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#93*. Cuphead (PC, 2017)
As I said in my hint, this is probably the game with the most visually pleasing aesthetics that I've played, not even just for 2D games. I still find it incredibly impressive how this game looks and how it really does not look like a game at all, even beyond just adding a 1930s-esque filter over the game. The animation in this is beautiful, and all the bosses are not only so expressive and detailed, but are also all imaginative. Everything flows so smoothly. It also being entirely cel/hand drawn to match the style of the 30s just blows my mind too, no wonder this game was in dev for so long.

The game itself is very fun too as a boss-driven schmup with some run n gun stages mixed in. Pretty much every fight is memorable and has neat twists and turns as you progress through each boss's phases. I actually just learned through the GDQ run the other day that some bosses have secret phases orwaysto beat them based on what you do, or don't do. For example, if you don't attack the crying onion from the vegetable stage, he never cries,is happy instead and just leaves on his own, but then there's additional stuff to deal with during the carrot phase.

Playing this game was already hard, but on Expert mode added a solid level of challenge. It made everything just slightly faster and added just enough projectiles to be the right degree of extra challenge, not like turning it into a bullet hell or anything. And if the game were ever a true bullet hell that wouldn't be ideal-there's only one or two points where it really gets like that and they're pretty manageable.

Anyway, my favorite fights, based on the design of the fight and design of the boss itself are Werner Werman, the army mouse who commandeers a soup can, flying bottlecap machine, and eventually is eaten by a cat... who also turns out to be a robot
, Cala Maria, the enchantress Mermaid who gets some electric eel friends and eventually becomes a Medusa
, and Baroness von Bon Bon, who unleashes different candy minibosses on you before attacking you from her sugar castle herself.



Up next: A game with a lot of unique characters and endings, but somehow one of the characters has broken out of the mold of the game and pops up in a few other places, despite the series being pretty much dead I think.

*Note: I think I actually want to swap this game and Cuphead. So I made Cuphead 93, and this game will be 94


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