Is Cuphead the hardest run and shoot game ever?

[tajishima]

The title says it all. What do you think?

[tajishima]

I would say that this game is almost as hard as the original Contra for the NES minus the 30 lives code. Maybe even harder than Contra?...hmm...

[Protocol27]

I'd say Contra is tougher than Cuphead, even with the 30 lives cheat:

- Cuphead doesn't have a live system, and you don't have to play the entire game again when you game over, you start right back at the boss
- You die in one hit in Contra, in Cuphead you have at least three hitpoints, up to five with a special
- Bullets are tiny in Contra and difficult to see coming (also blend in with the background), attacks are pretty well telegraphed in Cuphead
- No way to revive your friends in Contra instantly, unlike in Cuphead
- The run and gun sections can be skipped in Cuphead

Cuphead is still difficult, but not as difficult as Contra imo.

[Thembo Timbo]

Nope Contra Hard Corps exists.

[Sephiroth]

megaman

[lol tapped by vac | C O L D]

It seems like you've never played a bullet hell game in your life if you think cuphead is one of the hardest run and gun games ever.

[tajishima]

Originally posted by i ran over 15 children:

It seems like you've never played a bullet hell game in your life if you think cuphead is one of the hardest run and gun games ever.

I actually have played many bullet hell games (think Touhou, Ikaruga, Raiden, Gradius,etc). Bullet hell is a different category than Cuphead. Cuphead is a run and shoot game.

[KnightimeX]

Originally posted by tajishima:

I would say that this game is almost as hard as the original Contra for the NES minus the 30 lives code. Maybe even harder than Contra?...hmm...

Not even close.
Go play contra on NES again.

[Codester]

CupHead is downright one of the easiest run and gun games I have ever played in my life, that doesn't make it any less good though, I loved playing it. People only have this "hard" stigma about it due to it's marketing and popularity, you can throw a dart at a board filled with every run and gun game and you are almost garaunteed to hit one thats harder than cuphead.

[Knobz]

Honestly, after watching Cuphead streamers I thought it cant be that difficult, and bought it confirmed not as hard as old NES games. Played Contra every day as a child.

this is close to how games *should be* but its not the most difficult game ever thats for sure.

the game is actually quite easy, I play Cuphead with my 7 year old and she has cleared some of the first Isle bosses, even managing to stay alive through Hilda Berg on regular.

if my 7 year old can manage Isle 1, its not that hard

[WickedIrish]

Nah... game wasn't even really that hard. Getting S on all bosses was tho. Kids dont know what hard games today really are

[Moe Magi Maxima]

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

Nah... game wasn't even really that hard. Getting S on all bosses was tho. >Kids dont know what hard games today really are<

Unless they're Touhou devotees, that is. Lol.

[KnightimeX]

Want a true hard games?

Play these.

Batman - NES
1943 - NES
Abadox - NES
Battletoads - NES
Streets of Rage 2 or 3 on hardest - Genesis
Demon's Crest - SNES
Actraiser 2 - SNES
Megaman X6 - Ps1
R-Type 3 - SNES
Gradius 3 Arcade mode - SNES
Super Ghouls N Ghost - SNES
Castlevania Chronicles - PS1
Castlevania Rebirth Hard setting - Wiiware

All of these start out easy but become devistating hard later in game.

[viktorhallo]

Originally posted by KnightimeX:

Want a true hard games?

Play these.

Batman - NES
1943 - NES
Abadox - NES
Battletoads - NES
Streets of Rage 2 or 3 on hardest - Genesis
Demon's Crest - SNES
Actraiser 2 - SNES
Megaman X6 - Ps1
R-Type 3 - SNES
Gradius 3 Arcade mode - SNES
Super Ghouls N Ghost - SNES
Castlevania Chronicles - PS1
Castlevania Rebirth Hard setting - Wiiware

All of these start out easy but become devistating hard later in game.

ive played quite a few of those games back in the days.

i did beat demon crest megaman x6 + ghouls n ghost+ ghost n goblins and made it to the 11th stage in battletoads, but kept getting games over at that point...

There is however a game at steam that are far harder than most likely all of the games listed above by far. its called wings of VII. the normal difficulty in that game is harder than battletoads TBH and makes supermeat boy and the end is nigh look like a kindergarten game..

Wings of vii starts of easy aswell, at first you think its difficulty spikes, but the whole game is a huge difficulty spike.

[DinoWalk]

I don't know man, I just played fpr an hour and I can't even beat the first level. Pretty dang hard.

Then again, I don't really do well in fast reflex-based games. Turn based is more my style. =]

Ice cream break then we try again!

[Pom Pom 🍕]

No, it's actually one of the easier games in its genre (unless you count 3D run n guns, but I'm assuming you mean 2D). Not that being easier makes it easy, but 2D run n guns are generally pretty hard games.