Cuphead- a 30's-styled, Contra-inspired Run-and-gun indie game

This is my life now,endless suffering

(On the first boss,I keep dying!)

Sorta like Gunstar Heroes I guess? One of them stops while firing.

Definitely should be an option.

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What part are you having difficulty in?

Try taking it slowly and carefully. Spread attack or homing attack can help.

You can parry the pink spike balls (needed to get a coin).

edited 12th Oct '17 10:03:27 AM by Malco

ok so lemme try again lol

i am stuck on forest follies, can anyone give me some advice?

Is that the one with the woodpeckers? The beginning with the rollie pollies is HARD but after that it's not too bad until the end.

I'd use smoke charm for the woodpecker part and generally extra hearts are good for run n gun levels. The miniboss isn't too hard at all, just pay attention to the trajectory of the fireballs. There should always be a bug availible to land on.

And stop using only the peashooter...use either the spread for the first segment or roundabout due to its ability to fill up the screen really fast with projectiles.

Forest Follies is the other isle 1 run and gun which doesn't take place inside the tree trunk.

Unless sickasfricken actually meant Treetop Trouble, as it would be an easy mistake to make since they're kinda similar.

edited 12th Oct '17 8:35:00 PM by Malco

(double posted)

edited 12th Oct '17 8:34:53 PM by Malco

Ugh, I really want this game, but I only have a Switch...

edited 12th Oct '17 11:09:31 PM by FireCrawler2002

I've seen folks complaining about the difficulty here, in other threads and other parts of the internet. This has made me curious.

How many deaths folks had overall by the time they either beat the game or gave up?

In addition, what are you playing the game with, controller or keyboard?

For clarity: I call beating the last boss on regular as beating the game and you can check your death count at the well in the south side of the second world. I know it doesn't let you check what your death count was if you've gone for S ranks and higher difficulties after beating, so at that point just guess. The well also doesn't help if you're stuck on the first isle.

This isn't about bragging rights or anything, I'm just sincerely curious on what people consider a due investment into the game, how much they're willing to grind at it and at which point they get results or give up.

To beat the Devi it took me 231 deaths, playing with a controller. Spoilering to not set a precedent that people feel they need to match or beat, though I'm not that great at these games so doing so shouldn't be too hard.

edited 13th Oct '17 5:22:20 AM by GabrieltheThird

I'm nearly done with Isle 2 at 60 deaths.

I’m stubborn. Unless the game stinks, I’ll get through it. I got through PS 2 Shinobi, I can get through this.

edited 13th Oct '17 6:43:38 AM by Beatman1

I've only beaten one boss so far but I'm still going to try and try again

yes the game is difficult but its mostly because some stay in place and dont move and the enemies start to spawn faster, but playing with keyboard seems difficult, i play with a controller

by time I got to Isle 2 I had accumlated 167 deaths because I play on the keybaord and suck at it.

213 deaths here at 65% of the game (so Isle 3 and 2 bosses there down), but I tend to restart very quickly if I get hit on early phases. with a controller.

First world isn't much of a deal, imho. I probably died around a hundred times in it because I suck, but objectively, the large majority of the attack patterns are extremely straightforward. it's very simple to understand how to position yourself to avoid most of the attacks and get the tells of the ennemies. Slap the invincible dash on top of it and you won't have much trouble.

Second world takes off the gloves and starts throwing complex patterns and require to choose your shots type according to it if you want to ease the trouble. i'd start making comparisons to dark souls and furi around there.

i'll finish it without much of a doubt tho. The game's good, and it's challenging in a way that never bothered me. I went through the whole souls series and through Furi, I'm not gonna get stopped by this one.

edited 13th Oct '17 3:24:15 PM by Yumil

I has got this in my Xbox queue. I figured what the hay, I'm good at Touhou, let's see if I'm good at this.

I has tried it out. It is awesome! It is bloody HARD! It reminds me of old school games way back in the days of the NES, SNES and Sega Genesis.

I've beaten The Root Pack but nobody else so far.

I've almost got the dragon figured out. Its hydra form keeps getting me.

get up on the hydras back

Oh, I want to say, I freaking loved the bird stage. Every phase of that stage was solid gold.

But that gets you damaged.

First island clear! Best rank on any stage/boss is A-.

I noticed what's her name's astronomy motif. The first plane boss. She has attacks built after 3 zodiac constellations^note Specifically Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins and Sagittarius the Archer. The star patterns played before she transforms are actual constellation shapes. and the Moon.

The Moon phase gets really weird.

Beat the game the other day with 307 deaths total. Got 100% on the save file which isn't actually too hard surprisingly (you just have to get all the coins + the hidden ones in the overworld). I have a Let's Play [[here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo53P-26Bck&t=764s]] going on as well on my second save (hopefully I'm allowed to mention that).

It's really, really good. I contest the idea that you need to be a difficulty fanatic or fan of a small handful of specific older games to enjoy this. As long as you're okay with dying a bunch I think just about anybody can power through this.

It's rare that a game is a showfloor darling at stuff like PAX and then comes out and actually 'exceeds' the hype. The fact that it's dropped a million copies is astounding to me.

edit: apparently I have forgotten how to type links and the markup help tab won't open in Vivaldi. How embarrassing.

edited 14th Oct '17 1:11:00 PM by Bep

Done with isle 3. Dear giant robot, I would have to politely ask you to fuck off. The train was such a breather compared to that guy.good thing the super in plane is really good, it really helps a lot in the fight.

Only the final isle remain. I think i'll save it for tomorrow, I'm too sick for continuing tonight.

You'll only have two boss fights, so it shouldn't be too terrible.

So I started playing and I did Forest Follies on the first try and I decided to walk over to Treetop Trouble for more coins and died over 10x.