Playdate: Cuphead (10/13/2017)

Gotta love that BEast content!

So much great content coming from GBeast. All of these people work so damn well together. This was a great stream!

Hell yeah, this is awesome. Pressing play now!

Cant wait to watch this! Playdates are awesome

Love this!

Protip: You can duck when the blob attacks and he will never hit you with those attacks. Get close and spread into his face.

My "pro tip" (or at least what helped me beat this game without much trouble) is to use the charge shot, the short ranged spread shot, and the invincible dash. I used that loadout for almost the entire game and it's super powerful. Bosses will often only get 1 attack off in a phase because you just dish out so much damage. I actually skipped an entire phase in the final boss because I they were taking too much damage.

I love Vinny for mentioning Dead Like Me, the precursor to Pushing Daisies. Awesome series!

Which is probably why they have said the coming patch will nerf the Charge Shot a bit.

It was stressful every time someone was rolling and another person would yell out how many supers they had.

Dead Like Me is awesome!!! Vinny is the best!!!!

I feel like if I use the charge shot it's basically 'cheating' as they have come out and said it's overpowered and it will be nerfed in the next patch. Trying to avoid using it, but very tempting..

How long until Giant Bomb receive a Cease and Desist from the WWE for 2 Sweeting ?

Gross.

Putting dash on a bumper just seems crazy for me since it's a button you're gonna press a LOT and I'm just not comfortable with the XBone controller bumper buttons. I put dash on right trigger and kept everything else default and it really works for me.

In world 1 they missed a coin in the environment: in the trees, the yellow bit by the ax-head.

I have found another coin in world 2 as well (and that's as far as I made it so far...)

@valeo: Ah. I didn't know even the devs thought it was overpowered. I haven't really been following any discussion on the game other than what's on GB. But yeah that gun is insane.

Great playdate! To be honest, I think this game is pretty great but maybe a touch overrated. The visual designs and audio and presentation in general are all fantastic but there's a few gameplay choices and boss designs that rub me the wrong way. Most of my issues could probably be boilt down to me being bad at video games, but I found myself a number of times thinking that whatever just hit me was complete bullshit. Also, I think the parry is weirdly underused and kind of pointless at times, as well as feeling awkward to pull off (parrying before hitting, as opposed to as you hit). But, that's just me, good game overall.

@valeo: I was just about to comment how the Charge Shot pretty much won the entirety of World 2 for me, I didn't realise it was considered overpowered. I actually thought it was the only gun that felt good to use, the others seemed to be a whole lot of tedium having to bounce bullets off bosses for so long. That sucks, but I guess I'll continue to cheat until they nerf it.

This was lots of fun! I hope you guys play more of this in the future

Vinny is MVP as always

YES! GBeast has taken over GiantBomb. They're so good together.

Also I never buy games at full price, but I might make an exception for this one... Looks so good.

It was pretty cool to see the ol' Contra duo play together again. Dan and Vinny seemed to fall right back into their efficient co-op rhythm. Although they're on edge the whole time, they play it pretty cool in-game.

Great idea for a stream, I love to see the Beast crew working together.

It's also funny that this game that's taking the world by storm is essentially a reskin of Contra

It'd be cool for y'all to do a series with Cuphead like beating the game but using the same type of streaming format y'all had today. Maybe you could call it 4 People, 2 cups. Just a thought. Or even The Beast Cup.

Alex has the correct layout, shooting on trigger allows you to focus on jumping.

I love GBE Playdates, ya'll look like you're having a damn good time.

Caught this live and it was a really fun watch. Some good close moments there had me clenching. And wow, Vinny was showing some real skill with this game. Everyone did well of course, it's a hard game but you can tell Vinny put in the work on this one.

Vinny is so good at video games!

I am totally for shooting on RT. That way I just have movement on the face buttons (jump and dash)

man, what a sound track.

and Vinny, they can't say you're bad at games now... dear lord.

@dazzhardy: souffle me \m/

FFS Dan stop waiting five seconds every time!

Missed a coin in the trees next to the Axe NPC

For once I agree with Dan on something, the invisidash is key!

Alex is right, shooting goes on RT. The rest of you are insane

I agree with Alex on shooting on RT. There’s no reason to not constantly be shooting in this game, and having it on RT makes that easiest.

"What's up with the default controls!?"
"They're terrible!"
5 stars.

@mithhunter55: I just lay my thumb across both X and A, and have no problem shooting and jumping. Feels totally natural, and is also how I've always liked running and jumping mapped in 2D platformers. Currently working on finishing the game on Expert.

I just unceremoniously quit my job today, and I feel like absolute garbage over it. Hopefully this and some booze will help me hate myself less.

Vinny is clutch !

@alex with the timely Gordon Solie reference! Love it!

@alex absolutely has the right idea mapping shoot to RT. There is no need to be rolling the same finger across jump and shoot.

Also has Dan always made Waluigi noises or has some awful transformation taken place?

It's easy.

I played with default controls. They're fine.

I can't believe of all the things they changed, they decided to keep the default Shoot+Jump bindings,

Forget the charge shot the real OP strat is to equip the lobber and roundabout and just swap between the two while holding the fire button. That will melt any boss on regular difficulty.

Wow that sounds like an incredible boring way to play the game. I guess we have different tastes but to me the game is much more fun when you don't use the invincible dash and charge shot.

This was a fun one. Especially watching the crew realize how much harder coop is. It is chaos.

The default controls are the only way to play the game.

This comment has no strong feelings towards the games difficulty or control layout preferences. It's bland, tasteless and boring.

Great show. Fantastic team chemistry between everyone!

So this would appear to be the year of games featuring pig shop vendors with eyepatches.