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Cuphead (2017)

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Today we are playing some cuphead on the PS4. Ive been spending a lot of time with this game recently and I feel brushed up enough to try and play it live. this could go horribly wrong, but I have faith that we can make some good progress! Please hit like and subscribe, I greatly appreciate it. #cuphead #ps4 #runandgun #letsplay

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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 debt. In the game, up to two players control Cuphead and 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 Moldenhauser, took inspiration from the rubber hose style of the golden age of American animation and the surrealist qualities of works of Disney Animation and Fleischer Studios. 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 Xbox One and Windows, 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 acclaims, 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. The game won several awards, including three The Games Awards, three D.I.C.E. Awards, and a British Academy Games Award. An expansion, Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course DLC, is scheduled for release in June 2022. A Netflix animated series based on the game, The Cuphead Show!, premiered in February 2022.

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 (with the exception of the final two bosses, which lack a simple mode). Defeating every boss on normal mode is required to complete the game, and expert mode is unlocked upon completion. Most boss battles take place on land, although some have the player piloting an aeroplane 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 known 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 increasing a super meter that enables more powerful attacks. The super meter is represented by a row of five playing cards, all of which must be filled to use one of the three strongest attacks ("Super Arts") in the player's inventory. A less powerful strike can be executed at the cost of one card, its particular form determined by the currently equipped weapon. The Super Arts are earned by entering three mausoleums, one in each of the first three worlds, and parrying a group of invading ghosts to stop them from reaching an urn at the center of the screen.

After completing a level, the player is ranked with a grade based on performance, based on factors such as the time taken to complete the level, damage avoided, and number of parried attacks. 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.

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