Nothing changes in the story, and even the number of enemies stays the same. Think of it (roughly) this way: on Story, one shot from an unupgraded Plasma Cutter will kill a necromorph on Easy, it takes about four on Medium, it takes about six to eight and so on. This goes from Story, where Isaac deals dramatically more damage to enemies than on Medium, and takes dramatically less from them, up to Hard, where Isaac deals less damage and takes more. The difficulty settings really just boil down to damage dealt and damage taken.

Once you’ve beaten it the first time on any difficulty setting, you’ll unlock a fifth: Impossible (this is different than New Game+, which is already harder all on its own). On your first run through the Dead Space remake, you’ll have four options for the difficulty setting - Story, Easy, Medium, and Hard. Let’s talk about the various difficulty levels, what they do, and how (and when) to change them. That feeling of being right on the edge of failure is part of what makes Dead Space such an effective horror game (that and all the jump scares) - to the point where it can easily overpower the story.īut there is a difficulty setting that lets you take the edge off (or make it so much worse if that’s what you’re into). You’ll spend a lot of your time on the USG Ishimura low on health and almost out of ammo. Dead Space - both the original and the remake - are survival horror games that lean heavily into scarcity and desperation (and jump scares and body horror).

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