SteamWorld Heist - difficulty levels discussed

A portion of a NWR interview with Image and Form...

NWR: Next to playing it safe and pushing forward ever so slightly ahead, your main mechanic is shooting all over the place. What I felt playing is that every mistake could leave you more vulnerable. Was it intentional?

Brjann: It's intentional. You're supposed to be vulnerable the whole time, it is. We want people to play well, we don't want to make a casual game, we want to make a game that's not impossibly hard. Although in SteamWorld Heist, we have difficulty levels so you can play Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite and Impossible... that's the name of the difficulty levels today. So that's the thing - you have to play it well, or you won't complete it. I think that's good, you're supposed to put your soul and body into playing a game. It's going to be as tough as you want it to be, but the game's not going to give you anything. You'll have to take it.