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In the new expansion pack
The Delicious Last Course
, Miss Chalice makes three. (credit: Studio MDHR)
Some people will look at an expansion pack like
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
and make up their minds after a single glance. This $8 add-on's beautiful brutality follows the same path as
the original 2017 game
Cuphead
, a notoriously tough descendant of the
Mega Man
school of game design. Maybe you love playing games that are as beautiful as they are difficult. Maybe you don't.
I'm here to talk about
Last Course
because I might be a lot like you. I'm not
Last Course
's target audience. I never beat the original
Cuphead
. I have contended that a tough game like this is easier for me to watch than it is to play. But when I saw the expansion's hands-on demo at
this month's Summer Game Fest Play Days
, I shrugged my shoulders, grabbed a gamepad, and gave it a shot.
Might as well occupy myself between other scheduled game demos
, I thought.
And then I fell in love. For whatever reason, the demo I played, and my subsequent completion of
Last Course
's "normal" difficulty content, grabbed me and wouldn't let go—which is why I'm compelled to recommend picking it up.