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Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie
OpenCritic88IGDB87
Cuphead is a run-and-gun action game focused primarily on boss battles. Its visual style is modeled after 1930s cartoons, using traditional hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Nostalgic, relentless, meticulous and clear.
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GamesRadar+Lucas SullivanSep 20175/5 starsA potent cocktail of authentic 1930s aesthetics, jazzy tunes, ingenious boss designs, and gameplay founded on the fundamentals inherent to the best 2D shooters. Cuphead sure is swell.
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Giant BombBen PackOct 20175/5 starsCome for the beautiful art, stay because you smashed all your controllers.
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Game RevolutionRobert WorkmanApr 20195/5 starsEverything about Cuphead just feels right, even all these months after its original release. As it stands right now, this game is nearly flawless in its own right, thanks to its responsive controls and signature style.
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TwinfiniteIshmael RomeroSep 20173/5There is a game worth enjoying in here, if you can deal with periodic frustration. During encounters that are fully defined it's easy to get stuck admiring everything that StudioMDHR has created, and it was more than a good enough reason to turn my Xbox One on. It's because of those parts that are so good that it's really difficult to ignore the glaring issues.
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SA GamerGarth HoldenOct 20176/10Cuphead may look like a fun cartoony platformer, but be ready for the teeth to be bared and your patience to be slowly gnawed away.
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IGDB rating 8.6/10 from 934 ratings.
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