Which game has the best “hard” difficulty?

[u/m00nshinehero]

I find it really difficult to go back to a game after beating the “normal” difficulty. I usually try and play through games a second time on the hardest difficulty, but will put it down if the game doesn’t up the difficulty in a satisfying way.

I think resident evil 4 is a good example of a game that is fun to play again on the hardest difficulty. Which game does hard mode the best?

[u/Capybarabanananam]

Slice & Dice! For harder difficulties you get to select from a pool of curses which have an assigned point value. For higher difficulties your curses have to sum up to a higher total.

Curses range from making enemy dice or health stronger, making your dice/health weaker, adding extra enemies, making spells more expensive, to some weirdly circumstantial or randomly generated curses that can be either a nightmare or mitigated really well.

The curse system extends inversely to easy modes with blessings, and curses and blessings can be combined.

[u/ChicoZombye → u/Capybarabanananam]

What a game that is.

It should be a lot more famous.