![]() Controlling both Cuphead and Mugman is nothing less than an unfettered joy. When Cuphead unfurls the meat and potatoes of its platforming shooter design, it’s a little unexpected to discover just how deeply Studio MDHR have managed to nail the fundamentals. Cuphead blends platforming shooter fundamentals with a deep parry system that helps to elevate it beyond its classical genre inspirations. From here, players can elect to speak to NPCs, tackle stages in order to progress, uncover secrets and buy upgrades from a scary looking vendor whose voice sounds like how cartoon characters would sound if folk watched cartoons in hell. Rather than following Capcom’s old-school efforts of having a series of stages that are simply chained up together, Cuphead permits players to wander around a gorgeously realized open-world map that makes the most of Studio MDHR’s superbly evocative and unique setting. A pitch perfect platforming shooter that takes absolutely no prisoners with a level of difficulty that teeters on the brink of being unfair but always manages to pull itself back from the precipice, Cuphead is arguably not for the easily frustrated or those who are new to the Mega Man school of shooting platformer that Cuphead appears to be an avowed student of. The truth is that when you look past Cuphead’s stupendous audiovisual presentation something much deeper reveals itself. It is a wholly unique prospect in this regard that will make your visual and audible senses feel like they’ve been put through a technicolor chainsaw blender.Īs such, it can prove all too easy for many folk to fall in love with Cuphead’s beguilingly attractive aesthetic and the idea of what they want Cuphead to be, rather than what it actually is. Looking like a heady cocktail of prohibition-era, Betty Boop style cartoon visuals aided by watercolor art, cel-shaded design, hefty amounts of LSD and all underscored by a foot-tapping jazz soundtrack which effectively seals the deal on Cuphead’s innate ability to effectively separate the player from reality, there really is nothing that looks or sounds like Cuphead. It’s certainly fair to say that just about everyone fell in love with Cuphead’s deeply luscious audiovisual presentation first and foremost. There is simply nothing that looks or sounds like Cuphead on the market right now. ![]() It is, quite simply, the gloriously mad stuff that 2AM stoner television is made of. That is, until the cheeky duo go down to a casino and lose a soul-stakes bet to none other than the devil himself from which they can only extricate themselves from their due by collecting debts from all manner of odd and horrific characters. As the titular Cuphead and their friend Mugman (if you’re hooking up with a friend in co-op, but more on that in a bit), these two anthropomorphic kitchen utensils find themselves living an idyllic existence with their Uncle Kettle (stay with me). Neatly running concurrent with Cuphead’s nutty visuals is its equally surrealist premise. Cuphead PS4 Review Studio MDHR’s 1930s Platforming Shooter Is As Essential On PS4 As It Is On Every Other Platform Make no mistake, Cuphead is absolutely the real deal. It’s not only *any* good, it also happens to be very, very good and neatly proves in the intervening three year wait that nothing has aged or been lost in the leap to Sony’s current generation lump of plastic. Here are some of our favorites available with PlayStation Plus.Cuphead PS4 Review – After nearly three years of waiting PS4 gamers have finally been able to get their paws on Cuphead, Studio MDHR’s extraordinarily opulent and critically adored 1930s styled platforming shooter effort – is it any good though? Well, yes. There are plenty of amazing PS4 and PS5 games you can always boot up whenever you need a good serving of multiplayer mayhem. ![]() Fortunately for you, you’ve got a PlayStation Plus membership and extra controllers, which means one thing: it’s local multiplayer time.īut even if you’re not in an urgent need to keep a surprise audience entertained, getting a group of players together on the couch to have a good time is one of the best uses of your PlayStation. Suddenly, you’ve got guests over, and you need to keep them entertained for a while. Or, perhaps, the most dread-inducing - your coworker’s kid-sitter canceled, and they need an emergency backup. You ever get one of those awkward phone calls from your cousin that he and his family are in town and want to drop in for an unexpected house visit? Or your buddy texts you about arguing with their roommate, and they need to come over and cool down. ![]()
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