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Especially considering the final boss is only easy normally because of his low damage output. You can possibly breeze through the first half of the game, and regular enemies tend to be slow attackers that you have to wait for them to hit you, but later bosses and minibosses like Darknuts can be a real pain. Rather, these two modes can stack, allowing you to use the Ganondorf amiibo while in Hero Mode, giving you quadruple damage. But individually, both of these don't qualify for this. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD has a Hero Mode that makes you take double damage, and the game also supports the Ganondorf amiibo, which also causes you to take double damage.Still too easy? The Artbook DLC offers the Unknown and Impossible difficulties. Not so for Hard, Hell, and Bunny Extinction modes. As well, on normal mode or below, you can get a special buff that gives a general stat increase if you die enough times. There's achievements for completing the game's main story, post-game story, and boss rush modes for each of these modes. Rabi-Ribi has two difficulties above Hard Mode, though they only buff the HP and damage of enemies without giving them new attacks - Hell and Bunny Extinction.Endless also ends up coming under this, since it seems to start off on hard mode difficulty and end up being as tough or even more so than expert by about the 10th floor. The description literally states 'virtually impossible on your own', which in this case means 'if you're playing solo, expect to have to take on about 10-15 difficult enemies in one tiny room and get crushed' Seriously, 20 odd floors of Hunter or Surprise mode on Expert is damn near suicidal, and 25 floors of Rush mode is basically a death wish. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon has Normal, Hard, and Expert, the last of which fits this to a tee.Mega Man Zero: where Hard Mode means no Cyber Elves, no charge shot, and you take double damage from everything.Beat that, and you unlock Very Hard Mode. Beat Mega Man Legends 2 once and you unlock Hard Mode.

note With handy invincibility frames, too! From Mode is basically Hard Mode, but Spelunker Mode ramps it up so you die in one hit, enemies are harder to kill, and you die when you dash into a wall. 3D Dot Game Heroes has standard mode, From Mode, and Spelunker Mode."Insanity" manages to top that by making your character a One-Hit-Point Wonder.

As an extra difficulty, it also has "Masterful" which is Nintendo Hard to the extreme.

An Untitled Story has "Simple", "Regular", and "Difficult".

They may even go so far as to explicitly indicate that the game was not adequately play-tested, or might be unwinnable at that setting, or some blood-curdling warning along the lines of "don't play this". Other times, this mode isn't even supposed to be fair, and the developers may warn the player, depending on whether or not they feel like being cruel. Games that are more skill based and want to encourage player improvement will stress that this difficulty is gruelling, but not impossible, and that you will need to bring your best skills forward if you want to succeed. How "fair" this difficulty mode is depends on the game. Oftentimes this is unlocked by beating the game on the lower "hard" difficulty. If the game describes how each difficulty mode works, its explanation will often be an inversion of Surprise Difficulty, in that the game makes clear just how hard things are going to get. To qualify for this trope, the difficulty level needs to be above any lower existing "hard" difficulty, and of course, be extremely difficult. Harder Than Hard mode is a Difficulty Level that's exactly what it sounds like: a mode intended only for the most skilled players who are looking for the toughest challenge the game has to offer.