Cuphead (Zero Punctuation)
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One minor correction: having 2 players actually DOESN'T give an advantage for doing double the damage. Playing 2 player doubles the boss's health.
Army% exists.
@@archangel8428 that's definately more than 2
@@archangel8428 that's because you use a glitch to clone mugman as much as you like
@@archangel8428 Well, Cuphead and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his pal Mugman and his
This game is so unforgiving!
"So am I just a fundamentally negative person?"
I mean....yeah
LucianoThePig Yeah. I thought that’s what the whole show was about?
Arnt we all?
No he's just British. Which means he can only express his emotions through sarcasm.
He says that, but then he writes an entire review that doesn't really say anything negative about the game.
Who is this new Yahtzee?
We wouldn't be here if you weren't yatzee
You wrote an entire book about Brisbane getting flooded with carnivorous jam and you still question if there is something wrong with you?
Did he actually?
Natey 180, Yes. go check out his book. It's funny as.
Natey 180 it's called jam, and it's amazing. If you like Hitchhiker's Guide, you'll like Jam
Fuck yeah that's awesome, I'll check it out! :D
Evi1M4chine You don't need to get triggered about it dude.
That tutorial level is brutal though
Imagine how horrible it would be to have to experience it a million times before you were allowed to move on.
This joke, I mean. Not the tutorial level.
It's the dark souls of tutorials.
right, ask oneyplays
TBH I had no problem with the tutorial.
orangesheepdog It's not- its a joke about a journalist who spent half an hour on it.
You could hear how invested Yahtzee was in cuphead when he talked about the pirate. It's wonderful to hear him have some positive feelings before he crawls back to the endless abyss.
agreed, since that boss is all the way in Ilse 3
Personally doctor kahls robot is where I’m stick
So, the major problem Yahtzee found in the game is the fact that there is a straw in the teacup... Yeah, he's officially a brit.
This needs to be top comment.
Sincerely, a brit.
*A guy dies and his tombstone attacks me, a woman turns into a crescent moon, a man with a dice as his head eats me*
Okay...
*Straw in teacup*
REAL SHIT
Eduardo Elric like who the fuck drink hot tea with a straw?
Eduardo Elric something I didn't even consider
My Hentai Girl But Cuphead's cup-head isn't even filled with tea, it's a mysterious white substance.
ELEGIAC ; ADJECTIVE
1] Relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
‘haunting and elegiac poems’
1.1] Wistfully mournful.
‘she watched repeat serials, fixed on their moody and elegiac characterization’
ELEGY ; NOUN
1] (in modern literature) a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
2] (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.
Thank you
Not all heroes wear capes.
The internet needs more people like you.
Asher Flanagan
Thank you! You saved me the time to look up elegiac in the dictionary.
So basically The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe?
0:36 For those who care and might be interested, it says:
"I can't believe anyone would love a shit like you"
I love how he just slides that line about the pirate boss in mid rant .
Remember when you were a kid, and you were home from school sick and had nothing better to do but watch old cartoons, and when it got dark out and you fell asleep only for those cartoons to manifest in your nightmares? Yeah, that's Cuphead.
Yahtzee is like the Cuphead of the Bandicoot Souls series.
@2:02 that angry space hopper looks like a fun ride.
Seems like it'd be considerably harder to slip off of than the usual ones too, juices notwithstanding...
I've been watching Yahtzee since year 1, and this is seriously one of his most well written and well though out reviews.
Its so rare to see Yahtzee give a glowing recommendation to a game. Not since Portal or Spec Ops The Line has Yahtzee been this happy with a game.
Or Driver: San Francisco
22 what about Doom?
Or just cause 2
What about undertale
You don't watch a lot of Yahtzee's videos do you?
1:36 Oh hello Jetix Logo on the Care Bears VHS tape.
I like ball busting too, Yahtzee.
Oh, you said ball busting *difficulty* my bad.
Dee Oh Dee I eat balls for breakfast
kink same
There was a time when that used to mean 'to make fun of someone' by East Coast Italians.
Now it means Darwin Award fetish.
Ball busting, dick ripping... it's all good
0:12 What a way to start off a video. "Viewers do you think there's something wrong with me? Rhetorical question hands down please." (And yes, I intentionally left out the punctuation. Need an explanation?)
I like that yahtzee understands when difficulty is needed, and that it is sometimes needed, unlike some ex-escapist people I care to mention.
SHOUT OUT AT 3:48
That bit about the holepunch to shredder had me creasing
4:26 He used the term "Ghost Train Ride" years before he associated it with linear narrative triple-A games!
I forgot JZ is the type of person to fire himself straight into a brick wall as long as that wall has a snazzy paint job
*until
I'm not sorry.
Not surprised he didn't know this, but they also significantly lower your damage output when you add in a player two.
Seems like a Cup half-full kind of tone
go.
The Cuphead game having a real sense of identity contrasts very much with all but exactly one-third of the episodes of The Cuphead Show.
01:44 Thank you for bringing this up! Ive been asking that for months!
For those wondering about the supressed childhood memories:
*"I* can't believe anyone would *love* a shit like *you"*
1:57 Thanks for letting me know how it's spelled so I can google it!
Yahtzee Croshaw everybody, the first gaming journalist to get past the tutorial faster than an hour
It pays to play them.
3:03 Made me laugh so hard, because my friend is like that. He LOVES ball busting hard games.
"it's so ball-bustingly hard, you'll be jizzing ball-shrapnel for the next month" xDDD
3:01 - 3:48 accurately describes what it's like to be a chemistry major at a college known for its chemistry faculty.
Cuphead can give me some CUPHEAD
3:08 best and hilarious part of the vid.
Looking forward to Mario Odyssey Zero Punctuation in a couple of weeks. *cough* *cough*
Canal Guy yasss
Canal Guy don’t forget wolfenstien 2!
What is this "Zer Punctuation"?
It is what they call, a typoo
The censored text at 0:36 says “I can’t believe anyone would love a child like you” but everything except “love you” is crossed out
Correction. It definently says "I can't believe anyone would love a *shit* like you"
3:19 anyone play gunvolt on the Nintendo DS cuz that's exactly what that reminds me of
This is the dark souls of game reviews.
I like how Cuphead displays many aspects of the same gameplay and story narrative that Dark Souls does. You can clearly and easily see the influence Dark Souls had on the development of Cuphead.
Cuphead is the only game I've had to put down due to photosensitivity. The way the bosses flashed when shot with a bajillion bullets gave me fucking seizures and I had to visit a neurologist to get myself checked out. Significantly added to the difficulty of the game 10/10 game mechanic
I bought Cuphead because of this video. And then I beat it, somehow. All I can really remember is that the last boss wasn't nearly as hard to beat as the one before him. That's the weird thing about Cuphead; the difficulty of the fights are pretty inconsistent. You're three worlds in and end up in a boss battle that is somehow easier than the ones on Island 1.
In that regard, I’d say the first question is whether the boss is actually easier than Isle 1, or if you’ve just gotten a lot better. But yeah Werner Werman is a bit of a pushover relative to his placement.
Also, I’d say King Dice only feels harder than the Devil because of the length. Because of how the game works, King Dice requires such a constant amount of skill and concentration with little rest in each attempt, and an S-rank time can be as long as about 10 minutes!
Ah, yes. Good thing I am very smart. *carefully looks around to make sure no one is watching as he googles "elegiac"*. Yes. Very smart.
i didn't think about it until i did a paper on prohibition era, but that straw might be a tilt to that. Because in order to drink alchohol in those days, you had to do it out of non-achohol glass, ie tea and coffee mugs. and the straw makes it easier to drink the acohol which back then was the real hard stuff.
Thank you very much for reminding me of Epic Mickey, I used to love that one
It's great you managed to talk yourself out of the "light hearted romp" angle. I can always trust you to see the dark sinister side of things.
Wait, Yahtzee, I thought you already disclosed that you like dark souls, why are you reviewing it again?
Referencing Ghost Train Rides before coining the term for his cinematic linear adventure games vid.
The best thing about this game was watching a games journalist play it.
You mean playing the tutorial
I've been waiting for your review, Yahtzee.
Also when is The Escapist going to just be called Yahtzee?
Like, does anyone else exist here?
Adude601 they did, but I think Yahtzee got bored and decided to kill everyone manhunt style.
there used to be other creators who were hosted by escapist, but yahtzee is the only one who still makes content for them. i'm fairly certain that yahtzee can't get away from them for legal reasons, and even so, he seems to see the partnership with escapist as a positive thing regardless, so i doubt he would bother to put in the legal effort necessary to leave escapist any time soon.
Adude601 You've been waiting a week longer then seeing as this review was uploaded to the Escapist website last Wednesday lol.
SicParvisMagna123 god fucking damit
Adude601 The websites a goddamn ghost town.
1:58 Three years and several rewatches later, I still have to look that word up. Thanks Yahtzee for showing me how to spell it xD
The straw is what bugs you? It's the fact that his head is full of milk that bothers me! Who uses a tea cup for milk? It's referred to as a GLASS of milk. Not a cup of milk.
Milk tea is a thing
I am pretty sure it's moonshine.
Funny how everyone in the comments doesn't know what an elegy is but nobody's mentioning how Yahtzee dredges up "cullion," (apparently) a Middle English word for "testicle."
Wonder if Yahtzee just pulled the first image of a stick off the search list in Google, or if he actually knows the backstory on that particular stick...
Now I'm curious.
Hexerin Null
Care to elaborate?
Image seems to be in the Toy Hall of Fame, but not seeing anything else on that image of a stick.
"Who the fuck drinks from a teacup with a straw?"
Yahtzee's 100% right, when you finally beat a Bosshead in Cuphead it feels cosmically easy and effortless. Took me nine million(ish) brutal goes to defeat the zepellin witch during the early stages, but then one day I booted up and suddenly she just fell before me, without losing a single heart, and I got an A.
That point you made at the end actually makes a lot of sense. I played this one HL2 mod called G-String, and I keep recommending it to everyone I meet, because it's such a weird game, it's hard to expect what it's going to do next. It's gameplay is ripped from HL2 except made worse in just about every way imaginable, and the level design is absolute bonkers, where the absolute last possible place you would have expected turns out to be the path you were intended to take, and a lot of the (massively enormous) game, mostly the beginning chapters, take place in grey, ruined city areas. But somehow they're the exact shade of grade that seems to intrigue me, and I kept looking at every area and getting immersed in it, like I was high or something, because the entire game all the way through is a psychedelic trip that keeps doing something totally off the walls weird and bizarre, and yet it never strays away from managing to portray the main themes of the game, which it is very heavy-handed and almost sort of ham-fisted with, but it does end up triggering thoughts in my head that somehow resonate, compounded with the feeling of constant loneliness and confusion that the player character must be feeling (which the game manages to portray amazingly by actually having you experience it, with likely absolutely no writing).
It's a love & hate from me. There's so many things that are quite literally inconceivably bad, yet I was sucked in because, quite simply, it was impossible to tell what the hell the game was going to do next. G-String, try checking it out random youtuber viewer who happens to see this comment.
What makes Cuphead's difficulty so different from other games is simple: The developers are on your side. While Dark Souls and other "challenging" games revel in creating boss fights and levels that are meant to fuck with you, with attack patterns that cannot be predicted, environments that are ill-suited to your sluggish character movement, essentially creating boss fights that are only beatable by stocking up on healing items, Cuphead's bosses were clearly designed with a perfect idea of exactly what the player would have to do in order to defeat them. There is NOTHING in the game that cannot be dodged, parried, or shot, and the difficulty stems predominantly from having to multitask.
Actually, some of my biggest gripes with Cuphead were when the game made it (for lack of a better word) too easy by making it too obvious what needed to be done. I loved the fight against the mouse in the soup can tank, for example, but I had to roll my eyes when he shot two pink springboards at me right before signaling a charge.
But that's the appeal of Cuphead; the difficulty is 100% skill-based. I never once wondered what the hell I'm supposed to do in any given situation -- only if it would be within my capacity to actually do it. The only instance of artificial difficulty I encountered (an obstructive foreground) was in an optional "King Dice" mini-boss, and the only time I ever rage-screamed was at Dr. Kahl for his Stage 3 endless evil laughter.
Plain and simple, Cuphead is a game that ENCOURAGES you to get better and to win. Now having played this, everyone at From Software is encouraged to hug a landmine.
Terastas Cuphead is far from perfect. First and foremost, the game has severe pacing issues. Secondly, while the game excels at visual variety, it is quite lacking in gameplay variety even on a fundamental level. Thirdly, the difficulty curve is extremely inconsistent (usually dependent on how many randomized variables are introduced in a single fight). Fourthly, randomized variables do not mix well with fixed attack patterns and the game often puts the player in situations where it is very unlikely (sometimes even impossible) to not take damage. On top of that, the progress meter can be very deceptive in some circumstances. Also, the weapons, items, and even some of the game mechanics are poorly balanced (but that is just a minor issue).
NOTE: All of the issues I just named are not apparent in Dark Souls.
In fact, everything you said about Dark Souls is simply not true. It makes me question if you have even played the game or if you are just shaming from ignorance. For example, if you played Dark Souls you would know that the bosses all have very consistent and recognizable attack patterns. You would also know that the environment is designed around the player’s movement abilities, even allowing the player to take advantage of the environment. Lastly, you would know that Dark Souls doesn’t even allow the player to stock up on healing items, so how can you “only beat the bosses by stocking up on healing items”?
On the other hand, Cuphead does have the best art direction that I have ever seen in a video game.
However, the design of Dark Souls is unquestionably better than Cuphead in almost every regard. The game design of Cuphead really feels like an amateur project which is in strong opposition to the fantastic art. The only thing that Cuphead does better than Dark Souls is player training.
Environment designed around the player's movement? What, you mean like the Capra Demon?
I never said Cuphead was perfect. But it is a game that is everything it is deliberately and with consideration for the player.
Every single boss can be defeated without the use of power-ups. I know this because I'm only two S-ranks away from proving it.
Like I said: Cuphead wants you to feel like a winner. Dark Souls wants you to feel like its bitch.
I got all the way up to the casino and gave up, that casino gauntlet is brutal
Cuphead is the Dark Souls of Cuphead, or alternatively, the Cuphead of Dark Souls.
The Cup Souls of Darkhead.
I love, love, LOVE, how every one has their own personal hardest boss in the game. Like for Escapist, it's the pirate, but for me it was the fucking Dragon. So awesome man.
"This game is so difficult.. Just like Dark Souls!" -- Many game reviewers
LOL at how you compared Captain Brineybeard to the Captain Morgan ad! LOL at the teacup on the little game cutie's head and the way it gets killed. Also smiled at the way the game cutie parries the soul of another game cutie with "Oh no you don't!" to revive it. Nice vid. :D
Is this the first time he says Ghost Train Ride?
In regards to Cuphead's Co-op, It's a shit-load harder. The enemies have more HP, there's shit flying everywhere, the enemies' attacks are more unpredictable, constantly having to revive your teammate is distracting and if your team mate is just a tad ahead of you in the run n' gun stages you're going to get shafted as every projectile hits you.
..and this is coming from someone who got S ranks on every boss in under ten hours of game time.
Another ball busting game would be Contra 3.
lol that joke of the samara getting out of the tv doing funny trombone noises after that she will follow you to be doing the full orchestral number while you are sleeping
Cuphead gives me a cupBONER
Gives me cupniptions
Im pretty sure that's what the fans said as they look up rule 34 images of Cala Maria
cuphead makes my dickhead harder than porcelain
(edit: hopefully it should be obvious that i'm not actually sexually attracted to cups)
*🅱️0ner*
... fucking tumblr users...
Just read Flight by Sherman Alexi for class and I'm not sure if "plop" was an intentional reference or not but I still giggled a little!
One can only imagine how you react to your spouse's cooking.
Also, "spouse" is an odd thing to consider is the context of Yahtzee.
0:37 “I cant’t believe anyone would love a shit like you”
Eh its more like mega man
Actually is very like mega man
Actually this is mega man
Megman has shit platfomring exacerbated by the incoherent physics of every hit knocking you three pixels back from where you're facing and then dropping you straight down, though.
It's actually Contra.
megaman doesnt have a spreadgun
it's the dark souls of mario games
Actually you're mega man
i love you for not stretching out your videos to 10 minutes
Having watched co-op playthroughs of the game, I can safely safe it is not easier.
You get to see more of the craziness that the boss animations and see some of the other moves more easily but that's all you get.
If yahtzee review Danganronpa V3, I will lose my shit
Games that reminds of Cuphead. Ghost n' Goblins, Megaman, R-Type, Golden Axe and almost every other arcade game from the 80's
Really upsetting that this isn't coming to PS4.
James Reginald Mitchell IV everyone knows the best way to game is to own a ps4 and a half decent pc? at least for this game you dont need a gaming pc
I mean, you can run it on pretty much any PC.
Maybe not an i486 IBM from the late 80s, but anything newer should run it.
"Elegaic"
"Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past."
"who the fuck drinks from a cup with a straw?" - THANK YOU!!! FUCKING THANK YOU!!!
Mugman from his own head, that's who! :D
He’s not kidding. This game was so hard I got gaming ptsd from the utter despair I felt as it was smashing me in my sack over and over for the literal two months it took me to beat it. Just when I achieve that Zen moment and squeak thru to the next section, it changes all the movements of the baddies and everything you just memorized, learned and took chances on goes right out the f’ing window. Of course I was satisfied when it was over, but I didn’t touch a game for weeks after because I was that spent lol. It reminded me of this Myst type point and click puzzle game you needed a mathematics and physics degree to finish in the late 90’s called Obsidian - that I thought was the hardest game I’d ever played but Cuphead is the new sheriff in town I think 🤔
So its like darksouls
you just had to didnt you
"It's like Contra, except they haven't played Contra so it's like Dark Souls."
The platformer of Dark Souls.
More like a rapid fire MegaMan
The amount of times you rage quit is the same. But the game is completely different
"Don't have to beat my kids tonight". Wouldn't be surprised if that actually happens.
0:36
"I don't know why anyone would love a shit like you"
I like ball-bustingly hard games that are also soul-crushingly sad and depressing too, but I do at least know exactly why I like them: I find them beautiful.
Does that make me even more messed up than Yahtzee?
4:27 is this the first time he's compared a linear game to a ghost train ride? Interesting to see it here.
Yatzhee on your point on co-op whilst in co-op enemies have double health to compensate
0:36 for people wondering
"I CAN'T BELIEVE
ANYONE WOULD
LOVE A SHIT LIKE
YOU'
Its not the straw in Cuphead's head or cup or argh of tea, that I'm worried about. Its how he _drinks from his own head_ is what really baffles me. Even within the context of 30s cartoons that's just paradoxical. :)
I'm so happy that you called the Fleischer Studios inspiration. You're the only person I've heard talk about that specifically.
I love Yachtzee’s question at the beginning
do you think he will like 2d dark souls?
Only retards call hard games "Dark Souls"
CoolGreen Bug he likes it, a lot
He already reviewed 2d darksouls last year. This is the review of Max Fleischer's Dark Souls.
You mean every 2D game that isn't on phones, according to the internet?
Hard mode: Blind yourself, become an amputee, destroy your hearing and ship yourself to Syria without a passport.
What I've noticed about this game is that getting an A+ on every stage is EXTREMELY difficult, but it's difficult in the same sense as Hotline Miami. So far, I haven't been frustrated while playing this game because I can just restart, and frequent restarts let me more or less muscle-memorize what I'm supposed to be doing, so I always feel like I'm progressing. It helps, too, that the atmosphere is so damn jaunty and charming. It's a game that crushes your balls with its spiky punk boots, but you just ask for more.
Two player actually increases the amount of damage needed, so it's balanced out that way.
Kinda sad though that *a hat in time* got overshadowed by this. Id much prefer that over cuphead
el·e·gi·ac (adj.) relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
2 girls 1 cup
Don't blame me if curiosity ruins the rest of your life.
PM Salvo Who hasn't seen that c'mon. Weak.
ChiefMaggot I never doubt someone will find it amusing and entertaining. It is a matter of one's capacity to absorb repulsive acts or things. Chill.
He nails it. That is why Cuphead is such a gem.
It’s basically Mighty No. 9 but it’s actually good and the devs should be commended for it.
Thanks for the suggestion, had no idea this guy still made videos
0:21 wait, so does that mean Dark Souls has actually overtaken Silent Hill 2 as Yathzee's favorite game...?
* Puts a straw in a teacup *
* *Angry British Noises* *