{"id":2645,"date":"2017-10-14T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2017-10-14T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:08:22","slug":"cuphead-a-work-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2645","title":{"rendered":"Cuphead: A Work Of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This game is insane.  It&#8217;s weird though.  In no way is it new.  The visuals hearken back to nearly a century ago and the tough-as-nails platforming isn&#8217;t far removed from my own youth.  However, it is gorgeous and one of the more refreshing titles I&#8217;ve played in years.  In an age when everything feels like it&#8217;s been done before, <b>Cuphead<\/b> comes along and tells you that old can be new again.  I&#8217;ve opted to share some screenshots, but they simply cannot do this game any justice.  The silky-smooth animations and impressive boss battles can only be appreciated by watching it in action&#8230;something I highly recommend anyone doing.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014141943_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142351_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014151604_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014142406_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171014152824_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This last image is one you&#8217;ll see a lot of.  It taunts you with showing your level progress, thus inciting another retry.  And another.  And another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game is insane. It&#8217;s weird though. In no way is it new. The visuals hearken back to nearly a century ago and the tough-as-nails platforming isn&#8217;t far removed from my own youth. However, it is gorgeous and one of the more refreshing titles I&#8217;ve played in years. In an age when everything feels like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,12,15,4,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","category-screenshots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}