Posted on: February 8, 2024

ArcaneMaverick
Verified ownerGames: 122 Reviews: 12
Decent but overrated
Cuphead is firmly Good, and I'd much prefer creative and solid experiences like this than any corporate bloat, but it's honestly overrated and very much carried by it's art and music for those without a critical eye to see the problems. If a game wants you to play on it's highest difficulty and go for ranks, which this does, then it HAS to hold up it's end of the couch and Cuphead fails to do so. There are numerous problems that are outside the player's hands, resulting in too much luck rather than skill. Even though this game has stellar art and music, what matters most is gameplay and controls. On a brand new controller (no problem in other intense games like doom eternal or Tekken 8), this game has some dropped input problems and issues with it's jump. It has problems registering another jump when you hit the ground and problems with sensitivity in tapping it to change your jump height. These are big problems because of how demanding the game is. You'll take a lot of unnecessary damage because of the control faults. And any damage at all ends a run for rank. It has collision detection [hit/hurt box] problems which is extremely sad to see in such custom art. Inconsistent in quite a few places including the plane parry which is a BIG one. It has some very bad RNG where attack combinations can be literally impossible to dodge and since HP is the only metric that honestly matters, that's a game over. It also has RNG problems in that too often you get no pink parries, or pink parries you cannot reach, which are required. Some of the ranking criteria was not tested properly due to the aforementioned pink parries and some time limit issues. A few bosses simply do not have enough time by quite a few seconds even using the most damaging weapons and constantly attacking. A casual experience is Good, but to play this game for its meat, you're in for a frustratingly imbalanced time which isn't worth it considering the problems and RNG luck.
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