Choosing Difficulty + Poll

Nothing timed. Example: Long special challenge or collect the orbs in under 2 minutes. I hate timed anything, period.


I like the early Halo Legendary's type of challenges; hard as hell, but I have all the time in the world to do it.

Hey Enk, here is what I feel for difficulty.

I'd want the game to have various difficulty degrees, namely normal and hard, if not a ragequit one to top it all (two or three in total). I say, if people want to begin the game on hard, let them have it. Achievements will do good.
No difficulty-changing would be allowed, however. Too much a challenge? Do restart the game from scratch!

As for the roguelike mode, a token ending would be nice to have too. Some cool message from the devs, for all of the trouble trying and completing it.
And as I can read it, that mode changes everything, from the layout to traps and enemy placement.

Codes would be set apart, at the beginning of a playthough. "Do you have any special password to submit?" and so on.

The CSOTN style is not really a style. It was not even indicated. I am sure that if people knew that Alucard's stats would be slightly different depending on how Richter performed, maybe would they have tried harder.
It doesn't change the game that much, though, except if the player is into small digits HP, aka life hanging by a thread.

Ah, a dynamic style. Shoot 'em ups generally do that, but I certainly hope the game doesn't get cheap if it goes into such a territory. It could bring sense in nightmare mode, though...

The vendor mode, aka unlocking difficulty levels? It's not so much different than unlocking a difficulty level by completing a game, after all. Not very interesting.

I did choose Classic mode for the poll but my final answer is this:
Choose the difficulty from the start. Make further difficulty dynamic for nightmare mode. Get a prompt for codes at the start, nicely-labeled. No chances to change difficulty during progress, you choose it, you stick with it.

Have a good day!

P.S.: I wonder if a special mode that focuses more on sounds and dimmed music could work in a game. I am certain it will never appear in 'stained, but that would be a cool venture to explore!
Beyond that, there IS a game that is blind-people friendly.
hg101.kontek.net/bitgenerations/bitgenerations3.htm check the Soundvoyager part.

Order of ecclesia's way of difficulty was just about perfect, lots of things were faster and did status effects, traps were brutal, and flying enemies became a thing to plan around rather than ignore. The only thing bad about it are the huge finicky boss like crab, shadow , and horse man, they dont work well with the screen size and you will eat hits just for being at a medium distance from the boss because his hit box is so big, go look at gergoth in DoS and honestly tell me it wouldnt have been a better fight with double room length.

Crossing my fingers things like that dont return in RoTN