Cuphead (Zero Punctuation)
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One minor correction: having 2 players actually DOESN'T give an advantage for doing double the damage. Playing 2 player doubles the boss's health.
Army% exists.
@@archangel8428 that's definately more than 2
@@archangel8428 that's because you use a glitch to clone mugman as much as you like
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This game is so unforgiving!
Woah woah woah, Yahtzee actually liked a game? That wasn't
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 3
Bloodborne
Resident Evil 4
Limbo
Amnesia
Red Dead Redemption
Dead Rising
Dead Rising 2
Just Cause 2
Skyrim
Infamous 2
Bastion
Driver
Portal
Portal 2
Dishonored
The Walking Dead
Far Cry 3
Xcom Enemy Unknown
Spec Ops the Line
Call of Duty 4
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
Assassin's Creed 4
Saints Row IV
Papers Please
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite
Shovel Knight
Alien Isolation
Wolfenstein The New Order
Shadow of Mordor
Soma
The Witcher 3
Elite Dangerous
Undertale
Salt and Sanctuary
Titanfall 2
Stardew Valley
Furi
or Doom?!?!?!?!?!?!
*FUCK WORLD MUST BE ENDING*
you forgot minecraft
Callum Friel Nope he doesn't "like" Titsfuck 2
he put in the top 5 best games of 2016 saying that the campaing is surprisingly good
This comment needs far more likes than it has
Callum Friel You forgot Wind Waker
"So am I just a fundamentally negative person?"
I mean....yeah
LucianoThePig Yeah. I thought that’s what the whole show was about?
Arnt we all?
No he's just British. Which means he can only express his emotions through sarcasm.
He says that, but then he writes an entire review that doesn't really say anything negative about the game.
Who is this new Yahtzee?
We wouldn't be here if you weren't yatzee
So, the major problem Yahtzee found in the game is the fact that there is a straw in the teacup... Yeah, he's officially a brit.
This needs to be top comment.
Sincerely, a brit.
*A guy dies and his tombstone attacks me, a woman turns into a crescent moon, a man with a dice as his head eats me*
Okay...
*Straw in teacup*
REAL SHIT
Eduardo Elric like who the fuck drink hot tea with a straw?
Eduardo Elric something I didn't even consider
My Hentai Girl But Cuphead's cup-head isn't even filled with tea, it's a mysterious white substance.
You wrote an entire book about Brisbane getting flooded with carnivorous jam and you still question if there is something wrong with you?
Did he actually?
Natey 180, Yes. go check out his book. It's funny as.
Natey 180 it's called jam, and it's amazing. If you like Hitchhiker's Guide, you'll like Jam
Fuck yeah that's awesome, I'll check it out! :D
Evi1M4chine You don't need to get triggered about it dude.
You know what I like about Yahtzee? The fact that him saying “it’s like being stabbed to death by Dick Van Dyke” is actually high praise.
That tutorial level is brutal though
Imagine how horrible it would be to have to experience it a million times before you were allowed to move on.
This joke, I mean. Not the tutorial level.
It's the dark souls of tutorials.
right, ask oneyplays
I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter!! Damn.
TBH I had no problem with the tutorial.
Best game in the souls series since crash badicoot
cuphead is the crash bandicoot of the souls series
Vorake the melancholy alan, is the new Crash Bandicoot rerelease really difficult? I know the old ps1games weren't that hard unless you tried to go for all the gems, but people have been talking up the new one, and I wonder if it's really more difficult.
I always remember Crash Bandicoot as "the game that was so easy and simple that even non-gamer parents liked it".
EarlnEarl the comment was meant to be ironic but retrospectively I can see that may not have been properly conveyed. I don't think either of these games are that much like dark souls at all.
@EarlnEarl The PS1 Crash game is probably the most difficult 3d children's platforming game ever made (you were younger and probably had way more free time and focus to beat it so you remember it like it was easy). Crash 1 was NES hard, required precision and memorization for the entirety of the game. Crash 2 toned it down and focused the difficulty only on optional stuff and Crash 3 had a bunch of different (and easy) playstyles so that it evened out with the harder Crash-centric levels. Still compared to all other platforming games like Spyro, Mario, Gex etc - Crash was ball-bustingly hard.
If you didn't realize, the crossed out bits in the "I love you" memory at the start says:
"I can't believe anyone would love a shit like you"
Great attention to detail there, Yahtz.
You could hear how invested Yahtzee was in cuphead when he talked about the pirate. It's wonderful to hear him have some positive feelings before he crawls back to the endless abyss.
agreed, since that boss is all the way in Ilse 3
Personally doctor kahls robot is where I’m stick
ELEGIAC ; ADJECTIVE
1] Relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
‘haunting and elegiac poems’
1.1] Wistfully mournful.
‘she watched repeat serials, fixed on their moody and elegiac characterization’
ELEGY ; NOUN
1] (in modern literature) a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
2] (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.
Thank you
Not all heroes wear capes.
The internet needs more people like you.
Asher Flanagan
Thank you! You saved me the time to look up elegiac in the dictionary.
So basically The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe?
What is this? Positivity? My mind is blown!
I don’t know why anyone is surprised. Yahtzee is very positive. Listen to his review of... well Dark Souls and that one Zelda, but I digress!
Even in games he dislikes he occasionally throws out the off complement. You’re probably too busy laughing hysterically to have heard those few iotas of positivity.
After all the positivity Cuphead has gotten, I was hoping it would be negative.
Diogenes the drunk it tastes like strawberries.
CupHead is a really good game with an amazing (if fucking creepy) art style and perfect animation, so even Yahtzee can't help but love it.
He has to be positive about it, it kicked the British out of his accent on the live stream and he asked for another helping. hashTag wordPlay
0:36 For those who care and might be interested, it says:
"I can't believe anyone would love a shit like you"
Died at 0:37
“I can’t believe anyone would love a little shit like you”
I love how he just slides that line about the pirate boss in mid rant .
This should be called "cup souls".
Because you're a cup and you collect souls and everyone's going to compare it to dark souls anyway.
"Elegiac" - Well, there's a new $12 word for me. Now I gotta find a way to shoehorn it into a sentence to sound ever more sesquipedalian.
RenewAgain fuck me! You got hella word money!
Well, now I know _two_ new words.
It's a perfectly cromulent word!
Now you're just acting transcendent.
My lexicon is expanding
Yahtzee is like the Cuphead of the Bandicoot Souls series.
Remember when you were a kid, and you were home from school sick and had nothing better to do but watch old cartoons, and when it got dark out and you fell asleep only for those cartoons to manifest in your nightmares? Yeah, that's Cuphead.
Its so rare to see Yahtzee give a glowing recommendation to a game. Not since Portal or Spec Ops The Line has Yahtzee been this happy with a game.
Or Driver: San Francisco
22 what about Doom?
Or just cause 2
What about undertale
You don't watch a lot of Yahtzee's videos do you?
I like ball busting too, Yahtzee.
Oh, you said ball busting *difficulty* my bad.
Dee Oh Dee I eat balls for breakfast
kink same
There was a time when that used to mean 'to make fun of someone' by East Coast Italians.
Now it means Darwin Award fetish.
Ball busting, dick ripping... it's all good
I've been watching Yahtzee since year 1, and this is seriously one of his most well written and well though out reviews.
*RIP Lawbreakers and Battleborn*
Not a chance. Those games have had their launch and are just done.
Overwatch is garbage too.
Battle-whatnow?
I like that yahtzee understands when difficulty is needed, and that it is sometimes needed, unlike some ex-escapist people I care to mention.
That bit about the holepunch to shredder had me creasing
Yay this is going in the top five
What's cuphead's cup size?
Mr Mensah2002 a large b or a workable c.
T
16 fl oz
C-
Yes.
@2:02 that angry space hopper looks like a fun ride.
Seems like it'd be considerably harder to slip off of than the usual ones too, juices notwithstanding...
I forgot JZ is the type of person to fire himself straight into a brick wall as long as that wall has a snazzy paint job
*until
I'm not sorry.
Thank you for putting "Elegiac" on screen, so that I can google it more easily.
SHOUT OUT AT 3:48
4:26 He used the term "Ghost Train Ride" years before he associated it with linear narrative triple-A games!
Yahtzee Croshaw everybody, the first gaming journalist to get past the tutorial faster than an hour
It pays to play them.
"it's so ball-bustingly hard, you'll be jizzing ball-shrapnel for the next month" xDDD
The Cuphead game having a real sense of identity contrasts very much with all but exactly one-third of the episodes of The Cuphead Show.
For those wondering about the supressed childhood memories:
*"I* can't believe anyone would *love* a shit like *you"*
Seems like a Cup half-full kind of tone
go.
Cuphead can give me some CUPHEAD
Not surprised he didn't know this, but they also significantly lower your damage output when you add in a player two.
LOL at how you compared Captain Brineybeard to the Captain Morgan ad! LOL at the teacup on the little game cutie's head and the way it gets killed. Also smiled at the way the game cutie parries the soul of another game cutie with "Oh no you don't!" to revive it. Nice vid. :D
Wow. This was almost as positive as his portal review. I believe he said he'd stick forks in his eyes if he ever said another game was perfect. I think you won't admit cuphead is perfect to avoid the ol' fork in the eye, eh yahtzee.
Fenrir Baldur the context was if Portal 2 was better than Portal 1
StrikeWarlock How could that be the context when portal 2 wasn't even thought of yet? He said in his orange box review that portal was sublime and that he would jab forks in his eyes if he ever said that about another game. The context was that portal was a perfect game with no criticisms....in his opinion.
Fenrir Baldur I mean, he basically said dark souls is perfect.
Cuphead is far from perfect. First and foremost, the game has severe pacing issues. Secondly, while the game excels at visual variety, it is quite lacking in gameplay variety even on a fundamental level. Thirdly, the difficulty curve is extremely inconsistent (usually dependent on how many randomized variables are introduced in a single fight). Fourthly, randomized variables do not mix well with fixed attack patterns and the game often puts the player in situations where it is very unlikely (sometimes even impossible) to not take damage. On top of that, the progress meter can be very deceptive in some circumstances. Also, the weapons, items, and even some of the game mechanics are poorly balanced (but that is just a minor issue).
POSITIVE: On the other hand, Cuphead does have the best art direction that I have ever seen in a video game.
Yahtzee is the Dark Souls of game critics...It's impressive that Cuphead completed him.
01:44 Thank you for bringing this up! Ive been asking that for months!
1:36 Oh hello Jetix Logo on the Care Bears VHS tape.
Cuphead in a nutshell: Challenging that you can get around with practice.
The game basically goes: "Oh, you did so well, I'm sure you can get it NEXT time!"
This is the dark souls of game reviews.
Reminds me of why I love the original Stuntman so much. Insane difficulty (most my friends can't get passed the first level), you basically have to perform an entire Hollywood car chase sequence all in one take, but after 50 tries when you get that moment of zen and hit every stunt perfectly, it is just so satisfying!
I think this is one of his best reviews, the first 2 mins is comedy gold.
"Cuphead is a breath of fresh air with stinging bees"
I think we found the best metaphor for Cuphead.
Looking forward to Mario Odyssey Zero Punctuation in a couple of weeks. *cough* *cough*
Canal Guy yasss
Canal Guy don’t forget wolfenstien 2!
What is this "Zer Punctuation"?
It is what they call, a typoo
lol that joke of the samara getting out of the tv doing funny trombone noises after that she will follow you to be doing the full orchestral number while you are sleeping
3:01 - 3:48 accurately describes what it's like to be a chemistry major at a college known for its chemistry faculty.
Thank you very much for reminding me of Epic Mickey, I used to love that one
Dude. You are one the most absolutely hilarious game reviewers I've ever heard. 😂
"-and that fucking pirate has twice as much health as every other boss Ifuckingswear!"
how it kind of all sped up and blurred togther was hilarious
It's great you managed to talk yourself out of the "light hearted romp" angle. I can always trust you to see the dark sinister side of things.
I bought Cuphead because of this video. And then I beat it, somehow. All I can really remember is that the last boss wasn't nearly as hard to beat as the one before him. That's the weird thing about Cuphead; the difficulty of the fights are pretty inconsistent. You're three worlds in and end up in a boss battle that is somehow easier than the ones on Island 1.
In that regard, I’d say the first question is whether the boss is actually easier than Isle 1, or if you’ve just gotten a lot better. But yeah Werner Werman is a bit of a pushover relative to his placement.
Also, I’d say King Dice only feels harder than the Devil because of the length. Because of how the game works, King Dice requires such a constant amount of skill and concentration with little rest in each attempt, and an S-rank time can be as long as about 10 minutes!
A positive review from Yahtzee makes me smile
2:33 the only thing i can think is that, actually the two-player co-op makes it significantly harder.
I love, love, LOVE, how every one has their own personal hardest boss in the game. Like for Escapist, it's the pirate, but for me it was the fucking Dragon. So awesome man.
I've been waiting for your review, Yahtzee.
Also when is The Escapist going to just be called Yahtzee?
Like, does anyone else exist here?
Adude601 they did, but I think Yahtzee got bored and decided to kill everyone manhunt style.
there used to be other creators who were hosted by escapist, but yahtzee is the only one who still makes content for them. i'm fairly certain that yahtzee can't get away from them for legal reasons, and even so, he seems to see the partnership with escapist as a positive thing regardless, so i doubt he would bother to put in the legal effort necessary to leave escapist any time soon.
Adude601 You've been waiting a week longer then seeing as this review was uploaded to the Escapist website last Wednesday lol.
SicParvisMagna123 god fucking damit
Adude601 The websites a goddamn ghost town.
You were made to play Lisa: The Painful
Oh no
3:03 Made me laugh so hard, because my friend is like that. He LOVES ball busting hard games.
I'm so happy that you called the Fleischer Studios inspiration. You're the only person I've heard talk about that specifically.
"Do you think there's somethingwrong with me?" Well, do you want that list in chronological or alphabetical order? Cause I have a long... OH, rhetorical, right... I"ll just save this list for later. XD I kid, i kid. I love your vids.
Another ball busting game would be Contra 3.
Best episode in AGES! Great job!
This will probably bring in some new subscribers, god I love this TH-cam channel
Hewitttribe 2 Nah we just watch it on the Escapist website a week earlier than when they upload it here (plus with a humorous end credits sequence that's completely absent from this channel).
Yahtzee's 100% right, when you finally beat a Bosshead in Cuphead it feels cosmically easy and effortless. Took me nine million(ish) brutal goes to defeat the zepellin witch during the early stages, but then one day I booted up and suddenly she just fell before me, without losing a single heart, and I got an A.
Wait, Yahtzee, I thought you already disclosed that you like dark souls, why are you reviewing it again?
The censored text at 0:36 says “I can’t believe anyone would love a child like you” but everything except “love you” is crossed out
Correction. It definently says "I can't believe anyone would love a *shit* like you"
i love you for not stretching out your videos to 10 minutes
Is this the first time he says Ghost Train Ride?
If you like super hard games, Misery 2.2 recently came out, so prepare an extra keyboard or two.
Oooooooo, I've been waiting for this one! And, yeah, I knew you'd like this one. It's...just, man, so much work went into this.
Cuphead is a mind-blowingly good game. Truly a work of art.
Cuphead is the Dark Souls of Cuphead, or alternatively, the Cuphead of Dark Souls.
The Cup Souls of Darkhead.
The straw is what bugs you? It's the fact that his head is full of milk that bothers me! Who uses a tea cup for milk? It's referred to as a GLASS of milk. Not a cup of milk.
Milk tea is a thing
I am pretty sure it's moonshine.
Ah, yes. Good thing I am very smart. *carefully looks around to make sure no one is watching as he googles "elegiac"*. Yes. Very smart.
He nails it. That is why Cuphead is such a gem.
"This game is so difficult.. Just like Dark Souls!" -- Many game reviewers
Cuphead gives me a cupBONER
Gives me cupniptions
Im pretty sure that's what the fans said as they look up rule 34 images of Cala Maria
cuphead makes my dickhead harder than porcelain
(edit: hopefully it should be obvious that i'm not actually sexually attracted to cups)
*🅱️0ner*
... fucking tumblr users...
After all these years you still make me laugh out loud. Think first one I ever saw was the darkness.
1:57 Thanks for letting me know how it's spelled so I can google it!
Wonder if Yahtzee just pulled the first image of a stick off the search list in Google, or if he actually knows the backstory on that particular stick...
Now I'm curious.
Hexerin Null
Care to elaborate?
Image seems to be in the Toy Hall of Fame, but not seeing anything else on that image of a stick.
"pixels the size of Plymouth"
Every time I watch the intro the memories of this channel over the years
Just read Flight by Sherman Alexi for class and I'm not sure if "plop" was an intentional reference or not but I still giggled a little!
dark souls is the dark souls of video games
This needs to be recorded in Internet history: Yatzee reviews a game that he feels has no flaws! This is amazing!
Portal
"Elegaic"
"Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past."
What Cuphead really reminds me of is contra series and it's boss battles. Quite the same feel. Yes, I loved ballbusting games from the very young age.
What makes Cuphead's difficulty so different from other games is simple: The developers are on your side. While Dark Souls and other "challenging" games revel in creating boss fights and levels that are meant to fuck with you, with attack patterns that cannot be predicted, environments that are ill-suited to your sluggish character movement, essentially creating boss fights that are only beatable by stocking up on healing items, Cuphead's bosses were clearly designed with a perfect idea of exactly what the player would have to do in order to defeat them. There is NOTHING in the game that cannot be dodged, parried, or shot, and the difficulty stems predominantly from having to multitask.
Actually, some of my biggest gripes with Cuphead were when the game made it (for lack of a better word) too easy by making it too obvious what needed to be done. I loved the fight against the mouse in the soup can tank, for example, but I had to roll my eyes when he shot two pink springboards at me right before signaling a charge.
But that's the appeal of Cuphead; the difficulty is 100% skill-based. I never once wondered what the hell I'm supposed to do in any given situation -- only if it would be within my capacity to actually do it. The only instance of artificial difficulty I encountered (an obstructive foreground) was in an optional "King Dice" mini-boss, and the only time I ever rage-screamed was at Dr. Kahl for his Stage 3 endless evil laughter.
Plain and simple, Cuphead is a game that ENCOURAGES you to get better and to win. Now having played this, everyone at From Software is encouraged to hug a landmine.
Terastas Cuphead is far from perfect. First and foremost, the game has severe pacing issues. Secondly, while the game excels at visual variety, it is quite lacking in gameplay variety even on a fundamental level. Thirdly, the difficulty curve is extremely inconsistent (usually dependent on how many randomized variables are introduced in a single fight). Fourthly, randomized variables do not mix well with fixed attack patterns and the game often puts the player in situations where it is very unlikely (sometimes even impossible) to not take damage. On top of that, the progress meter can be very deceptive in some circumstances. Also, the weapons, items, and even some of the game mechanics are poorly balanced (but that is just a minor issue).
NOTE: All of the issues I just named are not apparent in Dark Souls.
In fact, everything you said about Dark Souls is simply not true. It makes me question if you have even played the game or if you are just shaming from ignorance. For example, if you played Dark Souls you would know that the bosses all have very consistent and recognizable attack patterns. You would also know that the environment is designed around the player’s movement abilities, even allowing the player to take advantage of the environment. Lastly, you would know that Dark Souls doesn’t even allow the player to stock up on healing items, so how can you “only beat the bosses by stocking up on healing items”?
On the other hand, Cuphead does have the best art direction that I have ever seen in a video game.
However, the design of Dark Souls is unquestionably better than Cuphead in almost every regard. The game design of Cuphead really feels like an amateur project which is in strong opposition to the fantastic art. The only thing that Cuphead does better than Dark Souls is player training.
Environment designed around the player's movement? What, you mean like the Capra Demon?
I never said Cuphead was perfect. But it is a game that is everything it is deliberately and with consideration for the player.
Every single boss can be defeated without the use of power-ups. I know this because I'm only two S-ranks away from proving it.
Like I said: Cuphead wants you to feel like a winner. Dark Souls wants you to feel like its bitch.
Why did they re-upload the darksouls review?
Having watched co-op playthroughs of the game, I can safely safe it is not easier.
You get to see more of the craziness that the boss animations and see some of the other moves more easily but that's all you get.
I love Yachtzee’s question at the beginning
Really upsetting that this isn't coming to PS4.
James Reginald Mitchell IV everyone knows the best way to game is to own a ps4 and a half decent pc? at least for this game you dont need a gaming pc
I mean, you can run it on pretty much any PC.
Maybe not an i486 IBM from the late 80s, but anything newer should run it.
If yahtzee review Danganronpa V3, I will lose my shit
Referencing Ghost Train Rides before coining the term for his cinematic linear adventure games vid.
I'm glad you spelled out elegiac so I could look it up, thanks for helping to teach me new things