History PlayingWith / EasyModeMockery

** Rather than outright insult the player, the sequel congratulates the player for completing the game and then politely encourages them to try Normal mode.

* '''Averted''': Lowering the difficulty has no effect beyond making the game easier.

** The game makes fun of anyone who plays in hard mode, telling them that they are freaks with no lives who don't know how to have fun, or calling them overconfident idiots anytime they die.

** Hard-Mode Mockery. The game makes fun of you for not having a life if you choose Hard Mode, and everything becomes outright impossible to beat. Even if you, by some miracle, manage to complete the game, your reward is a virus being unleashed on your computer as encouragement to touch some fucking grass.

** [[UpToEleven The game uninstalls itself if you play on Easy.]]

** The game makes fun of anyone who plays in hard mode, telling them that they are freaks with no lives who don't know how to have fun.

** The game mocks you for using anything but HarderThanHard: After playing, Alice says "PLAY HarderThanHard OR I'LL KILL YOU!"

** After playing "Alice saves the day" on easy, Alice says PLAY A HARDER MODE OR I'LL KICK YOU OUT OF THIS GAME

** After playing "Alice saves the day" on easy, Alice says [[PunctuatedForEmphasisPLAY! A! HARDER! MODE! OR! I'LL! KICK! YOU! OUT! OF! THIS! GAME!]]

** After playing "Alice saves the day" on easy, Alice says [[PunctuatedForEmphasis"PLAY! A! HARDER! MODE! OR! I'LL! KICK! YOU! OUT! OF! THIS! GAME!"]]

** After playing "Alice saves the day" on easy, Alice says "PLAY A HARDER MODE OR I'LL KILL YOU!"

** The game mocks you for using anything but HarderThanHard.

** [[PressStartToGameOver The game closes the moment you press the easy button.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The player gets insulted and returns the game, giving a negative review.]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Rather than outright insult the player, the sequel congratulates the player for completing the game and then politely encourages them to try Normal mode.

* '''Deconstructed''': [[RealityEnsues The player gets insulted and returns the game, giving a negative review.]]

* The game does not mock players on easy, but instead gives them a gentle tutorial and friendly advice.
* "Don't worry, playing on easy doesn't make you pathetic. You probably had a tough week, and everyone needs have some fun every once in a while, so sit back, and enjoy yourself. Those [[StopHavingFunGuys smug Hard Mode nerds]] are a buncha sweaty losers anyway."

* "Don't worry, playing on easy doesn't make you pathetic. You probably had a tough week, and everyone needs to feel like a superhero every once in a while. So sit back, have fun, and listen to the sweet, sweet whining of [[StopHavingFunGuys those smug elitists who had their precious schadenfreude from watching newbies suffer denied the moment you selected easy mode]]."

* '''Defied''': The game does not mock players on easy, but instead gives them a gentle tutorial and friendly advice.

* '''Straight''': After playing "Alice saves the day" on easy, Alice says "That was boring, it was too easy."

* '''Implied''': Alice is called [[JustAKid "Kid"]] or "Rookie" a lot if you play on easy. She's not called this on any other difficulty.

Go back to EasyModeMockery, of course if you were any kind of real troper you would just type in the page URL rather than needing a link.

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** Different difficulties have completely different plots. Easy mode has an ExcusePlot and uses an AWinnerIsYou or ItsAWonderfulFailure ending. Medium mode has a more serious plot and a normal or [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] ending. Hard mode has a complex plot and GoldenEnding, along with the TrueFinalBoss.

* '''Enforced''': "We need the players to play hard mode, so make the characters make fun of the players."

* '''Invoked''': "Anyone lame enough to pick easy mode has earned their easy mode mockery!"
* '''Exploited''': The FinalBoss is playing on Easy in a PostModern game. He's mocked because, well, he's the villain!
* '''Defied''': The game does not mock players on easy, it instead gives them a gentle tutorial and friendly advice.

* '''Deconstructed''': The player gets insulted and returns the game, giving a negative review.
* '''Reconstructed''': Rather than outright insult the player, the game congratulates the player for completing the game and then politely encourages them to try Normal mode.

** The game uninstalls itself if you play on Easy.

* '''Double Subverted''': On the other hand, it does keep you from the final boss this way, telling you "Now that you're experienced, play a harder mode!"

** [[PressXToDie The game closes the moment you press the easy button.]]

** The game closes the moment you press the easy button.

* '''Downplayed''': After playing "Alice saves the day" Alice says "Don't you think that I could have done better?"

** Alternatively, playing HarderThanHard mode [[EarnYourBadEnding gives you]] [[ItsAWonderfulFailure an extended]] DownerEnding.
** Alternatively alternatively, in hard mode, your player character is replaced by a badass version of him/her.
** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively,]] you get HardModePerks.
** [[RunningGag Alternatively alternatively alternatively alternatively,]] a Let's Player mocks the easy mode, saying that the odds are now unfair in his/her favor.
** [[OverlyLongGag Alternatively alternatively alternatively alternatively alternatively,]] easy mode characters are elite champions who get downgraded as you increase difficulty levels. By hard difficulty you are a literal AlmightyJanitor. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course the elite champions would find it easy.]]

* '''Parodied''': When you choose easy mode, the game links you to the EasyModeMockery webpage on ThisVeryWiki. Clearly, the developer is OneOfUs.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Who would make the game like that?"

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': The player gets insulted and returns the game, giving a negative review. This turns into a huge flame war.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** But then buys the game again after the hype and realizes that since the game is so difficult, the only way to make it through will be to accept the easy mode mockery.
** Rather than outright insult the player, the game congratulates the player for completing the game and then politely encourages them to try Normal mode.

%%* '''Implied''': ???