It's a love letter to 1930s rubber hose cartoons and a love letter to several games from the 80s. With that said, the game itself is eye-candy. You don't have to beat the game to get this book, but helps playing the game for awhile. Relive the most cherished and challenging moments of Cuphead and Mugman's adventure to reclaim their souls from The Devil, all in a way you've never seen before! Guided by personal insights from game directors Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, take a one-of-a-kind trip through the Inkwell Isles and discover an all-new appreciation for Cuphead's animation style and challenging retro gameplay.ĭark Horse Books and Studio MDHR are thrilled to present The Art of Cuphead! This vintage-style art extravaganza is the perfect book for fans of Cuphead!. Peek at the early concepts, production work, and early ideas that went into the making of Cuphead's characters, bosses, stages and more including never-before-seen content from the upcoming DLC! Take a gander at the game's traditional hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. Peek at the early concepts, production work, and early ideas Get transported back to the golden age of 1930s animation with an art book celebrating the acclaimed run & gun game, Cuphead!Įach page of this curated collection of artwork is designed to capture the vintage look and feel of the 1930's. Its really weird that people are trying to move away from that when clearly the majority of people would want more of it.Get transported back to the golden age of 1930s animation with an art book celebrating the acclaimed run & gun game, Cuphead! Each page of this curated collection of artwork is designed to capture the vintage look and feel of the 1930's. Would we argue to remove the difficulty too? How about the run and gun gameplay? Because those are pretty much just as integral to what the essence of this game is as the art style is. Its a fundamental part of the game's very essence, and trying to change such a fundamental aspect of a franchise for no real reason is strange, to me. One of the biggest, if not THE biggest strength about the game was the art style. I'm not limiting the devs at all as I'll buy anything they make, But the discussion is around a hypothetical sequel to cuphead. There is plenty of room to improve and get more creative under that direction that wouldn't equate to doing the same thing (yes the style was perfected but was certainly not exhaustive and the two aren't the same thing). As such, I'm adovcating to not move away from one of the most integral parts of the game, the 1930s art direction. But I'll respond to the 'they want to branch out and experiment' bit: the thread was about a sequel to an established product. Yes thats my argument, not that other less creative styles are inherently worse like your last post tried suggesting.Īdditionally, we don't know what they want but I'm guessing for most people theyre not setting out to do something thats overly similar to everything else either in their creative endeavors.Īs to the rest of your post, youre moving the goal posts when our original conversation revolved around the idea that I was saying things that aren't creative are intrinsically worse products (I wasn't).

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