What matters are the huge encounters, where Cuphead – and Mugman, for any players daring enough to try the game’s painful two-player option – tackles a giant threat. It does have non-boss levels in the form of (less interesting) platforming sections, but they’re the exception. The 2017 run ‘n’ gunner inverts this by making boss fights the majority of its content. Typically, big, climactic foes are more supplementary to the action process they cap off dungeons or increase an already existing challenge. But all are worthy of discussion.Ĭuphead is that rare kind of video game that puts its bosses down as the star attraction. Several show technical polish, while others tell stories through their fights. Many of these are brilliant, some of them poor. In Big Baddies Breakdown, Wolfman Jew analyzes all sorts of boss fights across the games industry.

Big Baddies Breakdown: King Dice (Cuphead)