Friday, September 29, 2017

News:: Review: Cuphead

Beating Cuphead should come with a complimentary Mensa membership. It's a tough game, but Cuphead's difficulty lies more in exhaustive pattern recognition than anywhere else. Reactive shooting and jumping only go so far. Eventually, it's hardly reactionary anymore; it's muscle memory at that point.

There's a cognitive brilliance about Cuphead that makes it more rewarding than most other platformer shooters. There's a process to every single fight: Introduction, dissection, analysis, execution. Liberally sprinkle in failure at each step. No one is going to stumble into success in Cuphead. Every victory is earned. Every victory is sweet.

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