New Game Plus & second playthrough

Every weapon comes from a boss, the director says, so those taken from late bosses have little room in a first run.

The team finished all of them anyway, with more motion capture and more complex mechanics, so they could shine on a second playthrough. The final boss's weapon and a hidden boss's weapon are close to collectibles.

Launch reviews say New Game Plus opens as soon as the credits roll and keeps your stats and every weapon you unlocked. With about 30 weapons and few of them fully used in a first run of about 40 hours, the second run is where the rest of the arsenal gets its turn.

• Unlocked by finishing the game once on any other difficulty, Wayfarer included: that is what the launch build's difficulty menu says.
• Keeps its own save, separate from your normal game.
• Saves automatically at bells, with no manual save. Reloading an earlier save resets the death count.
• 66 deaths: the 66th plays a short ending, and the run starts over from the beginning.

On a normal run the same Days Remaining counter still falls, but deaths do not move it. In one Pathbreaker launch run it lost a day after each Present Day or One Day Before card: 63, 62, 61, 60, then 59 on reaching the Village of Lu.

A mode called Li Wulin lets you refight bosses you have already beaten as often as you like, and opens hidden bosses. How and when it unlocks has not been shown.