The game is ostensibly a boss rush, though you’re also treated to scrolling shmup fights while in an airplane reminiscent of the plane sections in Super Mario Land. One of the key mechanics to aid you is the ‘Parry Slap’, which when you hit jump at the right time lets you parry pink projectiles, granting you both an extra jump and boost to your Super Meter for unleashing more powerful attacks. Prepare to be charmed by these retro-inspired graphics.Īt its core, Cuphead is an old-school hardcore platform shooter about memorising increasily demanding attack patterns from a rogue’s gallery of bosses with multiple phases, which while a feast for the eyes also serves to raise your anxiety of how to navigate the fresh projectile hell coming your way. For starters, tobacco, alcohol and gambling references (perhaps a sly nod to pre-Hays Code cartoons in the US) makes the world of Cuphead more adult than it appears. However, if you’re coming at this weaned on the chilled platforming of Yoshi and Kirby, well I’ve got news for you. It also marks the first of potentially many former Xbox exclusives making their way to the Switch, and this gorgeously hand-drawn cartoon world seems perfectly suited to the Nintendo family. The praise that you’re playing a living cartoon has been bandied about before but Cuphead, a labour of love inspired by Fleischer Studios’ 1930s cartoons like Popeye and Betty Boop, is the real deal.
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