To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to enjoy Cuphead. The mechanics are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of old-school NES gameplay, most of the stages will go over a typical gamer's head. There's also Cuphead's trial-and-error gameplay, which is deftly woven into its bosses - its game philosophy draws heavily from Dark Souls games, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of this gameplay, to realize that it's not just fun - it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Cuphead truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the stimulation in Phantom Express's intellectually stimulating phase 2 in which the position of the giant skeleton is completely randomized, which itself is a cryptic reference to RANDOM.ORG's basic randomizer. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Studio MDHR's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Cuphead and Mugman tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
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