
Most of the time you won't have a chance to heal since you die so easily, but when fighting weaker enemies, more healing really comes in handy. That said, I highly recommend getting enough gearbits to upgrade the ammo capacity for whatever your main gun is (I prefer the standard pistol) and buying the healing upgrades. Since you only have to beat the game and you start with most upgrades, you'll want to ignore everything except the bare minimum required for completion 4 module pieces per area, and raising all the pillars. That may sound horrible at first, but most of the game is really still quite manageable even under these dire circumstances. This means that any damage will put you into critical health, and many enemies can outright instakill you. What makes NG+ hard, however, is that you only have a maximum of 2 hit points.

The only things you won't have are weapons, bombs and healing upgrades, but all those can be bought from the stores as usual.

In this mode, you skip the tutorial and start with all abilities. It doesn't matter if you overwrite an old save or make a new one. New Game + is unlocked after beating the game once, and can be accessed from the main menu.
