Cuphead Part 8. Birds and dragons. (Expert)
7Welcome to my Cuphead lets play. This is a semi-blind series. It will feature normal boss fights and run n gun levels which aren't blind, and expert boss fights that will be blind. All of the Delicious Last Course DLC shown will be entirely blind. This is not a 100% perfect score playthrough. Gameplay featured on Xbox One for the base game and Xbox Series X for The Delicious Last Course DLC.
About Game: Cuphead is a run and gun shooter video game developed and published by Studio MDHR. The game follows the titular Cuphead who, in a deal with the Devil after losing a game at the Devil’s casino, is quested to repossess the souls of runaway debtors as payment for Cuphead's loss. In the game, up to two players control Cuphead and/or his brother Mugman to fight through several levels and boss fights; the game does not have a rigid narrative structure. As the game progresses, the protagonist acquires more power and abilities, eventually threatening the Devil himself. Players, however, can only equip a limited number of these abilities at a given time.
The game's creators, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, took inspiration from the rubber hose style of the golden age of American animation and the surrealist qualities of works of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM Cartoon Studio and Walter Lantz Productions. Reminiscent of the 30s' aesthetics and Jazz Age, the game is noted for its animation and soundtrack: all in-game assets used hand-drawn animation with deliberate human imperfections, and the soundtrack was written for and recorded with a full jazz ensemble.
Cuphead had a preview at E3 2014 and was released in 2017 as a timed-exclusive for Microsoft's Windows and Xbox One, with ports to other systems subsequently added. The game was a commercial success, selling two million copies within two weeks of release and six million in two years. Cuphead received widespread critical acclaim, with praises for its art style, gameplay, soundtrack, and difficulty; the latter was singled out for scrutiny, with multiple outlets naming Cuphead one of the hardest video games ever created. A DLC expansion, entitled Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, was released on June 30, 2022.
Gameplay: Cuphead's gameplay is centered on continual boss fights, interspersed with run-and-gun levels. Each is housed in one of four worlds, with the final fight against the Devil. Each boss fight includes a simple, normal, and expert difficulty mode. Defeating a boss on normal mode is required to progress through the game and unlocks expert mode for that particular level. Most boss battles take place on land, although some involve player characters piloting aeroplanes and play like a side-scrolling shoot 'em up. The game includes role-playing elements and a branching level sequence. Player characters have infinite lives, maintaining all equipment between deaths. Equippable weapons and special abilities, referred to as Charms, can be purchased from Porkrind's Emporium, an in-game shop, using coins found in levels and the overworld. Player characters can use a slapping parry attack on objects marked in pink to various effects, the most important of them being a super meter charge that enables more powerful attacks. The super meter, which can also be charged through attacking or Charm effects, is represented by a row of playing cards, maxed out at five. An enhanced attack can be executed at the cost of one card, with its particular form determined by the currently equipped weapon. The Super Arts are the most powerful abilities in the player's inventory as they use up a fully charged super meter to activate. There are three Super Arts available, unlocked by winning mausoleum minigames against a group of ghosts, one in each of the first three worlds, where the players have to parry the ghosts to stop them from reaching an urn at the center of the screen.
After completing a level, the players are ranked with a grade based on performance, determined by the time taken to complete the level, damage taken, number of parried attacks, and the number of times part of the super meter was used, in addition to the level difficulty. The levels are accessible through a top-down perspective overworld with its own secret areas. The game has a two-player local cooperative mode, in which either player character can return to the game after being killed if the other one parries his soul before it rises off the screen. Cuphead's brother, Mugman, acts as an alternative skin and potential co-op partner within the game. The DLC expansion, Delicious Last Course, which adds a new area with its own campaign and bosses and new weapons and charms, also adds Miss Chalice as a playable character, who replaces either Cuphead or Mugman when equipped with a specific Charm. Miss Chalice has her own unique moveset, including a double jump, an invincible roll maneuver, and a parry dash.
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