Hellish masterpiece or why Cuphead is not a complicated game

I often drink from a mug and never thought that my mug or a cup could get into trouble related to the devil. As you understand today, we will talk about Cuphead .

Cuphead is Run and Gun 2D Platformer created and published Studiomdhr Entertainment. A game of PC (without Linux version), PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch came out. I played on Switch and all screenshots will be taken from it

Do not have things to do with the devil!

The plot begins with a campaign in the casino of the ink island of our main characters – Cuphead and Mugman. The wise kettle warned them not to go to the casino, but they succumbed to the temptation and they were very lucky. Before the appearance of the devil. He offered them a deal – if they win, they can take all the money casino, and if they lose, then he takes their souls. Obviously they lost. After the Molb about mercy, the devil gave them a chance to cover the debt by collecting the souls of other debtors in one day.

That’s the whole tie – now our main characters will fight with all the debtors and, following the results with the devil himself and his right hand, King Dice. The whole tie was shoved into the menu theme. At the end there will be a choice between the bad ending, when the devil turns our heroes into his minions and the good where we win and now the whole island is free.

Run and suffer. Or maybe shoot

It is obvious that you read this review for the sake of gameplay and the explanation why Cuphead is not a difficult game. I will immediately say the complexity of the average.

The gameplay itself is primitive – jump, dodge, shooting, special blow and superpowers. Also, pink shells can be hit during the jump. In the game there is a store where you can buy new types of shooting and improvements, and we buy all for coins.

To earn coins you need to find secrets on the map and pass the stages “Run and shoot”. These same stages fully justify their names – we run and shoot, and also collect coins. The funny thing is that these levels can be completely pacifist and get an image filter for this. The game is divided into 3 worlds and casino. You can also play together, but the attacks of enemies will become 2 times more (it seems that the game hints that living without friends is much easier).

Bosses, bosses and bosses again

So it’s time to talk about https://sistersitescasino.co.uk/casinos/plaza-royal-casino/ bosses – the main type of game levels. All bosses usually have 3-4 phases of battle, where attacks are radically changing. Levels with bosses are divided into ordinary and flying. At the flying levels, we have only two attacks (at the usual levels there are also only 2 attacks, but we choose between 6 species) and instead of jerking we decrease. Also usually boss levels are just a box, but in some bosses they move. The most cool in these battles – they are unique in both the visual and gameplay part. Then we climb the hive, then we run away from a huge castle, then gnaw with a dragon, etc.D.

No matter how diverse the bosses are not, but the head is memorized.

Difficulty, or rather its absence (almost)

Here is the main tie of small complexity – the attacks of the bosses can be just memorized. A couple of deaths to see what the boss and training of attacking attacks can, and then everything is easy. By complexity, I can compare this game with Celeste – in both cases, the game wants you to learn from your mistakes and deaths.

If I went through the game by 100% (not to be confused with 200% for passing in a difficult mode) and for this it was necessary to go through all levels with certain conditions, and one of them was passing without getting damage. For the passage of levels, a certain assessment is given from -D to s and p.

To earn maximum rating, you need to go perfectly and in high complexity. Well, this is the catch – the high level of complexity opens only after passing the game and on it even the first bosses will be able to put your ass (the attacks of the bosses are accelerated, and their hp is more), but everyone says that the game is difficult to play on medium complexity without the game for a rating where everything is quite simple.

Yes, there were bosses who caused irritation (it is ridiculous that the most annoying boss was at the level of “fiery prank”, and not in the finale), but after a dozen or two attempts they became quite passable.

Casino Devil

It will be a very long time to talk about all the bosses, so I will only tell you about two final. The first is Dice King – you must knock out a number from 1 to 3 on a cube and move around the cells to the finish line. There are mini bosses on almost all cells – in general there are 9 of them, and after reaching the finish, Dice King itself will appear.

I think the game suggested that the player would try to immediately reach the finish line and fight with the boss, but I went through all 9 mini bosses in a row, and she even made a special reaction. By the way, Dice King himself is a terribly light boss – he has only one attack where the player should jump on pink cards, but the fight with these movements in the cells is cool. I think he would become the ideal friend of Madame of Good luck from Dicey Dungeons – the boss is also light, and she also loves cubes (players) (there will also be a review on it).

Well, the second boss – the devil is also easy. Yes there are many types of attacks, but you can dodge everyone. I think there is enough gameplay

Disney cartoons of the 30s

I rarely talk about graphics – for me that a new game with RTX in 4K, that pixel mess of the 1990s will look cool, but this is a special case. The game is made in the style of cartoons of the 30s and the style of cartoons from Disney is very clearly visible. If the game is really difficult for you, then at least look at the passage without comment, to stare at the painstaking work of the animators. Sometimes I just put off the gamepad and admired the beauty of the world and levels. For a long time I did not make high from the visual part of the game, but you can still turn on retro -sound and 2 images filters. In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful 2D games all the time.

Jazz sounds and other

The soundtrack in the game is also an amazing, and especially title theme and song King Dice (it is strange that she did not play in the battle itself). As I remember, the soundtrack for each level and the world is its + alternative versions of all this – in short, a good soundtrack in the game in bulk.

Here is a link to the soundtrack

Management at the gamepad is quite convenient (I think it will be much harder on the keyboard).

The duration of the passage depends on your skills – my passage on everything except achievement for passing on high complexity took 17 hours.

I want to say – I did not say that the game is bad because of the average complexity or that all the crookedly, I just wanted to say that the stories about the difficulty could be true – everyone in its own complexity is evaluated by the complexity of the games and for some Dark Souls with their eyes closed, and for other minecraft this impassable hell. Well, before the conclusion I will mention Dlc the Delicious Last Course. It was supposed to go out for a long time, but like the DLC for Katana Zero has been lingering for a couple of years. When it comes out, I will definitely make a review and talk about the difficulty again.

Conclusion

Amazing in every sense the game without special drawbacks, but the difficulty is not as high as expected. Necessarily to familiarization or passage.