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Marvel's Wolverine ships with an unusually detailed set of accessibility and assist options, and they are worth reading even if you are not looking for accessibility features specifically: several of them are the clearest public description of systems the game has otherwise said little about.

Two different counts

Two published figures describe this game's accessibility, and they are not the same measurement. The product page lists 35 accessibility features, which is a count of the platform's standardised accessibility tags, things like clear text, large text, screen reader, and mono audio. Insomniac's own published options list runs to 133 individual option lines and is a game-specific settings inventory.

Neither figure contradicts the other, and neither should be quoted as the other.

Owners of a disc copy receive several of the options listed below through an update at launch rather than on the disc itself.

Difficulty and combat assists

Option	What it does
Challenge Level	The game's overall difficulty setting.
Enemy Health	Adjusts how much damage enemies absorb, separately from the other sliders.
Enemy Damage	Adjusts how hard enemies hit.
Stealth Awareness	Adjusts how readily enemies notice Logan. See stealth.
Dodge/Parry Input Timing	Widens or tightens the window for a successful dodge or parry.
Dodge Mode	Changes how dodging is performed.
Lock-On	Off, On-Screen, or All.
Melee Mode	Single, Combo, or Continuous.
Special Techniques Mode	Switches Technique activation between hold and toggle.
QTE Autocomplete	Completes quick-time prompts automatically.
Global Game Speed	Slows the whole game.
Combat Game Speed	Slows combat specifically, leaving other pacing alone.
Boss health bar	Toggles the boss health display.
Hero health bar	Toggles Logan's own health display.

These sliders are the closest thing to a published difficulty system for this game. Insomniac has not described a named difficulty structure beyond the Challenge Level option itself. See Combat and Rage and Healing Factor.

Navigation and traversal

Option	What it does
Traversal Assist	Removes the inputs required for climbing, jumping, and moving between traversal elements. See traversal.
Navigation Assist	Provides a guidance trail, with a settable trail colour.
Chase Assist	Reduces the movement speed of targets during chase sequences.
Skip Puzzle	Skips puzzles in the game outright. See Progression and Upgrades.

Navigation Assist and the red trail shown during chase sequences are separate things. Whether Chase Assist also removes that chase trail has not been confirmed.

Violence customization

This game is rated Mature and its violence is deliberately explicit, so the studio built a dedicated set of controls for it.

Option	What it does
Violence Preset	Some or Full.
Dynamic Blood	Toggles blood effects during combat.
Dismemberment	Toggles dismemberment.
Visceral Healing	Controls how much physical damage is shown on Logan's body as his healing factor works.

Senses, visuals, and haptics

Senses colour customisation changes the colours used by Logan's tracking vision.
Enemy type shaders: seven different enemy types can be given distinct colour shaders.
Heartbeat Audio toggles the heartbeat sound and vibration used to locate enemies through walls.
Footstep Vibration adds haptic feedback for footsteps.

Audio and language

Option	What it does
Streaming Mode	Toggles between licensed and composed music, which is the confirmation that the game contains licensed tracks alongside its original score.
Single Language Audio	Swaps dialogue spoken in other languages, where it matters to combat or narrative understanding, to match the chosen voice language.
Profanity filter	Replaces profane words with silence and shows them as asterisks. Available for US English only.

Screen Reader and Audio Description support is listed for English, French, Italian, German, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish, and Japanese, with several entries flagged as arriving in the launch update for disc copies.

Other options

Photo Mode has a quick-access option of its own.
First Time User Experience is a guided setup flow offered on a first run.
Replay Cinematic plays a story cinematic again.

Platform-level features are covered separately on Technical Features and Performance.

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