I suck at Cuphead. Let’s get this out of the way. But in my defense, the run-and-gun platformer from Studio MDHR and Microsoft is difficult.
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The old-time cartoon style game comes out on September 29 on Windows and the Xbox One, and I got a good preview of the game at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany. It turns out that it’s harder than it looks, and that is part of its appeal. While my performance on the captured video below is quite shameful, as I never finished the level, I think it shows quite well why Cuphead is fun and why making hard games that depend on skill is like a lost art.
Maja Moldenhauer, the sole inking artist at Studio MDHR, walked us through a tutorial for Cuphead before letting us loose. It was a bad sign when I took a long time to figure out how to jump off a stone and dash through the air to get over a bigger stone. Moldenhauer said the proper term was “challenging,” not “difficult.” But I quickly put the lie to that terminology.
Go ahead, laugh your heart out at my expense.
Cuphead is a run-and-gun action platformer with hand-drawn art that is inspired by animations from the 1930s. It was inspired by the subversive art of Fleischer Studios, Disney, and others. While Cuphead may remind you of the cup character in Beauty and the Beast, it actually was inspired by a 1936 Japanese propaganda film where a man with a teacup head turns into a tank.
Above: I didn’t get far past this guy in Cuphead.
As I started the new level, I talked to Mac on the bridge and then went into the action in the Forest Follies section. This was supposed to be the first of several sections we could play, but I didn’t make it very far. The story sections of the game were deleted, and I was able to go straight to gameplay. Of course, I expect the final game to have a lot more emphasis on gameplay over story.
I could have played a co-op game with another person, and that would have been a good idea as a newbie. But I went straight into it, even after a PR person told me he couldn’t finish a level.
I didn’t realize for quite a long time that you don’t accomplish anything by jumping on top of an enemy, like in the Mario games. Rather, you lose a life. It took me a reminder as well that you can change the type of shot.
Above: The Forest Follies level in Cuphead.
The red bullets spray in several directions at once, while the blue ones go in a straight line. The blue bullets have a longer range, but the red ones are good for a shotgun-style blast.
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There are a variety of ways to die unexpectedly. I died by jumping into a bush instead of jumping to a cliff. I think you’ll all agree that at the very end of the video, it was very unfair that I died by jumping into the forest canopy. I think you’ll agree that life isn’t fair, at least in Cuphead. I’ve played the game for a total of 26 minutes, but I figure it might take 1,000 times that for me to complete this game, if my initial 26 minutes of shame are an indicator.
Updated at 10:00 a.m. on September 5: This story claimed that Cuphead developers originally developed Super Meat Boy. That is not correct, and GamesBeat apologizes for the error.
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| Character Unlocker Allows to play with the whole set of characters in the last two worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9VX-fmBUc (direct download) Allows to play with the whole set of characters in the last two worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9VX-fmBUc (direct download) By thebmxbandit11thebmxbandit11 | 0.2 | thebmxbandit11thebmxbandit11 | |
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| KeyboardToControllerMapper Allows controller inputs to be bound to keyboard. Necessary for dual jump on keyboard. (external link) Allows controller inputs to be bound to keyboard. Necessary for dual jump on keyboard. (external link) By d265f27d265f27 | d265f27d265f27 | ||
| List of levels These can be accessed at any time using the editor / devmode. (external link) These can be accessed at any time using the editor / devmode. (external link) By -7-7 | -7-7 | ||
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| Practice Program View the video for a quick tutorial on how to use and what it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgZgUdlk48 (external link) View the video for a quick tutorial on how to use and what it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgZgUdlk48 (external link) By thebmxbandit11thebmxbandit11 | 1.1 | thebmxbandit11thebmxbandit11 | |
| Rivatuner This will help the game run more consistently on your pc. 'consistently', in this case, means fewer lag spikes. Loading times should be affected too. Even if your pc's great, if the game is running at, say, 60.3 fps instead of 60.0, the physics will be subtly screwed up. This is also the fix for 7-19x problems. Add supermeatboy.exe on the program's list, set it to 60fps and leave the program open in the background while running. Check forums for more details (external link) This will help the game run more consistently on your pc. 'consistently', in this case, means fewer lag spikes. Loading times should be affected too. Even if your pc's great, if the game is running at, say, 60.3 fps instead of 60.0, the physics will be subtly screwed up. This is also the fix for 7-19x problems. Add supermeatboy.exe on the program's list, set it to 60fps and leave the program open in the background while running. Check forums for more details (external link) | |||
| SMB Launcher v2 *new* A launcher that provides extra features to Super Meat Boy such as the ability to change your control scheme using a user-friendly GUI, an option to delete you save data every time the game launches for Any% runs, an option to automatically run Livesplit when you run SMB, and many more! (This is the second version of SMB Launcher. The old version stopped working so I remade it. This version now has piracy protection; SMB Launcher requires a version of Super Meat Boy purchased via Steam). (external link) A launcher that provides extra features to Super Meat Boy such as the ability to change your control scheme using a user-friendly GUI, an option to delete you save data every time the game launches for Any% runs, an option to automatically run Livesplit when you run SMB, and many more! (This is the second version of SMB Launcher. The old version stopped working so I remade it. This version now has piracy protection; SMB Launcher requires a version of Super Meat Boy purchased via Steam). (external link) By N0ught234N0ught234 | 2.29.1.4 | N0ught234N0ught234 | |
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