{"id":86916,"date":"2026-07-30T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86916"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:37:54","slug":"dead-cells-developer-motion-twin-responds-after-guillermo-del-toro-begs-for-version-without-respawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86916","title":{"rendered":"Dead Cells Developer Motion Twin Responds after Guillermo del Toro Begs for Version Without Respawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has responded to acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro\u2019s thoughts on the game \u2014 specifically, his request for a mode without respawns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/dead-cells\">Dead Cells<\/a> is one of the better known roguelite games out there. Released in 2018, it helped popularize the roguelite-metrovania genre and continues to see support from Motion Twin, receiving consistent updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-cells-return-to-castlevania-dlc-review\">crossovers<\/a>, and content years later.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a critically-acclaimed title, with IGN giving it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/11\/dead-cells-review\">9.5 out of 10<\/a>. It\u2019s so well-loved that even Pan\u2019s Labyrinth creator Guillermo del Toro can\u2019t get enough of it\u2026 though he did have some requests for its developer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/guillermo-del-toro-says-he-plays-angry-birds-every-day-of-his-life?_cache=pass\">Speaking with IGN<\/a> as part of our IGN30 Icon Series, del Toro spoke about how \u201cinteresting\u201d the game is to him, but urged Motion Twin to make a version without respawning.\u201cI just hate respawning, because you only get about 35 levels and then you start again. You get faster, but please, do a version without respawning for the older, for the elderly players. I\u2019m available. Contact me and send it to me, please. I beg you!\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"guillermo-del-toro-is-a-true-gamer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Well, Motion Twin has answered. In a statement shared with IGN, the Dead Cells developer thanked the filmmaker for his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has responded to acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro\u2019s thoughts on the game \u2014 specifically, his request for a mode without respawns. Dead Cells is one of the better known roguelite games out there. Released in 2018, it helped popularize the roguelite-metrovania genre and continues to see support from Motion Twin,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":86918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86920,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86916\/revisions\/86920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}