It is going to take you a good deal of dying before you finally get the hang of it. The playthrough is insanely tough, even with an easier difficulty setting. There are also on-foot sections where you can collect coins to purchase new weapons. The levels are designed similar to horizontally schooling shooters with fierce boss fights.
While you stand still, you also have an ability to free aim. Cuphead also has two types of switchable weapons and a special attack that needs to be charge before you can use it. Each of them uses a slew of diverse attacks that differ from boss to boss.
Those include a wide range of similarly bizarre characters, from a balloon clown to an animated scotch bottle. The story revolves around an imaginary character called Cuphead and his pal Mugman that lost their souls to the Devil in an enchanted casino and now have to pay their debt by traveling across various freaky locations and collecting the souls of other debtors.
Made in the style of retro cartoons and perfectly imitating the 30’s animation due to purely hand-drawn design, it will immediately win your sympathy. While some games have thousands of people working on them and still fail to appeal to the wide public, Cuphead is a platformer designed by just two guys.
