Does The Game Get Harder After Beating It?

[LunarFirestorm]

Starting from biome 1 again after completing the game and it definitely seems a little harder than it was before considering how easy biome 1 was before after getting used to the game. Seems like there's more enemies/more of the harder enemies.

[Purps™]

It doesn't, you probably got used to act 2's stronger weapons.

Edit: layouts are "staged" a little bit around key and item collection in biome 1 specifically so if you beat biome 1 the first time you unlocked the boss door and then didn't spend much time repeating it, you never saw the regular difficulty version of that biome.

[Lavender Gooms]

It does. In act 3 malformed enemies from any biome can spawn in any other biome. Hello Malformed Severed while I still have the starting pistol, guess i'm doing a new run now.

[LunarFirestorm]

Originally posted by Purps™:

It doesn't, you probably got used to act 2's stronger weapons.

Edit: layouts are "staged" a little bit around key and item collection in biome 1 specifically so if you beat biome 1 the first time you unlocked the boss door and then didn't spend much time repeating it, you never saw the regular difficulty version of that biome.

But act 2 was a lot harder at first even if you start with better weapons. I just feel like act 1 should be even easier than before, not harder. Not that I mind but I'm just confused.

[LunarFirestorm]

Oh and I never took shorcuts so I did biome 1 a lot, so I did get used to its regular difficulty.

[LunarFirestorm]

Originally posted by Lavender Gooms:

It does. In act 3 malformed enemies from any biome can spawn in any other biome. Hello Malformed Severed while I still have the starting pistol, guess i'm doing a new run now.

Yeah I think that was the issue, it seems like I was facing harder enemies than I normally would in biome 1.

[Purps™]

Originally posted by LunarFirestorm:

But act 2 was a lot harder at first even if you start with better weapons. I just feel like act 1 should be even easier than before, not harder. Not that I mind but I'm just confused.

Maybe it does, but I haven't noticed any change.
Aside from Malformed enemies that were mentioned, but they appear to be another thing that shows up in earlier areas as they're encountered because I haven't seen any difference in their spawns before/after beating the game.
I distinctly remember being killed by a malformed severed with the purple laser walls in a Biome 1 secret room, during my run back to Nemesis.