But the idea that the theme works well for everyone. “Not necessarily saying that the difficulty or you know, how many hours you have to put in is for everyone. “We always kind of have it in our minds to make our games for everyone,” Chad says. After an event nearly wipes out the forest, its up to Ori to try and restore it to how it once was while also avoiding the clutches of Kuro. It may seem odd that The Cuphead Show! is most reminiscent of kid’s cartoons - with almost no winking nod to an adult in the room - when it’s based on a notoriously difficult video game.īut, if asked, the Moldenhauers will once again remind folks that the whole Cuphead world is based on their passions from when they were kids - “It’s way easier than everything in the ’80s!” - and they wanted the show to have the same vibes. Another Metroidvania, Ori and the Blind Forest was one of the standout titles published by Microsoft Studios as it was one of the best games of 2015. But the minute you make 20 more sequels It’s like all of a sudden, this character disappears.” Image: NetflixĪnd so we get Cuphead, Mugman, and many of the game’s cast of characters all bouncing off each other (sometimes literally) across the Inkwell Isles. “I always go back to Silence of the Lambs for some reason, where it’s like, Hannibal Lecter is so much more interesting, when you’re not sure about every aspect about him. “I’m not a huge fan of backstory - which doesn’t mean there isn’t backstory! But like, I like some stuff to still have that air of mystery,” Jared says. Hilda Berg was not, in fact, a robot, as the Moldenhauers conceived her the audience didn’t need to know why Mugman and Cuphead were living with Elder Kettle. When working with Netflix’s writers they found only a few areas that required much by way of explanation. While Chad and Jared only served as advisors to the Netflix show - hashing out what characters should or shouldn’t do - they were excited to see what their characters could be outside the confines of the adversarial positioning of the video game. “And on the show it’s like, no how do we build upon these characters?” StudioMDHR Entertainment We’re actually thinking, What can we cut from the story? What can we remove from the dialogue to speed the player along to the game sections?” Chad says. “ that ’80s style arcade game that is really fast. Characters could be reimagined, taken out of their locales, and put into new situations against the twin protagonists, Cuphead and Mugman. “We’re not at that place of thinking, what exactly is going to be in future games, but I guess we’ll have to decide when the time comes.”īut the Netflix series does open up the possibilities for the new takes on Cuphead to exist in a kind of parallel universe. “As it is, we’re finishing up the DLC, which was its own planned entity,” Jared says. The differing styles mean that neither of them sees a lot of crossover happening between the game and the new Netflix show - at least for now. The Cuphead Show! allowed more nuance for the characters and the plotlines to bounce off each other in zany ways only animation could allow. In the game, Cuphead squares off against various bosses in an effort to collect their soul contract on behalf of the Devil. Gone was the “shoot-from-the-hip style” they embraced for Cuphead’s boss fights, replaced with the very methodical storyboarding that comes with making an animated series. Studio MDHR have straight up said that changing back and forth between the pre-patch and post-patch editions has the potential to irrecoverably corrupt your save game, and they obviously take zero responsibility for that, so proceed with caution, young crockery.Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer found their world turned inside out when they landed a deal with Netflix to produce The Cuphead Show!. It will retain the game’s original bugs and exploits, such as the Cagney Carnation freeze, or Chimes flying off-screen for no reason, but it also means that the “Mugman Army” glitch is back in full effect.Ī severe word of warning however. Should players wish to play the game in its original state, the Legacy build is for you. This is essentially the cartoon adventure as it was first launched, before any patches were implemented. Well, now a new patch has dropped on PC to stamp out these new bugs but, alongside that, Steam now features a Cuphead “Legacy” build in the Betas tab. When popular hardcore platformer Cuphead was patched on PC a couple of weeks ago, for some players (including this guy) it created as many problems as it fixed, introducing new issues, and affecting the game’s overall performance.
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