Difficulty

Hey,
First off I want to say that I think these games are brilliant additions to PSN, offering something truly unique. I play the episodes with my little brother and sister, (8 and 6) and they (and me) are all enjoying the story a lot.
The only thing I'm wondering about is what the intended minimum age range for this is?

They both play as seperate players. There are some puzzles they can solve by themselves, but the majority of them they need my help with. When they get it themselves or with just a little bit of help from me its awesome, a great family experience, but when I pretty much have to take over for them it feels a little bit like I'm doing everything.

What I'm suggesting is would it be possible for each player to select their own difficulty at the start of the game? Then the turns wouldn't rotate clockwise, but it would be the player's turn who chose Easy if it were an Easy challenge, the expert player's turn if it were an expert challenge.

That is presuming that you wouldnt make each challenge have different difficulties aswell.
(Eg, the hedge maze one could have 4 tiles for Easy, 20 for Hard)

Are either possible? With the first I guess you have the problem of trying to balance it so there was an equal distribution of hard and easy challenges, balanced across the timeline of the episode. Oh and that if it was 1 player this whole suggestion becomes redundant.
Whereas with the multi-difficulty challenges the only problems i see are maybe having to record more voiceover for the audio challenges. Oh and maybe more artwork.

What's the devs' relentlessly crushing thoughts? :)
(Sorry about the epic post)

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Hi Fenrir,

Glad you like the game, we really appreciate your feedback.

As you have demonstrated by playing it with your little brother and sister, the game is suitable for most ages. Obviously some of the puzzles may be too hard for younger players but it is the social interaction that you mentioned (you helping them out) that is at the forefront of the games we make. Younger players are obviously drawn in to the colourful and friendly stylings of the game and will often watch it as they would a cartoon.

I like the idea about creating varing difficulty levels for each puzzle and it is certainly something we would look at if we were to create another Blue Toad. Obviously as Original-r-w-s mentioned it is too late to go into episodes 4, 5 & 6 as they are released today (I can't believe it has come around so quick).

Let us know what you think of the final 3 episodes (I was shocked by the ending).

Cheers

James

(Loving the sneaky addition of relentless in your final line)

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