badcrumble
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but I want to jack the difficulty level up before my first playthrough and have encounters designed around that
of course, I still enjoy going in with a clean slate more than starting on the presumed-intended difficulty, so it isn't a huge issue, but having difficulties designed around clean slates would probably be more fun for me.
clean-slate DMD playthroughs of DMC3/4 are pretty fun, tbh, and I'm glad that's available as an option (but isn't mandatory)
the overall beefed-up exp/orb/proud soul gain on that difficulty lets you power yourself up relatively fast, and the few recovery items scattered through the world actually matter a lot on such a playthrough