PixelJunk Monsters receiving difficulty settings with free patch

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 11th 2008 at 7:15PM }

After writing an open letter explaining his fiancée's frustrations with PixelJunk Monsters' difficulty, BPPS writer Ryan Hewson received a response back from Dylan Cuthbert, president of Q-Games, saying help was on the way. Cuthbert had alluded to a major PJM patch before, but now he explains some more details of what's coming to PJM and PixelJunk Eden.

The lord of PixelJunk says PJM will receive a free patch adding Trophies, along with Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert difficulties to the game. Online rankings will maintain the existing difficulty level for fairness -- which we guess is hard? Eden will also receive an expansion pack and may receive a "namby pamby mode" for a more casual experience -- we'd settle for some control mapping functions to seperate silk and jump ... not to mention mapping the instra-drop to a button instead of waggle. No dates on any of this, but we're contacting Sony about some form of ETA.

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

Tags: pixeljunk, pixeljunk-eden, pixeljunk-monsters, pixeljunk-monsters-encore, psn

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brian @ Aug 11th 2008 7:22PM

Easier difficulty levels on PJM will be a welcomed addition. A few times I had to resort to youtube to get a rainbow

jabbertrack @ Aug 11th 2008 8:03PM

I was wondering about how you do insta-drop. I meant to look into the control screen but as soon as I turn it on I'm way to into playing to remember.

That said... waggle is insta-drop?

FAILURE

god I hate waggle

theCardinal @ Aug 11th 2008 8:36PM

More like BAN-tant.

I'm most excitied about an Eden expansion. That is the game of the now.

Shahryar @ Aug 11th 2008 8:45PM

My wife just randomly bought this game last night and was playing it til pretty late. I didn't know there were difficulty issues with this. I'll let her know.

On a side note, I like the music in this game. It's catchy.

jake18oly (XBL,PSN: RSXtypeSfan) @ Aug 11th 2008 8:50PM

Pixeljunk Monsters is an awesome game but I don't think that they need to dumb down the difficulty. That is one of the things that makes the game fun. My wife and I love playing this game on co-op and trying new things until we can finally beat a level. I much rather that they release some new maps in the form of DLC.