Metroid Dread is adding new difficulty modes and Boss Rush mode

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Ever since its release, Metroid Dread has wrangled with the now-ubiquitous discussion surrounding difficulty settings in games. With only 2 modes — Normal and Hard — and many people finding even the one-time punishingly difficult, plenty of gamers were clamoring for an easier setting then that they could go more out of the game. Well, those people are in luck — merely there's a twist.

In its Nintendo Direct today, Nintendo announced that there would be two free updates coming to Metroid Dread shortly. The starting time, rolling out later today, will provide users with a Rookie Mode difficulty setting, which will give players enhanced regeneration to take the border off those tough boss battles. However, it'll also include Dread Mode, a difficulty mode set at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, in which taking a unmarried hit volition kill Samus instantly.

A second update, coming in April, will add together in a Boss Blitz manner, in which players volition face up off against each of the game's bosses one later another. Presumably, players will be able to combine Boss Rush mode with Dread Manner, simply in case they really want to punish themselves. So for all those out at that place who actually wished that Raven Beak was just that much more overpowered, this will no doubt exist brilliant news.