Cuphead

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8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1826 Ratings

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  1. EvanY
    Nov 1, 2017
    9
    Amazing art direction, soundtrack and animations. There's plenty of personality in every frame and the gameplay is dynamic and challenging making an almost perfect experience.
  2. nyylpk
    Nov 2, 2017
    9
    Un juego adictivo que te hace jugar mas y mas para superarte a ti mismo. Recuerda a los juegos antiguos por la estetica, la jugabilidad y la dificultad del mismo. Recomendado
  3. Hugman
    Jul 23, 2023
    9
    This game is absolutely amazing.
    The art direction of this jewel just throws us in a cartoon-ish ambiance. Both of graphisms and soundtracks are incredibly well made, these tasks must have taken a enormous lot of time. The drawings are perfect and, the colors are correctly handled. The difficulty is well-sized, probably not for kids, but everyone else can confront this. The gameplay is    This game is absolutely amazing.
    The art direction of this jewel just throws us in a cartoon-ish ambiance. Both of graphisms and soundtracks are incredibly well made, these tasks must have taken a enormous lot of time. The drawings are perfect and, the colors are correctly handled. The difficulty is well-sized, probably not for kids, but everyone else can confront this. The gameplay is fluid and attach to the game levels and bosses.

    Very great game.    … Expand
  4. MrUknownerBrian
    Nov 20, 2017
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Cuphead is a very hard well made development for 3 (Or More Than 3) Years.
    Story:
    Story is about cuphead and mugman getting to casino even althought uncle warned to not get in. Having a win strike devil appeared, offering if they would win they will take all money, however if they lose devil will take the souls. Mugman knew that it was too risky to do that but Cuphead cared about money. They lost and forced to take the souls. However they would want to do anything to him to keep their souls. Devil gave them a job to get every souls that has been assigned for 1 day. This is where all began.
    Gameplay:
    The gameplay is simple, there are at least 2 run a gun level at 3 world. All other levels are bosses. The character have 3 health (4 or 5 incase of upgradment) if they run out of health they die. If all of them dies (Or Solo Player Dies) its start from begging. The default controlls aren't very good. I do prefer use controller since its easier to master at steering. The game is about learning the mistakes. Its a hard game because it wants you to learn about mistakes. Lets just say that you died on phase 3 on Goopy Le Grande because you didn't knew attacks. And now you know what he does on phase 3 and its easier to beat. However there are bugs like locked game after dying (The game continiues without enabling to pause and forcing to press alt+f4), the bosses freezing after doing something (Making boss very easier). There are found on twitch livestreams on speedrun or normal ones. Music is amazing they were done very well.
    Graphics:
    Graphics is well made with animation with 60 Frames. It takes art direction from '20 Disney Cartoons. Drawing,color,effect are amazing. Its like playing a very harded working game for 8 year.
    Results:
    Cuphead is a amazing game. Might be GOTY but of course there will be other games that somehow will dominate this game. However because of Glitches the game might get 10/10. However 9 score from glitches is fair. Well done Studio MDHR!
    9.5/10    … Expand
  5. pk2
    Nov 26, 2017
    9
    Great gameplay, visuals, and sense of accomplishment upon beating a boss. It's great to see a game like this in a time when so many games would rather adhere to a boring cookie-cutter and appeal to the lowest common denominator. Cuphead gets a pinkies-up from me.
  6. AlfaRomeo
    Dec 6, 2017
    9
    Now We have a Classic games graphics are really nice Something I didn't see before it so Classic if you like Mike maus I feel like the Classic pictures of This is Amazing I like really
  7. vincentvanhal
    Dec 12, 2017
    9
    Yes! Looks great, Great sounds, Great everything! (bugs a few)
    But dammm THNX for the load of fun.

    And DS level of get good or keep dying. More games like this please.
  8. IndieCrit
    Jan 30, 2018
    9
    This game, artistically, is phenomenal with the hand drawn animation and AMAZING backgrounds. The music will also shine and I had several songs stuck in my head. Gameplay - it's EXTREMELY hard, but not unfair. People will call it bad out of pure rage. I wish it was longer, but it deserves its high praise. This is DEFINITELY a must buy from 2017.
  9. Zedloof
    Jan 30, 2018
    9
    A fun boss rush with visuals that looked beautiful! if i could give this a 9.5; based on the of the glitches that can occur.
  10. Kfel17
    Jun 17, 2018
    9
    You know how a joke can start funny, get annoying, then become funny again through sheer attrition? That’s Cuphead’s approach to enjoyment. With a beautiful, caustic, near-unceasing stream of boss battles, Studio MDHR’s debut made me scream with joy and horror by turn, but I settled on joy by the end.

    The most obvious point to begin with is that Cuphead looks astonishing. Its 1930s    You know how a joke can start funny, get annoying, then become funny again through sheer attrition? That’s Cuphead’s approach to enjoyment. With a beautiful, caustic, near-unceasing stream of boss battles, Studio MDHR’s debut made me scream with joy and horror by turn, but I settled on joy by the end.

    The most obvious point to begin with is that Cuphead looks astonishing. Its 1930s animation style – all watercolour backgrounds and surreal, juddering, hand-drawn characters – pay peerless homage to Max Fleischer and his ilk, and are perfectly implemented. Somehow it manages to balance dozens of moving elements and a slight rear-projection blur without ever feeling unreadable in even the most frantic moments. There has never been a game that looks like this and there may never be again. Every scene is a masterwork – it’s a near-unbelievable achievement for an art style.

    The sound work is an ideal match: a huge jumble of high-tempo ragtime, swing, big band, and jazz (the list of musicians is almost as long as the rest of the credits combined) pummels away wonderfully in the background of every fight. It makes Cuphead feel truly out of time, and its bizarre mix of ‘30s aesthetics and ‘80s design more heady than ever. I also feel duty-bound to point out that the way Porkrind the shopkeeper bellows “welcome” made me laugh every single time I heard it.
    There’s no doubt that it’s gorgeous, and many people will be drawn to that, but that veneer conceals a very niche, hardcore design. You may have gleaned by now that this game is really, really hard. It’s absolutely uncompromising in its difficulty from the outset. No level includes checkpoints and, barring one late-game match-up, there is no way to regain lost health. You could hit levels that take hours to beat, and the finale is locked off until you beat every other level on “Regular” difficulty (i.e. extremely difficult). And don’t think that local co-op will ease things up – dropping in a second player as Cuphead’s pal Mugman makes events onscreen that much harder to follow. I find it actively harder with a second player, if anything.

    And so, as I played I gradually stopped noticing a lot of the glorious art, because actually interacting with Cuphead is so hectic, so stressful, that it just gets filed away by my right-brain as a distraction. That skyscraper-tall robot firing laser barriers is just three hovering hitboxes and a series of no-go zones. When one boxing glove-wearing frog eats another to turn itself into an evil slot machine, that’s nothing more than a phase change. My favourite boss design – a giant bird wearing cuckoo clock armour and its tiny, ray gun-wielding chick – fires wads of garbage at you by literally turning its head into a bin, but I only noticed that detail when I watched someone else play it hours later.
    There’s no doubt that it’s gorgeous, and many people will be drawn to that, but that veneer conceals a very niche, hardcore design. You may have gleaned by now that this game is really, really hard. It’s absolutely uncompromising in its difficulty from the outset. No level includes checkpoints and, barring one late-game match-up, there is no way to regain lost health. You could hit levels that take hours to beat, and the finale is locked off until you beat every other level on “Regular” difficulty (i.e. extremely difficult). And don’t think that local co-op will ease things up – dropping in a second player as Cuphead’s pal Mugman makes events onscreen that much harder to follow. I find it actively harder with a second player, if anything.

    And so, as I played I gradually stopped noticing a lot of the glorious art, because actually interacting with Cuphead is so hectic, so stressful, that it just gets filed away by my right-brain as a distraction. That skyscraper-tall robot firing laser barriers is just three hovering hitboxes and a series of no-go zones. When one boxing glove-wearing frog eats another to turn itself into an evil slot machine, that’s nothing more than a phase change. My favourite boss design – a giant bird wearing cuckoo clock armour and its tiny, ray gun-wielding chick – fires wads of garbage at you by literally turning its head into a bin, but I only noticed that detail when I watched someone else play it hours later.
    Perhaps Cuphead’s smartest, most devilish addition is in how all these types of levels taunt you into playing more. No enemy has a health bar, nor an indication for when you’re getting close to a knockout – instead, when you die you’re shown a graph of how close you were to the KO or the next phase of the battle. It reduces screen clutter while also encouraging (or perhaps that should be “berating”) you into taking another crack at it.

    Cuphead is as tough as it is beautiful, Cuphead won't be to everyone's tastes, but there's absolutely no doubting its quality.    … Expand
  11. BunnyTrooper
    Feb 6, 2018
    9
    Cuphead's strongest trait may be its difficulty, but its amazing visuals and soundtrack makes it a fantastically fun experience for anyone.
  12. RatedRForReview
    Feb 25, 2018
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This Was AMAZING! I Have Never A Mix Of Genre Like This, That 4 Year Delay Was Worth It! Cause You Can Obviously See How Much CLEAR EFFORT That Has Been Put In Cup-head. From A Potato, An Onion And A Carrot, To The Big Slammer Of The Devil! This Was A Very Difficult, But Worth-While Experience! I Couldn't Give it a 10 Because Of A Little Bit Of The Run And Gun Levels, And How You Throw Your Controller At The Screen 90% Of The Time. Worth Your PC Or XBOX Collection! Worth It. My Final Rating Is Not Buy, Not Bad, Not Barter, But BEST!… Expand
  13. Patr1ck
    Apr 30, 2018
    9
    I could only play this game now, Cuphead has a very high difficulty, it took me 30 minutes to pass the stages, the sounds and the visual enchanted me. It's a very good game.
  14. Kbek
    May 15, 2018
    9
    Saying this game is beautiful is an understatement.

    In an age where everything is huge CGI worlds with a 120 people team for graphism alone, where the search for the most realistic graphics is the ultimate goal, CupHead come as a refreshing simple 30s' inspired cartoons. The whole game is smooth, colorfull and inspired. The music is on par with a "big band" vibe that fits perfectly    Saying this game is beautiful is an understatement.

    In an age where everything is huge CGI worlds with a 120 people team for graphism alone, where the search for the most realistic graphics is the ultimate goal, CupHead come as a refreshing simple 30s' inspired cartoons. The whole game is smooth, colorfull and inspired.

    The music is on par with a "big band" vibe that fits perfectly with the rest.

    It is hard. I have seen worst but it's hard. You still see progress every run you make and the game is verry generous that you can start a level again right away.

    It's a nice Arcade style throwback experience. I strongly recommend if you like this kind of game, pure, arcade, frustrating, satisfaying, fun.

    Kudos for the effort put into this. For going out of track for once.    … Expand
  15. Matias8654
    Jun 2, 2018
    9
    El arte caricaturesco antiguo le da un toque de nostalgia y si incluimos lo difícil que es el juego a rasgos generales, ya que no posee punto de control, convierten a este juego en un vicio para cualquier amante de los videojuegos
  16. Grachechkovski
    Sep 14, 2020
    9
    I recommend this game to everyone who believes in himself, wants to learn patience, unity with his Self and watched Naruto.
    A little more and it was possible to put a cast on your fingers, but I coped.
    In general, impeccable manual labor, cartoon artful style and high complexity will stay in my memory for a long time
  17. 5Drax03
    Aug 12, 2018
    9
    Cuphead is an amazing experience you should by any means try out. I personally picked it up with a friend of mine which had bought it. The game was indeed hard, although that wasn't a suprise. the bosses are the main focus of the game and stand out above all else except perhaps the music. The bosses are all very different in mechanics and aesthetics, they'll surely leave you amazed in theCuphead is an amazing experience you should by any means try out. I personally picked it up with a friend of mine which had bought it. The game was indeed hard, although that wasn't a suprise. the bosses are the main focus of the game and stand out above all else except perhaps the music. The bosses are all very different in mechanics and aesthetics, they'll surely leave you amazed in the amount of detail put in to each and every one of them. me and my friend took a good amount of time getting to the endboss, which unfortunately didn't stand out above the rest. this review was a bit all over the place, but if I can leave you with one simple message is that you should try it out: alone or with a friend :)… Expand
  18. RoomyLEGO101
    Oct 8, 2018
    9
    This game definitely deserves all the attention it gets. The gameplay is impressive, the graphics are outstanding, the bosses are creative, the music fits with the various settings and everything about the game feels like a throwback to old Disney cartoons or Fleischer's works. Probably my only complaint is the difficulty of the boss fights, but I can forgive Cuphead for that since one ofThis game definitely deserves all the attention it gets. The gameplay is impressive, the graphics are outstanding, the bosses are creative, the music fits with the various settings and everything about the game feels like a throwback to old Disney cartoons or Fleischer's works. Probably my only complaint is the difficulty of the boss fights, but I can forgive Cuphead for that since one of the inspirations of the game was Contra, one of the hardest games on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
    An outstanding game made with lots of hard work and love. I would highly recommend it.    … Expand
  19. killer1237
    Oct 24, 2018
    9
    Cuphead is the most artistic game I've ever played. It is fun, challenging, challenging, and challenging. You won't like this game if you don't like dying or losing, but each fight remains fair after the fact.
  20. MorteCaldo
    Jan 20, 2020
    9
    Почти идеальный платформер.

    Из минусов только некоторые аспекты технической части.
  21. wagllgaw
    Nov 28, 2018
    9
    This game kicked my ass hard. Great animation + really well designed bosses.
  22. hameow
    Mar 2, 2019
    9
    Really hard with is a good thing. Nova days games are way too easy we need some challenge god damn it. The music and graphics are outstanding.
  23. thatdanner
    Apr 1, 2019
    9
    One of my favorite PC games. Difficult and tedious at times--the Dark Souls of Run and Guns--but well worth the struggle, if you like that sort of thing. I spent countless hours learning the patterns and such of the bosses, and eventually beat the whole game. The achievements are quite easy if you try hard enough to beat the bosses, which is great for achievement hunters like me. The artOne of my favorite PC games. Difficult and tedious at times--the Dark Souls of Run and Guns--but well worth the struggle, if you like that sort of thing. I spent countless hours learning the patterns and such of the bosses, and eventually beat the whole game. The achievements are quite easy if you try hard enough to beat the bosses, which is great for achievement hunters like me. The art style is very similar to older Disney movies and it looks very good. There is replayability in the expert mode and trying to get S-rank on every level. Even the run and gun levels are fun and interesting. Hopefully the DLC adds to this fantastic experience even more.… Expand
  24. Babutto
    Mar 25, 2023
    9
    Awesome style.

    Pros.:
    - Style.
    - Animation.
    - Simple story and concept.
    - Music.
    - Versatility.

    Cons.:
    - Co-op regime is really bad to play online. Lags, glitches and fps delays.
  25. sherfall
    Nov 7, 2019
    9
    Играл с другом через программу и один тоже. игра затянула интересно проходить её и какой же кайф проходить босса которого 54 минуты не могли осилить именно таких игр не хватало.
    Однако в некоторых моментах не понятно как действовать против босса, но возможно у меня только такая проблема. а так как обычно 12 хованских в магазине из 10    Играл с другом через программу и один тоже. игра затянула интересно проходить её и какой же кайф проходить босса которого 54 минуты не могли осилить именно таких игр не хватало.
    Однако в некоторых моментах не понятно как действовать против босса, но возможно у меня только такая проблема. а так как обычно 12 хованских в магазине из 10
  26. SilverGriever
    Sep 17, 2019
    9
    Amazing animations and art style. The soundtrack is also very enjoyable. Tight controls and challenging gameplay make the game feel great to play and enjoyable to learn from your mistakes.
  27. Palimash
    Dec 22, 2019
    9
    Игра сделана добротно: не видел не одного бага. Приятное оформление. Больше всего доставляет удовольствие драться с боссами ради награды за их прохождение. Из минусов: зачастую пройти уровень слишком сложно
  28. joel_tdl
    Dec 25, 2019
    9
    Sí, es difícil.
    JUGABILIDAD:
    Sí, Cuphead es muy difícil. Pero es igualmente divertido. La jugabilidad es simple de entender: disparar a matar y no morir en el intento. Una formula que ha funcionado por décadas y que vuelve a funcionar... ya en el juego es un poco más complicado que eso. Cuphead se basa en peleas contra Bosses con muy muy pocos escenarios de plataforma y, aunque podría    Sí, es difícil.
    JUGABILIDAD:
    Sí, Cuphead es muy difícil. Pero es igualmente divertido.

    La jugabilidad es simple de entender: disparar a matar y no morir en el intento. Una formula que ha funcionado por décadas y que vuelve a funcionar... ya en el juego es un poco más complicado que eso. Cuphead se basa en peleas contra Bosses con muy muy pocos escenarios de plataforma y, aunque podría sonar aburrido, la verdad es que no lo es. Lo anterior debido, en gran parte, a que nos tomará vaaaarios intentos ganarle a cada Boss.

    Los pocos niveles plataformeros son bastante complicados también, así que no nos darán respiro.

    GRÁFICOS:
    El estilo de arte es precioso. Es todo lo que diré.

    SONIDO:
    Los desarrolladores no lo han descuidado ni un poco, por el contrario, me parece que se han esforzado mucho en que la música compuesta para el juego sea igual de adictiva que el Gameplay mismo. ¡Lo han logrado! Es uno de esos soundtrack que da gusto escuchar aún cuando no se está jugando.

    INNOVACIÓN:
    Un Run-and-Gun con música y estilo de arte inspirado en los años 30, con un 80% de Gameplay siendo Boss fights, con una dificultad para sudar, que se burla en tu cara cada vez que pierdes... no se me ocurre algo parecido.    … Expand
  29. Jonasluas
    Jun 20, 2020
    9
    Demasiado retador y un gran juego de plataforma te satisface lograra derrotar cada jefe con corajes y y estrés es un gran reto y gran juego
  30. random_person89
    Jan 8, 2020
    9
    Cup head is a masterpiece, it's ineradicable how they made a video game look like a old cartoon, but you shouldn't have to get a pacifist ranking on every run'n gun stage to get a black and white filter, Other than that it's pretty good.
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#9 Best PC Game of 2017
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#9 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
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#9 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. CD-Action
    Dec 19, 2017
    85
    Cuphead is a stunningly looking, wonderfully animated interactive cartoon with three hours of jazz and ragtime playing in the background. Its gameplay however lacks the brilliance of the audiovisual layer. [12/2017, p.46]
  2. IGN Japan
    Dec 14, 2017
    90
    It is easy to tell that the developers studied the history of the genre through and through, delivering a stellar run and gun experience brought to life with unique old fashioned cartoon graphics. It may have it flaws, but when a game is this appealing it is easy to forgive.
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  3. PC PowerPlay
    Nov 12, 2017
    90
    An amazing looking game that will punish you. And you'll like it. [Issue#267, p.65]
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