Hi all,

Is there a reason Easy seems to be the most popular difficulty to run? Are there things you can do on Easy that you cannot do in Kid Mode?

Kid Mode: The main restriction is that you cannot skip in-game cutscenes. In addition, the lack of a dedicated swing button makes your maneuver more restricted (You have to let go of jump to swing; The dedicated swing button allows you to do quick zips to nearby walls on foot).

Easy: The best difficulty without question. Besides the damage and web consuming differences between this and harder difficulties, in "Hostage Situgation" and "Stop The Bomb", the robbers don't threat to shoot the hostages, allowing you to do some skips/OOB tricks.

Hard: Enemies can take more hits and deal more damage; Some bosses are far more aggressive (making Mysterio almost broken, for example); The "Hostage Situation" and "Stop The Bomb" difference I mentioned above.

Normal: Plays like Hard - part the damage and web differences. Therefore, it's not even a category on the leaderboard (and I doubt someone wants to seriously run this difficulty).

As for why don't Kid Mode and Hard have their own "All Comics" category: Because nobody asked for those.

Take it from a former kid mode WR holder. Run easy mode for the most fun.

Personally I started running the hard mode category, and I can say that easy is a lot less stressful. For example, the underwater trench (that level with the lasers) has no path going through the middle of the room on hard mode (unlike easy mode), meaning you gotta swing almost directly at the lasers, which is kind of a pain.

That being said, the fact that it is so unforgiving in some aspects helped me learn how to run the game properly, given that if you don't adjust to the difficulty you just can't go on at all. I say if you are up for a challenge, hard mode proves to be quite fun in it's own right.

PS: Kid Mode's controls are straight up made by the Devil himself though.

I actually had a very interesting experience running kid mode. It's a great difficulty to run actually. it's a very disciplining category. every mistake you make is granted to lose a lot of time. (eg. dying, you have to watch the stage cutscene again.) but for learning most of the advanced strategies is helpful because you are more at risk of losing time on failing stuff in kid mode as opposed to Any%. that being said, any% is by far the best category. it's balanced, bosses are balanced to kill quickly (assuming good RNG for some) and there's more skips available in easy than kid mode. (eg: kid mode has gates blocking the wrong exits for the maze in the sewer, but in any% you actually go the wrong way to do a clip that skips the crawl.) and more. it's very interesting. but i wouldn't run it for too long. (its very very rewarding to get an optimized time though.