Cuphead!

[Rapta]

Re: Cuphead!

lmfao

[Reach]

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My buddy is practicing speedrunning this as well, apparently the weapon swap glitch allows for some phase skipping and generally reliable fast kills and so the run is like 90% mashing the X button as fast as possible. tbh looks like he's sitting there fapping for hours every time he practices the run.

Yeah basically. Because all of the bosses have a fixed amount of total HP and a certain amount of HP per phase, if you can kill the next phase in the current phase you can either insta gib the next phase or skip it completely (with an exception with Cala Maria where you can actually crash the game). This was absolutely unintended because I don't think the devs knew WSG could be used to basically double your damage and allow this to happen. I think it's getting patched.

There are a few really weird interactions with this, Roller Coaster boss is one where he gets stuck on the death animation and you can just damage him until he dies which saves like a minute. Dragon does the same.

[One Winged Angel]

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yeah weapon swapping significantly reduces the difficulty of the game, to the point where a lot of the fights are pretty mindless if you're just going for the kill and not a specific grade (and even then a ton of fights can be S'd in under a minute which definitely wasn't intended to be the case)

i'd been avoiding watching any speedruns until i played the game myself, so i watched one almost immediately after i finished the game on normal and had a good laugh

hoping it's patched soon, but even then with good damage manipulation you can probably still skip some phases...on my first run when i was going for A+ on the bee, i managed to skip the plane phase entirely without weapon swapping and only using pea shooter + spread

[One Winged Angel]

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Not so much a dick-waving post but more so wanting to compare times with anyone else going for S ranks.

After playing them all, I'd probably agree with Reach that Cala Maria is the dumbest one to S rank, and not out of difficulty for the fight...she'd rarely ever throw the pufferfish out in the first or second cycles, and when she did it would only be two pink puffers most of the time so I couldn't satisfy my parry count. I'd always kill her around the middle of the third cycle so having to hold back damage to wait for the puffers pissed me off, and even then I'd rarely get the three pink patterns.

A few of these times are really shit because I played patiently (like on Grim I only fired on the final phase when the heads weren't spitting fireballs out) but a good chunk of them I feel are pretty good.

edit: ok I improved like almost every single time minus the shmups by at least 4-5 seconds (some a lot more) because I don't want to stop playing lol

[Reach]

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Nicely done.

Agreed on all points, for many of the bosses having to get all the parries is one of the hardest parts.

I too never watch runs and avoid spoilers until I beat the game, so I finished everything without WSG. Most of the fights are a lot more fun with peashooter. I won't be terribly upset with a patch, since I'm sure runners will still find creative ways to kill bosses quickly.

[Superbearhands]

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good thing I beat the game before the charge weapon gets nerfed hehe

[inDheart]

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patching WSG out would just be easier on everyone's hands anyway

the damage disparity between charge shot and everything else is pretty loltier like how many cases are there even for all the spread gun bullets to connect

[Shodzzy]

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that'd be a good insult too

"ur mum fat lololol"
"shut up cuphead"


idk
Fun game though, I recommend it

[Superbearhands]

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git gud

[Superbearhands]

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git gud

[Charu]

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The game is more reminiscent of Alien Solider than it is to the typical run'n'gun shooter from the 90's.

Alien Soldier is essentially what this game is. A series of boss rushes one after another with tiny amounts of actual run'n'gun parts.