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In 2017,
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Studio MDHR released Cuphead,
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one of the best games I’ve ever played.
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It’s a 2D animated run and gun action game
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where you defeat around 20 bosses
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so that you can gain soul contracts and also beat the Devil.
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The unique thing and what I was drawn to when I first saw this game
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was the look or animation of it.
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It’s based on “rubber hose” animations from the 1930s
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with every frame being hand drawn
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and then scanned onto a computer to color it and then code it,
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which is just next level.
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Nice job team!
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Since 2017, Studio MDHR also released a DLC called the “Delicious Last Course”.
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Haha, get it?
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And it’s also pretty good, adding more weapons and charms to the game.
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As for the gameplay, it’s pretty fun,
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but it gets pretty challenging at times because there’s a lot going on screen
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and you have to use the right amount of skill to dodge attacks.
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I’ve even heard people compare this game to Dark Souls for some reason.
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You can play the game as Mugman or Ms. Chalice if you have the DLC
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and you can also play the game in 2 player mode with a friend as well.
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Cuphead is one of my top 5 games out there
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and I give it a 10/10 just because I personally love it.
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It’s an amazing game with an old-ish artstyle,
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a really good musical score,
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and engaging gameplay that I can never get bored of.
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Seriously, go check it out if you haven’t,
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and there’s also a Netflix show about it too which is pretty neat.
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Now with anything that’s popular,
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there’s always gonna be copies of it,
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and Cuphead is no different.
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The first clone of Cuphead I heard about is “Enchanted Portals”.
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This is a game marketed as being Cuphead inspired,
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being the most popular clone of Cuphead with people still referencing it to this day.
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As for the plot,
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it’s about 2 Harry Potter wizards accidentally stumbling upon a book,
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they cast spells on it,
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and then they get sucked into another world and fight bosses.
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Now I have never played the game, but looking at reviews of it on YouTube,
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the art is pretty nice but the game just doesn't feel as polished and as smooth as Cuphead is.
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3 out of 10.
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“Rubber Hose Rampage” is another game that comes to mind.
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I found this game because of a Pogobro and boy oh boy is it bad.
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The game is in black and white,
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the animation isn’t smooth,
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and most of it is traced on really old cartoons anyways.
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Some bosses are impossible to beat, and it just screams poor quality.
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The game did get updated by adding more bosses and color into the game,
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but it’s still a piece of garbage.
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1 out of 10.
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CHICKEN JOCKEY
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God Bless The USA
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It's time for the moment you've been waiting for!
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Duh...
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Duh (x7)
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Duh (x15)
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I don't want to sub all this, you know the point.
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Spongebob Seasons 1-3 was peak.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks
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I feel like P Diddy with fur
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Preparing...
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“Toyland Tussle”.
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This is probably the best Cuphead clone ever and hence why I wanted to make this video.
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I found this because of Shaconda Cartoons, a channel I’m subscribed to
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and honestly, it looks pretty good.
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This game was released to Steam,
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because every video game ever is on Steam,
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in August 2025 which is last month.
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The developer is RBW games
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and the price of it is 3 dollars.
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Needless to say, I bought the game to see how it was and…
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Nah I’m just kidding.
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I got it from a quacked site because I don’t have any money right now, but anyways…
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When you first start the game, it opens up in windowed view,
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so now I have to push P to fullscreen it.
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Which is pretty annoying, but it's a minor inconvenience.
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In the main menu,
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I didn't know which button to press to select the items, so I used my controller.
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This game has controller support btw and it's fine.
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Eventually, I found out that you press the ‘spacebar’ to select the items and ‘enter’ to go back.
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Anyways, the stats menu allows you to change the film to a ‘color’ or a ‘black and white’ filter,
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and a menu to view the guns.
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Press ‘A’ on your controller and ‘enter’ on your keyboard to go back to the main menu.
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The controls menu tells you which button to press and you can change it to another preset.
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Unfortunately it doesn't let you rebind or remap the keys,
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you are stuck at whatever the game gives you.
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Pressing play gives you the difficulty of standard or extreme,
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and whichever one you click,
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it will showcase you the plot of the story.
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So as a plot goes,
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the main character is called “Fodder the Cannon”.
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He was walking downtown wanting to spend his money on something,
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then he saw a small toystore and proceeded to walk inside.
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In the store, there's a music box on a pedestal and because of curiosity,
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he decided to open the box and then he got sucked into a world made of toys.
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He gets jumpscared by this monkey or whatever, and then the game starts.
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So here is the boss!
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This game only has one boss battle
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and it doesn't have a name so I don't know what to call this.
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In the first phase, you fight the guy who just jumpscared you.
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He does 3 attacks and it's either:
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a streak of lightning across the floor,
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the clapping of his symbols,
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or music notes that falls down.
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When you die, there's a death screen, saying:
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"Ha! I knew you would lose, even if there was a hundred of you's!”
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Probably a reference to the 100 men vs 1 gorilla thing.
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And it gives you the option to retry the level,
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exit to the main menu,
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or equip another weapon.
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Speaking of which,
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there are four weapons, being the:
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bullet, firework, bounce bomb, and splitter.
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The bullet is the first weapon that you get.
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It's basically just like the peashooter in Cuphead,
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shooting in a straight line and it's EX is a bigger bullet.
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The firework is like the chaser in Cuphead,
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it homes onto the enemy but with the EX being a ring moving in a circular pattern.
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This one has the least amount of damage at 1.
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The bounce bomb reminds me of the lobber but it shoots across the screen
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and it's EX is 6 bigger bombs bouncing across the screen.
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This has the most amounts of damage at 4
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Finally the splitter,
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it shoots in both the front and back of your head and the EX is 2 bigger spears.
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Not sure why you would need this weapon though.
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In the second phase, you deal with two monkeys that either:
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spits out peanuts from their mouth,
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throw a coconut that splits into 2 pieces,
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or throw out their head that bounces from the floor back to them.
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There's even a banana that walks across the screen to make it even harder.
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Embarrassingly, I died a lot on this phase because there was so much stuff going on
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and I couldn't dodge quick enough.
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Even as the chimpanzees, they can see that I'm the real monkey.
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But after a couple of tries, I got to phase 3.
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In phase 3, the monkey from the start reveals himself in a bigger form
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and he does 3 attacks once again.
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Stretching his hand out to punch me,
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shooting barrels into the sky that falls down,
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or a banana that shoots in 6 directions
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that you have to dodge very quick before you lose your health.
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Eventually, I got to beat him,
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or maybe he beats himself,
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and I got a bronze ranking!
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Apparently this guy is nice and I just beat him up for no reason.
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I take a walk into a portal,
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get sucked back to reality,
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somebody screams at me to get away,
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and I learned a very valuable lesson that day.
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Spelled wrong by the way.
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And that was it, only one boss!
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In the credits screen,
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we learn that RBW stands for Raz Bennett-Warner,
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and this person did all work on the game, which is impressive.
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He thanks his family and friends and then us for playing the game.
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You're welcome.
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And that's it!
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I give my compliments to the chef.
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As for what I like about Toyland Tussle,
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the animation is pretty good.
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It looks like it’s based on Cuphead with it having the same style and the old grainy filter.
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Unlike the other clones,
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the animation is pretty smooth and polished,
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and I personally haven't found any bugs yet.
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The music and sound effects are fine,
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you can view the OST on the Official YouTube channel.
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I feel like it can be improved,
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but I'm not a game developer
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and I'll cut RBW some slack because it's only one person behind it.
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Gameplay wise, it's pretty fun and challenging to play
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and somewhat difficult just like Cuphead.
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I like the attacks that the bosses give you and it's pretty creative.
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For things that I don't like however,
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it sucks that you can't rebind your keys.
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Doing that would probably help me defeat the bosses easier by keeping my muscle memory.
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There's just no option.
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Speaking of that, there's no settings in the game either.
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You can't change your resolution or volume level like in other games.
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Another pet peeve that I have is that the game doesn't tell me what to press,
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like “spacebar” to select or “enter” to the pause screen.
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Speaking of which,
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there's no resume button so I kept replaying the boss on accident.
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There's also no tutorial on how to play the game for newcomers.
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But most people know this game as the “Cuphead Clone”
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and most people already know how Cuphead works.
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Finally, there's only one boss battle in the game,
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with nothing else to explore and it can get pretty boring after a while.
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Besides that,
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this game has a lot of potential being a very good fan-game or clone to Cuphead,
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and if the developer ever updates an adds more stuff in the game,
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I'll definitely replay it in the future.
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We will watch your career with great interest.
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As for my rating,
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I'll give it a 7 out of 10 because it’s pretty decent
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but it only has 1 boss.
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It’s probably the best Cuphead clone I’ve ever seen.
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No game comes close to this.
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Looking back at the script,
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I forgot to mention Acecraft.
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The game is good,
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the bosses are pretty cool
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and it has somewhat of a storyline,
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but it’s only for mobile and it has some micro-transactions,
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so I’ll give it a 6 out of 10.
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But yeah,
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Toyland Tussle has a lot of potential
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and I hope there are more developments to the game.
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Go check it out if you haven’t,
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and I’ll see you next time.
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Bye!
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Me after getting 99 instead of 100 on test.