Finally! I was waiting for this patch for days! Although I didn't expect the patch to decrease the difficulty... Lame. Thought it was mainly to kill that nasty bug that erased data and introduce trophy time.
With the patch, the game just doesn't teach discipline or reward anymore. You can miss important jumps now without fear of failure. That's no fun. Guess it's a good thing, if you're one of them fancy lads who can't handle a challenge. Well, I'm gonna have to try it on the hard setting now...
And for the record, the new Bionic Commando is not as bad as its recent reputation, in fact I'm enjoying it! It does have its faults, but I'm still having a lot of fun!

This really doesn't make it that much easier. Infinite lives sounds like it would make it way easier, but given the sparse checkpoints, you still have to be able to get through the levels without dying.

At any rate, if somebody needed help getting through Easy and Normal, then they are girly men, but I don't think this would help much.

ZOMGABBLEARGH! Sony's just corrupting gaming by appealing to casuals (or as I prefer to call them "inferior life forms") by doing anything at all to lower difficulty. Anyone who still plays on anything lower than "Ultra Suicide Expert" isn't a real gamer.

wtf? I know it's hard but thats the whole fun of the game, you get a sense of acomplishment that you wouldn't get if the game just held your hand all the way through.

No, these updates make the game reasonable for normal people.

Psh, you retro-fags, I swear... <3

@Kyousuke Nanbu: They are anything but archaic. They control just as well as any of the control schemes in the highest selling properties. By the end of the game I was good enough to where I didn't die at all. The same thing happened with Bionic Commando Rearmed. I sucked at the beginning of it. By the end of it I barely died at all. Same goes for Megaman 9. The reason why people complain they're archaic is because they're too used to the easy difficulty of games nowadays. Yes, there is hard mode and vetteran mode, whatever the game calls it. But how about instead of making the enemies kill you in one hit, you make it harder, not "Oh look, you got hit by a bullet. You're dead." Make the enemy AI more advanced. Make them flank you. Make you actually have to adapt to the way they adapt to you. And then you feel good about yourself when you finally overcome that obstacle. When I finally beat Megaman 9, I was extremely pleased with myself. Same goes for Bionic Commando and Rearmed. This stuff is by no means archaic. Man up, soldier.

I beat the game, but mostly because I'm a hardcore old-school BC player, so a lot of what was going on was old hat to me as I played. But when I turned that game up to the next level of difficulty with the one-hit death, even I found that just flat-out impossible. Now with this update it'll make it just a tad more forgiving and I can get past level 1. I have to--otherwise all my acquired gear will be lost if I have to start a new game.

I'm still working on clearing super hard and all the challenge rooms (on 360). :\

The game is wonderful but definitely too hard for me; especially considering that it's a PSN/XBLA title. A downloadable game should be something like Castle Crashers, Superstar HD or Shatter; a quick gaming fix to be enjoyed while you're, say, waiting for your favorite TV show to start or something. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but if I want something which requires a genuine commitment on my part I buy a full-fledged, big budget $60 game in a box...

By the way, I own Demon's Souls as well and that game is a lot less relentlessly skill-based than Bionic Commando (but then again that's what you would expect from a stats-heavy RPG compared with a remake of an 8-bit platformer).

I beat this game on normal, only the last few stages were hard. I also beat the original though.... SUCK IT UP, PUSSIES!

@CrudeDarkness
I agree. That last level was a bit of a bitch! But I got through it(only a few months back), just had to stock up on lives and practice, practice, practice.
Can't believe this patch gives unlimited lives. I believe Capcom is doing this so more people give Bionic Commando a chance it deserves.
I'm enjoying the new Bionic Commando very much and now fear the license to be dead and buried, from the lackluster reviews the game has been beaten with.
We'll see...

@ Daxelman: Nobody cares. Why did you even post that? You've added ntohing.

@ Krow: Is Daxel your BF or something? People who drop in just to say they don't care annoy me. Why even read the story if you don't like the game?
Back in your box, please.

I beat the game on Normal, and it was satisfying when I finished it. Last level was a bitch but I got through it.

If this there is no way to turn off the noob mode on Normal difficulty, then this is just fucking stupid and I hope they don't ruin the 360 version.

Pathetic.

I beat this game umpteen times when I was a kid, with that terrible NES controller. Still one of my favorites of all time though (the original) and Rearmed is a damn good remake.

unlimited lives = good.

the rest = WHY

never played the original.. at first i hated rearmed.. but then i loved it and beat it. very satisfying ending. also the music is awesome.

Oh oops, I read over the "Rearmed" bit and thought it was about the other one.

I finished this game on 'hard' without even playing it, man.

Well , at least it has trophies ...