Yesterday Phil streamed Cuphead, and here are some impressions:
- Despite having butterfingers, he didn't perform as bad as Dean Takahashi, but also wasn't that good to brag about.
- Since the game can be bought via Twitch, Phil didn' trash-talk the game and its developers, and also tried to avoid foul language as much as possible ("what the flip?")
- He stalled starting the game for a good chunk, with a long pre-stream and talking into the intro of the game, which included singing over the chorus of the intro.
- While stream chat can barely help him, they managed so because Phil knew instantly that he has to "parry" pink enemies and projectiles to raise his special attack meter. Later on he miraculously realized that he can dodge under a certain enemy he can barely jump over, right after reading the stram chat.
- Phil died a total of 79 times, with about being half-way through the game. A good thirty percent of his deaths came from the boss named Grim Matchstick, a dragon he failed to memorize the telegraphed attacks repeatedly. Took him 30 minutes to beat this boss, right after his 20 minute break.
- Phil bought an upgrade which gave him an extra heart (so he can get hit another time without dying) but lowers his overall attack damage. Without that upgrade he would have died many times more. He also bought a second upgrade which would give him another heart (and lowering his damage further) but he forgot to equip it.
- The lowered damage means that he takes way longer to defeat bosses, the final fight before the end of the stream session dragged on forever since he also equipped a secondary shot type and failed to hit like 80 percent.
- In the jump and run levels he didn't do terrible, but already cheesed his way through because some mini-bosse appear on the edge of the screen and can be shot but still don't trigger their attacks, which Phil proudly made use of. One mini-boss also seemed to have glitched out.
- Phil died during one boss fight the same time the boss died but unlike Mega Man X3 back then the game gave him a pass and counted it as a level finish.
- At no point did he perform outstandingly good, and with the exception of the Grim Matchstick fight he didn't rage that much. He also didn't shit on the game (it's actually pretty good looking but short) but that may change since the tough bosses are yet to come.