{"id":10967,"date":"2022-12-02T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/retro-inspired-metroidvania-haiku-the-robot-gets-new-game-mode-in-mid-december-update\/"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:15:37","slug":"retro-inspired-metroidvania-haiku-the-robot-gets-new-game-mode-in-mid-december-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/retro-inspired-metroidvania-haiku-the-robot-gets-new-game-mode-in-mid-december-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro-Inspired Metroidvania &#8216;Haiku The Robot&#8217; Gets New Game Mode In Mid-December Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Up for a challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember back in September when it seemed that <em>every game ever<\/em> was getting released all at once? One such title to land on the Switch in this period was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/haiku_the_robot\">Haiku the Robot<\/a> &#8211; a post-apocalypse-set metroidvania with an adorable main character which looked like it had leaped right off of a GBA cartridge. Now the game is getting its first free content update on <strong>16th December<\/strong>, and things are about to get a lot more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>The update will add a whole new style of play to Haiku with the introduction of &#8216;Corrupt Mode&#8217;. Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hollow_knight\">Hollow Knight<\/a>&#8216;s Steel Soul Mode (only not as pull-your-hair-out frustrating), this new challenge will have you exploring a different side of Arcadia with only one health point to your name. You get hit, you go straight back to your last save station (see? <em>much<\/em> friendlier than Steel Soul).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/retro-inspired-metroidvania-haiku-the-robot-gets-new-game-mode-in-mid-december-update\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Retro-Inspired Metroidvania &#8216;Haiku The Robot&#8217; Gets New Game Mode In Mid-December Update<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Up for a challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember back in September when it seemed that <em>every game ever<\/em> was getting released all at once? One such title to land on the Switch in this period was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/haiku_the_robot\">Haiku the Robot<\/a> &#8211; a post-apocalypse-set metroidvania with an adorable main character which looked like it had leaped right off of a GBA cartridge. Now the game is getting its first free content update on <strong>16th December<\/strong>, and things are about to get a lot more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>The update will add a whole new style of play to Haiku with the introduction of &#8216;Corrupt Mode&#8217;. Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hollow_knight\">Hollow Knight<\/a>&#8216;s Steel Soul Mode (only not as pull-your-hair-out frustrating), this new challenge will have you exploring a different side of Arcadia with only one health point to your name. You get hit, you go straight back to your last save station (see? <em>much<\/em> friendlier than Steel Soul).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/retro-inspired-metroidvania-haiku-the-robot-gets-new-game-mode-in-mid-december-update\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}