Outside of the boss fights, there aren't any new Run and Gun segments. Despite that impressive list, she's not overpowered compared to the titular hero and his brother since she doesn't have the jump parry and can't equip any Charms for bonuses. Chalice brings a whole host of new abilities to the walloping fest, adding a double-jump, dash parry, extra health, and invincibility while rolling to a player's arsenal. Chalice and several new items, the main game can also be experienced in a whole new way.

While the focus is understandably on the spectacle of the new bosses, it's worth noting that with the addition of Ms. You can technically access this DLC early on after beating just a couple of bosses in the original experience, but it might be a better idea to hold off and wait until you've gotten a bit more comfortable playing again. If it's been a while since you played Cuphead or you're a newcomer, I recommend going through at least a few of the main game's bosses before trying out this DLC. Personal experience will always vary and different players will find different elements challenging, but bar the possibility of one or two exceptions, I genuinely believe every single fight in this DLC is harder than anything found in the mainline game. This brings me to the single shining caveat for everything I've said so far: Even by the standards of the original game, these boss fights are hard. This is Studio MDHR at its best, pulling from everything that already worked and cranking the dials as high as they can go. I could only clap at the way some of the foes in The Delicious Last Course took advantage of how I expected things to play out. Twice I was left putting down my controller and yelling 'Oh COME ON!' but I can't be mad.

Multiple bosses have unexpected, gnarly tricks up their sleeves, and the game even plays around with player expectations based on certain 'standard' elements of the experience so far. Without spoilers, it's fitting in difficulty and scale as the last boss to be experienced in Cuphead, and the imagination of Studio MDHR is clearly nowhere near exhausted when it comes to entertaining ideas and matching anthropomorphic foes with meticulous game design.Įven outside of the scale, the game design here is some of the best across all of Cuphead. All of this comes together for the final boss fight, which is only accessible after you've collected the five ingredients.

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