Taz: Wanted - Difficulty Differences

Taz: Wanted Difficulties:
Standard - Advanced - Expert


Standard:

 - Tutorials throughout the game: in Zooney Tunes there are movement-restricting tutorials at the beginning of the level and after destroying the last sign as well as a few other (red floating arrows, text after destroying the first sign and button for performing a certain action); in Looningdale's, there's a message after jumping on a Shopping Cart (button for accelerating);
 - There are 120 sandwiches in each level;
 - To get the destruction bonus, you have to destroy 50% of all destroyable objects in the level;
 - - The destruction bonus adds to Taz's bounty 50% of however much that level's signs are worth;
 - Burp Cans last for 30 seconds before wearing off.
 - Spinpads last 16 seconds;
 - Guards take 500$ off Taz's bounty;
 - The elephant in Elephant Pong starts at its slowest possible speed.
 - In Gladiatoons, Daffy enters hyper-aggressive mode at 6 points.
 - Time it takes for dynamite in Dodge City to explode (approximately): 4.14s / 3.26s / 2.38s / 1.50s.



Advanced:

 - No tutorials throughout the game;
 - There are 110 sandwiches in each level;
 - To get the destruction bonus, you have to destroy 75% of all destroyable objects in the level;
 - - The destruction bonus adds to Taz's bounty 75% of however much that level's signs are worth;
 - Burp Cans last for 25 seconds before wearing off.
 - Spinpads last 13.5 seconds;
 - Guards take 700$ off Taz's bounty;
 - The elephant in Elephant Pong starts at a faster speed (5 scares faster than Standard);
 - In Gladiatoons, Daffy enters hyper-aggressive mode at 5 points;
 - Time it takes for dynamite in Dodge City to explode (approximately): 3.32s / 2.64s / 1.96s / 1.28s.



Expert:

 - No tutorials throughout the game;
 - There are EXACTLY 100 sandwiches in each level;
 - To get the destruction bonus, you have to destroy 100% of all destroyable objects in the level (every single one);
 - - The destruction bonus adds to Taz's bounty 100% of however much that level's signs are worth;
 - Burp Cans last for 20 seconds before wearing off.
 - Spinpads last 11 seconds;
 - Guards take 1000$ off Taz's bounty;
 - The elephant in Elephant Pong starts at a much faster speed (10 scares faster than Standard (the start of the second turning animation));
 - In Gladiatoons, Daffy enters hyper-aggressive mode at 4 points;
 - Time it takes for dynamite in Dodge City to explode (approximately): 2.48s / 1.96s / 1.44s / 0.92s.





As such, the best difficulties to use are Advanced for Any% (Expert is 9s faster, but quite a bit more difficult), Standard for 100% and Expert for Low%.
For ILs: Expert for Dodge City, Advanced for Elephant Pong and Zooney Tunes Any% and Standard for the rest.