Reflexes, memorization, and careful choice of weapons are absolutely essential to beating this game. You can, however, purchase an option to start with one or two extra hit points at the cost of slightly or largely decreasing your attack power, respectively.
Indeed, there are no checkpoints in the action and boss stages, and the only free health pick-ups in the whole game are granted on three randomly chosen fights against King Dice's minions. Even in press demos, very few players cleared some of the bosses' final forms. Nintendo Hard: The developers aimed to capture the difficulty of Run-and-Gun games during the 1980s and 1990s, despite the visuals resembling something from half a century earlier.Given that the owner of the casino is the Devil, notorious for his deception skills in real-life religious mythology, it wouldn't be far-fetched to theorize that he had used supernatural means to rig the brothers' rolls all along. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The entire plot is Cuphead's own fault it was him getting greedy at the Devil's casino and ignoring Mugman's warning that led to the brothers becoming servants to the Devil.Expert bosses go up to S rank rather than A+. New Game Plus: After beating the game once, Expert difficulty is unlocked, which gives the bosses more difficult attack patterns.
