The other day I decided to play through the game and do as bad as I could to see what the lowest possible competition percentage you can get at the end is, and in some ways I found it to be harder than the actual game itself.

You basically need to find ways to intentionally get Peppino hurt as often as you can, which isn’t as straightforward as it seems because not all the enemies hurt you, collecting the caged toppings, which is required to progress in the game, gives you a ton of points and often times boosts your rank by a whole letter each time you collect one. And then during pizza time, you’re kind of forced to speed back through the level because of the timer, which means you’re likely unintentionally killing enemies along the way and earning more points from it, and you have less time to keep getting Peppino hurt again.

My goal was to try to finish all levels with D ranks, and because of these factors, it was much harder than playing the level normally. Bosses are also hard to because your rank is dependent on how much you got hurt during the fight, but you obviously still need to beat it anyway. I read that getting anything above D on a level counts towards the completion status, so every D rank you get does lower your final score.

All in all, my efforts only got my score to 52% at the end, giving me the “confused” screen. It seems like this is one of those games that’s both difficult to be good and bad at. It certainly seems impossible to get the “you suck” screen unless you’re intentionally trying and focusing on doing poorly.

From the boss fights, the music, the art style, it’s all fantastic. Both the main game and the DLC.

There were 2 times I lost my shit playing this and that was when I was trying to get an A- or higher on Rumor Honeybottoms(I absolutely sucked at that fight) and S ranking The Howling Aces. But other than that I was able to keep my cool for the rest of the game.

9.5/10

I don’t even know why I started this. Somewhere halfway through, I questioned everything — more than once. This is, without a doubt, one of the most satisfying and proudest Platinums I’ve ever earned — right up there with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

I have positive and negative thoughts on the game. I did enjoy it and love the art style of course but I really feel that this was what gave the game all the hub bub. Honestly I find the game it self to be a tad over rated. It was fun and I love the set up of run and gun or just bosses (not mixing) but sometimes I felt like the boss battles were just kind of cheap. I get its kind of a bullet hell game but I found myself REALLY getting cornered sometimes by multiple attacks at once with no other recourse but to take the hit. I must have restarted certain bosses 20 times because their attacks when done simultaneously leave you know where to go.

I dont mind difficult games but usually there is a pattern or system of some sort to learn. This game has you learning attacks but there are almost no patterns. Its just all random. I dont mind random reflex gaming but usually youre dodging 2 attacks max, not 3 or 4. Again the screen gets so crowded you just have no where to go occasionally and it almost becomes a game of luck more than skill. Once the bosses are defeated you dont get a sense of accomplishment but more a sense of relief. I honestly have zero interest in going back for any S rank stuff because it would just be a crap shoot coin flip for a win or lose. Im not trying to bash anyone who did or thinks the accomplished something, if you think that you did, but I usually like to know I accomplished something by knowing I mastered the patterns and gimicks and could easily beat the boss/game near 100% without issue. Otherwise it just always feels like you got lucky. Then add in the constant foreground objects blocking your view and it could be down right cheap feeling.

Either way its still fun, I basically got homing and used that and pea shooter the entire game, with my super blast special (as the other 2 are utter garbage) and the cloud dashing.

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Also I played on switch with the patch so there was no weapon cool down dooping for me. I notice online almost everyone who plays through the game and says its easy seems to do this trick and the bosses literally become a joke.

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If you had to pick one negative thing on the game what would it be, seriously, no "too short" stuff or anything like that.

From the boss fights, the music, the art style, it’s all fantastic. Both the main game and the DLC.

There were 2 times I lost my shit playing this and that was when I was trying to get an A- or higher on Rumor Honeybottoms(I absolutely sucked at that fight) and S ranking The Howling Aces. But other than that I was able to keep my cool for the rest of the game.

9.5/10

Yes, as we know, Cuphead is not an easy game. Mainly because of the boss fights. You gotta have skill for sure. This game really puts you to the test. I’ve been playing this since 2020 and maaan.. it feels damn good to get an S rank, especially one handed. Cuphead and Sekiro are the two games that really tests my skill. Are you a fan?

It took forever but I've finally gotten all the S ranks (and p ranks) in cuphead . It truly was worth breaking my fingers.