Difficulty Levels Being Playtested

(click blog entry title to link to Twitter post)

Evan Wells posted on his Twitter that they're doing a full playthrough of the game this weekend in order to start adjusting for the different difficulty levels.

As some of you who may have played the game recall, Crushing difficulty was...well, crushing. Many of the @evan_wells replies have pointed this out and are asking for a bit of a break this time around.

While I did think that Crushing was quite a chore, it was also an achievement to be proud of. What really made it difficult was the fact that so much of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was a lot of just wave after wave of bad guys who took an absurd number of shots to down. From what we've seen and heard, it's less of baddie grinding this time around, so hopefully the Crushing difficulty will be hard enough to feel like a challenge while not becoming tedious.