Cheat Code Cuphead

[Anais Wachowski]

Surprisinglyand to my immense relief, the fight with the Devil actually wasn't too much difficulty! The first phase is insane, though. With the demons running left and right, their timing was ALWAYS the worst--showing up on one side right as the Devil's Dragon form covered up the entire other side, popping up in the middle of the Ram form's attack...all kinds of ridiculous enraging moments. Once I got down to hell itself, however...it was surprisingly easy and manageable. Now don't get me wrong, I still got killed a bunch of times, because I got panicked and fucked up some relatively easy problems. Then again, I also got screwed a couple of times, especially on the final damn phase with the Devil's tears. For some reason, it never registered my parries and I'd either fall right through or get hurt. By tears.

For quite a while, I was wondering if it actually was possible to parry the tears or if MDHR was setting us up for the biggest troll joke in video game history...but a few deep Google searches confirmed it for me before I could make an ass of myself. Thank God.

What makes the difficulty isn't the small amount of health or the trial-and-error phases of bosses...it's the chaos. Having so much going on on the screen at once, watching out for obstacles and hazards and the bosses themselves--that's what makes it so challenging! Of course, the visuals are incredible and the music is great. Don't really have a chance to do 2-player co-op, but I've seen videos and it is so crazy. lol

Making the weapons and powers interchangable was also a great idea; it allowed people to find and create their own methods of beating their adversaries, which is awesome! The characters are great, too--all of the bosses have something to if not like about them, at least admire--in a white-knuckle, high blood pressure kinda way. Except for Grim Matchstick, obviously. Grim Matchstick makes me want to cut my head off with a dry spoon,shove it inside myself, use a plumbing snake to push it all the way through my intestines and guts, until it emerges back out through my neck hole, catch it in my hands, gently peel all the skin off my head, toss the skull in the trash can, flip the head skin inside out, and sew my hollowed inside-out head back onto my body. Using thread and needle. And the thread is covered in herpes.

Uh-uh. I couldn't even beat the first Island--I died over 83 times on that Lost City level alone. Half my jumps didn't make it, and when they did, I kept being gently pushed backwards off the cliff by that freaking lizard. It'll be a miracle (and a GameFAQ's cheat code refresher) if I even finish the first game. This game was NOT AT ALL nice about 3D to 2D transitions. In fact, I just uploaded a clip of a mountain goat thing walking on air. Jeez, Naughty Dog.

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