Equippable weapons and special abilities known as Charms can be purchased from Porkrind's Emporium, an in-game shop, using coins found in levels and the overworld. Player characters have infinite lives, maintaining all equipment between deaths. The game also includes role-playing elements and a branching level sequence. While most boss battles take place on land, several bosses are instead fought in aeroplanes in levels which play like side-scrolling shoot 'em ups. Defeating every boss on normal mode is required to complete the game, while expert mode is unlocked upon completion. Each boss fight includes a simple, normal, and expert difficulty mode (with the exception of the final two bosses, which lack a simple mode). Each of these boss fights and run-and-gun levels is housed in one of four different worlds, with the fourth world containing the final fight against the Devil himself. In-game screenshot of Cuphead, showing the player battling Captain Brineybeard, one of the game's bossesĬuphead 's gameplay is centered around continual boss fights, interspersed with run-and-gun levels.
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An animated series based on the game is in production by Netflix. It was both a critical and commercial success, winning several awards and selling over six million copies within three years. The game was praised for its art style, gameplay, soundtrack and difficulty. The game was inspired by the rubber hose style of animation used in cartoons from the golden age of American animation, such as the works of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Fleischer Studios, and it sought to emulate their subversive and surrealist qualities.Ĭuphead features one or two players taking control of its titular protagonist and his brother Mugman to fight through several levels, that culminate in boss fights, in order to repay their debt to the Devil. Cuphead is a 2017 run-and-gun video game developed and published by Studio MDHR.