"New game plus - quests will have no rewards..."

[dragonkyn20]

Original resident evil 2 b game threw in mr x that attacked you at certain intervals.This wasnt a sidemode.It was the same mode with and extra boss to make it more difficult.As for age factor.i was born in 84.I grew up playing nes,megadrive and comodore 64 and got a ps1 the year it was released.My memory may not be the best of the games back then but i sure there were plenty of games that unlcoked harder difficulties upon complete.Parasite eve 2 deffintly had one as did original metal gear solid.

Regardless on what you mentioned with RE2's B scenario, MGS's extreme difficulty and PE2's different modifier unlocks, you're completely missing my point.

Never once did I state that the Souls games were the first games to introduce harder difficulties, but it's largely because of that series that led to it becoming a popular feature in new game +. This was never about which game did it first.