Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - How to Unlock Revengeance Difficulty Mode

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has a couple of different difficulty modes players can try. In addition to Normal Mode, players can opt for Easy Mode, Hard Mode, Very Hard Mode, and Revengeance Mode. Revengeance Mode is the hardest mode of all, requiring the player to have mastered all the controls and know all the enemies that they'll face in the game

Revengeance Mode is for those looking for the greatest challenge Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance offers. It is also for those that want to get all the game achievements. While the mode is definitely doable, it is a far more extreme challenge to try to get S-Rank for all the levels. Here's how players can take on this ultra-difficult mode.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance — How to Lock On

Between the Easy, Normal, Hard, and Very Hard, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance scales by having enemies deal more damage and ultimately being more aggressive. In Revengeance Mode, enemies are the same as they were in Very Hard, except now Raiden will do far less damage to them. Bosses will also have more health. A lot of enemies can kill Raiden with one punch, and enemy placement will be completely different from how they were from Easy to Hard.

On the plus side, Revengeance Mode allows damage from perfect parries to do massive damage, enough to often instant kill non-boss enemies. Perfect parrying is essentially the main way to get through a Revengeance playthrough, so players will need to master this technique.

Additionally, keep in mind that Revengeance Mode exists for gamers wanting a challenge or to get all the achievements. Revengeance Mode does not have any in-game rewards. It's all about the glory.

Revengeance Mode can be unlocked in two ways. The first way is how high difficulty modes are