Cuphead

I made that title, not to be mean, but as a warning for those who don't play games but like the game's artstyle. You will get a nasty surprise. I've seen some people say that the game is not as hard as YouTube makes it. Those people are lying because they are WAY better at games than they wanna admit. And kudos for being modest about that, ignorant or otherwise. This game's difficulty is a bit of a throwback to games like Contra and Ninja Gaiden on the NES but without the limitations of the hardware that usually made those games unfair. And even though I died to some bullshit like not seeing an enemy/projectile thanks to the foreground blocking it from my view, at no point did I feel like the game was unfair. It gave me all the tools that I needed to win, I just had to prove to myself that I could do it. And I always found myself feeling accomplished when I saw the words KNOCKOUT come up on the screen. Still, there are a couple glaring roadblocks that prevent prefection. 1) The run-n-gun levels. Those are easily the worst additions in the game that are clearly an afterthought. But you have to do them to get coins so that you can get upgrades that will help. 2) This is a game that needs a controller to play. I've been working with the keyboard and there is no mouse support. While not impossible to beat, if I could use a traditional WASD setup with my Mouse, the game would be WAY more fun for me to control. Still that aside, I would easily recommend this game. Any game that gets me frustrated enough to hit the RETRY option instead of QUIT is fantastic in my book.

very fun

Just finished this masterpiece in 2023, playing casually over several months. I played it in Spanish and the impeccable style matches the language so well. It is a fair and precise game. If you rank it down because of its brutality it's because you were bad at it. There is a little bit of RNG that can assist you but ultimately you will be forced to learn and adapt to the resulting situations continuously throughout each level and adapt to the majority of salvagable moments or buffer yourself from unsalvagable moments.

good

I can't play the game because of the horrendous Controls menu. I tried JoyToKey, online tutorials, with no success.