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* ''[[Crisis Core]]'' is also guilty of this, with a lot of the later harder missions taking place in what looks like the exact same dungeon as the easy missions, except you have more ground to cover, and the [[Palette Swap]] enemies get more deadly.
* In ''[[Astro Boy Omega Factor (Video Game)|Astro Boy Omega Factor]]'', Astro [[Kill'Em All|fails to save the world]] after defeating Pluto and the world's strongest robots. However, the Phoenix shows up and grants Astro [[Time Travel]] so he can restart his adventure and [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]. For some reason, everything deals double damage now, and enemies have better reaction times and more hitpoints. Replaying through this unlocks the real final stage and the [[Golden Ending]].
* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 4'' is a particularly infamous example of this. After beating the main story once, loading a save file prompts the player to start a [[New Game
* The developers of ''[[Guild Wars]]'', once realizing that everyone and their grandmother had finished the 3 campaigns and ran out of things to do, introduced a "new" dimension to the game to encourage players to actually play the same missions and areas with faster and harder monsters, and they literally called it hard mode.
** Although as a trope mini-exception, they did increase the time limit to obtain rewards for timed missions while in hard mode.
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