Is Cuphead too hard? - Cuphead Review 

IC: 5 hours on my first playthrough Me: looks at time Me: 5 hours haven't even gotten past world 1

Who else thinks the sound track for Cuphead is great

Well... my thought on cuphead? People saw a cute game with 'ol school cartooney art. People expect a cute gameplay as well. People actually play a hardcore, brutal, difficult boss-rush platformer. People sad because they can't be cute. TL;DR, cuties are deadly. Just like Hollow Knight.

I was just playing this game earlier with my little sister. She saw the total chaos on the screen and immediately wanted to play even though I warned her several times about the difficulty and she asked if we could make it harder. The most difficult video game she's played was CoD zombies and she usually dies after round 20 or so, but I was surprised to see her keeping up with me in every Regular difficulty fight we did. We tried one simple fight and she said that is was too boring. So we played every fight on Ink Isle today and she said she can't wait to continue tomorrow. So yeah, difficulty is super subjective. It's insane to know how a little 12 year old can die so easily in a slow 3-D train simulator, but be about as good as an experienced gamer in a controversially "difficult" game.

One thing I dont like about this review is how you handled the story. Does a story NEED to be complex to be good? No. I care about the story, and what it gives you is extremely simple, but still extremely entertaining, and gives you the motivation to fight the bosses. Thats really all you need for a story in a game, give you the motivation to play the game, complex or not.

A brawl is surely brewing

There are people who finished the game in 2-3 hours but thought the game was mediocre, and there are people who took 10+ hours but thoroughly enjoyed the game. Gaming is such an interactive personal experience it's really difficult to tell if someone will like it or not. I do agree that the easy mode is pretty pointless in Cuphead, though--it doesn't let you experience the game, and it doesn't let you practice the full fight. I'm not quite sure why it's there at all, except that other games sometimes have difficulty options.

In my opinion, the simple mode is named incorrectly, ''practise mode'' could be a more fitting name, as leaving out the last phase will let you practise the first two so you can get to the final phase faster and easier in regular mode. But that's just my opinion.

Wait, 5 hours? I HAVE 6 HOURS AND AM NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH

Unlike mobile game ads, I was actually serious saying "Why is this game so hard?"

I actually kinda like them locking the last two stages. This way players can play through simple mode and not run into a brick wall immediatly, get used to the controls and get invested into the game. I do think a lot of people, who ran through the simple mode will find, that after having spent some time with the game, they are absolutely capable of beating the bosses on regular mode.

I'm less than two minutes in right now, and I keep noticing that I've stopped paying attention to you, and am instead just marveling at the gameplay and trying to work out how to beat the bosses. I _really_ need to play this game.

In my opinion, the simple mode is just training for regular. The attacks as slower so you can learn them, and better dodge them at high speed. The last stage is still a suprise, to really shake things up

Like dude I just realised that you have to play regular mode in order for the contracts Waaaaaaaaah I hate that they don’t implement the phases as normal in easy mode and the contracts

For me this game was just too hard. Hardest game I tried since Sekiro. I tried to best the flower boss 50 times on regular difficulty and gave up. I uninstalled the game due to the frustration.

I hate the idea that everything has to be for everyone, the devs made the game they wanted to make. They took inspiration from early cartoons and I think early games as well which are difficult. The enjoyment of this game is in part because of the artwork but without an engaging story or characters the only other thing is the gameplay. I must say I haven't played this game yet, but from someone who likes a challenge, someone who likes to learn and become more skilled, someone who is within the demographic, the target audience I'll happily be learning the bosses phases and patterns when I get the game. If the game is not for you because it's hard I'm sorry it's one of the core aspects of this game.

the not knowing how much hp the enemy has is what makes games hard for me. without the visual bar going down due to certain attacks its hard for me to plan

I'm someone who for various reasons often just doesn't have the hard skill for games like this or dark souls (although stick me in front of a high diff platform and I'll have a whale of a time) but I would love to experience the world and lore and art. As such, the inaccessibility of these games is a huge sticking point for me. I love the lore of dark souls and I think the world is elegant and beautiful and I want to experience it, but I simply don't have the stamina or controller literacy to "git gud." I started playing games in my teens and only got a console last year. Something as simple as a mode where I could save at will so I wouldn't have to do the (already challenging for me) boss run up every time I died would literally solve all my problems. Maybe then I could actually play the souls games and bloodborne and experience them how I want to, rather than just living vicariously through lets plays. I love let's plays, but I find it hard to find people playing soulsborne games who's gaming philosophy aligns with mine, but I'm prevented from playing the game in my own way. Cuphead is harder to tweak from what I can tell, but I think that even just adding a "simple" mode for the endgame bosses would allow more people to play and have fun, and surely thats a good thing? Not every game is for every player. I don't touch FPS's, for example, because I know I hate the gameplay. But I've never felt like I CANT play something like call of duty. and that's the crucial difference I think. It sucks to be locked out from a game I know I would love, if I could only fucking play it.

I played a LOT of bosses on simple. But THEN I had to go back and get all the contracts. But I finally did it! I beat the game!

The problem with Cuphead is that there's way too much to take in. Good platformers like Ori or HK have you learn a mechanic, get used to it, then learn another. Late in the game, you're juggling 10 different buttons without batting an eye. Cuphead just throws shit at you within the first five minutes and expects you to memorize it.

Tbh I don't think the difficulty being the make or break of it is fair, not every game will appeal to every player, and it's smarter to build the game for the player base or market you want than try and dilude it in an effort to get more people. I think Cuphead forcing you to try and learn the game so you can really beat it is fair, there is no magic you can use that would make a game like this enjoyable if you simply can't beat it.

I don't get what the obsession with easy mode is. Not every game should be made for every person. There are plenty of movies that are made for everyone, but then there's a lot of movies that are incredibly graphic, or incredibly avant garde, or have incredibly dense and difficult-to-follow plots. Same with books, there's the Harry Potters of the world that anyone can read and enjoy, but then there's the classics of literature like Grapes of Wrath or The Great Gatsby that are not going to be universally loved by every single person because it's just difficult to get into. So then, why are video games held to some pie-in-the-sky standard of having to be accessible by LITERALLY EVERY HUMAN BEING BORN ON THE PLANET? There are lots, and I mean LOTS, of games that are incredibly easy or even just moderately challenging instead of insanely challenging, and that's fine. But then there are games like the Souls series, Cuphead, Meatboy, that revel in their difficulty. Hell, difficulty and unfairness resuscitated an entire GENRE of video games that were pretty much dead: the Rogue-like (Or rogue-lite, or procedural death dungeon, whatever you like to call it). Those are games predicated on the idea of being so stupidly difficult that you will not win the vast majority of the attempts you give it. And some of those games put stuff like Dark Souls to shame, with such games as Tower Climb, Spelunky, Caves of Qud, Rogue Legacy, etc. We need to stop fetishising the idea of one-size-fits-all gaming, and realize that it's okay if someone doesn't "get" a game, or finds a game "too inaccessible". By doing this, we're limiting the medium. Hard games can co-exist with easy games, and I'm not even saying that easy games shouldn't exist. Hell, if easy games didn't exist, there'd be nowhere to start. But just like reading mainstream Marvel comics will eventually get you into things like graphic novels, easy video games should eventually get you into hard games. It's a mistake to keep shoving easy mode down people's throats, because it lessens the medium. For anyone that's going to levy the accusation of "Well, books and movies require no REAL interaction, anyone can partake passively", if you're not good enough at recognizing certain elements of plot and filmography, or cannot appreciate certain styles of writing, no, not everyone can partake in every movie or book. You can show up to it, but you'll leave dissatisfied. Just like a hard game: anyone can give it a whack, but if you aren't skilled enough to progress, you won't be satisfied.

I saw everyone getting SO MAD at dying over and over at the game but i just loved it so long as a long-time fan that whenever i died i never got mad. I was just laughing and smiling while my friends watched me play and we did commentary! I just finished the normal game. Gonna do the dlc and then 300% it hopefully! :D

Completely disagree with your comments on simple mode.... The developers clearly had a vision of the games difficulty being the regular difficulty. But they were aware that it might be too hard for some people so they included the simple mode as a way of helping newer players adjust. If they had allowed you to ply the entire game on simple mode it would have prevented their artistic vision of the games bosses being as difficult as they were. The inclusion of simple mode is intended as an extended tutorial...so that the games difficulty can maintain it's integrity while worse players aren't turned away by the difficulty. If they didn't have simple mode it would have turned away a lot of people because of its difficulty. If the you could complete the game on simple mode then it would lose the integrity of its difficulty and the artistic vision of it being hard as hell and giving the player a sense of accomplishment

I just bought the game COMPLETLY blind , unknowing of the difficulty, i’ve been playing for 45 minutes, and havent gotten anywhere, even on simple mode.

I was afraid that this game would be too hard for me to enjoy which is why it took me so long to get it. My sister got it recently and I loved it but she didn’t have much time to play it with me so I finally bought it (+the dlc). It took me over 20 hours but I beat the game on regular! The expert mode is a bit too tough for me so far though

I personally believe that we shouldn't be looking at locked content as punishing lesser skilled players, but rather rewarding more skilled players. In Devil may Cry there are these things called Super Costumes that break the game, but you only unlock them by beating Very hard mode or Dante Must Die difficulty. This is pretty much content being locked out by difficulty, and I do not think that lower difficulties should get these rewards. Cuphead final bosses makes sense in that way. And while I do think it's a bit extreme (Locking certain phases is a better middle ground) we should at the very least reward players that go the extra mile to do something.

To be honest the difficulty doesn't really bother me too much because even though I will get my ass whooped so much I will eventually beat it but what does bother me it's the fact you can't beat the game on simple so it's forcing you to get your ass beat

2 hard to enjoy , the point its have fun no get frustrated

Just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I appreciated the approach you took in your commentary about difficulty. For me difficulty in games is quite literally a matter of accessibility. To put it simply, I think we learned the wrong lessons from Dark Souls and its immediate successors. As a gamer with Cerebral Palsy I have a real problem with games being difficult for its own sake. I appreciate a certain level of challenge in my games, after all a tangible sense of mastery is essential to the experience of growth and progression in games, and in that way difficulty is integral to the experience as a whole. However, that appreciation must always be tempered by the fact that no matter how much time I devote to understanding and mastering the mechanics of a game like Dark Souls or Cuphead, I have to accept that I will never be good enough to keep up with the difficulty curve. What for someone else is a harsh but manageable difficulty spike is a brick wall of challenge that I just can't muster the physical dexterity to overcome. That is difficulty poorly implemented in my opinion, because the character progression mechanics don't mesh well with the punishingly narrow margin of error. Before the hordes of Sun worshipers try to burn me at the stake, I love the worlds of From Software's work, but there's no getting around the fact that they are classics I will never be able to play. I understand the appeal of the core loop in games like Cuphead: get coins to buy weapons and beat bosses so you can get more coins to buy better weapons to beat bigger bosses. Each tier of gameplay difficulty is another step on the road to mastery, but gating content behind a level of mastery that is beyond the physical limits of a human body is another thing entirely and is quite frankly unfair. I like to point to Hollow Knight to contrast the two kinds of difficulty in this situation. Both games implement simple mechanics and throw you into increasingly complex situations. The difference arises from how the two games implement that complexity. Both games expect a level of mastery before a player can experience the full range of content on offer, a high skill ceiling, as it were but the skill floors, or the minimum skill level required to achieve meaningful progress, are very different between the two. I'm not sure if that's just a quirk of the their respective genres but both games have a reputation for being punishingly difficult and yet Hollow Knight just plays in a way that to me is a lot more accessible than games like Cuphead will ever be. Didn't mean for this to diverge into an essay, thanks for listening and providing a nuanced perspective on a difficult issue. Keep up the good work.

Shadow Warrior 2 summed it up best: "Playing SW2 on Easy is perfectly fine, if by the end of an exhausting day all you need is to feel like a goddamn superhero." AKA after you spent a whole day getting kicked in the urethra, you don't play to 'conquer', you play to vent and relax.

I thought that it was very challenging, but not enough that I ever felt hopeless, just the right amount of difficulty. My first playthrough probably took 7 or so hours on Normal. Overall an amazing game.

5 hours total gameplay.... mama i spent 5 hours on the Baroness alone 💀💀💀

The argument that all games should have an easy mode to accomodate all kinds of players is only applicable when the core experience of the game isn't the difficulty. It could be argued that in Cuphead part of the core experience is the visuals, and I would agree. But it's also hard to argue that the difficulty of the game isn't also a big part of the core experience. If you are missing out on parts of the game because you can't beat it on normal difficulty, it isn't like you are missing any sort of compelling story or deep character moments. You're just missing out on two boss fights that you wouldn't be able to beat anyway. I do agree simple mode could have had more thought put into it, but I can't agree that it's necessary for the last two bosses to have a simple mode. However allow me to play a bit of devil's advocate. If you are unable to beat the bosses on normal difficulty, and go forward and beat the first three islands on simple difficulty, at that point you should likely be comfortable enough with the game to be able to go back to the first island and beat them on normal, and continue making your way forward from that point. If a player uses the simple difficulty in that way, I think it is finely implemented. The problem lies in that many players just don't.

The problem with hard games like Cuphead is not so much that they are impossible to beat, but that they drain too much time out of the player FOR NO GOOD REASON. After I beat the first two worlds, I realized unfortunately it's not worth my time and effort to invest 10 or 15 more hours in the game, considering I have a job, a social life, other games to play, movies to watch, etc. There is a big difference between essential difficulty and difficulty for the sake of it, and I think the developers went overboard with the latter.

I did my first playthrough fully blind no guides no nothing just cooked the strategies from the top of my head took me about 8-10 hours or so to finish. One of the best experiences of my life this game is insane.

by the time you finish the game on easy you would already be skilled enough to handle the normal mode, no one is missing on content.

Literally just add multiple difficulties and this game sells 10x more

Maybe the simple mode is not an easy mode, just a learning mode to experience the full game while being didactic to players unfamiliar with the genre. Making the assumption that is "easy mode" because of lower difficulty can derail the nature of the option in the discourse, making the body of the video inapplicable

"Too hard"?!?!?!? Those words disgust me. Not all games have to be made for all kinds of players. It's OK to have games for skilled players only, in the same way that it's OK to have easy games for casuals. What's not OK is casuals assuming that a hard game should be easier so they can enjoy it, instead of thinking "this game is good, but not for me". The problem is the lack of self-improvement (both in gaming and in society), not the game being too challenging.

It seems like the difficulty is ment to distract you from how short it is

I don't know, man, I think you're guessing about how other people. Aren't you just assuming that simple mode isn't good for casual players? It sounds perfect to me. It gives them a chance to learn the boss patterns, but by not giving them the contract guides them to regular mode, getting them good enough to play the same challenge as everyone else. It's also a nudge to say "Hey, don't give up once you've finished on simple mode, you're capable of more." I played Golden Axe on easy on Megadrive, but you couldn't face Death Adder in that mode. So you vow to get better, maybe you learn something about determination... and you start to understand the appeal of brutally difficult games. So, yeah, I haven't actually heard from anyone that's played Cuphead on simple, and I actually think the vast majority of able bodied people could learn to play the game on regular. Everyone human has a range of dexterity potential, and I really don't think that videogames ask for much in that regard. If you think that's me being full of it, how long do you think it would take an entirely inexperienced player to learn enough to finish Cuphead? 20 hours? 30 hours? How long does it take to learn how to play tennis well? 10 years? You can do it, it's just a videogame. Whether you're good or bad at games, there's always a trial and error element, so perseverance is part of the skill. If you don't like the game, that's one thing, but if you like the game maybe you shouldn't give up so easily - trust me, it's worth it!

I think the run and guns are the most fun in the game, bosses just straight up piss me off to the point of where I want to break my controller

To be fair It’s not as hard as most ppl think it is It depends on the person experience in past similar games For example my cousin never played a hard game before and this was a nightmare for him But hollow knight gave me a lot of experience for cuphead

Only problem I have with cuphead is the lack of weapon combos. Having a system like gunstar heroes or binding of Isaac would make it much more replayable

Its rare that modern games are hard enough that beating them comes with bragging rights. That was the norm in the nes days.

I saw simple mode as a way to practice and learn the bosses patterns and style, which is exactly how I used it. Beat every boss on simple first than beat some of the bosses on regular afterwards. And I have to disagree that the "easy mode wasn't implemented well". I don't think hard games have to include an easy mode for casual players. Easy games (not just subjectively easy but games designed to remove most of the challenge) are the norm these days and rarely do those games contain satisfying Hard modes, so why is it that every time a hard-mode only game comes out, people complain it's too hard and unfair for unskilled players. I didn't even finish Cuphead because I lost the patience for it but I still think it's a great game just the way it is. Some day I may return to it and complete it but I don't care if it had a real "easy" mode or not.

Bravery is saying _"Dislike it if you hated it"_

Idk why people find Cuphead so hard its not easy but there are a lot harder games and somehow everyone thinks Cuphead is one of the hardest games

I gave up on darksouls in literally 15 minutes. I love gaming but hate HATE games that are ridiculous hard it's irritating and I will just give up immediately. I like a challenge but darkspuls cuphead games like that drive me nuts

I would say the Simple Mode is useful, provided you understand it's a way to get practice for the regular battle by teaching you most of the main attacks first. I beat the game, but I always did it by trying every boss on Simple first, and then moving up to Regular when I could beat them. And I'm 99% sure the game is designed to be played this way, too as there's too much information to parse if you jump straight into Regular. I think the other reason people might be struggling is because they do the entire game in Simple, get to the end and can't progress, and then go back -- this is inefficient because you've been away from the bosses for so long that your muscle memory and pattern recognition for them is gone, so you have to basically learn the game from scratch again. I also have to question, is the issue really with the difficulty? Or with the way people relate to difficulty? I probably took a little longer than the average player, and died 20% more, but I was rarely frustrated at the game (though when I was getting tired I got frustrated at myself for doing stupid stuff). Why? Because I measure difficulty by progress towards beating a goal, rather than in terms of beating a goal. That's probably also the reason why the game over screen includes a progress readout.

my friend and i played for 5 hours and beat 0 levels

Exactly. I don’t get why some people are so averse to having some kind of difficulty/accessibility options features for harder games.

Cuphead doesnt allow you to finish the game on simple because old games in the 90s used to do that

Run and guns is the most hardest lvl rather than the devil itself

I don't believe players are divided into the types who are experienced and can play difficult games and the inexperienced ones who absolutely cannot. Players are divided into those who are willing to learn and improve at a game and those who are not. If someone is willing to improve at Cuphead, they can use the simple mode to get better at a boss and then take it down in regular mode. I think the way Cuphead implement's its easy mode is great and if it was any more lenient it would compromise the quality of the game.

It's way too hard, I demon's Souls, Dak Souls 123... This first level is brutal.

It took my 3 hours to beat the first world 🤣

Perhaps it was on purpose! After all, old classic games didn't really pull any punches either, when they did present an easier mode, it never gave as much of a reward! But then again it could just be that they overlooked it since they might have been too occupied about the art style instead, knowing people would be hyped about a game with that kind of art style.

Cuphead - A cute game that is fun and simple to play, hard to master but satisfying to win! As long as you're patient and not overzealous you'll eventually achieve victory over those Bosses and finally kick their fucking asses!

My 9 yo son is very frustrated with this game. I started playing with him I'm 40. It's way hard. We have been on one level for a couple of days. I came here to show him a lot of people think its hard he shouldn't beat himself up. I have a vendetta now to beat this game and have yet to beat one level. Dude!!!

Pixel-Perfect/"Masocore" games, while masochistically enjoyable, really end up limiting the audience. :/

Beat the game within first 5 hours of release so no its not hard

According to the devs, this game was inspired partly by Alien Soldier, and if you never played Alien Soldier, well it's basically Cuphead but... even harder. How hard? Well, for one thing, it only has two difficulties: Super Easy and Super Hard. The difference between the two: Super Easy gives you unlimited continues and a slow down feature... and that's it. Super Hard (the default difficulty) only gives you 3 continues.

also love Joseph Anderson, glad he got the feature

I like it this way. Over time the player will be molded as a bona fide shoot 'em up gamer. After all shoot side scrolling games aren't meant to be easy. Like R-type as an example.

5 hours in and I've beaten the ball, the veggie monsters and the zeppelin, I'm stuck on the last phase of the plant and the frogs.

I love difficult games, simple mode is simply so I can play it with my six-year-old son or my wife for a few levels.

I hate cuphead. It's way too hard and makes me so annoyed. Maybe I'm just bad at video games

I got this game to play Co op with my wife. She doesn't game much and prefers lighter gaming, like Harvest Moon, Slime Rancher, etc. Wasn't long testing it out that I learned it was just way too difficult for her, and hell, pretty damn hard for me too. I've still been playing it and it's a good time. But the whole time I just can't shake the thought of, "wow, I'd be enjoying this way more if it wasn't so difficult and if i could just casually play it with my wife."

I literally cannot get past the first ever run n gun. I have tried 137 times. What should I do?

The reason why I suck at cuphead is because I don’t think of good strategies cuz I’m too lazy to think one up :p

dude just bought it yesterday on my switch and man i gotta say its easy to play if your alone but if your with someone just the first level will faq with u

3:27 I know I'm a year late, but what made you choose the word "rotoscope" in your review? Rotoscoping is a term for animators tracing or closely referencing the movements of live action performers in order to create more natural movements in their characters. Where in Cuphead do you see rotoscoping being utilized?

1) My favorite game of all time is Sims 3. I am a 20 year old man who plays video games probably once every three months. What matters is not how difficult a game is, what matters is how rewarding or dissatisfying it is. It doesn't matter if a game is almost impossible if it still makes you feel entertained and excited. Cuphead is way too fun and rewarding for the difficulty to have any negative effects on its enjoyability. 2) The game is not easier on co-op mode, it's much harder. Adding a second character makes the game much more chaotic and confusing and hence more difficult to react quickly and accurately to the game. However, co-op mode can make the game more satisfying as it game lends well to socialising and team work with another friend, be it a friend, relative or partner.

i’m very late because i just now bought this game a couple of days ago, but i beat the game within a day and it’s kinda interesting how it felt easy to me when i’m usually pretty shit at run and guns. the animation and music is what really kept me playing though

Learning from deaths and adapting after dying over and over again are not exclusive to cuphead... that has been in gaming since early RPGs like Final Fantasy 3-5 and platformers as early as the OG MEgaman games. And later even Megaman Zero games. Ninja Gaiden NES... even some Mario games where miscalculating one jump kills you no matter how many power ups you have. It amazes me it's so many inexperienced "gamers" nowadays. If you think Cuphead is hard you haven't played many platformers or just don't play challenging games. Well it may be hard, but it surely isn't exclusive to cuphead nor is even that hard in the fact the game is mainly a bossrush and you can atleast start RIGHT at the boss. Ghosts n Goblins, Ninja Gaiden, some Mario stuff, Megaman Zero... you have to do the WHOLE level over again if you die including the boss. Or in Demon Souls when you have to run allllll the way back to the boss through waves and waves of enemies just to get back. Or even in MMOs when youre doing a raid, everything has to be done right or your whole party can be wiped out. It's like people nowadays don't know what a learning curve is or what trial and error means. You die and learn, die and learn. Very simple concept. Just takes time. This game isn't even that damning when you die. Like losing levels, souls, items or whatever. Shovel knight on New Game plus was even way harder than this because you have to play through half the level before you get a checkpoint. Geez.

If you think cuphead should have an easy mode than you should realize that the game isn't for you.

I don't think the game's difficulty is a bad thing, it's not even that far outside my skillset actually. It's just that it's a very difficult game with a world that I'm not that invested in. And like, because I'm already not that interested in the world, the high difficulty of it all just makes me think "This isn't worth the struggle".

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DON'T BUY THE GAME IF YOU CAN'T PLAY IT. There. solved the problem for you.

This video is all over the place. How did so much change from 1:50 to 3:55? It's a short game....the difficulty is what makes you want to come back for more and improve you score. This lengthens a players time in the world and was how old arcade games kept players coming back for more. Play Witcher 3 or watch a fucking movie if it's too hard.

Literally been fighting the clown and the candy lady I finally decided to switch the candy lady to simple and still lose my gear is not good enough and I can't get anymore coins

I beat all the bosses on simple expecting to fight the final boss, come to find out I gotta beat the bosses on regular. TBH I liked that as I already planned on replaying through on a harder difficulty, and I'm actually enjoying the second go around. It has added many more hours/fun to a game I don't mind continually playing.

You're on point my friend.

First of all it is not too hard just like Dark Souls and Bloodborne aren't also. It is fair. The fact that the game designers decided that somebody who played their game on simple mode wouldn't complete it is quite a normal design choice. Many games remove parts of the experience if you go to easy. Let's say Mega Man X8, if you play on easy you might as well end-up believing the game ends on sigma. You don't get two more boss fights that come after. The problem is that people today believe everything should be for everyone. Guess what, it is not. Many people interested in simple mode won't even get to the end to notice they lost the ending. People shouldn't just go to the last shiny game and complain it is not for them. They should accept that it is not for them, it is for whoever the developers decided it was.

Finally got this game it's fantastic and refreshingly brutal. I disagree with the thesis of this video that easy mode should give you full access to the game - I like the fact that you can't finish the game on easy. I in fact think i would have completed it on easy if i had the option - the fact that i HAD to beat the bosses on regular introduced a sense of accomplishment as I struggled to figure out the best way to approach each. The greater reward comes through greater struggle

It is pretty clear you didn't play co-op because co-op is like 10 times harder than single player mode. Even with revive mechanic the bosses have so much health that each phase seems to extend into eternity.

I don't understand why gaming has to be the one media where everything has to be for everybody. Go take a 5 year old to go see the new "Jigsaw" movie. What's that? It wasn't made with young children in mind, and shows copious amounts of blood and gore? I guess it wasn't made for little Timmy and he has to wait it out until he's older. I guess I'll go watch Thomas the Tank engine with Timmy. Oh wow... this is boring and predictable. Timmy seems to be enjoying it though. Guess it wasn't made with adults in mind. Timmy wanted a bed-time story, and picked out the massive "It" because it shows a clown on the front, Timmy loves clowns. Too bad it's extremely long, and terrible things happen, and the clown is a fucking demon. I don't wanna ruin Timmy's innocent perception of clowns. Guess we gotta pick out a different book. Timmy watches me play Chess against a friend of mine, and want's to play. However, no matter how hard I try to explain the rules, he doesn't seem to understand why each piece can only move in certain ways. He does understand however, how to play Candyland. Games should be no different. There are literally millions of games on the market these days. Even if this game isn't your style, there is bound to be quite a few other games that will hold your interest, or cater to your skill level. The problem with trying to appeal to everyone, is that people who want specific things get left out. If you dilute your game to cater to a wider audience, your core audience may abandon you. Afterwords you find out that the larger demographic doesn't really enjoy the game either, as they have other, flashier, easier, more addictive etc. options. Now you don't have your core audience, or the extended demographic on your side. I am 100% for "learning modes" or something along those lines, but when you truly challenge a boss, you should be facing it at full strength. Example: I'm terrible at fighting games, I can't ever seem to get the input timing right. I would love for the training rooms to include a "speed modifier" so I can slow down the game, see frame for frame when I need to execute inputs, and slowly ramp it back up until I am comfortable playing at full speed. However, I would never want to fight anyone at a slower than 100% speed. (too bad I don't know of a single fighter that allows this.) This is basically what simple mode is, it's a training wheels mode to let you learn the first two phases, get decent at them, and then face the actual boss at full strength and be surprised when you see the final form. Already being decent enough at the first two phases, you should be able to reach the third phase with decent consistency.

play it 1,5 hours.. Option 1: if oyu dont like it...refund it option 2: you like it and the devs deserve their money and you keep it.

I spent 7 months on the sunflower and deleted it im willing to try it again tho so ya.

Been trying to beat this game for years. Only beat one boss.

Short answer.... No it’s an amazing game :)

If your wondering CO OP doubles the boss health

I feel like devs should focus less on easy mode and more like celeste’s assist mode, where it provides more focus on helping handicapped players than just reducing and increasing some of the game’s numbers.

So just remove simple mode from cuphead. Got is.

I spent 104 hours on Cuphead but I’m still on World 2.

The awnser is yes

I had to bet the game by going through all bosses because I played it on easy mode

This game is two days in for me as 2p. It makes me angry in new ways omfg