The Plucky Squire “Challenge” update announced, patch notes and trailer

The Plucky Squire has revealed a major “Challenge” update. It will soon be made available on Nintendo Switch, though there’s no exact date just yet.

The big thing here is, naturally, Challenge Mode. This is a difficulty boost with new enemies, harder minigames, harder bosses, and more. Players can also access Iron Squire mode featuring permadeath.

Here’s the full rundown:

New Challenge Mode

Challenge Mode is a new game mode designed to test your skills with increased difficulty. This mode includes:

• New enemies
• Harder minigames
• Harder bosses
• Some layout changes for levels
• The ability to fast forward through dialogue and
• New Achievements

Remixed Pages

Pages with combat on have been reworked and side scrolling levels have new layouts.

Humgrump Desk Spawns

In the previous version of the game, we had Humgrump teleport some enemies into the level using his metamagic, but only in the book. We’ve now added these sequences to the desk too. These spawn in with VFX and a bubble that contains Humgrump’s face. Additionally, Jot can get electrified on the desk.

New Metamagic Enemies

Following on from the above, we have the glowing metamagic variants of some of the base enemies. They have their own effects and materials on the desk, and new sprites in the book.

• Barfer Bug
• Rat
• Goblin
• Spear Trooper
• Popuff

Challenge Mode Enemy Variants

We have some upgraded versions of the existing enemies. These are all across both desk and book.

• Tough Goblin (just harder)
• Exploding Goblins (run at you and explode)
• Metal Goblins (indestructible)
• Exploding Jumper bugs
• Tough Namastarlings (just harder)
• There’s a new tough book-only enemy, the Rock Golem, which appears from Chapter 2.

More Difficult Minigame Patterns

All of the minigames, apart from the Sneak C09 game, Fish Grabbing and the C04 Fantasy Card Game have new difficulty settings and layouts. Buttergrump also has new patterns. There are little bits of extra functionality in some of these games as a result, such as ghost Archery bugs and new projectiles in Buttergrump.

New Iron Squire Mode

The Plucky Squire with permadeath! This is essentially Challenge Mode but with no continues. As soon as you die in Iron Squire Mode, your save is deleted, and you are sent to a new game over screen. We have one each for desk and the book.

Four New Achievements

There have been five Challenge Mode-specific achievements added.

• Complete Challenge Mode: Pops up at the same point that the Adventure/Story Mode one pops up. It also auto-completes the Adventure/Story Mode too.
• Get to Artia in Iron Squire Mode: This triggers at the end of C04 when the camera pans across to show Artia.
• Complete all corrupted (Humgrump) Challenge Mode minigames (without skipping)
  • Boxing
  • Volleyball
  • Potion pop
• Complete the Big Brawl at the end of C09 without dying.

Dialogue Fast Forward

You can hold the X button to fast forward through all dialogue without repeatedly pressing for each box that pops up.

We have a trailer for The Plucky Squire “Challenge” update below.

Update Trailer

The Plucky Squire is currently available on Nintendo Switch. Find more news about the system here.