The Cuphead Show! makes more sense as an animated show directed at children because its jokes require little in the way of thought. It makes sense for an adaptation: with the video game’s potentially prohibitive difficulty, it’s a way to access its appeal, without friction.īut instead, the show is punishing in a different way: It’s simply not funny. This is something of a more easygoing, wholesome take on Cuphead, without the punishing, uncompromising bullet hell mechanics and boss fights and more about two idiots with New Jersey accents (I may be wrong here but please forgive me, I’m English) hanging out and trying not to piss off their elderly guardian. It should, hypothetically, be a lot of chaotic fun: the two mugs head to a malevolent carnival - a “Carn-EVIL?!”, as Mugman realizes in horror - or an equally malevolent gameshow hosted by the slick-talking Dice King (Wayne Brady, having some fun with it). Each episode takes about 20 seconds to set up that something is set to go destructively wrong. Todaro) are a precocious pair of brothers living under the guardianship of the elderly Kettle, and it doesn’t take them long to fall into debt to The Devil (Luke Millington Drake), who means to collect on what he’s owed: Cuphead’s soul.Īfter the introduction of this mostly one-sided feud the series remains a mostly disconnected series of vignettes, centralized around problems of the brothers’ own making and whatever new oddball (usually, one of the game’s bosses) that they run into as a result. Cuphead (Tru Valentino) and Mugman (Frank T. The new Netflix series is spearheaded by Time Squad creator Dave Wasson.Īs in the game, the story of The Cuphead Show! takes place on the “Inkwell Isles” (the opening song sings in rhyme that it’s “just off the coast,” around 29 miles). And now, perhaps somewhat inevitably, it has an animated show. The boss fights proved particularly memorable, conjuring up surrealist but vintage feeling monsters to humble the player. There aren’t many like it - painstakingly hand drawn with pencil and paper and animated on ones (the full 24 frames of drawings per second, rather than the more common 12), filtered through ’80s style side-scrolling game design of uncompromising difficulty. Either way, for those who can't get enough of Cuphead and Mugman, there should be a whole lot of great new media to enjoy featuring the duo later this year.Inspired by the rubber hose limbs and the spooky qualities of early Disney and Fleischer Studios animation, the video game Cuphead made a splash with its striking art style and punishing run-and-gun gameplay. It remains to be seen if any of this new content in The Delicious Last Course will also crossover into The Cuphead Show's second season, the possibility definitely seems to be in play. This add-on content for Cuphead is slated to arrive for all platforms at the end of June and will bring new bosses, run-and-gun levels, and new characters to the popular indie title. Specifically, StudioMDHR is planning to release the game's long-awaited DLC which is titled The Delicious Last Course. The release of The Cuphead Show Season 2 this summer actually lines up with another big release for the Cuphead video game. It’s official!! More heartfelt hi-jinx and hilarity awaits in Season 2 of The Cuphead Show, debuting Summer 2022 exclusively on /TlBiojlUY4- Studio MDHR March 2, 2022 Further details or footage related to Season 2 weren't revealed just yet, but given how near this window is, we should likely start to see more in the coming weeks and months. "It's official!! More heartfelt hi-jinx and hilarity awaits in Season 2 of The Cuphead Show, debuting Summer 2022 exclusively on Netflix," said Netflix's message regarding the show's second season. Divulged on social media today, Netflix revealed that the next season of The Cuphead Show will be dropping later this summer.
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