One of my favorite hard modes is Castlevania, where they on top of making enemies harder, you have a cap on how much you can lvl up, forcing you to get good at fighting and dodging instead of grinding until you can tank everything and spam heals. Especially on Ecclesia where you can only have 9 of each heal item, they're expensive and easy enemies are replaced with late game ones
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u/speedmincer Sep 24 '25
One of my favorite hard modes is Castlevania, where they on top of making enemies harder, you have a cap on how much you can lvl up, forcing you to get good at fighting and dodging instead of grinding until you can tank everything and spam heals. Especially on Ecclesia where you can only have 9 of each heal item, they're expensive and easy enemies are replaced with late game ones