How to Change Difficulty: How to Unlock Easy Mode and Cakewalk Difficulties

Reaching the Game Over screen multiple times is the only way to change the difficulty in Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Learn how to change the difficulty and unlock other difficulty settings in this guide!

How to Change Difficulty

Reach the Game Over Screen

The only way to change the difficulty is through a Game Over screen. The other two difficulties won't be available at first, and will only appear after losing a battle multiple times.

Easy Mode and Cakewalk are the only other difficulties in the game. Standard, the default difficulty, is the hardest in the game and can't be made more challenging aside from giving yourself handicaps.

Difficulty Automatically Reverts to Standard After Winning

If you did pick one of the easier difficulties, it will revert to Standard after the battle. Easy Mode and Cakewalk make Mario and Luigi stronger for the current battle only.

How to Unlock Easy Mode and Cakewalk Difficulties

Lose a Battle Multiple Times

Getting a Game Over multiple times in a single battle unlocks the Easy Mode difficulty. This makes Mario and Luigi stronger in your next attempt, but you can still choose to remain on Standard difficulty if you wish.

Losing a few more times after unlocking Easy Mode unlocks an even easier mode called Cakewalk, which tunes the fight into a piece of cake (walk?).

Gear Up and Take Time to Get Stronger!

The actual hack to making battles easier is to get stronger yourself! Take time farming EXP and leveling Mario and Luigi up, farm coins and update your gear pieces to the strongest available, and master your opponent's moves.

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