How to Unlock Japanese Hard Difficulty in Wanted: Dead

Gordon Bicker

Published: Feb 14, 2023 12:59 pm

Wanted: Dead players will be busy slashing their way through the onslaught of enemies with the best skills in the game, however, those enemies could be even harder in the Japanese Hard difficulty. You may be wondering what you need to actually do to unlock this difficulty and if there are any cheat codes associated to acquire it. This article will take you through how to unlock Japanese Hard difficulty in Wanted: Dead.

Unlocking Japanese Hard Difficulty in Wanted: Dead

The only way to unlock this particular difficulty is by completing the game on any difficulty first. If you were wanting to play the game on the toughest difficulty from the get-go, this, unfortunately, won’t be possible for you to do. Since the difficulty is greyed out when you start up the game — you cannot see what it will actually offer for your gameplay experience.

The difficulty will make it so that enemies have much more health than usual including the fact that the damage they cause will be higher which was to be expected. An interesting part of the mode is that whenever you attack enemies you won’t actually recover any health unlike you would in other modes. Usually, when you take damage you can go back in and attack to recover some of it but this mode will make the game even more brutal because that safety net isn’t there.

Can I Play Japanese Hard Difficulty on New Game+?

You will only be able to play New Game+ on the difficulty that you have completed the game previously with in the chosen save file. This means that if you are wanting to play Japanese Hard difficulty you will have to create an entirely new game and then begin your playthrough again. Thankfully, there are plenty of save files that you can have in the experience meaning that you won’t overwrite any files for a long time.

In the meantime, you can select a difficulty that will suit you best for the first playthrough of the experience.

Wanted: Dead is available at this very moment for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.

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Gordon Bicker

Gordon is a contributing writer for Attack of the Fanboy, a Games Design (BA) Honours student, and a Video Game Ambassador. He has been writing at AOTF for over a year and a half, with four years of games writing experience for outlets like Green Man Gaming. When he's not busy, he'll no doubt be experiencing games, writing poetry, playing guitar, adventuring, or happily starting a new Skyrim playthrough! As an avid Final Fantasy XIV player, he also hopes that you'll gain a warm feeling from his community stories. Gordon has reported on Fallout 4 and Destiny 2, whose favorite genres include action RPGs, MMORPG's and First Person Shooters but is always experimenting with many other types of games.