Snake Eater has different difficulty levels depending on the controls

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a very faithful remake in almost every respect, but there are a few things that Konami changed to make it better suited to today's modern gaming environment. For example, the game will offer players a “new style” of controls that ditches the original game's top-down view and original controls for a more modern third-person perspective.

Those who played the original will know that wrestling with the game's odd controls presented a lot of difficulty, and that switching to a more modern perspective could potentially make the game a lot easier. Thankfully, the developers seem to have thought much ahead of us and actually made the difficulty change depending on how you control it.

MGS Delta: Snake Eater has different difficulty levels depending on the controls

In a new interview with Famitsu (translated by Eurogamer), producers Noriaki Okamura and Yuji Korekado talked about the challenges of implementing this new camera perspective while maintaining the game's difficulty level. They discovered that the game's difficulty changed dramatically when a third-person camera perspective was introduced and decided that separate difficulty levels were the answer.

This means that whether players choose “New Style” or “Legacy Style”, which allows them to experience the remake from the perspective of the original, they will enjoy a great and balanced gameplay experience either way. Conversely, this also means that it cannot interfere with your progress in the game.

Now we just have to wait for the game to be released. But Konami is strangely coy about the release date. It appears to be nearing completion, and we've already seen a lot of it in the trailer, but Konami isn't ready to give a date just yet. But that will soon change as the company has confirmed that a release date will be shared by the end of the year.