I picked up Slender the Arrival for some nostalgia a week ago, I recently just finished the game and It really annoys me that you have to “unlock hard mode”. The whole point in difficulty settings is that it’s suppose to be tailored to how skilled you are at games! Because I’m pretty good at games on normal difficulty, the game was unbelievably easy for me! I sat through the entire game bored as hell only playing so I could unlock hard mode. If the game just had it unlocked from the very beginning it could have saved me allot of time and maybe I’d have had more fun with the game! It was not scary because of how unbelievably easy it was! Seriously, what is the point in “forcing you to unlock” hard mode!!?? It just annoys more skilled players that are looking for a better challenge and wastes their time! The most annoying part of all this is that because I now know the whole story, it’s probably not going to have as much as a scary impact on me when I play on hard mode, sure, the gameplay parts will be scary where slender chases you, but the parts where you learn about the origins of the slenderman and what happens to Kate are just going to be boring now because I know what’s expected in the cutscenes.

I’ll play through the game again in hard mode, however I’m not expecting the cutscenes or story to wow me or anything now that I know what’ll happen.