Alright, so I've been whoring Wolverine for the past few days. Once you've beaten the game, you have to option to replay any chapter that you've already played to continue the progress of your Wolvie character (i.e. XP, leveling up, increasing your combat reflexes, etc)...basically to be an achievement whore. It's nice that they did this...especially since Bionic Commando does NOT let you go for the achievements in the Level Jump option (the bastards).
Four of the achievements that I was SUPER close to finishing were "Fully Loaded", "Samurai", "Boomerang" and "Devil's Brigade". In order to get these achievements, you have to:
- Fully Loaded - Obtain all upgrades (such as claw damage, etc...done by leveling up)
- Samurai - Maxed out all Combat Reflexes to master level (there are five reflexes that you build up from just killing enemies under that type)
- Boomerang - Kill 25 enemies by deflecting their rockets at them (I had 19/25)
- Devil's Brigade - Find all the Dog Tags (little collectibles...I was at 77/95)
Well, there is ANOTHER achievement called "Walking Death" where you need to beat the game on the Hard difficulty...which is locked until you play through the game once...which is bullshit right off the bat.
Well, I needed to finish out two more levels on Wolverine, about half a bar on the reflexes for Machetes/Robots/Jungle Mutants, and get 18 more Dog Tags. The reflexes were taking FOREVER to farm on Chapter 3 (where all three of these enemy types occur the most). So, I thought like most RPG gamers would think:
"Hey, maybe if I play through the game on Hard difficulty, I'll get more XP and combat reflex from the enemies since it's a harder difficulty"
Now, I have a Hard save game going...and I'm at Level 3...with no Dog Tags...no Combat Reflexes...nothing. All the kills...all the Dog Tags...all gone.
Starting over on Hard mode saves over ALL your information from before. It DOES give you a prompt saying that you'll lose save progress, but my assumption was that they would be saving over my ability to replay missions...NOT TAKE AWAY EVERYTHING I JUST FINISHED WORKING MY ASS OFF FOR!!! I would've even been fine with going back to Level 1...if I could've held on to my 19 Boomerang kills and my 77 Dog Tags. The Combat Reflexes and Upgrades didn't take that long to get where they were, I guess...and on Hard, it seems to be moving the Reflexes along much quicker...although the XP level doesn't seem THAT much different.
I'm fucking cheesed right now, man. FUCKING CHEESED! This is the stupidest design I've seen in a game. Why would you lock the Hard difficulty mode from the start WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO START ME OVER ANYWAYS...and then when I want to play on a more difficult setting, you take away everything I just spent about 7 hours of gameplay time collecting?!
So this is a warning post to all the achievement whores looking to bust ass on this mediocre game for another S-rank: DO NOT START ON HARD UNTIL YOU'VE FARMED ALL THE OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS!!! You'll be at least level 37 before you get all the upgrades, and the Combat Reflexes mean you'll just need to play Chapter 3 a FUCKLOAD!!!
*EDIT* Hard doesn't save over ALL your information, actually. I got to keep the three costumes I unlocked. -_- Because they help...
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