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Cuphead's Creators Reveal Their Fighting Game Influences
Cuphead developers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer talk about how their love for old fighting games made its way into a few of the game’s bosses.
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What's your favorite fighting game reference in Cuphead?
The more you know😁
I always thought the platforms reminded me of that one boss fom megaman 5.
Edit: now that I think of it, the poker chips boss is more similar to that one.
SNK
So what im hearing is a cuphead fighting game?
Amazingly awesome
These guys have hugely changed gaming forever. Cheers!
Yeah Because some of the References are NOT obvious!!! (Cough Cough Jawbreaker Cough Cough Pac man).
Evil mickey attacks japan. That is all.
Look at who is cheering in the backround, FOOD
That's an incredible amount of detail and design for just one boss. Now I'm wondering what else I missed in the game.
I definitely got the more direct Street Fighter references in the frog brothers stage, but I did not see the correlation between the slot machine icons and the Street Fighter 2 bosses. And Sally Stageplay is Urien. Did not notice that before this video.
Bison? Literally everyone calls those red ones Devils…
I would love to meet Chad and Jared one time!
This was such a cool story. Who would have thought.
I LOVE THIS GAME
Well cuphead and his pal mug-
Mickey mouse like laughingThis is what I love the most about Cuphead; how it's basically one big tribute/nostalgia trip for the things the creators love, while at the same time being its own thing. Yes, some of the references are more obvious than others, but I honestly think this is a cool way to pay homage to things – not directly copying, but using the thing your taking inspiration from as a kind of starting point, and creating something from that. The end result can be anything from almost exactly similar to something where you need to be told what they were referencing to see where the link actually is.
This won't happen for years, but I plan on doing a similar thing on a game I plan on making (it's not a Run and Gun, though. It's a PlayStation 1 and 2 era Final Fantasy style RPG.) I plan on doing the Cuphead thing, and taking inspiration from various things, mostly video games and animations that I have a nostalgic attachment to – the only thing is this will be a wider range than just "30s-ish cartoons and 80s-ish videogames, as I have a nostalgic attachment for many animations and games, some being pretty new (like this decade.)
Cuphead vs Street Fighter is now a thing in Smash.
Can I make a game on Roblox where you fight boss battle there’s no storyline and there different character yes or no
2:07 it reassemble more of Hugo slap move.
You made Ribby and croks it’s way too easy
This game is way to hard I don't know how much times I deleted this game ☹️
I just noticed that Ribby shoots little Hadokens out of his hands in the first phase.
The frog level background reminded me so much of the tekken 6 restaurant background. Same restaurant with people cheering. Performers in the back, and the same jazz soundtrack
I always thought that the snake sine on the slot machine was a frog or a lizzard
You know that cuphead it self use mickey mouse body
Now I love this game even more
If it's based on fighting games, then why do only the playable characters get nerfed and not the bosses? This game isn't exactly a fair challenge.