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I wish there was an option for an easy mode, because I really do love the presentation and the game controls as smooth as butter, but the game can feel like a war of attrition. I know comparing it to Dark Souls is kinda cliche at this point, but it's not exactly something like Super Meat Boy here.

The game suffers a lot from trial and error gameplay and while I respect the intent of delivering a Nintendo Hard platformer in the modern age, it just wasn't my thing. People who like that kind of thing, though, will find much to love in Cuphead.

And by trial and error gameplay, I'm more referring to how long it takes you to get back to where you were. In Super Meat Boy, it took less than 30 seconds to get back to where you were on most of the levels. In Cuphead, it can take several minutes just to get back to where you were.

It's less Super Meat Boy and more SMB 2: Lost Levels, and I'll be frank, that game blew monkey chunks.

Trail and Error gameplay? I think that's just called baby mode off. Git gud.

There is an easy mode. Have you actually played it?

Literaly every time you start a Boss it let's you choose between Simple mode and Regular...

I never see the point of playing shit on easy mode or complaining about the game requiring skill. If it didn't then why would I even be playing it? Same reason I don't gen all my competitive Pokemon with PKhex, I play games to... well PLAY them.

@Ben Soto you know, instead of complaining that a game doesn't have an easy mode, go find another game that will suit your taste. You also need to consider that some devs made games with specific audience in mind, and there's a chance that a game wasn't made for you.

And comparing it to SMB2 makes no fucking sense. The game is well designed and the challenge comes from how well and how fast you can use the mechanics to avoid damage. Never did I feel the game was unfair, I usually caught myself getting distracted with things and had to get into a zen state to properly play.

Similarly a full boss fight doesn't take longer than 5 minutes, but well, you will just die a lot while you learn to adapt to the patterns and tells of the Boss.

Games meant to be hard should stay hard.

Or at least mock the player for picking easy.

Back when I first started gaming, games were often hard, sometimes unfairly so, but it was so satisfying beating the bastards. Recently I was tempted to lower the difficulty on a game at a tough spot, but if I had I'd have felt as though the game beat me.

I should note that while there is an easy mode, if you play the game on easy mode, you can't beat the game. There's also nothing changed about the bosses other than that certain phases of the fight are removed.

Here is a question, how can you say you beat a game when you can't overcome every challenges this game throw at you?

If you play a game on easy, the game is supposed to through less challenging challenges at you. Are you telling me I can't say I didn't beat New Vegas because I didn't play it on Very Hard with Hardcore mode on? Because that's bullshit.

No, I think that's actually pretty fair to say. How can you even give an opinon on the game when you didn't engage the mechanics and played the kiddie gloves version.

So there is an easy mode in Cuphead, but I am guessing is not easy enough then? They shouldn't have bothered with Easy mode then. Just make regular the only initial difficulty.

If you can't even beat it in normal mode, which is supposed to be as a full challenge, you are. Because normal mode in most of games are supposed to be the middle between challenge and fun.

And in most of cases, developers will have placed every challenges they want player to overcome in normal mode, harder mode in general are just stuff like more health and damage of enemy, only for those who think normal is not hard enough and want to have harder experience.