Star Fox 2/Difficulty

Difficulty levels
The first thing you will have to do when you start a new game is to choose a difficulty level. The difficulty levels will affect the gameplay experience drastically. On each difficulty mode the levels will be different, events will change, you will fight new types of enemies, and the forces you encounter will be more numerous and harder to defeat. This makes each difficulty level a part of the game on it's own.

However, the names of the difficulty levels could be misleading. Judging by the content each has, Normal could be considered more as a training or easy mode, having some of the main game's features cut off, and being the only one with initial game instructions to guide you. Hard could be considered the standard difficulty level, with all main game features present; and Expert could be considered as a challenge mode.

This is the list of all main differences:


 * All battleship and planetary base levels will be different, generally being harder versions the higher the difficulty is, containing more complex puzzles to open doors and more numerous enemies. Also every difficulty level has its own Pepper Coins to collect, and some levels will have land bosses which do not appear on other versions of that level.
 * Battleship cores and base generators will be harder to destroy, having more targets to hit and/or more defenses.
 * Star Wolf fighters will be smarter fighting, reflecting more of your shots with barrel rolls and shooting more charged shots.
 * Andross will have one more battle phases for each difficulty level.

Normal

 * You will have to destroy two planetary bases and two battleships.
 * Andross will send out one space boss to fight you.
 * The planets Fortuna and Macbeth will be not available to play. Only Eladard, Meteor, Titania and Venom.
 * Andrew of Star Wolf will not appear.
 * Viruses will not appear.
 * Battleships will sometimes fire the Planet Cannon.
 * The Satellite Defense System will charge its cannon faster.

Hard

 * You will have to destroy three planetary bases and four battleships.
 * Andross will send out one space boss to fight you.
 * All planets are playable.
 * Andrew of Star Wolf will appear.
 * Viruses will appear.
 * Battleships will fire the Planet Cannon more often.
 * The Satellite Defense System will charge its cannon slower.

Expert

 * You will have to destroy six bases and four battleships.
 * Andross will send out two bosses to fight you.
 * All planets are playable.
 * Andrew of Star Wolf will appear.
 * Viruses will appear more often.
 * Battleships will fire the Planet Cannon more often.
 * The Satellite Defense System will charge its cannon at the same rate as in Hard Mode.

Enemies
These are the enemies that you will find on each difficulty level:

Bosses
These are the bosses that can appear on each difficulty level: