Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

The distinctive platforming and boss fighting game Cuphead was hugely popular with gamers when it released on Xbox One in 2017. This game combined graphics inspired by classic 1930s animated series with the challenge of boss confrontations that progress through multiple stages, each more difficult than the last. How to defeat this boss.

Additional Content: “The Delicious Last Course”

In 2018, additional content was announced, titled “The Delicious Last Course,” which is an innovative way of referring to the word “additional content” or “DLC,” but this content has undergone many postponements until we reached the year 2022 where we finally get this content. How was the experience?

New Island and Missions

The content takes you to a new island, the fourth island in the game world, with the aim of helping the character Ms. Chalice must be given a physical body rather than remaining in the form of a spirit. Here you will meet the baker who needs you to collect 5 magical ingredients for the cake that will help the woman. Chalice reaches her destination. Before we talk about the boss encounters, we would like to point out that the additional content has not changed the gameplay experience or added any additional elements, and therefore players of the original content can start the experience straight away. As for the content, new types of weapons have been added that can be purchased and more amulets have been added, which are tools that you buy to activate a specific perk.

New Playable Character: Ms. Chalice

Content adds woman. Chalice as a new playable character, and since the difficulty of the bosses in the additional content is high and can be said to be similar to or exceeds the difficulty of the third island bosses in the original content, the character Ms. Chalice is more suitable for beginners or those , who have difficulty completing the experience as the character can perform a double jump, giving him greater maneuverability. The Dash button in mid-air automatically blocks parry bullets, a process that requires precision timing when playing as Cuphead or Mugman and finally Ms. Chalice has 4 hearts instead of 3, making it suitable for those who haven’t played the experience in a while.

Challenging Boss Encounters

Looking at the featured boss encounters, we can see the reason for the postponement of this additional content. The original experience contains some boss encounters full of animated elements on the screen that require great effort to defeat and a great effort on the part of the player, undoubtedly the developer. In this content we note that all the main bosses are characterized by wonderful encounters that… Innovative ideas and full of moving elements and dangerous traps that require you to fully concentrate on what is happening on the screen. There was a nice mix between the long stages where you have to be precise and patient to defeat the opponent and the high difficulty stages where you have to use your skills to defeat the opponent in the fastest time. Perhaps.

Optional Boss Encounters and Secrets

The content also presents 5 optional boss encounters in the form of bosses against which you must use the parry function without benefiting from any special abilities or weapons. These encounters are built in a simple but intelligent way that tests your skills and timing accuracy and also brings us innovative ideas and this style has been presented. of challenges instead of the stages of jumping between platforms represented by the original content.

Conclusion and Recommendation

The additional content also hides some secrets that we leave to you to discover. We completed the entire content in 5 hours, knowing that you will need double that time or more to complete the boss encounters again with the additional Expert difficulty setting. We can say that the development team has made great efforts here. Additional content and he has unpacked his various ideas to develop unique additional content that would represent the best conclusion to the team’s journey with this game, which we hope will return in a second part. If you are a fan of Cuphead, you should definitely pick up this content.