In this episode of The Wrap-Up, Spencer and Diego talk about Netflix’s adaptation of Cuphead, The Cuphead Show! The Wrap-Up is a MonsterVine original audio series where our reviewers discuss the games they’ve been playing and to get a more personal perspective. iTunes – Google Play – Soundcloud MonsterVine · The Wrap-Up: The Cuphead Show
Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer sat down with IGN to discuss the series' journey to Netflix, describing it as being like "watching your children grow up."
Like its video game source material, Netflix’s The Cuphead Show! takes heavy influence from the American Golden Age of Animation — the early-20th-century...
Gosh, I love Cuphead. It’s a hard-as-nails run-and-gun game that emulates the rubber hose era of animation with excellence, partially thanks to its incredible character designs and straightforward story. When I heard Netflix was making a show based on the property, I was excited. There’s a lot of room to flex your creativity while adapting […]
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I’m no stranger to difficult games. Back in my halcyon days, I cut my teeth playing 8- and 16-bit titles that lasted an hour but demanded at least a week or two to beat. I’ve finished Dark Souls and its brethren, and I’m proud to say that I’m one of few video game journalists who managed to complete the Cuphead tutorial. But pride, as they say, comes before the fall. Like a master before a pupil, Sifu managed to humble me often. It’s a hard game, but the challenge came in ways I didn’t often foresee.
Sifu is your classic martial arts tale of vengeance, and doesn’t strive for much else. Your character, who can be your choice of male or female, sets out on a path of revenge after being left for dead by five former students of your master and father. The story is just the framework, in the end. Sifu, at its core, is a third-person beat ’em up. You use your mastery of kung fu to dispatch dozens of enemies using fast fists, flying feet, and...
The animated series based off the excellent game Cuphead will debut on Netflix on 18th February, with Cuphead and Mugman set for some wild adventures. The Cuphead Show! Here’s an official trailer for the announcement. The Cuphead Show! sees Studio MDHR’s creation coming full circle. The run ‘n’ gun side-scrolling shooter captivated gamers throughout its development thanks to an art style so heavily inspired by classic Disney and Fleischer animation. Now the game inspired by the cartoons is becoming a cartoon once again with this Netflix production. Do you want some official blurb about the show from? Of course you do! Based on the award-winning video game that smashed onto the scene with a gorgeous retro animation style, The Cuphead Show! is a character-driven comedy series following the unique misadventures of loveable, impulsive scamp Cuphead and his cautious but easily swayed brother Mugman. As the two scour their surreal homeworld of the Inkwell Isles in search of fun and adventure, they always have each other’s back. Unless there’s only one cookie left, in which case it’s every cup for himself. The Cuphead Show! combines nostalgic delights, side-splitting gags, and a healthy dose of the heebie jeebies—especially when a ridiculously weird nemesis, The Devil himself, arrives on the scene to toy with our heroes. For King Features, C.J. Kettler will serve as the executive producer and Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer will serve as executive producers for Studio MDHR. The series will be produced by Netflix Animation and is executive produced by Emmy and Annie Award-winning producer, Dave Wasson (Mickey Mouse Shorts) and co-executive produced by Cosmo Segurson (Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling). This is far from the only thing that Cuphead fans can look forward to in 2022. Some three years after it was originally planned to release, The Delicious Last Course DLC expansion will be arriving in June this year. Probably. We really hope! Looking back on our original Cuphead review, Dave wrote: “Cuphead was well worth waiting for. It provided exactly what Studio MDHR said it would be – a boss rush with plenty of well-designed bosses and gorgeous presentation that mimics the Fleisher brothers’ art style. Depending on how used to 2D platformers with difficult bosses you are, there’s a decent amount on offer, though with limited side attractions beyond the bosses, it could all be done before you know it. It’s a swell ol’ time though.”