The underlying difficulty settings are set to Hard, so you’ve got minimal ammo and credit drops, as well as the fiercest ambushes from the Intensity Director. There are no checkpoints, only save stations with just a single save slot you have to overwrite to save again. Impossible Mode is the full manifestation of Motive’s aspirations to capture the mood of the Resident Evil remakes, and it's delightfully intense. More importantly, you’ll rediscover the thrill you felt on your first playthrough - not because of starting from scratch, but because any death means starting over, rogue-lite style. On the one hand, beating the mode nets you the Foam Finger, a fan favorite joke weapon that blasts every enemy in a single hit, as well as the only alternate suit of armor you can get without paying for the Deluxe Edition. That’s why you should hold off on playing New Game Plus to instead dive into Impossible Mode right after your first run. Even by the series' New Game Plus standards, Remake is fairly easy.
This undercuts a lot of the tension of revisiting the game. With the same general amount of nodes dropped, and some more frequently dropped ammo types selling for higher, it’s possible to max out two weapons and your suit with ease, as I’ve discovered over my repeated runs through the game. There’s also no use for power nodes besides upgrading your gear. Several weapons have been buffed substantially, a few to the point that they barely need upgrading to be viable into the endgame fights. RELATED: Dead Space Rewarded You For Outsmarting Horror Tropes Except in Dead Space Remake, you can end up pretty powerful well before that point. Then, traditionally, you go into New Game Plus to absolutely rip and tear with all your hard-earned upgrades to get your revenge. You have to parse apart which weapons to rely on, how much ammo you can spare, if there’s anything in the environment that can help or harm you, and stretching it all across a seemingly unending horde of Necromorphs. Every new challenge asks more of you, leaving you a little weaker until you can recoup your spent resources. As a pumpkin smashing enthusiast once said “The world is a vampire, set to draaa-aaa-aaaain.” Grunge-fueled poeticism truly is most befitting Dead Space, especially at its best.
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