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Can involve Hard Mode Perks. For example, in some of the Civilization games, cranking barbarian spawns up to maximum/turning on rapant barbarians borders on a cheat code, because you can quickly train your military units to godly levels at the cost of some mild Early Game Hell. It's enough of an advantage that they actually nerfed how much experience a unit can gain from barbarians in some of the more recent generations.
Edited by Scorpion451
Non-Indicative Difficulty works, thank you.
Troper Wall, sandbox, and I'm trying to kill typos.
A mostly videogame/meta-specific trope where someone would try the easy version of events, but find it too frustrating so they switch to Hard mode and have an easier time because the frustrating stuff is gone. This would also be Truth in Television for quite a few gamers out there.