Rash said:
I just finished off Hypermode of the game the other day, and yeah, the final boss was challenging, but not overbearing. Harder than he was in normal mode for sure. In fact, the first stage (Dark Samus) was actually the toughest. The last two stages are easy in comparison, and the second stage gives a lot of opportunities to lower your corruption bar.
For me the third was the hardest; I would beat the first stage with whatever amount of health left, then use the second stage to claw my way back to near full health, lose some of it to the final parts of the second stage, only to then get hammered by the third stage. The third stage has a lot more health than it had on Veteran. By that time of course you've already spent a significant amount of time on this boss sequence...
Rash said:
Overall, I'm satisfied with myself after finishing the game off in the hardest mode. I will say that it was much harder for the first few hours, however. The first part of the game really makes you build strategy with using hypermode, and once you're good with it, the rest of the game isn't too bad. After the first leviathan, the game is properly challenging, but never really overbearing at any point. It just becomes "satisfying."
I was surprised that the early parts of the game weren't much more difficult on Hypermode, actually.
was a hard boss for me the first time through, took me several attempts, but on Hyper he went down in one.
definitely represented a proper spike in difficulty on Hypermode though, more so than the other Leviathan bosses.
For fun, I'm now going through on Normal mode. After having beaten Hypermode, it feels like an RPG with Level 99 characters...