Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD

You can select Hard difficulty from the main menu once you have chosen to start a new game. Hard is a worthy challenge with some tough moments, but nothing on the scale of some of the more infamous difficulties out there. Some general tips to follow:

- Save often! The game allows you to save your progress at any time, so make full use of it. Every time you take out a couple of Outlaws, survive a large shout-out or halfway through a difficult section, save! The game features a ‘Quiksave’ option, but I feel much more comfortable saving the game manually.

- Keep an eye on your radar in the bottom left of your screen. Enemies will appear as yellow dots with a 90 degree viewing angle that will be a light brown in colour. The dots and viewing angle will change to red on your radar if you have been spotted.

- Each of the three main towns has a general store where you can purchase upgrades. Increased stamina and faster stamina regeneration upgrades are the most important as you can regenerate your health quicker. You will also want to purchase faster reload upgrades for your ammo, especially the Thudslug for taking enemies alive, and pouches for holding more ammo. Don’t save your money on this playthrough, buy the upgrades and Hard will be a lot easier. If you don’t buy some of the upgrades when they are available you will have to make do without them when you leave each town and this will make the game more difficult later on.

- You can avoid being spotted by staying in cover. You can hide behind a building or similar structure or you can stand in tall grass. When standing in tall grass, it will say ‘HIDDEN’ next to your radar. Using the grass to your advantage means you can get a full view of enemies without being spotted.

- Look at enemy movements and plan your attacks. Running into an area all guns blazing is a quick way to get yourself killed. Be patient and use the different types of ammo accordingly.

- Firing a Chippunk will lure away a single Outlaw from his location. Once you have him where you want him, you can knock him out with a charged Zappfly, wrap him up with a Bolamite or incapacitate him with a Stunkz and then bounty him alive. Be careful that you don’t expose yourself to enemy fire when you bounty an Outlaw. The Zappfly is the better option in most circumstances because it has unlimited ammo.

- Don’t worry about capturing every Bounty alive. The stamina recharge on Bounties is very fast so taking them alive will be challenging. Save the live captures for the second playthrough.

The hardest point in the game that is not covered under any trophy will be a timed segment late in the game. You have three and a half minutes to run like crazy whilst getting shot at. I strongly recommend that you keep a save file at the beginning of this segment and separate files at safe, regular intervals. Check the spoiler for a video of how to get through and use a very handy shortcut to save time. Be warned, this video may contain spoilers. The weapon being fired is an upgraded Stunkz and should be used as demonstrated. Credit to KingdomRa.

This trophy stacks with Slakker Clakker and Stranger Danger. All three trophies will unlock after the end cutscene.