a Monster: The SotN Advanced Style
You make a test in the beginning, that test will decide what difficulty you will end up with. New players might get easy and so on. The way this mode would be handled could be anyones guess. It might give you items at the start, or in hard difficulty perhaps make your luck less, or enemies punch harder and have more health.

Evolve: The Progression Style
This is a difficult one to have in the game, and by nature it will be the one that we are actually getting in a minor curve. What I mean by this mode is less like a curve and more like steps, giant leaps from room to room that you need to become better. Perhaps it is experience based, that the more experience you get, the less experience you will obtain and the harder the monsters will be. Also the bosses might become nightmarish to meet if you grind too hard. The backflip on this is that, while you grind, you are trying to become stronger (not weaker), but at the same time, the game must follow your progress and this mode would let you feel somewhat powerful if you handle the strategies good enough. The bad part would be that the feeling of being awesome is lacking. It could however let us perhaps use powerful items, that would make us OP if we know more about how and when they should be used. Making the game easier. This mode is about balance, perhaps TOO MUCH balance, and as a soft curve it is probably the basis of the game already, but I leave this as a choice because some people like the idea of it being super challenging all the way to the end.

Unlock help: The Vendor Style
So you are stuck, the game is "too hard", you have no clue how to beat whatever challenge that needs to be done. Now what? This mode would let you buy things out of a currency that you get for each failure. Like every life you wasted have become a type of currency used to buy a super-powerful item that will make the challenge easy. It can however only be unlocked if you have tried at least X amount of times.

It grows on you: The Replay Style
First start to finish is easy. Next time around you unlock the "normal" mode, and you may choose it if you want. Now the game is normal from start to finish. After that, it becomes harder and harder. Replay after replay (and yes, you must kill endboss only, not complete the whole map).

My Own Style
Please comment and explain your style.

Thanks

Edit: Did some changes in the text. Thanks for clearing that out lovelydumpling