Cuphead Boss Fight Strategies

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MaximusVulcanus · 5 years ago

I didn't watch it all, sorry... but I would go with Coffee for the charm instead of the extra heart. My very first thought, is commit a little more. At start, lure the beam up but line up and sit still. With coffee you can even ex attack before you have to move. Leave the middle for last so you can spam extra special/ex by parrying the middle object. I usually bomb the heart, others would disagree but in the second phase you really just have to use the small plane frequently to keep avoiding the bombs and lining yourself up. If you have coffee, you'll have a full super again by phase 3. Phase 3... watch the spiral pattern, parry when you can, use small plane as necessary and careful not to fade back to the left edge too much or the walls will get you. Ult any chance you get! Good luck!

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spaceape8 · 5 years ago

You did well up until bullet swarm.

Then I noticed you did really sweeping movements. Learn to make tiny movements. Dodging bullets can be the tap of the joystick. That way you get out of the way but don't go flying into another bullet. Relax your vision and move in small steps. Takes a while to get used to, but eventually you will be able to dodge most the bullets.

Then only when you get good at dodging, start worrying about hitting the boss. I actually never even try to hit the boss. I just dodge and shoot without aiming.

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DeCooleGangster · 5 years ago

Don’t forget to use your shrink ability.

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IcyRassberry · 5 years ago

1st phase Top, bottom, then middle

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KookiyyYt · OP · 5 years ago

Thanks to everyone I finally defeated him! feel free to use this tips for yourself!

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Cuphead tips coming up!

Posted by breakthefifthwall · in r/Cuphead · 3 years ago

As most of you probably know by now, the Cuphead DLC is coming out at the end of the month. So to celebrate, I decided I’m going to be posting tips for each boss in the main game.

These tips will be based on my experiences on achieving the S rank for all bosses, including advice on what weapon setup to take and how to evade all the different attacks. I will be posting tips for one boss a day, every day, until the release of the DLC.

I’ll be listing the bosses in order, starting with The Root Pack. I’ll be posting every day, so stay tuned if there’s a boss you’re still working on and you need tips!

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HoogleGoogle · 3 years ago

Can I have some Expert Mode Tips

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breakthefifthwall · OP · 3 years ago

All of my tips will be based on Expert mode and my personal strategies for achieving every S rank. I’ll be posting each boss in order, so keep an eye out for whichever bosses you need help with!

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HoogleGoogle · 3 years ago

Well I gonna try S Rank but I lose my sanity

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How to fight the Secret Boss Again

Posted by Katoky778 · in r/Cuphead · 3 years ago

So I don’t think this is well known yet so yeah. The fight can be triggered again by standing in front of the middle tombstone and holding L+R (or LT+RT) for a bit, reactivating the tombstone. Currently it does not seems to work with keyboard control.

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Fraggy_Muffin · 3 years ago

This is great because the achievements in this game are buggy. I beat the boss and didn’t get the achievement. I thought I’d have to play the whole game again.

I also killed a boss using Ms Chalice super and that didn’t give me the achievement. Plus it’s not tracking boss kills with her.

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ulyssesintothepast · 3 years ago

It took killing several bosses for me with the divine relic for paladin to pop, and many others seem buggy at the moment.

Lol I can't even beat that dumb dragon and a few islands 3 bosses so i have never fought king dice or the devil. I can't beat the game because I stink but at least I got the divine relic

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BertholdtFubar · 3 years ago

Can confirm this works, I thought it was weird that there was a boss you couldn't rematch.

I assume the keyboard controls for doing this were either broken or they forgot to implement them, hopefully that will get patched in later.

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Lolography00 · 3 years ago

It does work, trying to find a keyboard equivalent right now.

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Far_Kaleidoscope_246 · 3 years ago

You Need Cursed Relic Then Talk To The Racers I Think From 1st To 3rd So For Example The First Guy Says "That Race Was Down Right Crazy!" So Now The First Grave You Press I Bottom Right

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Katoky778 · OP · 3 years ago

Oh Ik. I was talking about the way you’re able to fight them again lol

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Far_Kaleidoscope_246 · 3 years ago

I Think You Do The Gravestone Puzzle Again

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

Yep, it's really working!

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boris_2001 · 3 years ago

Thank you i was wondering

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r/Cuphead • [4]

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Hardest boss in the whole game. Fight me

Posted by memepriest101 · in r/Cuphead · 3 years ago

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

Easiest boss in the DLC, fight me

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ninjapuppy_ · 3 years ago

Honestly, I thought everything after Mortimer Freeze was way easier than everything else. I don't think any of the bosses after Mortimer took me more than 5 tries. Getting S ranks has been a huge pain, though, especially with the last phase of moonshine mob. I've only got Mortimer left, then I'll have S ranks on every boss in the game

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dgreenmissile · 3 years ago

I relate with that. I am the kind of player that restarts when they get hit early. My strategy is...

Charge Shot 1st phase. Crackshot 2nd and 3rd phase.

I make enough meter to parry my own crack shots to get health with the heart ring and try to get hit the least on the 2nd phase. After that it's try not to mess up on the last stage which is so easy to do. What I find the most annoying parts about this battle is that when he throws his little icicles on the 1st phase, they go towards a side and give you like a fraction of a second to react and sometimes you get hit if you flick or press the button to the wrong side. It's almost a guaranteed lost health. The flying popsicles on the second stage are straight up unfair always appearing at the most inconvenient places pretty much covering your safety jumps and spots. The last portion is hard if you haven't parried 3 times. The buckets sometimes fly at the weirdest angles and the platforming makes it extremely difficult to parry them. Also the eye gets a bit tricky sometimes. I am talking Expert Difficulty trying to get the S.

If the goal is just to defeat them no matter what grade, then none feel difficult anymore... on any difficulty

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

I thought Glumstone was the easiest. Took me less than eight tries and I’ve never had that luxury with any Cuphead boss aside from the first two on isle 1.

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Andrizzy96 · 3 years ago

Fuck no I ain't gone fight you over a dlc boss

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Decent_Cable2201 · 3 years ago

I beat Doggone Dogfight in 2 tries and the only reason I didn’t get it the first time was because I accidentally triggered the secret phase and it threw me off guard.

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xxbatterysharkxx · 3 years ago

Easiest for me was Winchester, the hardest (besides salt baker) for me was that damn grandpa, stupid bootleg santa lookin ass. Almost done with the fight huh? WELL ITS ARURABORI ALL OVER FOR YOU! MORE LIKE FUCK YOU, YOU MADE ME SPILL MY MILK ARURABORI ALL OVER THE FUCKING FLOOR. MAYBE I NEED TO CHILL OUT?? MAYBE IF YOU DINT TURN INTO A SNOWMAN I WOULD NOT GIVE YOU THE COLD SHOULDER GET IT?

Yea i hate him no i don’t regret writing this and yes this was kinda inspired by samonella academy

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Responsible-Ad5430 · 3 years ago

That's what I did on my furst run. Thrn I found tilting my head worked as well lol.

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SparkVerseInc · 3 years ago

If someone says that Esther Winchester is easy i will broke all his bones because this is one of the hardest bosses (didn't beat her so don't know if saltbaker is hard lol)

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SparkVerseInc · 3 years ago

yeah if they ALL have low health in phase 2 then there will be a secret phase

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

I’d literally tilt my head during the final phases just so the screen looked straight. I felt like an idiot, but it worked like a charm.

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CeyeberRDT · 3 years ago

Didn't everyone? It's legit a good strat.

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r/Cuphead • [5]

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Cuphead is so hard dude

Posted by theDEMONgubu · in r/Cuphead · 6 months ago

So I was playing CUPHEAD in mobile and I was in isle 2 And bruh every boss in there is very hard. So I just want some tips

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ladybughappy · 6 months ago

Are you changing your weapons for each boss? My advice is to fight one boss at a time, get good at that and then keep going. Gotta keep practicing.

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theDEMONgubu · OP · 6 months ago

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MaximusVulcanus · 6 months ago

Been playing for awhile.

Early, my advice is to get Smokebomb (invincible dash) and the Roundabout weapon first.

Spend your first 4 coins on Roundabout. Do the first Run-n-Gun and then buy Smokebomb.

Those 2 items should be able to carry you through Isle 1 and quite a few other bosses.

Coffee is a good item for plane levels to be able to spam ex attack more frequently.

Have fun!

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busstees · 6 months ago

Roundabout and smokebomb is good advice. I've beaten the game with 0 deaths (not including the DLC) on expert using pretty much only roundabout.

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35mmpapi · 6 months ago

Cuphead was brutal for me until I started paying attention to the upgrade path and what weapons I was choosing. The right loadouts will make the toughest boss far more manageable.

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theDEMONgubu · OP · 6 months ago

Which layout is best for von bon bon?

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35mmpapi · 6 months ago

I used chaser and spread for that one (spread just in case the gum ball machine comes out. Chaser is good for the rest of it)

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goldenwhiffer · 6 months ago

What is cuphead in mobile?

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Normal-Profile-7743 · 6 months ago

Use an xbox controller. And a good mindset

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theDEMONgubu · OP · 6 months ago

🤔

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r/Cuphead • [6]

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I HATE YOU KING DICE

Posted by Ok-Engineering9078 · in r/Cuphead · 3 months ago

Update: I finally beat him after like 2.5 hours (all together) for the winning round I used Twin Hearts, Charge and Roundabout w super art 2.🥳🥳

Im doing my first play through of Cuphead and while some bosses have been challenging ive been able to overcome them without to much trouble. But once I got to inkwell Hell everything changes…….KING DICE I HATE YOU, IVE SPENT 1.5 Hours DYING OVER AND OVER. I’ve tried different weapons, smoke bomb charm and twin hearts. NOTHING WORKS. And yeah ik it’s probably just a skill issue 💔💔Can anyone give me the ideal loadout to beat him or any tips/tricks. Before I throw my controller (again) 💔

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No_Replacement8244 · 3 months ago

I dread for when the time comes I’ll have to face him.

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No_Replacement8244 · 2 months ago

By now, I’ve beat him 4 times already. He’s actually pretty fun. For some reason though, I struggle with rolling the dice. Like, I try to roll a 2, and end up with 3. Like I’d literally make it to the end, I’ll say “don’t roll a 2, don’t roll a 2! Roll a 3-“ ends up rolling a 2 and now I have to start over.

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SKS_Finity · 3 months ago

The loadout I use is charge shot and the triple lighting shot from the DLC shop along with super one and smoke bomb. King dice is a marathon not a race so don’t be scared to burn your cards, you will make them back. A lil tip with parrying the dice is that if you spam parry right as he claps the number will always be a one so just focus on fighting as few bosses as possible while also stock piling the health spots

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Ok-Engineering9078 · OP · 3 months ago

Alright thanks 🙏🏽, Ill go back and try again after work lol. Hopefully keeping my sanity this time….

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_Cagney_Carnation_ · 3 months ago

King it's just a scream of soul (ironic isn't it?) i have beaten you on S rank today, on GEO difficulty and it was quite easy! So they're just haters don't lose the mood! (Yeye I'm surprised myself that i support you but uh... Yeah)

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Getdunkled · 3 months ago

If you’re really struggling, try this advice.

use P.sugar as it’s easier to hit the dice on the number you want and dodge the cards at the end which is objectively the worst part.
easiest route imo is bosses 1, 4, 8. Retry if a bonus heart doesn’t land on two of them.
double parry each card to give you more time to jump to the next one. I don’t use smoke bomb for him because you need to see yourself the whole time to time it properly and the auto parry makes it way easier.

Good luck!

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AmadeusIsTaken · 3 months ago

I disagree wirh psguar you can kinda spam a for the parry on the dice. You just have time find the right timing anyway. But as I said in my other comment it is mostly preference

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darkyshit · 3 months ago

I'm Mr. King Dice, I'm the gamest in the land

I never play nice, I'm the Devil's right-hand man

I can't let you pass, 'cause you ain't done everything

Bring me those contracts, come on, bring 'em to the King

If you haven't finished your task, haven't worked assiduously

No, I cannot let you pass, don't you mess with me

Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice)

Don't mess with me (don't mess with him)

Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice)

Don't mess with me

I'm Mr. King Dice, heed just what I say

The Devil has his price, and I'll make sure you pay

I don't have time to mess 'round, and I hope you will agree

Bring me those contracts, pronto! Don't you mess with me

Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice)

Don't mess with me (don't mess with him)

Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice)

Don't mess with me

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Samuchaoslvcuphead · 3 months ago

This Is the Song of king dice on the Cuphead show??!!😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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darkyshit · 3 months ago

No it's the one from the game, when you enter in the bridges between the islands with him.

Fun fact, "die house" (this song) is sang by a woman

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ScorchedFlame001 · 3 months ago

KING DICE, IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN!

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Ok-Engineering9078 · OP · 3 months ago

Why make me suffer 😞

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r/Cuphead • [7]

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I think I found a way for me to get good at cuphead.

Posted by WHAT_THE_FUCK_PEOPLE · in r/Cuphead · 30 days ago

After defeating the angel/demon boss in the dlc and getting the cursed charm I found that just trying to beat bosses with it made me (somewhat) good at the game because. Only having one heart made me good at dodging, gaining hearts by parrying made me good at parrying, and changing weapons every time I stoped shooting helped me learn what weapons are good for what situations, this may not work for everyone but it does work for me 😊

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Playful-Factor72 · 30 days ago

I really love the relic since as it teaches you to adapt, which toe is the core part of cuphead

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After struggling for days on Grim Matchstick, I finally achieved a perfect victory!

Posted by thavi · in r/Cuphead · 29 days ago

Cuphead has been on my backlog for many years now. I love difficult games and have been eagerly awaiting a playthrough! This was the first boss that absolutely drove me up the wall with its randomness. It took me a while to even consistently get past phase 2, but once I did…it still felt like the randomness of it all would still overwhelm me.

I think this will be the rare game that I put in the time to perfect (S/P rank everything!)

Some things I learned:

Don’t attack too much early seconds of the fight. Let him keep eye beaming you for the parries. Once you do enough damage, he switches to sine-wave fireballs.
Super him early so that you can super him again in phase 3, when it really matters!
Stay up high the rest of the fight. The little flames jump from below, and the flamethrower attack is never aimed at the top clouds.
Stop auto-attacking when you’re dodging orbs in phase 3. Makes it easier to avoid them (and not make it worse by detonating them).

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Ironfire825 · 27 days ago

I just defeated him yeasturday!!!

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GlowyEmerald · 29 days ago

This is arguably easier on expert than regular

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Big-Passage-3872 · 29 days ago

I use chalice and shield pal beacause I strugle to keep my hp up XD

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MindlessYou8752 · 18 days ago

Holy no hit

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TrainingSpare8225 · 25 days ago

Cool to see someone else using charge shot. That's how I beat many bosses my first playthrough.

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My tierlist for the cuphead bosses based on how much fun they are to S-rank.

Posted by F2p_wins274 · in r/Cuphead · 1 month ago

This is coming from the perspective of someone who beat the game S-rank like a shit ton of times, 3 of which being special runs (divine relic only, miss chalice only, and peashooter only).

The needs more parries category is that the bosses aren't very fun to S-rank because you might kill them before you can parry 3 times. You need to delay the phases in order to get the opportunity to even parry 3 times which is just not very fun and kinda infuriating.

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Keknoud · 1 month ago

I am not the biggest fan of most plane bosses to S rank. They're mostly "spam the entire screen with projectiles".
I would switch Grim and Beppi, the dogs alone are enough for three parries. Saltbakers is pretty fun, but I dislike his third phase a lot. It might be a Switch thing, but I cannot move while dropping down (even when I jump spam it doesn't react) and will almost always lose one health.

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F2p_wins274 · OP · 1 month ago

Omfg i forgot about Grimm. Yeah he def needs to go in needs more parries.

Though I do understand what you mean, I really like plane bosses, especially Esther and Doctor Khal.

I really like chef saltbaker but maybe it's my Stockholm syndrome talking from the 10+ hours of attempts on him in the peashooter only run lmao.

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MysteriousO1211 · 1 month ago

I agree, except for beppi and mortimer freeze. I think beppi has enough parries, the nose of the kart, the horseshoes and the balloon dogs. Mortimer freeze is not as bad for me as everyone says. Sure, the first phase can go by without a single parry, but the pink popsicles and pink buckets in the second and final phase respectively will almost always appear for me. I agree for the rest though

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F2p_wins274 · OP · 1 month ago

Hmm, I do kinda agree with Beppi now that I think about it, but only with Cuphead. Sometimes I would try to delay killing him just so that he does the hooves attack with the parry in the third phase, or comes out with the pink duck in the first phase, but you can reasonably get all 3 parries with Cuphead just from the nose of the cart. However, with Ms Chalice, I most of the time just ended up getting hit or entirely missing while trying to parry the nose, so I had to rely on the rest and delay his death to get him (while also being generally harder to parry because of Ms Chalice's mechanics).

For Mortimer however I don't agree with you. He just dies way too fast. In the first phase sometimes he won't choose a pink tarot card. In the second phase, I end up with only pink popsicle most of the time if I actually try to kill him, and in the third phase sometimes he dies before he even does the cup throwing attack. Like I don't know if he needs more parries or if he needs more hp lmfao.

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LX575-EEE · 1 month ago

What are you talking about for Beppi. The Rollercoaster’s nose is an incredible parry source

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F2p_wins274 · OP · 1 month ago

It's mostly about Chalice. Trying to parry it just ends up with me getting hit most of the time because of its hit box.

Though yeah I should have made a different list for both lol.

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Just finished all the content in Cuphead! Here's my tier list of how fun each boss was to S-tier (with small positive rant)

Posted by Ok_Description_9328 · in r/Cuphead · 4 months ago

This game completely took over my life for 3 days straight. What a masterpiece!

Every single boss is not only super fun to fight gameplay-wise, but both the music and the artwork is perfection.

(small positive rant start!) Prioritizing the 'coolness' factor of a boss is a trap I've seen many games fall for, which is not a bad thing in of itself, but it often comes to the detriment of gameplay. And for me personally, good gameplay is a make or break, regardless of how good the artwork and music is. When I started the game for the first time 4 days ago, I was honestly pretty certain this would be the case. Great music and art, but severely lacking in the gameplay section. (which is why I hesitated to play Cuphead for so long)

But I can proudly say that, in my opinion, this game DOES NOT fall into that trap! Every attack looks stylish, but are very well telegraphed, which makes them a joy to learn. You know what to expect at every turn and can plan around it (with very few exceptions). What I love the most though, is how important and rewarding good positioning is. This is obviously personal bias, but I LOVE positioning based dodges and planning ahead (which is also why I love souls combat so much!).

To end off, the parry took some time to get used to, but when I mastered it, it felt great. And in the beginning, I honestly wasn't a huge fan of the plane bosses or the run-and-gun levels, but they really grew on me.

Small rant over, I love this game!

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DrewV1234 · 4 months ago

Saltbaker is one of my favorites and I think he's very fun

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Ok_Description_9328 · OP · 4 months ago

I agree, he is super fun for sure. Trying to S-rank him, the first phase is just a little much imo. The rest of the fight is awesome though

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TH3_G4MER_5 · 4 months ago

I personally love how chaotic his first phase is but you do you.

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Routine_Accident8811 · 4 months ago

any videos? I heard small positive rant so I figured a video has came out

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