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Schizophrenic Difficulty

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Schizophrenic Difficulty	comment	This happens when a game has a difficulty curve that makes no sense. The game isn't always hard. It isn't always easy. It just can't seem to make up its mind. There are even portions that seem to be the perfect difficulty, but you never know when one will turn up. Maybe there's an element of the game design that does not work particularly well. Maybe the developers were trying to make the game feel realistic. Maybe they just had no clue what they were doing. Whatever the case, you've run into Schizophrenic Difficulty. Often occurs when major elements of gameplay are left to the Random Number God. Random dungeon layouts can put important equipment on the bottom floor. Random stat growth can rob your tank of vital Hit Points. A Crutch Character or Exclusive Enemy Equipment that is only available on a few scattered levels can also make portions of the game much easier than others. And sometimes, it is the level design itself that makes things too difficult. Compare Difficulty Spike or That One Level, when a single level is much harder than its preceding levels, and Breather Level which is its inverse. Also see Early-Bird Boss, which can cause this in the early parts of RPGs and games with RPG elements, and Early Game Hell, where the hardest part of the game is the beginning. Non-Indicative Difficulty is an extreme case where, for example, playing on "Normal" is harder than playing on "Hard", at least in some way.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_14d341dc	comment	During the open beta, Star Trek Online suffered from this, with the episodes and missions immediately following the tutorial being unreasonably (to the point of unplayable) difficult at times. By the time you got to level 11 where the difficulty was supposed to pick up, it actually dropped off some.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_168c4727	comment	Guild Wars 2 tends to run into this problem with the Personal Story missions when run solo, though this is largely dependent on the player character's build. Two characters running through identical stories may have vastly different outcomes: a high-defense low-damage warrior may be able to wade handily through a succession of strong single enemies, but be stymied by the following mission's gigantic waves of enemies that whittle that huge HP bar down to nothing; conversely, a high-damage AOE-based Elementalist will watch their coffers drain repairing damaged armor from trying to take down the mini-bosses, only to laugh maniacally as they slaughter the following Zerg Rush before they can even attack.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_188d2347	comment	The first half of survival horror game Cold Fear has lots of tight corridors and takes place on a small whaling ship rocking back and forth in a storm, making it impossible to walk in a straight line, much less shoot with any accuracy. The second half has much more powerful enemies, but disposes with all the things that made the first half so challenging.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Might and Magic IX had this. The first part of the game seemed more neglected than anything else, resulting in a "tutorial" stage that was punishingly difficult due mostly to a lack of any sort of preparation. Trying to follow the "main path" of the game past that point led through a somewhat stable difficulty curve, but any sort of deviation from where the game automatically expected you to go quickly led to the discovery of numerous side quests which could be completed without placing your team in any form of danger whatsoever, making the rest of the first half of the game ludicrously easy. The difficulty eventually spikes back up out of nowhere before bottoming out again, and varies depending largely on which promotion quests you decide to do.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You can be like this, thanks to its very complicated battle system. A hard boss battle might force you to learn how to use a gameplay mechanic you had been ignoring beforehand, and suddenly the rest of the game becomes easy until an increase in difficulty. Repeat until you get to the post-storyline content, which requires jumping back and forth between a bunch of Optional Bosses while constantly switching your difficulty setting and HP around.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_1ae24caa	comment	All the levels in Battletoads are hard, but not sequentially so. Level 3 has the racers, which are virtually impossible, while level 5 has the surfboards, which, while difficult, aren't as bad. In some levels, every obstacle is instant death, while in some other, later levels, all obstacles take one or two units of health.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_1cc11947	comment	Descent 2 had Schizophrenic Difficulty, with many spikes and troughs along the gently rising slope. In some sections the robots could be picked off with ease, yet just around the corner one false move would see a phalanx of murderous mechs erupt from the floors and walls, firing blinding flares and flooding your lines of retreat with bouncing shots... It didn't seem to make for a bad game, though, since it was enjoyably unpredictable, but only rarely Nintendo Hard.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_1ede5259	comment	NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams has Fluffy Catch, the third stage in the game, as a stopping point for people because the player has to keep Nightopians from drifting upwards into a vortex, requiring the player to scramble back and forth and keep a sharp eye at a point when the game's unusual mechanics are not yet clear (especially if the player has never played the first game). After that, the stages themselves vary a bunch, with the mid-game Crystal Castle levels being pretty hard overall because of the high obstacle density, cramped space, branching paths, and mirror puzzles; and its follow-up, Memory Forest, being relatively empty, open, and straightforward, allowing you to see any enemies and other setbacks far in advance.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_210767ac	comment	Crusader Kings gets outright chaotic quite often, especially the second game. In general, a lord's effective power is usually dependent on their vassals' loyalty, and the moment a king dies, his successor will usually have to deal with several magnate lords pushing their own agendas; the likelihood of this goes up as the king's realm grows bigger and more powerful. On the other hand, a long-ruling king can more-or-less expect full obedience as he expands his realm into infidel lands. The difficulty rankings on starting characters do not take this into account, meaning that some of the best starting characters for newbies, minor Irish nobles with no large organized enemies or complex internal politics, are labeled "hard".
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII also does this with its own Dharma Temple event. The mini-dungeon and encounters surrounding the area are stupidly hard. This, however is a trick: If you are (and most likely will be) low level for this area, you can use the area for a Peninsula of Power Leveling once you actually get your Job Classes. But if you decide to grind out your levels before going to the temple, then you can't use the encounters there to gain job points.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2819aebd	comment	Playthroughs of Mega Man (Classic) games often start out fairly tricky, then get progressively easier as the player accumulates more E-Tanks, Robot Master weapons, and tricks like Rush or Beat—even moreso due to the fact that the games are nonlinear, meaning every stage is meant to be about the same in terms of difficulty (though they often aren't). Then you reach the Wily Fortress stages, which have to assume that the player has the aforementioned tricks, and range from a complete cakewalk to a grueling gauntlet. Mega Man 3 is a particularly odd one, in that it starts with the aforementioned "starts hard, gets easier" route, then drops in the very difficult Doc Robot stages and bosses, and finishes off with one of the easiest Wily Fortresses in the series.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_289f3039	comment	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has this with the World of Light. There is an assortment of Spirits that have varying power levels based on their rarity; one-star and two-star Spirits are reasonable and copious, but three-star Spirits tend to serve as Beef Gates to force the player to go around them, while four-star Spirits are often relegated to Optional Boss material. This means you should utilize the Gym and Spirit Board to get what you need for 100% completion while grinding through the chaff.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2986182f	comment	The Wonderful End of the World (basically a PC indie version of Katamari Damacy) suffers from this. In some levels you'll collect enough stuff to get an A+ rank with a third of the timer remaining, while in others you'll scramble up to the last second and still only earn a B rank. The very first level is an example of the former, but one of the two levels it unlocks falls into the latter.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars Factions has this, with several earlier missions being a pain, yet around the middle of the game, they ease off on difficulty, then it spikes again. The final boss himself is all over the place. If you go in with whatever build you normally have, he can be essentially unbeatable. On the other hand, there are builds that almost instantly defeat him, with almost no middle ground due to the nature of his abilities.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2acb12c5	comment	X3: Terran Conflict: Randomly generated missions are assigned a "Difficulty" ranking. The difficulty just seems to indicate how likely you'll get wrecked by a M8 class bomber. At high combat ranks (gained slowly by killing enemies), an "Easy" mission will spawn multiple battleships in patrol missions — regardless of what sort of ships you own. Good luck killing those battleships in your piddly little corvette. In-Sector versus Out-Of-Sector combat. To save on processing power, OOS reduces combat to ships taking turns firing a single, point-blanknote 650 meters or thereabouts volley from all guns at once at a single target. All other variables (area-of-effect, weapons recharge, and so on) are taken out of the equation. This skews combat in favor of Wave Motion Guns to the point where recommended loadouts are often drastically different for IS and OOS. OOS is also skewed in favor of weight of numbers, to the point where a mob of Jaguar scoutships can kill a Python destroyer with about 20% casualties, something that Artificial Stupidity makes impossible IS.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2d49c8f1	comment	In Candy Crush Saga, you can often find easy levels followed by hard levels, and the other way round. If you visit the Candy Crush Saga wiki and read the page of almost any episode, you can see how much the difficulty jumps up and down.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_2e9ef429	comment	Batman: Arkham Series The Riddler challenges of finding his trophies/extortion files can range anywhere from simply walking over and picking one up to doing some insanely difficult and perfectly timed trick with your various gadgets. Crimes in Progress in Batman: Arkham Origins can be anything from half a dozen guys with sticks, a fight that Bats could probably win in his sleep, to a massive brawl involving heavily armoured goons, corrupt cops, assault rifles and — if the area is open and the fight sufficiently free-range — a number of thugs from a completely different mob that get pulled into the fight.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_3038d75c	comment	Diablo II: You sequentially pass through the three difficulty levels with your character as you level up (Normal for levels 1 to ~40, Nightmare until ~70, and Hell from then on). However, the actual difficulty of each is kinda messed up. Normal can be tedious or very difficult depending on your build. Many characters are stuck with a pathetically weak attack as they wait for the higher level ones they actually want to put points into to open up. Nightmare is a complete joke — by now you have your strongest attacks maxed out, while enemies are only slightly stronger than in Normal. Hell is true to its name. All enemies are completely invulnerable to at least one element, randomly spawned unique monsters gain 3 boss-modifiers (which can give them more elemental immunities), and your own elemental resistances are all dropped by one hundred. There's another layer of Schizophrenic Difficulty inside Hell difficulty. While in Normal difficulty the enemies have their stats completely fixed, in Nightmare and Hell each zone has an "area level" and enemies scale their stats based on that area level. Hell difficulty makes some strange leaps in area levels, and sometimes zones have a much higher level than the previous area, meaning the enemies there are much stronger. This usually happens with optional areas, but there are a few cases with mandatory areas: the Blood Moor has a level of 67 while the Den of Evil there (a Noob Cave in previous difficulties) has a level of 79 (enjoy monsters who are suddenly 12 levels higher!), and the Far Oasis has a level of 76 while the Maggot Lair has levels 84-85. A similar thing can be said about act bosses. The first boss, Andariel, has quite an adequate low difficulty considering she's the first boss, but the second boss, Duriel, is one of the toughest enemies of the game. The third boss, Mephisto, is very easy, especially compared to his bodyguards, the High Council, who are AT LEAST as hard as Mephisto himself. Then, the fourth boss, Diablo, is clearly the toughest enemy of the game (which makes sense, considering he was originally the Final Boss prior to the expansion). By contrast, the added Final Boss in Lord of Destruction (Baal) is similar to Mephisto in being disappointingly easy compared to prior bosses and his "Minions of Destruction" that you are forced to defeat right before.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_325f8573	comment	The 8-bit versions have this problem to a lesser extent. Jungle Zone Act 2 in the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the hardest in the game due to Ratchet Scrolling, while Labyrinth Zone and Scrap Brain Zone Act 1 are surprisingly easy in comparison to the 16-bit equivalents.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_326d9cf4	comment	The 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is horrible about this. Underground Zone, the game's first, is modestly challenging up until the boss, and even that is beatable with some practice (although still surprisingly difficult considering it's the first boss). The next zone, Sky High, is more difficult than anything up until Scrambled Egg and Crystal Egg, the final two levels, due to unintuitive hang glider controls. Aqua Lake is back to being relatively easy, then bounces back to being Nintendo Hard with the second act. Green Hills (note the "s") isn't very hard at all until the third act, which is one of the hardest in the game. The game seems to make up its mind about its difficulty level starting with Gimmick Mountain.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_332cb317	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) had difficulty all over the place in each of the main 3 campaigns, but a major repeat offender is Kingdom Valley, one of the hardest and longest stages in the game. For Sonic and Silver, it's their second-to-last stage, and it's much more difficult than their final stagesnote Aquatic Base and Flame Core respectively. Shadow has it even worse, as Kingdom Valley is his second stage, and the hovercraft section in the middle can take many extra lives even if you know where you're supposed to go. Nothing in his story gets quite that bad until Dusty Desert at the very end.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_33acebd8	comment	Guilty Gear XX's Story Mode is all over the place, ranging from "Beat me, please" to "I AM COMPUTERIZED FIGHTING PERFECTION AND WILL SHOW ALL PUNY HUMANS WHAT TORMENT AND SUFFERING IS" depending on which story arc you take.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_3504b88e	comment	In Mortal Kombat II, Jade is a secret boss, with the cheap AI that you might expect from a boss. In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Jade is a selectable character, but the programmers never fixed her AI. This is couple with the fact that she is given a move which makes her invincible to projectiles for a period of time, which she will almost always activate the instant you throw a projectile, while running up to you, performing one of her combos. Considering that it is almost entirely random when, or even if, you fight Jade in single player mode, she's a single-handed example of this trope.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_3565350a	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has an abnormally difficult early game, due to a combination of mediocre starting units and a lack of chances for Level Grinding. Once the Random Encounters start showing up on the map, though, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from scooping up the best stuff available, until the final boss's ridiculously powerful magic is the only thing that can actually stop you.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War: The single-player campaign of Soulstorm. The difficulty levels of each of the nine stronghold levels vary wildly with no way of knowing which ones are the hardest until you've already played through the game. The Ork and Dark Eldar strongholds are cakewalks (assuming you have enough Honor Guard to get past the initial zerg-rush/maze), the Space Marine, Eldar, and Necron strongholds are about average difficulty, the Sisters, Tau, and Chaos strongholds are hard, but doable, and the Imperial Guard stronghold is nigh-impossible for anyone who lacks a lightning-quick clicking finger. This has a lot to do with the gimmicks the game employs at the strongholds and the schizophrenic rock paper scissors relationship that the different factions have to one another. The campaign of Dawn of War II fluctuates up and down for its entirety, along with a huge spike with the Argus Gate mission, a huge drop after acquiring the Dreadnought and a sufficiently leveled Cyrus, a spike into the stratosphere with the two Superbosses, and another drop with the relatively easy final mission complete with Anticlimax Boss. Chaos Rising, however, is far more consistent in its difficulty curve.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_39482c3e	comment	Left 4 Dead: The first two games are designed to have each campaign be an enjoyable standalone experience, but it's likely that players will play them in order from start to finish at least the first time they play. Both games' second campaigns were DLC not available at launch, and as such have slightly more gimmicky, and difficult play than the base game ones in order to give a fresh challenge for veterans, as well as containing less but longer maps to provide short but challenging game options for versus players. Left 4 Dead 2's Campaign 3, Dark Carnival, has the longest maps, with 3 of them having punishing crescendo events at the very end that are easy to fail on more than once if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Campaigns 4 and 5 — Swamp Fever and Hard Rain — settle the difficulty briefly, but the former has one of the toughest finales with a long trek from the safe room to try again, and the latter has the polar opposite — a short finale that takes place right next to the safe room. After all these ups and downs, the final campaign, The Parish, re-settles back on being a very fair and balanced difficulty despite a gimmicky moment here and there. At least until you hit the final stretch to reach the escape heli, then all hell breaks loose.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_3c182551	comment	Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. Oh, boy, Puzzle Quest Galactrix. Specifically, the whole "fixing jumpgates" thing, which is not just schizophrenic, but positively hebephrenic (really obscure psychology joke).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_3d44c7ed	comment	The first Age of Empires game suffered from this. The Yamato campaign was the worst by far (the first two levels were extremely frustrating nomadic levels, pitting a laughably small force against an army), but the Babylonian campaign had shades of this as well (The first level where you start with only a priest, the fifth level which is the toughest of the campaign and the last one where you must assault on Nineveh, a city with 1001 defenses).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_49a88435	comment	From Jahara to Giruvegan storywise, Final Fantasy XII is all over the place. Ozmone Plain is typically used as a Peninsula of Power Leveling, and with good reason — while the enemies are strong, few have area attacks, and the ones that do are weaker. Then Golmore Jungle starts throwing lots of status ailments at you, and you can't get Esuna till you reach Eruyt Village. Henne Mines settles for cranking enemy combat strength up. Then it's back to Golmore where the game will force you to use everything you've learned about status ailments. The difficulty then plummets for Paramina Rift, then spikes again for the Stilshrine of Miriam. After that, you have to fight through the Mosphoran Highwaste (fairly easy), the Salikawood (upgraded Golmore, meaning loads of status effects), the Phon Coast (easy again), the Tchita Highlands (also easy), the Sochen Cave Palace (difficulty spike) before ever reaching Archadia. The Draklor Laboratory features lots of Imperials, and a difficult boss fight. Difficulty remains at a very high level until the end game — Giruvegan is particularly unfair with loads of gimmick bosses. Then comes the even harder Pharos, a dungeon that would qualify for Very Definitely Final Dungeon status in any other FF game. Sky Fortress Bahamut, the actual final dungeon, comes after Pharos and is probably far easier — the enemies are just high level Imperials and there are no gimmick bosses to deal with.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft also falls prey to this trope — especially on PvP servers. Certain zones can be unplayable due to ganking and quest difficulty can frequently fluctuate depending on how enemies differ between areas. Low-level players first encountering Gnomeregan may notice a surprising leap in difficulty compared to earlier dungeons. Zones made before any of the expansions (Levels 1-60) are somewhat more difficult than higher-level zones introduced in the expansions (Levels 60-80). Quests are also usually more time consuming as well, requiring 20 Bear Asses rather than eight. The Cataclysm revamp made it even worse. Now, the level 1-60 zones were revamped and are a very pleasant experience. 60-70 content is now the oldest and as such is missing a lot of new development ideas and is much more tedious than 1-60. 70-80 content ups the quality almost back to the new Cataclysm content. 80-85 levels have all the newest developments, but have vastly increased amount of experience needed per level and highest-level mobs are much tougher than previously. Tol Barad quests, accessible at 85. feature another jump up in difficulty. Even once you finish leveling and start playing heroics, there's a significant difference across the different dungeons. Some people will jokingly call a free run while others will see people immediately quit in disgust.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_4ed5b58b	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist's story mode varies wildly in terms of difficulty, due to the frequency of you being given a bad deck or your opponent being given one. Fights that should be insanely difficult, like Don Thousand, are often speedbumps, while fights that were curbstomps, like Aster defeating Jaden, are bordering on That One Boss.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_503cf9e4	comment	Rhythm Heaven on the DS. Two levels in the second set (Moai Doo-Wop and Rhythm Rally) are considered some of the hardest in the whole game. Sometimes you get a very hard level between two easy ones (Big Rock Finish), and some of the easiest ones are right before the end. YMMW on which levels are hard and which are easy, but most people agree that the difficulty is anything but gradually increasing.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994) also has difficulty issues. It starts out fairly challenging, gets extremely easy after Happy Happy, gets hard when you reach the mines and stays hard all the way through Moonside, drops insanely low all the way through Scaraba, gets a bit more challenging in Deep Darkness, and finally gets pretty nasty once you reach Fire Spring through the end.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_51351e27	comment	Mickey Mania has 6 levels. The first, Steamboat Willy, is very easy. #2, The Mad Doctor, is likely the second most difficult level in the game (the difficulty jump between the first two levels is ridiculous). #3, Moose Hunters, is medium-hard, but quite short. #4, Lonesome Ghosts, is pretty hard. #5, Mickey & The Beanstalk, is about medium. And the final stage, The Prince & The Pauper, is quite merciless. It has five incredibly difficult segments to it (though the first isn't too bad), plus the final boss (who takes forever to kill and can mess you up if not careful).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_536a5cc9	comment	Sonic Colors will open up Sweet Mountain and Starlight Carnival at the same time. Upon the player finishing both, Planet Wisp, Aquarium Park, and Asteroid Coaster will unlock all at once. The game's stages are supposed to scale in difficulty on an ordinary curve in the order listed above. Hence, anyone who chooses Starlight Carnival before Sweet Mountain will be in for a surprisingly tough time, and even more so if they select Asteroid Coaster before Planet Wisp or Aquarium Park.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_53d09305	comment	Space Invaders Infinity Gene has a Challenge mode that basically randomly generates levels. This leads to randomness in the difficulty. Also, one of the bosses has an intro that lasts minutes before it can be attacked, and this boss may appear randomly at the end of any Challenge level.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5425ce75	comment	Anything Grand Theft Auto — some missions are so easy they could be accomplished by a five-year-old (not that they ''should'', mind you), while others are so frustratingly hard that you'll probably want to either break your TV, your controller, or both.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Civilization: Due to the randomly generated maps (and resources) of the game, you will encounter spikes in difficulty every time you enter a new era with a specific strategic resource that you lack. For example, finding out that you have no oil will make the modern era quite difficult, since you won't be able to build many of the military units. It's not much improved in Civilization IV although some units were added, like Mechanized Infantry, to help smooth out the differences between Iron/no Iron and especially Oil/no Oil. It's a lot easier to win a non-military victory in IV, though. In VI almost all the good units require a strategic resource and if you don't have iron early game, niter mid-game, or oil late game then you should basically forget going to war in those eras unless you want to get CurbStomped. This was an intentional choice in order to encourage more diplomacy and trade as well as give reasons to settle new lands late game, but if all the resource tiles are taken and everyone hates you too much to want to trade with you you're kind of boned.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4 starts with 2 extremely easy dungeons,note Yukiko's Castle and the Steamy Bathhouse, which are each capped off by an Early-Bird Boss and a Wake-Up Call Boss. The third dungeonnote Marukyu Striptease gets tricky with its encounters, and its boss can get tedious. The fourth dungeonnote Void Quest is a good step harder than that and has possibly the HARDEST story boss (almost the only other boss you will actually need to grind against). The fifth dungeonnote Secret Laboratory is easier, with a challenging but not hair pulling boss, and the one after thatnote Heaven is a little harder, with a boss nearly as hard as the 2 very hard early game bosses. The penultimate and final dungeonsnote Magatsu Inaba and Yomotsu Hirasaka scale appropriately with potentially dangerous encounters for the unprepared, but the bosses at the end spike in power.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5921531c	comment	The first boss in Persona 5 isn't that bad. His successor is MUCH harder, due to the unique ailment he can inflict on you which makes the target weak to every single affinity. The boss after that isn't quite as bad, but he's followed by one with a ludicrous amount of health. She's followed by a boss consisting of a wave of mooks, who in turn is followed by a boss that can be very dangerous if you don't figure out her gimmick fast enough... and then there's Masayoshi Samael Shido, who has five forms. Most bosses in this series get two, including final bosses. The Final Boss spikes it even higher, as he has an attack consisting of a Sadistic Choice and can deal multiple special ailments which can't be healed by normal means... including the one that the second boss had. Needless to say, it can get a bit frustrating.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, the Genocide run is purposefully designed this way. Once you've cleared the Ruins, all enemies will die in either one or two hits, and fournote Toriel, Papyrus, Mettaton, Asgore out of the six bosses you encounter die in one shot as you deal a ridiculous amount of damage to them. The other two bosses are insanely difficult, as Undyne goes full One-Winged Angel and Sans starts bending or outright breaking the rules of both this game and turn-based RPG's in general to sucker-punch you into next week.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5c622d7f	comment	Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is a fairly classic example using Difficulty Spikes. Cerberus and the Twins are incredibly difficult bosses, and yet Cerberus is the second boss you face and the twins are not much further along. While the game itself doesn't get easier per se after that point, the difficulty of those bosses is so ridiculously high that once you develop the skill to beat the bosses (likely by dying on them a dozen times each), you have become good enough at the game that nothing ends up challenging you nearly as much - they aren't the hardest bosses in the game, but they're the hardest bosses for the skill level you're at when you first face them, so nothing else seems nearly as bad.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_5d646721	comment	Star Trek: Elite Force II. The difficulty yo-yos up and down the whole game, with a plague of Demonic Spiders near the beginning followed by a single, supposedly more fearsome specimen — built up as a major Boss Fight — who goes down almost instantly. Or compare the warp core level, where you have to shoot dozens of targets (without hitting the Destroyable Items) within a merciless time limit, with the endgame, where there's a single monster you need to kill, a gun that can do so in a handful of shots, no time limit, and infinite health and ammo rechargers.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_62624eee	comment	Serious Sam — The First Encounter, most notably in harder difficulties. The last room in the third level raises the difficulty, then it goes down again. While Dunes is a harder level, the following Suburbs and Sewers are Breather Levels. Metropolis, on the other hand, raises the difficulty again a lot, which won't let down until the end of Karnak and afterwards the difficulty starts to jump up and down very frequently. So much of the game's difficulty comes from scattered War Sequences and other game design death traps that the series might as well be the trope codifier for "That One Part of That One Level".
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_63ac9abe	comment	In Sonic 1, Star Light Zone, the fifth zone, is easier than the previous three zones. Chemical Plant Zone, despite only being the second zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, has a second act that's more difficult than anything you face until Mystic Cave, the sixth zone. Sonic 3's Ice Cap Zone, as with the first game's Star Light Zone, is easier than the three before it. For obvious reasons, combining Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles creates a two-hump difficulty curve. Sonic & Knuckles alone does, however, have a sensible difficulty curve.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_640d9be1	comment	Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade is quite famous for its erratic difficulty. the first 8 chapters, especially Chapters 4 and 7, are immensely difficult to the point they have to give you a replacement crutch character due to your first one waning in usefulness. After that is the Western Isle arc that gives you pathetically inaccurate enemies, and by the end of it, you'll receive a bard/dancer to your team, a couple solid prepromotes, and Melady, who will pretty much be the best unit in the game from that point forward. The first chapter after she joins, though, is considered one of the hardest, especially if played blind due to its Fog of War focus. The rest of the Etruria arc is relatively straightforward, but after that, the game angles the player into some Story Branching: the Ilia path is fairly easy, the Sacae path is extremely difficult. This then hits the climax, which is quite the challenge—and then the aftermath and true ending path, which should be relatively easy if you've managed to get a party that conquered the rest of the game. The True Final Boss is also notorious for going down rather quickly.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_66d0cab8	comment	The levels in the original Populous were generated with an algorithm. A side effect was that there were some hard levels quite early in the game, a bunch of easy levels near the end, and the hardest level in the game was around the middle.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_677fd618	comment	Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has a bit of a rough difficulty curve. After an easy tutorial level on Helios, you get sent down to Elpis and very quickly face Deadlift, who straddles the line between Wake-Up Call Boss and That One Boss. Things settle back down again immediately, and they stay that way until you prepare to shut down the Eye of Helios. All of a sudden, the main quest's level spikes as sidequests become scarce and/or inconvenient, you start facing particularly nasty enemy varieties, and enemies and bosses start cranking out a ton of elemental damage. Push through the final boss to discover that the post-game raid boss is... an ever-so-slightly stronger version of the final boss.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_6bf2d08	comment	Super Mario Maker: The 100 Mario Challenge in Expert mode: Due to the game's reliance on user-generated content. You frequently run into courses filled with Fake Difficulty, tight reaction times, haphazard enemy placement, etc. You can skip these courses, but you need to actually clear a course in order to truly progress. Fortunately for those striving for 100% Completion, the majority of the 30 Mystery Mushroom costumes randomly rewarded for beating this mode can be alternatively unlocked through amiibospecificsBowser, Mario (Silver), Mario (Gold), Mega Yarn Yoshi, King Dedede, Zero Suit Samus, Lucina, Robin, Lucario, Greninja, Captain Olimar, Zelda, Lucas, Inkling Boy, Inkling Girl, Tom Nook, Rover, Kapp'n, Isabelle (Winter Outfit), Reese, Lottie, Mr. Game & Watch, Sonic The Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Little Mac, Fox McCloud, and Falco Lombardi, so at best you need three mandatory playthoughs to get the Sidestepper, Shellcreeper, and Mario costumes.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The original The Legend of Zelda hits a major difficulty spike about halfway through the first quest with the introduction of tough enemies such as Wizzrobes and Darknuts. The beginning of the second quest is even harder, as you must deal with such enemies much earlier on and with less equipment/life at your disposal. The difficulty rapidly subsides as you near the end of the second quest, however, as you continue to get stronger while the game's challenge begins to come more from increasingly complex/confusing dungeon layouts than from strong enemies (whom you see less of at this point than you did in the first quest). Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: The game already has a steep difficulty progression, but Death Mountain (an early-game area) is seen as ludicrously difficult, even by the game's standard.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_755997ac	comment	Doom: Doom: The first two maps of the fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, are considered to be insanely difficult in comparison to the maps of the first three Episodes, then the difficulty scales way back down, until suddenly the third-to-last map you get a map even harder than the first two, and then it ends in two more easy maps. Fan-made megawads frequently have their difficulty fluctuate greatly throughout. Community projects, where maps are contributed by several different map makers with little if any sense of continuity between each other, are especially prone to suffering from an inconsistent or outright nonexistent difficulty curve. Final Doom: The Playstation version is a mash up of parts of The Master Levels, TNT Evilution, and The Plutonia Experiment; Crescendos towards the end of each, then nosedives as you enter the next chapter. DoomÂ³: The Alpha Labs are probably the hardest area in the game, mostly because you don't have many good weapons and it's filled with hitscanning zombie soldiers. The game gets much easier from thereon until it spikes again in Hell, and then the difficulty starts jumping all over the place.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo games tend to be schizophrenic with their difficulty. The levels form Halo: Combat Evolved are, in order: easy -> medium -> very hard -> medium -> hard -> easy -> ballbusting sadomasochistic 10th circle of hell -> very hard-> hard -> easy. Halo 2 is even more erratic with: very hard -> hard -> very hard -> easy -> hard -> medium -> very very hard -> medium -> easy -> agonizingly slit your wrists hard -> hard -> medium -> easy Halo 3 starts with two very difficult levels back to back, then segues into several moderately difficult ones, than an easy one, and then the difficulty spikes into the stratosphere with Cortana before the much easier final level.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_7bff7264	comment	The levels form Halo: Combat Evolved are, in order: easy -> medium -> very hard -> medium -> hard -> easy -> ballbusting sadomasochistic 10th circle of hell -> very hard-> hard -> easy.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic had a similar issue with class missions, especially the Jedi Knight plotline, which is built around the assumption that the player character is a Guardian tank and is inordinately difficult with a Sentinel or a DPS Guardian.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_7f02dd41	comment	Several missions in the "Rise of the Empire" campaign of Star Wars Battlefront II. In general, the campaign isn't very difficult, but some missions (A Line in the Sand, Knightfall, Tying Up Loose Ends, etc.) are unusually difficult, others are fairly easy, and in short, no two levels have the same difficulty.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Devil Survivor has this a little bit as well. Day 1 has a tutorial, followed by a nasty Wake-Up Call Boss ten levels higher than you right after the tutorial, and you can't fuse demons until you beat him... and once you do beat him, your fusion makes short work of the demons for the rest of the day. Day 2 is only a little harder, till the end mission, which is an Escort Mission, and therefore automatically a big pain. Day 3 is pretty easy, except for the boss at the end who is That One Boss. Day 4 is a little harder, Day 5 is Breather Levels, Day 6 is mostly pretty easy, and unless you choose Yuzu's route, Day 7 is an exercise in forced grinding.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_7f9f892f	comment	War Thunder: vehicle performance is represented by a value called battle rating, but it being higher doesn't necessarily mean that the difficulty is proportionally higher, because certain vehicles can be uptiered or downtiered compared to their value, or have characteristics that make them difficult to balance. For example, most early jets are often much harder than some later jets, because they lack the performance to face certain enemies and before you learn how to properly fly them they struggle even against late propeller planes which usually have better handling and acceleration. If you don't have good skills at recognizing tanks at long distance, top tier tank battles with thermal vision can be easier compared to previous tiers. And there are many cases where you unlock a higher level aircraft that has an increased battle rating only because it has devastating cannons, but very poor performance and ammo count compared to other planes. Since the game is multiplayer based without player-level matchmaking, you could also play two matches in a row with the same vehicles on both sides, but one against newbies and one against veterans. You could pick up reserve biplanes to relax, only to find some veterans sealclubbing newbies, or you could pick up top tier jets, only to find inexperienced players that just bought their way there with premium vehicles.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_826ef177	comment	Bionic Commando Rearmed's Challenge Rooms are all over the place in terms of difficulty; some are a cakewalk to get an Eagle ranking on, while others are extremely difficult to just pass.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_83f8495b	comment	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: The game already has a steep difficulty progression, but Death Mountain (an early-game area) is seen as ludicrously difficult, even by the game's standard.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV for the DS had this in its dungeons. You expect, as you go through the levels of a dungeon, that as you progress the monsters will get harder the farther you get from the entrance. In many dungeons, though, this is reversed. The nastiest monster in the Tower of Zot, the Frostbeast, likes to hang around the entrance—and its Palette Swap upgrade, the Flamehound, is only found in the lowest levels of the Tower of Babil despite being a right nightmare. In the Sealed Cave, while the doors are everywhere, the Chimera Brain with its awful Blaze attack is most often found in the first half of the dungeon. The Very Definitely Final Dungeon appears to have a more standard difficulty curve, with Demonic Spiders of increasing levels of meanness populating the first several floors, then floors with only Boss in Mook Clothing (or Degraded Boss, depending on your perspective) encounters, and then, right before the Final Boss...ridiculously weak enemies. What the hell?
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_8ec33a87	comment	While most of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is Easy Levels, Hard Bosses, the Superbosses have a severe case of this. Gladiator Orion, the lowest leveled one (100), is considered one of the hardest ones, while Tyrannotitan Kurodil, the highest leveled (130), is actually the easiest and can be easier to beat than some enemies under the player's level 99 cap.note In addition to high stats, higher-level enemies have invisible buffs and debuffs based on how much higher-leveled they are. Kurodil has none of those buffs, just his high stats, so he takes and does normal damage, no matter your level.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X is as open-world as the Xeno games get and is absolutely lousy with enemy placement. Nowhere than the very start of the game is this made clear; Elma herself informs you that you really should take the upper route to New Los Angeles, as while the fall to the lower level won't kill you, the high-level indigens certainly will. Even then, you will spend much of the early game stealthing your way around high-level threats by exploiting the terrain, because trying to brute-force your way past them will only end in you getting wasted in record time.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_8f4731fb	comment	The first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games begin quite easy, then you face the three legendary birds when you aren't even Lv. 20. Afterwards, it becomes absurdly easy until you finish the story. Then the difficulty increases in the next three dungeons (first one with much tougher enemies, the second goes heavy on traps and the third has PokÃ©mon that seem random). Then the difficulty plummets down for a while until you get to the ultimate dungeons. Note that this is all assuming your starters aren't Grass types.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_91494af3	comment	In American Conquest the historical campaigns set during the initial phase of conquista are insanely hard. You start with what would be an inadequate army in any kind of situation (often their historical numbers), during said campaigns you have no means to replenish your troops and going against enemies few times stronger and more numerous than you. On top of that, you usually can't gather resources either, so you will eventually run out of ammo (rendering your only asset - firearms - useless) or, what is much worse, food - after which your army will simply starve to death. Your units are also without any upgrades, so they aren't even half as mediocre as they could be.// On the other hand, the exactly same campaigns played as natives are laughably easy to beat. The sole fact that you can heal your units would be enough, but you can always produce more and upgrade them all without much fuss. Combine this with ability to freely gather resources and to build new fortifications and suddenly stopping Europeans is just a matter of time.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_91684031	comment	PokÃ©mon Black and White jumps all over the place through most of the game. The first two Gym Leaders, the Striaton Triplets and Lenora, are generally considered among the hardest in the game. The next, Burgh, is much easier due to his team's major Fire and Flying weaknesses, two types that can be found in the areas around his city. The next two Gym Leaders, Elesa and Clay, spike the difficulty right back up again, while Skyla, Brycen and Drayden/Iris are a lot easier. And then you get to the tough Elite Four, followed by the fights against N and Ghetsis, which are brutal.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_951c41c1	comment	Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 has a very odd difficulty curve. The first few chapters are a complete cakewalk, with pissweak enemies and no fewer than five of the game's best units (Finn, Dagdar, Eyvel, Safiya, and Osian) at your disposal. Then you end up in Munster, with a Great Escape mini-arc where you have access to none of those characters until the very end, and are restricted to Leif (one of the weaker fighters unless heavily invested in), Lifis (not a combat unit), and a batch of newbies, several of whom are gimped badly by the inability to use their horses indoors. The fourth chapter of the game is considered one of the hardest. As Munster progresses, you start building up a second army of units, training the newbies into something better, and stealing enough useful items to not be short of equipment. Once you've gotten most of your old crew back, most of the following chapters, barring a few major spikes or Luck-Based Mission moments, should be no sweat. Then the lategame hits, and you start facing some of the hardest challenges in the game, with 17A, 22, and 23X in particular being notoriously regarded as run-enders. At that point, the challenge largely depends on how good you are at making use of (and stealing) those Too Awesome to Use staves, which can either snap the game in half or give you an uphill battle.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_959e84f	comment	Dragon Quest VI has a pretty strange difficulty curve. The game's difficulty increases steadily until it gets Nintendo Hard at the Disc-One Final Dungeon, after which you get access to the game's Character Class System. The game's difficulty then drops a bit after that, and once you start mastering the classes and then some secondary classes, the game becomes really easy. Then, all of a sudden, the enemies and bosses get all sorts of cheap attacks, and the game becomes even more Nintendo Hard than it was before.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_9a8bf274	comment	The original Command & Conquer played with this in the GDI campaign. A commonly missed part of the plot has to do with the GDI being seriously under-funded. This leads to mid-game missions that are far more difficult than later ones due to the lack of starting money and adequate sources of tiberium to harvest. The lack of funding for most of the campaign actually forces GDI players to use subversive tactics—such as sneaking into bases to capture & sell expensive buildings—instead of the staple GDI tactics such as tank force steam-rolling.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_9c8609bd	comment	Frogger IS this trope. At least the Atari 2600 version anyway. Early on, the difficulty levels change gradually from warmup level 1, slightly less easy warmup level 2, easy but noticeably harder level 3, and then a sudden difficulty spike with moderately hard level 4. Then level 5 is easier. Then level 6 is legitimately hard. Then level 7 is a piece of cake, easier than level 3, only thing that makes it harder than rather than equal to level 2 is the fast-moving snake on the log (which can be fairly easily avoided), then level 8 has the close but slow moving traffic and fast moving water hazards. Then level 9 is a bit easier but still not cake. It goes on like this all game long.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_9cc9a6cd	comment	While The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age mostly avoids this on the regular storyline, the Evil Mode is a massive case of this. Some early chapters are easy while others are ungodly hard. Chapter 6 is particular is horrible, as you're facing The Fellowship itself, which are Purposely Overpowered when in your control and still remain overpowered, making it a nightmare. Meanwhile, Chapter 9 (the last one) is a joke, though it's justified as you use an Oliphaunt first, then the Witch-King, and for the last match... Sauron (Or rather, The Eye of Sauron on his tower), so of course you're having it easy.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon The first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games begin quite easy, then you face the three legendary birds when you aren't even Lv. 20. Afterwards, it becomes absurdly easy until you finish the story. Then the difficulty increases in the next three dungeons (first one with much tougher enemies, the second goes heavy on traps and the third has PokÃ©mon that seem random). Then the difficulty plummets down for a while until you get to the ultimate dungeons. Note that this is all assuming your starters aren't Grass types. PokÃ©mon Black and White jumps all over the place through most of the game. The first two Gym Leaders, the Striaton Triplets and Lenora, are generally considered among the hardest in the game. The next, Burgh, is much easier due to his team's major Fire and Flying weaknesses, two types that can be found in the areas around his city. The next two Gym Leaders, Elesa and Clay, spike the difficulty right back up again, while Skyla, Brycen and Drayden/Iris are a lot easier. And then you get to the tough Elite Four, followed by the fights against N and Ghetsis, which are brutal. PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet: Due to the game's open world nature, every objective having set levels with no scaling, the placement of said objectives and the game only telling you what objectives are nearby rather than which ones are closest to your level when asked for help, a lot of first-time players can experience this if they don't look up the intended order to fight every Gym Leader, Team Star Base and Titan ahead of time. While the descriptions of the different Team Star and Gym Leaders usually give some indication of their level by mentioning how difficult/easy they are, the descriptions can be somewhat vague and no such hints are given for the Titans. The best you can gauge while guessing blindly is that wild and trained PokÃ©mon levels increase the farther away you go from Mesagoza, up to around mid-50s in the farthest reaches of the region.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_9fa025d	comment	Since the story of Mother 3 takes place through the perspective of several different characters, frequently without a full party, the difficulty curve is all over the place. The game starts off easy enough, taking place through the perspective of a character who, despite not getting PSI can still self-buff himself through abilities, then moves to a character who is essentially the previous character that trades self buffing for debuffing enemies, who has to go through a dungeon with enemies that frequently have a move that induces a status that takes away your ability to heal. Near the end of the chapter, you get a party member with PSI to help deal with enemies but it's short lived as the very next chapter forces you to control the single weakest playable character in the game, with what is widely regarded as That One Boss at the end of the chapter. Then you get to the next chapter, where the difficulty eases up thanks to controlling a character who finally get PSI near the start, but then immediately becomes extremely difficult during an upcoming dungeon. It then eases up again as after the dungeon, the player finally gets to control a full party of four and the difficulty starts to better scale itself from there.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a0112f3d	comment	Tekken 2 has a point around Stage 5 where the difficult level suddenly hikes, especially if you are fighting against Law. After this, it usually isn't too difficult. This is because the fifth level forms the mid-boss, even though at this stage it wasn't mentioned.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a2add1d2	comment	The first Splatoon has a series of challenges that can be unlocked using the game's amiibo figures. While the Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy amiibo challenges simply task the player with completing a set of missions from Hero Mode using a Charger or Roller weapon, respectively, the Inkling Squid amiibo has two different types of challenges to offer. On one hand, you have the "limited ink" challenges — unlike every other mode in the game, these challenges prevent you from refilling your ink tank, forcing you to be extremely careful about using your weapon at all. On the other, you have Kraken challenges, which are much easier Timed Missions that grant the player unlimited use of the invincible Kraken, allowing them to speed through missions and blast through enemies with ease.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is notable for its brutal difficulty in general, but it offers a great deal of flexibility in the order that you go about completing it. As such, there isn't any set pattern in terms of the levels' difficulty, meaning that some of the most frustratingly difficult levels can be sandwiched by comparatively simple ones. The only area on the map that seems to have a consistent level of difficulty is Line J, where several of the game's most demanding levels are clustered together, including the infamous Girl Power Station.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a3402a3	comment	Total Annihilation also complies: the campaigns alternate hard defensive missions with scarce resources and easy cakewalks with plenty materials, or quick cleansing levels where you have to just remove some low level units to massive assaults against heavily fortified strongholds. Particularly blatant in the Arm campaign, since the last section is set in the metal world of Core Prime, where you won't suffer any lack of resources (while the AI isn't capable of exploiting the same material advantage against you by building an endless flow of units, thus it will be progressively eroded until you send your humongous army to destroy whatever isolated outpost you can find). By contrast, the Core campaign ends in the Arm homeworld, which is an Earth-like planet where you will have to seize all the few metal deposits while under fire by long range heavy artillery and airstrikes.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a66b3bbc	comment	In DanceDanceRevolution X2 on the PS2, boss songs are unlocked in this manner. The first song is Dance Dance Revolution, which isn't hard outside of its jumps, then right afterward comes Dead End (Groove Radar Special), which is absolutely loaded with Fake Difficulty, and has only one chart, which is an 18. After that comes Pluto The First, which is notorious for being one of the worst charts of all time and having even more Fake Difficulty than DEGRS. Once you've gotten past that, you'll find the remaining two bosses, Kimono Princess and Roppongi Evolved, to be very easy by comparison.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy Final Fantasy IV for the DS had this in its dungeons. You expect, as you go through the levels of a dungeon, that as you progress the monsters will get harder the farther you get from the entrance. In many dungeons, though, this is reversed. The nastiest monster in the Tower of Zot, the Frostbeast, likes to hang around the entrance—and its Palette Swap upgrade, the Flamehound, is only found in the lowest levels of the Tower of Babil despite being a right nightmare. In the Sealed Cave, while the doors are everywhere, the Chimera Brain with its awful Blaze attack is most often found in the first half of the dungeon. The Very Definitely Final Dungeon appears to have a more standard difficulty curve, with Demonic Spiders of increasing levels of meanness populating the first several floors, then floors with only Boss in Mook Clothing (or Degraded Boss, depending on your perspective) encounters, and then, right before the Final Boss...ridiculously weak enemies. What the hell? From Jahara to Giruvegan storywise, Final Fantasy XII is all over the place. Ozmone Plain is typically used as a Peninsula of Power Leveling, and with good reason — while the enemies are strong, few have area attacks, and the ones that do are weaker. Then Golmore Jungle starts throwing lots of status ailments at you, and you can't get Esuna till you reach Eruyt Village. Henne Mines settles for cranking enemy combat strength up. Then it's back to Golmore where the game will force you to use everything you've learned about status ailments. The difficulty then plummets for Paramina Rift, then spikes again for the Stilshrine of Miriam. After that, you have to fight through the Mosphoran Highwaste (fairly easy), the Salikawood (upgraded Golmore, meaning loads of status effects), the Phon Coast (easy again), the Tchita Highlands (also easy), the Sochen Cave Palace (difficulty spike) before ever reaching Archadia. The Draklor Laboratory features lots of Imperials, and a difficult boss fight. Difficulty remains at a very high level until the end game — Giruvegan is particularly unfair with loads of gimmick bosses. Then comes the even harder Pharos, a dungeon that would qualify for Very Definitely Final Dungeon status in any other FF game. Sky Fortress Bahamut, the actual final dungeon, comes after Pharos and is probably far easier — the enemies are just high level Imperials and there are no gimmick bosses to deal with.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts. Roughly the first 3rd of the game's levels are more or less just tutorials meant to teach you various game mechanics. Then, once you reach the abandoned insane asylum, you're suddenly thrust into a considerably more difficult group of levels filled with tougher enemies, more death traps, and really confusing level designs. Then, as a final level, there's the Meat Circus, which is the hardest level in the game. Justified narratively in that the tutorial levels are within the minds of camp councilors, who A: are (generally) sane and B:are deliberately inviting you into their minds. Starting with Linda, the giant lungfish, not only are the minds you enter not fully sane, but you are also an unwanted intruder.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! video games frequently drop right into this, as CCG Importance Dissonance or flat-out bad game design means that the skill level of characters zigzags up and down frequently. How hard a character is to beat frequently has nothing to do with how strong or important they were in the anime, and it's not uncommon to see random civvies with decent or excellent decks while the main cast is saddled with cards good for flavor and not much else. Stardust Accelerator is notorious for featuring a Marathon Boss against a group of players using tournament-quality decks that can vomit out banned monsters with frightening consistency, and then following it up by making you fight Jack Atlas, whose absolute best first-turn play is summoning a single mediocre Level 8 Synchro. World Championship 2011 is atrocious with this. Most of the game is fairly easy, but the worst opponent is in the middle of the game, and for a few simple reasons: it's a team duel (meaning you're saddled with a partner with both an unfitting deck and poor AI) against a single NPC who makes up for the 2v1 "disadvantage" by drawing ten cards for his starting hand as opposed to the traditional five, and he uses a burn deck that can deplete your LP in a single turn. The entire match comes down to whether you win the RPS for the first turn and have a deck specifically designed to counter it, or you get really lucky. After that, the game is relatively easy until the final match, a relay speed duel against three opponents where you start the match at a disadvantage (you're on anchor and your teammates are supposedly among the best duelists to exist). But if you win the first round, the remaining two opponents will be pretty easy because you have plenty of momentum from your set board while your opponents likely have a mostly clean one. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist's story mode varies wildly in terms of difficulty, due to the frequency of you being given a bad deck or your opponent being given one. Fights that should be insanely difficult, like Don Thousand, are often speedbumps, while fights that were curbstomps, like Aster defeating Jaden, are bordering on That One Boss.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ad2a0b23	comment	If you don't hate Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark for trying to merge the universe of the Cybertron games with the universe of the Michael Bay films, or for not being developed by High Moon, then you probably hate it for tossing a surprise brick wall of insane difficulty in your path every couple of levels or so, before going back down to an appropriate difficulty until the next one comes along.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ad54238c	comment	Final Doom: The Playstation version is a mash up of parts of The Master Levels, TNT Evilution, and The Plutonia Experiment; Crescendos towards the end of each, then nosedives as you enter the next chapter.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_af60702d	comment	The original The Legend of Zelda hits a major difficulty spike about halfway through the first quest with the introduction of tough enemies such as Wizzrobes and Darknuts. The beginning of the second quest is even harder, as you must deal with such enemies much earlier on and with less equipment/life at your disposal. The difficulty rapidly subsides as you near the end of the second quest, however, as you continue to get stronger while the game's challenge begins to come more from increasingly complex/confusing dungeon layouts than from strong enemies (whom you see less of at this point than you did in the first quest).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_b0bd1e3d	comment	Lemmings: The difficulty generally rises from the start to the finish, but with a lot of wobbles on the way. As it's a puzzle game, it's hard for designers to predict how easily players will reach certain insights, and levels that are simple for one player can leave others completely stuck. And there are several levels that are widely agreed to be out of place, such as "Postcard from Lemmingland" and "Triple Trouble" (too hard for their place) and "Take a running jump" and "How do I dig up the way?" (too easy).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_b1433971	comment	Sonic Rush also does this, though how strong it is depends on the character. It's not as bad for Sonic, but there is still a case of it as his fairly easy fifth stage, Huge Crisis, is placed in between the maddeningly annoying Night Carnival and the extremely dangerous Altitude Limit. However, it's terrible for Blaze since her level order is different. The aformentioned Night Carnival is her first stage, then things get much easier until Altitude Limit, which is her fifth stage, then Huge Crisis comes after that, giving her a nice break before Dead Line, the final regular stage.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_b4967d43	comment	The Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog games are somewhat schizophrenic in their difficulty curves. In Sonic 1, Star Light Zone, the fifth zone, is easier than the previous three zones. Chemical Plant Zone, despite only being the second zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, has a second act that's more difficult than anything you face until Mystic Cave, the sixth zone. Sonic 3's Ice Cap Zone, as with the first game's Star Light Zone, is easier than the three before it. For obvious reasons, combining Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles creates a two-hump difficulty curve. Sonic & Knuckles alone does, however, have a sensible difficulty curve. The reason for Chemical Plant's difficulty is that it was originally intended as the tenth zone, back when the game was to include several scrapped levels. Conversely, the difficulty of Labyrinth Zone in Sonic 1 is ameliorated somewhat (it still precedes the noticeably easier Star Light Zone), as it was originally the second level in the game, but was moved to the fourth because it was too difficult. Marble Zone is much harder than Green Hill Zone with its horrible amounts of lava, falling spikes, and instant-kill squish hazards. Conversely, Spring Yard Zone is relatively easier, apart from the BallHog enemy. The 8-bit versions have this problem to a lesser extent. Jungle Zone Act 2 in the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the hardest in the game due to Ratchet Scrolling, while Labyrinth Zone and Scrap Brain Zone Act 1 are surprisingly easy in comparison to the 16-bit equivalents. The 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is horrible about this. Underground Zone, the game's first, is modestly challenging up until the boss, and even that is beatable with some practice (although still surprisingly difficult considering it's the first boss). The next zone, Sky High, is more difficult than anything up until Scrambled Egg and Crystal Egg, the final two levels, due to unintuitive hang glider controls. Aqua Lake is back to being relatively easy, then bounces back to being Nintendo Hard with the second act. Green Hills (note the "s") isn't very hard at all until the third act, which is one of the hardest in the game. The game seems to make up its mind about its difficulty level starting with Gimmick Mountain. Sonic Rush also does this, though how strong it is depends on the character. It's not as bad for Sonic, but there is still a case of it as his fairly easy fifth stage, Huge Crisis, is placed in between the maddeningly annoying Night Carnival and the extremely dangerous Altitude Limit. However, it's terrible for Blaze since her level order is different. The aformentioned Night Carnival is her first stage, then things get much easier until Altitude Limit, which is her fifth stage, then Huge Crisis comes after that, giving her a nice break before Dead Line, the final regular stage. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) had difficulty all over the place in each of the main 3 campaigns, but a major repeat offender is Kingdom Valley, one of the hardest and longest stages in the game. For Sonic and Silver, it's their second-to-last stage, and it's much more difficult than their final stagesnote Aquatic Base and Flame Core respectively. Shadow has it even worse, as Kingdom Valley is his second stage, and the hovercraft section in the middle can take many extra lives even if you know where you're supposed to go. Nothing in his story gets quite that bad until Dusty Desert at the very end. Sonic Colors will open up Sweet Mountain and Starlight Carnival at the same time. Upon the player finishing both, Planet Wisp, Aquarium Park, and Asteroid Coaster will unlock all at once. The game's stages are supposed to scale in difficulty on an ordinary curve in the order listed above. Hence, anyone who chooses Starlight Carnival before Sweet Mountain will be in for a surprisingly tough time, and even more so if they select Asteroid Coaster before Planet Wisp or Aquarium Park.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_b87de35b	comment	Super Mario Sunshine has 10 difficult sub-levels peppered across the game where Mario loses FLUDD. After playing one or two of them, players will know that the cutscene of Mario losing FLUDD means a tough Shine Sprite ahead. A tough mandatory Shine Sprite in all 10 cases.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ba1083f7	comment	Guitar Hero World Tour. The setlists are made so that, instead of a linear progression like in previous games, you have a handful of setlists you can choose at any time. Fair enough, but that's not where the crazy difficulty comes in. The setlists themselves seem to have been spastically arranged. A fairly easy setlist with Spiderwebs and Eye of the Tiger has a fairly crazy Zakk Wylde Battle which ends with Stillborn (which is fairly challenging, but not as hard as the aforementioned battle), and another setlist has Sweet Home Alabama (Live), which has a ridiculously hard solo, sandwiched between the far easier Are You Gonna Go My Way and Assassin. Also, most band games are unavoidably like this when playing in a group. Even if the songs are ordered properly by band difficulty, one is probably going to be harder on guitar and another harder on drums, etc.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_bfb483af	comment	Splatoon: The first Splatoon has a series of challenges that can be unlocked using the game's amiibo figures. While the Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy amiibo challenges simply task the player with completing a set of missions from Hero Mode using a Charger or Roller weapon, respectively, the Inkling Squid amiibo has two different types of challenges to offer. On one hand, you have the "limited ink" challenges — unlike every other mode in the game, these challenges prevent you from refilling your ink tank, forcing you to be extremely careful about using your weapon at all. On the other, you have Kraken challenges, which are much easier Timed Missions that grant the player unlimited use of the invincible Kraken, allowing them to speed through missions and blast through enemies with ease. Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is notable for its brutal difficulty in general, but it offers a great deal of flexibility in the order that you go about completing it. As such, there isn't any set pattern in terms of the levels' difficulty, meaning that some of the most frustratingly difficult levels can be sandwiched by comparatively simple ones. The only area on the map that seems to have a consistent level of difficulty is Line J, where several of the game's most demanding levels are clustered together, including the infamous Girl Power Station.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_c7c06b71	comment	invoked The Lion King intentionally invoked this trope, alternating difficult levels with easy levels to give the player a breather. However, there's an extreme Difficulty Spike in the second level, intentionally inserted into the game to prevent people from beating the game while renting it.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_c8c98634	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Red Alert 3: Uprising's Commander's Challenge mode has this in spades. Many levels — though not all of them — have one or more "gimmicks" associated with them: one mission is Tanks Only, one features enemies that attack only with ninja, one gives you a set of powerful but immobile towers, etc. Depending on how well a given player's favored, practiced tactics work on a particular level, they can go from trivial to maddening and back again. Worse, the game unlocks new units with each mission, and the missions are largely nonlinear; two runs of the same mission can be wildly different in difficulty if you unlocked a particularly effective unit in the meantime. The Imperial campaign of the original Red Alert 3 is an even worse example. Some of the Imperial levels are so easy, they might as well be playable cutscenes (most prominently, both levels with the Shogun Executioner, as well as "Assault on the Black Tortoise", where you first wail on helpless enemy units that yield lots of exp for your elite navy, who then later come to help you finish the mission with little effort), while others are ridiculously difficult ("Graveyard of a foolish fleet" pits you against the might of the Allied air force and navy, all while your own naval and air force options are still developing and incomplete, "Rage of the Black Tortoise" expects you to take on several Allied bases while being seriously stymied for cash, and "Barbarians at the Bay" is a timed mission where you are forced to fight both the Allies and the Soviets, who will both throw everything they have at you). The final level is very much a middle-of-the-road mission in terms of difficulty, being nowhere near as difficult as the Allied finale, but being slightly more difficult than the Soviet one.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet: Due to the game's open world nature, every objective having set levels with no scaling, the placement of said objectives and the game only telling you what objectives are nearby rather than which ones are closest to your level when asked for help, a lot of first-time players can experience this if they don't look up the intended order to fight every Gym Leader, Team Star Base and Titan ahead of time. While the descriptions of the different Team Star and Gym Leaders usually give some indication of their level by mentioning how difficult/easy they are, the descriptions can be somewhat vague and no such hints are given for the Titans. The best you can gauge while guessing blindly is that wild and trained PokÃ©mon levels increase the farther away you go from Mesagoza, up to around mid-50s in the farthest reaches of the region.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_cb7b39b4	comment	Flash TD game Cursed Treasure — Don't Touch My Gems has a fairly balanced difficulty ramp. That is, until ninjas appear. With their first hit, they turn invisible, being unable to be targeted and making mid-air shots heading to them disappear. Then the ninja champions come out to play: More health (enough that the direct damage spell won't save you), twice as fast and still turning invisible, so by the time they become targetable again, they're often inside your base and you can only hope that your towers will activate the chance to cause fear. It's not uncommon for the last boss of the wave to be killed in seconds, but the entire level leading up to that to be laid out solely to deal with the ninja waves.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ccf2d1b1	comment	Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure prioritizes what's going on in the story over the difficulty of the stage you're about to play. This is most noticeable any time Charlie becomes the player character, whose gameplay is about precise (rhythmic, in other words) shooting of soccer balls at multiple targets and thus signals a Difficulty Spike; Fondue, on the other hand, gets mostly stages with one-button commands for cues displayed long in advance with an oddly lenient timing window, making his stages easy in comparison with surrounding stages.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_cf98de54	comment	The final mission of Call of Duty 2, Crossing the Rhine, is much easier than the previous two brutally difficult missions (D-Day and Hill 400). The difficulty also drops from Stalingrad to Africa, then shoots back up for Caen and the aforementioned two missions.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_cfa2762f	comment	Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game combines this trope with Boss Dissonance. The first level is both fairly simple and ends with Matthew Patel, who is an utter clown in all versions of the story. The second level is slightly harder... and caps with Lucas Lee, who's shockingly hard (especially if he gets hold of a skateboard). The third level doesn't change any, difficulty-wise, but ends with a tough mid-boss fight, followed by the demonically hard Todd Ingram. Then there's the fourth level, notorious for being one of the most frustrating levels in the game, ending with Roxie Richter... who's actually slightly easier than Todd. The fifth level splits in two; you can skip most of the first half, which ends with a fairly simple mid-boss, but you have to slog through a grueling platforming sequence (with no chance to heal) in the second half. And the boss? The Katanayagi Twins, the easiest boss in the game. Finally, the difficulty stabilizes.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d2bb929d	comment	Soul Blade's Edge Master Mode has several points where the challenge you have to accomplish is much harder than the one after it. Examples being those that require you to use a certain move (especially hit your opponent in the air), those that require you to defeat your opponent against a time limit or with limited health, and the Colosseum matches.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d3b17858	comment	While otherwise a very good game, Final Fantasy Tactics suffered from this. The first few battles are easy (though the second battle can be hard if you opt for the more difficult win condition), the 4th battle is extremely hard, the 5th battle is easy, the 6th and 7th battles are somewhat challenging, the 8th battle is easy, the end chapter battle is hard if you don't figure out a specific strategy, then the first half of chapter 2 is easy, mixed with a few randomly hard battles. Chapter 3 throws out battles of varying difficulties though easier than the hardest battles in chapter 2, then suddenly has a sequence of 4 battles, 2 easy, 2 of some of the most obnoxious levels in any video game ever (a 1 on 1 fight against That One Boss and an Escort Misson, with the weakest, stupidest, most suicidal escort EVER). Chapter 4 starts likes Chapter 3 but a bit easier, then gives you a really good character who kills the remaining difficulty of the game. Of course, if you grind for high level jobs, say, the Ninja, the Dancer, or if you really wanna take the fun out the game, the Calculator, this game difficult curve becomes flat as a pancake. Granted, the escort missions are still going to be a pain in the butt, but that's nothing a crack team of Blade Grasping, Move+3 ninjas can't solve. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has an abnormally difficult early game, due to a combination of mediocre starting units and a lack of chances for Level Grinding. Once the Random Encounters start showing up on the map, though, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from scooping up the best stuff available, until the final boss's ridiculously powerful magic is the only thing that can actually stop you. The level/powers systems in most of the Tactics games create this in general. The game can be unforgiving at the beginning when you lack resurrection, movement, reaction, and tactical powers. Once you start unlocking powerful and even game-breaking combinations the game becomes much easier, even as the enemy becomes stronger and the AI becomes smarter.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d4c6e9c7	comment	Blood: The original game is hard no matter what, but there's a noticeably odd slant. The beginning is pretty nasty — Hitscan-wielding cultists everywhere, limited ammo, and you'll be relying a lot on flares, an extremely powerful but naturally-limited shotgun, and the occasional powerup. Your only real source of crowd control is dynamite bundles, which have a bit of a learning curve and aren't reliable in a pitched fight. Then you pick up the napalm launcher, and you now have an option for wiping out the hitscanners and taking on harder targets without getting right in their face, and the game becomes a lot more manageable. The difficulty then starts to climb again as strong enemies like Hellhounds, Gillbeasts, and Stone Gargoyles start joining the standard enemy ranks... and then at a certain point, you've picked up all the weapons and figured out how each weapon counters each enemy (and that the tesla cannon counters whatever the napalm launcher doesn't), and the game runs out of things to throw at you. The challenges don't so much increase in difficulty as they do stay the same while the player just keeps getting more and more powerful and skilled, culminating in the Final Boss, who goes down pretty quickly to a fully-equipped Caleb. The Cryptic Passage expansion is initially quite difficult, due to the maps featuring a lot of cultists heavily armed with hitscan weapons. However, at a certain point, the cultists taper off and Elite Mook enemies start joining the fray... and they're much easier to handle than the cultists. This was a moderate issue in the original game as well, but Cryptic Passage tends to sand the edges off the original game's Demonic Spiders, such as having you face only a few at a time in very favorable terrain (i.e. Gillbeasts out of water).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d4e47577	comment	DoomÂ³: The Alpha Labs are probably the hardest area in the game, mostly because you don't have many good weapons and it's filled with hitscanning zombie soldiers. The game gets much easier from thereon until it spikes again in Hell, and then the difficulty starts jumping all over the place.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d5166b43	comment	Halo 2 is even more erratic with: very hard -> hard -> very hard -> easy -> hard -> medium -> very very hard -> medium -> easy -> agonizingly slit your wrists hard -> hard -> medium -> easy
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d5166b44	comment	Halo 3 starts with two very difficult levels back to back, then segues into several moderately difficult ones, than an easy one, and then the difficulty spikes into the stratosphere with Cortana before the much easier final level.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d556dc75	comment	This is a natural consequence of most personal M.U.G.E.N builds due to their being made of user-created content, especially if one wants to have the kind of Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny that draws in much of M.U.G.E.N's playerbase in the first place. The quality of the character often doesn't correlate to the difficulty in fighting them, due to creating a fighter and programming an AI being entirely different skillsets; expect many a balanced and enjoyable character to be difficult to lose to as a computer opponent even for a casual player—any that keeps to the prepackaged AI module used by default character Kung Fu Man falls into this category—and many a poorly-made character to have flawless inputs. It goes to show just how difficult making a challenging but fair AI can be, especially in the fighting genre. While the feature to group orders of characters in Arcade Mode can alleviate this some, but not entirely, especially if one wants to play the fully-randomized Survival Mode (which can even be unwinnable if the build in question has non-conventional characters installed).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d6e2146d	comment	Diablo III had this in spades before the 2.0 patch added auto-leveled enemies and the ability to change the overall difficulty level on the fly.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_d7081096	comment	Mother EarthBound Beginnings has a bad case of this, mostly due to the high random encounter rate. At least, until Mt. Itoi, where it spikes to an insane level and stays there. The creator admitted that they didn't playtest it or try for any sort of balance; they just wanted to finish making the game. EarthBound (1994) also has difficulty issues. It starts out fairly challenging, gets extremely easy after Happy Happy, gets hard when you reach the mines and stays hard all the way through Moonside, drops insanely low all the way through Scaraba, gets a bit more challenging in Deep Darkness, and finally gets pretty nasty once you reach Fire Spring through the end. Since the story of Mother 3 takes place through the perspective of several different characters, frequently without a full party, the difficulty curve is all over the place. The game starts off easy enough, taking place through the perspective of a character who, despite not getting PSI can still self-buff himself through abilities, then moves to a character who is essentially the previous character that trades self buffing for debuffing enemies, who has to go through a dungeon with enemies that frequently have a move that induces a status that takes away your ability to heal. Near the end of the chapter, you get a party member with PSI to help deal with enemies but it's short lived as the very next chapter forces you to control the single weakest playable character in the game, with what is widely regarded as That One Boss at the end of the chapter. Then you get to the next chapter, where the difficulty eases up thanks to controlling a character who finally get PSI near the start, but then immediately becomes extremely difficult during an upcoming dungeon. It then eases up again as after the dungeon, the player finally gets to control a full party of four and the difficulty starts to better scale itself from there.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_da93207f	comment	Several reviews that describe The Last Remnant as painfully erratic in its difficulty, which leads to a lot of disappointing boss fights and cheap deaths. There's nothing quite like walking into an area and starting a normal fight with really high morale (suggesting you're a lot stronger than them and should have visited 'properly' when you were weaker) and then getting whipped by the boss.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_db03b866	comment	Cannon Fodder is an example of this once you get past Mission Eight. After this the average difficulty stays more or less the same until the end of the game, but with occasional shockingly hard phases dropped in at random.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_de1259da	comment	One of the building blocks of Super Monkey Ball is this Trope. Let's talk about Deluxe: A Stereotype afflicting ALL NON-EXTRA MODES except Expert whereas the second-to-last level is really hard, and the last level's a Breather Level. Expert's case doesn't use the last two stages (Air Hockey and Asterisk), it uses Exam-C and Skeleton (Experts 6 and 7, respectively). Other unforgiving levels are also allowed to appear (e.g. Tracks and Launchers), but both can be remedied. The former involves going to the edge of the 5.0 "text square" and hitting the ledge separating the 1.0 and 2.0 "text squares". The latter involves use of your trusty minimap. No way to remedy Stamina Master...)
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_df491a0c	comment	Angry Birds and its many iterations frequently suffer from this, despite the difficulty gradually increasing overall. It's not uncommon for a puzzle to be very straightforward and provide plenty of special Bird types to fully level whatever structure the Pigs are sheltering in, then the next to give you only three Red Birds (the type with no special effect) to knock down a fortress that's 90% rock with multiple Helmeted Pigs dug in underneath like ticks, forcing you to both hit it in the exact right spot and rely on the sometimes wonky, unpredictable physics engine to indirectly take them all out. After dozens of tries to beat this, then the next area will just feature a row of Pigs all lined up behind a tall, easily-collapsed tower and give you five Black or Yellow Birds with which to topple it, then you might get another crazy-hard stage after that, and so on.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e093763b	comment	Scaler, a 3D platformer whose main draw was being relatively inexpensive, frequently alternated between being mind-numbingly easy and controller-crushingly hard. There is no lives system or penalty for death, and there are frequent unmarked/invisible check points that will respawn the player close to wherever he or she screws up, making it child's play to advance through the game. On top of that, most of the enemies, including the bosses, are extremely easy to kill. Most. Every so often the game will throw a Boss in Mook Clothing at you, and then there are the racing levels that are insanely hard to beat and are required to both progress through the game as well as for 100% Completion.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest VI has a pretty strange difficulty curve. The game's difficulty increases steadily until it gets Nintendo Hard at the Disc-One Final Dungeon, after which you get access to the game's Character Class System. The game's difficulty then drops a bit after that, and once you start mastering the classes and then some secondary classes, the game becomes really easy. Then, all of a sudden, the enemies and bosses get all sorts of cheap attacks, and the game becomes even more Nintendo Hard than it was before. Dragon Quest VII also does this with its own Dharma Temple event. The mini-dungeon and encounters surrounding the area are stupidly hard. This, however is a trick: If you are (and most likely will be) low level for this area, you can use the area for a Peninsula of Power Leveling once you actually get your Job Classes. But if you decide to grind out your levels before going to the temple, then you can't use the encounters there to gain job points.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e2fa7287	comment	The Touhou photography games, Shoot The Bullet and Double Spoiler. The games are broken into level, which are themselves broken into scenes. You unlock levels by either clearing a certain number of scenes from the preceding level or a certain number of scenes total. Anyway, the difficulty of both the scenes within a level and between the levels themselves can be fairly random. For instance, the first level of Shoot The Bullet is mostly trivial, except for the very last scene, which is probably worse than anything in level 2. And Double Spoiler has level 11, which is markedly easier than the previous three levels.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e4014525	comment	Red Dead Revolver had some levels that were too easy, some that were just right and incredibly fun and some that caused many a player to throw the controller across the room in frustration.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e500f417	comment	Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming has this; mainly either when your opponent was the Witch Princess or a team battle near level 6 or 7. The former was a tough, but fair battle no matter which level you fought her on. The latter achieves it's difficulty spike due to your CPU partner suddenly becoming near-useless, leaving you in a virtual handicap match against the CPU team.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom: The first two maps of the fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, are considered to be insanely difficult in comparison to the maps of the first three Episodes, then the difficulty scales way back down, until suddenly the third-to-last map you get a map even harder than the first two, and then it ends in two more easy maps.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e755f69b	comment	Crimes in Progress in Batman: Arkham Origins can be anything from half a dozen guys with sticks, a fight that Bats could probably win in his sleep, to a massive brawl involving heavily armoured goons, corrupt cops, assault rifles and — if the area is open and the fight sufficiently free-range — a number of thugs from a completely different mob that get pulled into the fight.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_e8017696	comment	Battle City and somewhat its sequel Tank Force has this syndrome too. For an example, stages 20 and 34 in Battle City are the hardest ones in the game while stage 35 is a breather level.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ecd2d797	comment	Due to the nature of game exploration, Baldur's Gate can be this depending on where you choose to go. The game suggests a path that can go from linear (if you meanwhile do appropriate sidequests to level up) to exponential (if you only stick to the main plot) in difficulty, but you are not forced to follow it. You can basically go wherever you want, even attempting to complete the Durlag's Tower dungeon, one of the hardest in the game, right in chapter 1. And if you beat harder encounters early, you will end up overleveled when you resume the main plot and find chapter 3 and 4 to be exaggeratedly easy. Many dungeons like Ulcaster or the Firewine Bridge are notorious from turning to atmospheric challenges at low levels to boring clearups at high levels, just because you decided for a different route. The same quest can give this feeling if you happen to have (or NOT have) the right equipment. The cakewalk that is exploring the coast in the first game, for example, can become really difficult even with a high level party, if you meet the sirines without any protection from charm or dominion spells. The Nintendo Hard chapter 5 in the underdark in the sequel, instead, can suddenly turn into a cakewalk when you enter the beholders' lair while equipping the mirror shield, or when you enter the mind flayers' lair while having the Animate Dead spell memorized (otherwise prepare for lots of reloads), and you can do both in whatever order you want. In Throne of Bhaal, the Five are a bit of this. The initial Illaseera is quite easy unless you are unprepared to her ranged shots. The subsequent Yaga-Shura is more difficult, mostly because of those nasty fire giants in his lair. Then you can choose the order between Sendai and Abazigal. Sendai is surprisingly easy both in dealing with her minions and in the final fight, but with a fearsome demilich in between; she is fought in stages of which all are a cakewalk unless again you are unprepared, except the mage one with that annoying time stop. Abazigal has a Nintendo Hard starting boss that is That One Boss, an easy middle sequence, and a moderate-to-difficult final boss that for Gameplay and Story Segregation feels underwhelming compared to the starting one. Balthazar is very difficult until the boss, who cheeses powers his class should not have, is left alone without his elite mooks diverting your attacks, then he quickly goes down.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_ee666734	comment	Mushihime Sama Futari Black Label brings us God mode, which replaces version 1.5's Ultra. Stage 1 starts off already difficult, but Stage 2 somehow manages to be easier, thanks to the immense slowdown and the many, MANY opportunities to cancel bullets and rack up hundreds of millions of points. Then the game goes back to being very Nintendo Hard with the Stage 2 boss. 1.5's Ultra, meanwhile, is hideously difficult on Stage 1 due to rocks that release suicide bullets upon death. Stage 2 is easier because of the absence of such hazards, as well as having many bullet-canceling opportunities, just like in God mode.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_efaa66e4	comment	E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy's difficultly bounces up and down to a hilarious degree, mostly due to the randomly generated missions and enemy types encountered. One mission in New Eden may have the player's party just fighting against low-level Looters and Federal Police, while the next city level may throw Interceptors and Special Forces Infiltrators at the party. The only level which is almost always difficult is the Noctis Labyrinth, which sics copious amounts of Deus Exs and Interceptors at the party — though by this point, someone will probably have the .444 Bear Killer anti-vehicle revolver to deal with both enemies.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing is interesting in that it has this every time you do a run through it due to how the game works. The first three quests are laughable, but then you reach the Goblin King, who's far harder than the Boss Bat — and harder than some of the enemies several quests down. Level Six (and its optional second quest) is back to normal, but the boss of the Level Seven quest, the Bonerdagon, is another amp in difficulty (especially if you're a Mysticality class; most of their damage is through skills, which the Bonerdagon has a good chance of blocking). From there things remain somewhat stable.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f17c3b1d	comment	In Dead Rising, the combination of the mall layout and the time constraints can make one mission incredibly hard and the next incredibly easy. Rescue from the hardware store? Piece of Cake. Rescuing people from the toy store? Not so much. In addition, whether or not you've fought various optional psychopaths will also influence your difficulty, particularly if you've killed Adam and looted his miniature chainsaws. Dead Rising 2 is better about this (mostly because your escorts are markedly less stupid), but the psychopath fights are still all over the shop.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f2ea1af6	comment	Since it is possible to select which map to take on first and the maps themselves have rather different optimal strategies, Genjuu Ryodan has a rather unstable difficulty, especially when players stick to only one strategy.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f42ccd4f	comment	Rimworld has a setting that's designed to create this by way of a Self-Imposed Challenge: Two of the three AI storytellers are designed to scale the number and type of story events to be proportionate to how well you're doing according to a complicated algorithm based on various in-game stats. Since an experienced player can learn to predict and even exploit these behaviours, rendering the game rather boring after a while, the third storyteller ignores most of the stats and uses pure dice rolls to determine which event fires next.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f6bb880b	comment	The Professor Layton games have an amazingly twisted difficulty curve, which of course varies from person to person, seeing as they're puzzle games (and people might have done some before). But some puzzles are consistently frustrating.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f6e2c23d	comment	EarthBound Beginnings has a bad case of this, mostly due to the high random encounter rate. At least, until Mt. Itoi, where it spikes to an insane level and stays there. The creator admitted that they didn't playtest it or try for any sort of balance; they just wanted to finish making the game.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f7e2be8e	comment	Since all 20 levels in a world are unlocked and ready to play once you get to that world, Super Meat Boy either has a steady difficulty curve or this trope depending on whether you play the levels in order or not. The difficulty can become even more uneven depending on when the player decides to do the Dark World levels, which are on par in difficulty with levels 2-3 worlds ahead of the current one. Players who tackle the Dark World immediately after their Light World counterpart will alternate between breezing through Light World stages and struggling through Dark World ones.
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f9198aae	comment	The Castles of Doctor Creep is supposed to have the castles arranged in order from easiest to hardest, but (among other things) the long and difficult castle Callanwolde is listed second (not counting the tutorial), the very short and easy castle Freedonia is listed fifth, and the extremely tough castle Rittenhouse is listed ninth (of thirteen).
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Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: The game starts with a particularly Ragtag Bunch of Misfits trying to sneak their way past the forces of the most powerful army in the game, making it significantly harder than later parts where the threats are still great, but the player is controlling stronger armies. This is more jarring for players who didn't play the preceding game, Path Of Radiance, which, unlike Dawn, has a learning curve. Also, the end of most Fire Emblem games (especially Dawn) can range from "completely effortless" to "basically impossible" based on how well the best fighters and items were managed leading up to it. The end is only as hard as you want it, which is what makes it so jarring. You've spent the game raising up almost 70 different characters, and you're only allowed...what, 18 or so? What's more, you're given a crapton of extremely good units that could solo the ENTIRE Endgame by themselves, plus two units that can, in exchange for extreme efficiency sacrifice and LOTS of Level Grinding and patience, make the 3rd part of the Endgame, considered by many to be the hardest chapter of the endgame, into an ABSOLUTE joke. Oh, if you trained and used Micaiah, you'll find she can attack the Final Boss without retaliation, but you probably won't know this because you'll be afraid your "Lord" character will die from the Boss's ridiculous magic, even if Micaiah is a mage. The same goes if you did That One Sidequest to unlock Lehran, who comes with the most powerful staff in the game (which heals every single one of your units in the field), but only joins for the LAST level, but can use ALL staves, Light and Dark Magic, can double attack the final boss (something which is very hard to achieve), and ALSO won't face retaliation. In short, the difficulty of Radiant Dawn is, in order from hardest to easiest (by Part): Part I > Part IV > Part III > Part II > Part IV Endgame. Yep. Also, depending on how you've been playing, any sequence that involves a good number of the characters from Part I can become this. They are so experience-deprived and fragile to begin with that they can be stuck like that for the reminder of the game. Part IV especially seems out to get them because most players keep them together on the Silver Team with Micaiah. Of course, her team just had to be the first chapter in Part IV so you are stuck trying to rout the much more powerful and spawning enemies with Micaiah's old Dawn Brigade members that can fall from 1 or 2 battles. Luckily, you are given Naesala but can also down in one shot by a Crossbow. Then, players move to Ike's team which consists of himself and a stage that generally makes protecting more fragile units easy. The next chapter starring Micaiah's team takes place on a desert that hinders the movement of units who aren't magic-users or flying units. This could mean half of your team could be crippled to only moving 2 or 3 spaces at a time! This is particularly annoying because it leaves them wide open for enemy flying units and Silence and Sleep staves! Don't forget, you also have to go treasure hunting in the sand because Fire Emblem loves to put incredibly rare valuables in the dirt. The next chapter (with Ike of course) does have the same status effects, and the castle is somewhat frustrating, but you're less likely to Rage Quit after finding out you JUST missed out a character from the previous chapter.
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Mega Man Maker (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Mega Man Unlimited (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Mental Omega (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Mighty No. 9 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Munin	seeAlso	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Mushroom Kingdom Fusion (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Nekomew's Potty Trouble (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
NetHack (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Obduction (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Odium (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Outriders (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
PokÃ©mon Colosseum (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
PokÃ©mon Super Mystery Dungeon (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Poptropica (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Pump It Up (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Puyo Puyo Tetris (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Ragnarok II: Legend of the Second (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Red Dead Revolver (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Rock Band (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Rune Factory 5 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Serious Sam: The First Encounter (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Shadow of the Colossus (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Slender: The Arrival (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Small Town Murders (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Somari (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic Colors (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic.Exe: Spirits of Hell (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic Mania (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic Rush (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit) (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Super Mario Run (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Super Monkey Ball (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Supertux (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
The Anacrusis (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
The Legend of Zelda (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Theme Park Inc (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Turrican (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Under Mine (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Wario Land 3 (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
ZombiU (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Zombie Army Trilogy (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Zuma (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Splatoon (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Alpha Sapphire (Web Video) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Red (Web Video) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Twitch Plays Touhoumon & Moemon (Web Video) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Digis (Website) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Xiaolin Showdown / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
GRID (Video Game) / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty

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