User Reviews

Inspired by 1930's cartoons, Studio MDHR painstakingly created a game that look like it might had come from that era. The visuals are remarkable. You can tell that the team did their research, right down to the color coordination and the lack of color consistency. There's even a grain filter and simulated 24 fps framerate to complete the effect. The traditional cartoon aesthetics of the hand drawn cell animation on a watercolor background or model work was also surreal & absolutely gorgeous. Not only that; but it's really impressive for an independent game like 'Cuphead', to features an orchestra like soundtrack that nearly 3 hours of original jazz, barbershop duo, early Latin big band, and ragtime music. It's just too bad, there is a lot of tracks by composer Kristofer Maddigan that had to cut from the game, due to runtime. Regardless, the Cab Calloway's like night club based behop sound that left in the game, matches well, with the compelling high stakes frenetic redemption story about two anthropomorphic porcelain cups brothers, Cuphead & Mugman having to collect souls, in order to free themselves from the devil's clutches. It's catchy. Additionally, I like how the songs themselves will play differently depending on the circumstances: pausing the game or opening your inventory will muffle the music, using a super move will detune and speed it up, and dying will cause a record like needle scratch followed by the music slowing to a crawl. It has an ominous effect on most gamers' ears. It really does help you feel emerge with what happening on screen, even the single player or co-player gameplay isn't much of a traditional cartoon-like, nostalgia genre piece, run and gun game like 1993's Sega Game 'Zombies Ate My Neighbor'. In truth, 'Cuphead' resemble something more of a cartoon version of 2005's PlayStation game 'Shadow of the Colossus', with its boss rush style of gameplay. After all, the game was originally made that way. Most of the actual Run and Gun gameplay levels, Mausoleum sequences & the hidden 40 coins quest were added late into the development phrase by Microsoft, in order to make the game more fun to play. Because of that, they felt like loose end, glitches side-missions that doesn't really needed to be play to beat the game. Nevertheless, it does help your character get weapon and abilities upgrade at the number of shops, throughout the over world map. So, that's a plus, even if certain things, like being locked into one charm or getting expose by after using a super, could be annoying. Hopefully, those things can be patch, later on. Regardless, those missions are not as challenging as the boss battles. I get that, people do need a breather from the intense action. However, a game like this, shouldn't have parts of it, to soften gamers up. The hard gameplay is one of the main appeal of 'Cuphead'. It supposed to be no cake walk. While, some people might find the lack of checkpoints & health picks up, a turn off; I like it. It's been, a long time, since a video game honestly gave the player, a challenge, rather than holding your hand throughout it. Plus, it's not like the run and gun levels & boss battles are impossible to beat. Victories are quite accessible, once you learn to memorization and avoid the enemies attack patterns, through trial and error, getting use to your vast amount of weapons through swapping, and improving your reflexes, regardless if you're on 'simple' or 'regular' mode. I like how most of the controls aren't poor or broken & the camera angles aren't cripplingly limited in its viewpoint. If you die, it's pretty much, your fault. Trust me, when I say this, you will have to prepare to die multiply times, before having success. It will make you frustrated at times. However, if you do die, your character has infinite lives & maintaining all equipment between deaths, so you can't complain too much. If you're unwilling to take such a lot of losses. You might as well, turn off the game, and play something else. For those, patient & brave enough to continue. With a little bit of luck, you might enjoy the game, a lot more, for putting you, through the ringer. It's satisfying as hell to beat a boss. The gameplay is tough, but fair & tolerable. Plus, there is array of unique bosses, with multiple forms and functions that it's almost worth the price of admission alone just to see all them. Also, you can choice, which boss, you want to fight first and last in the 3 over world maps. So, the pathway to victory is, in your own hands. However, you do have to beat all 5 bosses, before entering, the other two world-maps. Another thing, while, most people don't care about high scores, over survivability. Those willing to put the effort, will be grade high levels, which can unlockable color modes, Easter eggs, & other perks like expert trials. So that's cool. Not only that, but there is plenty to unlock, once you debug the game, such as hidden unused bosses and weapons. Another thing to like, is how the racist depictions of racial minorities is purposely avoided, and for good reason. However, the Christian Communion metaphors is bit overplayed. Regardless, I do like how there is good and bad ending based on whether or not the brothers agree to hand over the soul contracts to the Devil. The story mirrors so much, what the developers, Chad & Jared Moldenhauer had to do in real-life in order to get out of debt with Microsoft. Overall: 'Cuphead' had amazing story & gameplay. I can't wait for the sequel. Until then, enjoy the DLC expansion, "The Delicious Last Course". That's equally as good. In the end, while, there is a few faults with this passive project. It's still definitely worth seeking out. You will get your money's worth. You can bet on that!

Hi everyone, today we´re going to review the second good thing of 2017, Cuphead. The game started being produced back in 2010 by Chad and Jared Moldenhaur and was announced in 2013 along side the announcement of the Xbox One, though the game was only releasedin 2017 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One, and boy, was it worth the wait. The plot of this game is about two brothers (Cuphead and Mugman) palying on the Elder Kettle´s backyard when the two stumblle upon a cassino owned by The Devil himself, He makes the two paly a match of gambling or whatever that game is, and they lose, so now they´re on a quest to collect soul contracts from The Devil´s debtors. The Pros: Oh my, does this game have a lot of it, but let´s go one by one. 1. This game has really good soundtrack, as it does match the 1930´s style the game has, and heck, sometimes, the soundtrack could consist of Samba (like the case with Cagnye Carnation and Rumor Honeybottoms) which are even better to hear. 2. The gameplay is pretty fine, it does a good job parodying the 80´s shoot´em up games and can be pleasent for newcomers. 3. The 1930´s cartoon references are amazing, most of the cartoon references are inspired by Fleisher Studios, but it does have references to other cartoon companies like Disney, Warner Bros, and a lot of animators like Grim Natwick and Ub Iworks. 4. It does have a good concept, sure, it kinda rips off Hansel and Gretlle, but it does put a different twist to that story by having soul contracts and The Devil, making it more original in the market. 5. The whole idea of turning levels into bosses sounds really good, sure it may seem weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, you do start seeing the positive side of the idea. The Con: 1. It´s way to hard, I honestly don´t know what the fridge we´re the developers thinking on the making of this game, sure, I did complain about The Fractured But Whole being to easy, and don´t get me wrong, I still do, but the difficulty spike of this is really unfair, why, well, for starters, enemies don´t stop respawning, the bosses have multiple attacks making the bosses a chore to complete, and finally, there´s no healing in the levels, sure, you can buy more hit points, but for one thing, you need to pay to get extra HP, making you unable to buy new shots and charms, and the extra HP doesn´t help much, because you´re still going to die at one point and you won´t be able to heal, yes, you can revive the dead player in multiplayer, but you´ll still get one HP from reviving, making it possible to die later on and the other player may die as well, so yeah, I apreciatte the game´s difficulty, but it needs to be more fair. To conclude, Cuphead is a great game, it´s not recomended mostly because of the difficulty spike, but if you like old animation or old school gameplay, than I guess it´s worth a shot, I´ll se you all later in a galaxy far far away.

Everything from the gameplay,the style AND do not get me started on the difficulty! Cuphead is an amazing action platformer set in the 1930's cartoon style,the gameplay is very smooth and can (and WILL) try to kick you in the heiny. This little gem of a game is beautiful,it will make you feel like you are playing an animation and the difficulty really blows me away with it's tutorial bosses like The Root Pack and Goopy Le Grande are just getting you into the feel,bosses like Cala Maria and Dr Kahl's Robot are insane and every single time I die I just want to try and try again until the point where you beat a boss that you've been struggling with for over 3 hours and finally taste the victory. The thing that people love about this game is how fun,beautiful and difficult it is with the bullet hell aeroplane-style bosses where you attack them and their weaponry in an aeroplane and in the second world if you talk to Phil (the bird NPC) you can shoot them with bombs although there weaker than the original shot. If you struggle with a boss you can earn coins from completing the Run n' Gun levels to get weapons and charms from Porkrind's Emporium (the shop) to help on bosses like Beppi The Clown, in which I personally found I needed Roundabout as Shot 1 and Lobber as Shot 2 and when you finally beat the game and all it's bosses on Regular difficulty,you unlock Expert difficulty where it is even more challenging to the extent that you just want to keep on replaying and replaying until you finally give them a taste of their own medicine. After that,you get an achievement called beat the Devil at his own game which you are awarded by beating Satan himself on Expert difficulty. 10/10 game with so much replayability and it is definitely worth the £16.99 price tag.

This game is so entertaining! Mugman will always be my favorite character from the Cuphead franchise because blue is my favorite color! To be honest, Cuphead is basically the cup version of Mickey Mouse and Mugman is basically the mug version of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This game is similar to so many old cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and obviously so much more. And when The Cuphead Show released on Netflix, that show was also entertaining like this game! I hope The Cuphead Show will continue. And I also hope there'll be more Cuphead games in the future. #RenewTheCupheadShow.