Some games aim to be retro. They try to meld classic and modern design elements within the trappings of a game that would look and 
sound like a game that would have been at home on consoles now several generations in the past. Studio MDHR’s upcoming Cuphead is a title that is so retro, it aims to aesthetically pre-date videogames themselves.
For those uninitiated, Cuphead can be described as an ultra-hard, side-scrolling shooter where you only fight against boss characters. That’s right, there are no stages to go through. Cuphead is a knock down, drag out battle against difficult boss after ever increasingly difficult boss, all wrapped in a style akin to a 1930’s Disney cartoon.
Cuphead’s art style and goofy off the wall humor serves as a striking mask covering the well-documented difficulty players will have to overcome.
Check out the trailer from Microsoft’s E3 2015 press conference, as well as some gameplay video from the show floor, courtesy of Destructiod.
Cuphead is due out for the Xbox One and PC in the spring of 2016.
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I’m in awe every time I see this game in action. The grain and fluidity of the animations really makes this just seem like a 30’s cartoon and definitely not a functioning video game.