S+ ranks

Ok

It's definitely harder, I never needed to use healing items until Final drop on normal. On Nightmare, I'm not that far yet but I had to use a couple of herbal medicine on each chapter except First drop.

I didn't remember at the time on Wii U how much faster the enemies are on Nightmare (at least 1.5X) and the fatal frame windows is much tighter.

Ok but how did you get the achievement for all the upgrades I heard you have to go through nightmare?

Ow Nitram said:Uh no it's not. Items bought cost twice the amount of points you would get for them at the end of the Drop.

1 Mirrorstone costs 10,000 whereas it's worth only 5,000 at the end of the Drop

So you don't have to go through nightmare for that achievement I'm confused

Just beat it on nightmare dude. You've had it answered enough times.

I know that now I just don't understand what I did wrong to not get enough points for the second drop on nightmare for s+

Thank you hero explaining how this works. I find it funny dmc ranks work a similar way

Ow Nitram said:I upgraded damage on my camera thinking it would help with S+ ranks. Should delete my save and start and to invest in everything else of the camera?

BioMegaBear said:If you are still very early in the game, maybe I would say (before Fourth drop), because the first levels don't offer much latitude for S+. You really have to explore as much as possible to find all possible items (and not use any of them), use only the type 7 film and shoot all the spectra/echoes. However, one variable that I had not considered in the score calculation and that became more obvious towards the end of the game concerns the damage output. If the camera is upgraded to do more damage, each photo will be worth more points anyway...probably to compensate for the number of photos taken less. To get the best possible score, it's probably best not to have the damage output upgraded, but it doesn't really matter except for the first 3 levels. All this to say that it is absolutely possible to do the S+ even with the upgraded camera.

Ow Nitram said:Ok so to make it easier Im going to upgrade the camera for the achievement and then start and new game where I upgrade everything except damage for for those first few particular levels and then on the 3 levels that need it. Sound like going back to those first 3 levels is a pain for late game revisit.