10 Absurdly Hard DLC Modes You Never Beat

Resident Evil 7 should be celebrated for a great number of things, most obviously taking the series in a new direction and bringing horror back into the forefront. Outside of the main game, RE7’s Banned Footage DLC delivers a great degree of variety to keep players engaged: a combat-free escape room affair, a survival mode, a crazy comedy game where you feed the terrifying Jack Baker birthday cake, and so on.

However, there was also Ethan Must Die mode.

This is an obstacle course of sorts, taking the player - equipped with only a knife - through the Baker Plantation to face down a boss at the end. Additional weapons and healing supplies are randomised within boxes, adding a soft rogue-like experience as you never know if you’ll get a simple green herb or a flamethrower. Or, in fact, if the box will just explode in your face. 

Thankfully, these trick boxes don’t ever move on subsequent playthroughs. Because all traps and enemies don’t change in fact, there is an ideal way to plot out the completion of this mode. However, there are several problems. Ethan is paper-thin, crumpling in two hits at best meaning one wrong move can spell disaster. Additionally, the randomised nature of your supplies can spell out doom no matter how carefully you’re playing. There are moments where you are required to face down enemies to proceed and it’s entirely possible for the game to have underprepared you.

Ethan Never Dies is one of the rarest achievements across all platforms for the game quite simply because he’s very good at dying.