- Oh, I killed him! Uh oh, what is this?
- Kill it. Die!
- Get that guy! What is so wrong
about getting that guy!? Ah!
- ♪ (8 bit intro) ♪
- Cuphead. 'Cause they look like little cups.
Oh my God.
- Oh, these are like old cartoons.
I love this kind of animation.
- Looks like an old one, 'cause it looks like
an old cartoon, but I've never heard of if it is.
- (FBE) So, Cuphead is what's called a run and gun style platformer.
It has you taking control of the character on the left.
His name is Cuphead and you're going to be
defeating enemies to save Cuphead's soul from the Devil.
- The Devil?
- Saving souls from the Devil? That's my business.
- (FBE) So, we're gonna teach you how to play this game off-screen
and then we're gonna let you just have a go at some
of the opening levels of the game and see how you do.
- This is not solitaire, is it? You know, I'm up for it.
I'm up for the challenge.
- So far, I've been very bad at games.
I don't expect I'll be better at this one.
- Yeah, let's do it!
- ♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- It's ragtime.
- Press it? Okay.
- "The Root Pack in Botanic Panic."
- "Botanic" means plants, flowers.
"Panic" is getting scared, as far as I can tell.
- It's great graphics. I mean, it is like an old cartoon.
- (FBE) And we're gonna have you play the simple difficulty
so you can at least have a fighting chance.
- Thank you.
- Here we go.
- (announcer) A brawl is surely brewing.
- Okay, ready.
- Hey, turn around.
- Why isn't the gun working?
- Well, that was quick.
- Ah, you have to hit them lots of times.
Well, that's not fair.
- Okay, go to retry?
- (announcer) Now, go! - Oh!
- How am I supposed to get by there?
Wait, how am I-- why doesn't he
move any further?
- Why is it not hitting and killing these things?
- Oh, son of a gun. They're not dying.
- (laughs) Whoops, I'm supposed to stay there.
- (laughs) I'm dying really quickly.
- Come on, you son of a gun. Oh, I jumped too soon.
- Little further.
- Whoa, I killed him! Uh oh, what is this?
- How do I turn him?
- Ahh! (laughs) I got carrots coming at me!
Oh, I got killed by a giant carrot!
- Do I have to start from the beginning every time?
(sighs) I found a flaw.
- That's fun. I mean, now I'm getting
the hang of it a little bit, but it is tough.
- Jump, jump, jump. (laughs)
- That's it. Why am I bouncing to the music?
- Now I have to fight the carrot. (laughing) I hit it.
So, I have to turn that way.
- Okay, I don't understand the carrot.
- Oh, I jumped when I should have backed up.
- (laughing) I shot the carrots! I got your baby carrot!
(laughs) Oh, I don't know, guys. That's getting beyond
my concentration level right now.
- Yeah, that's tough.
- The challenge. It's a strategy.
(laughs) That's why I take it personally.
- "Thretenin' Zeppelin." Finally reacting to something
with "zeppelin" in the title.
- "Hilda Berg" Hilda Berg.
"in Threatenin' Zeppelin."
- I'm gonna be flying and shooting.
It's gonna be fun, but I'm not gonna do well.
- All right, here we go.
- (announcer) This match will get red hot.
It's on. - It's on.
- Man, they're throwing a lot of stuff at you.
- I'm back here.
- Ah.
- Whoops!
- Oh, I died. I didn't even see that one.
- Oh! No one told me
the "Ha's" would kill you.
- "Fitting, isn't it? I'm a blimp, you're a wimp."
Oh yeah? (laughs)
We'll see about that.
- (announcer) Now, go! - Whoops.
Up there, keep shooting. Come on, die.
They get very stubborn. They don't want to die.
I died.
- There you go. There you go.
Ah, oh! A little sneak attack from the back.
- That was a big one, ooh.
- Why won't that die?
- Oh, that wasn't good. Oh, I got farther.
- Oh, I'm-- That "Ha ha" keeps getting me.
Oh, too far away.
- Johnny, Johnny, what are you doing?
You came too close to the Sun.
- Come on. Got you.
- Kill it. Die! (laughs)
I'm actually saying the guy should die.
This is different.
- Okay, you morphed. All right, baby.
I still died!
- Oh, we got the bull, now.
- Whoops, whoops, whoops. Got back over here.
(laughs) Down, down, down.
(laughs)
- The heck's that? I didn't know.
Yeah, well. At least I got to the tornado.
This one's still tough either way. Well, with practice
I could probably do better.
- "The Clip Joint Calamity."
- Oh dear. - (announcer) Here goes!
- That's a whole lot of folks.
- There's a big frog there. Oops!
- Oh, oh! (laughs)
Oh, this one's good.
- Oh, I gotta jump.
That was the first one. That was just the first foray.
- That's a lot going on.
- Okay, prepare to go down, froggies.
- Where's that? What are those?
- Come on. Come on, froggy.
Oh!
- (laughs) Just have to move faster.
- Shoot those guys! (laughs)
Ah, it's like I just had him in my sights
and I already was in his.
- There's so much going on. It's like when you get
to the third or fourth level of Centipede
and things are coming everywhere and they're bouncing back
off the bottom and you try and stay out of the way.
- Whoops. (laughs)
It's very fast and I'm not so fast.
- Get that guy. What is so wrong
about getting that guy!? Ah, ah, ah!
(laughs) Oh, I can't take
many more hits! My shields are down!
- Up, up, up. Aww, that last bit got me.
- It's too much for me.
- I give up. (laughs)
Do I have a white towel to throw in?
- I'll take all your fire ants! Your little tadpoles!
Get him! (laughs)
Ah, no! Oh, that's it guys.
My will to survive has been trampled upon.
- I did enjoy that. That was fun.
It gets personal. I'm not gonna let
this thing beat me.
- It's difficult, but I had a feeling
that I could actually figure it out
and maybe do it if I tried it off next.
So I get the idea what am I supposed to do.
- For young people, maybe it introduces them
to cartoons of the past, which many haven't
been exposed to. So, it's opening up
a whole new avenue for young people
and then for people like myself, you know,
older people. I think it's great
because then it takes us back.
- Thanks for watching us play Cuphead on the React Channel.
- Let us know what game we should try next
down in the comments.
- Bye.
- Hey everybody, Derek here, one of the React Channel producers.
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They've got a vlog on there. You can see everything we do
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Go check it out!