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Hand-animated 'Cuphead' game delights in 'The Delicious Last Course'

After a comics, novels, and a spinoff Netflix show, Cuphead returns to its roots with new game content. It's brutally difficult, brilliantly surreal, and entirely worth playing.
The villainous Mortimer Freeze, having a whale of a time.

After five years, celebrated video game Cuphead has another offering: The Delicious Last Course. The original game won legions of fans with sumptuous animation hand-drawn on paper in the style of 1930s cartoons, complete with a roaring big band soundtrack. Now, after a Netflix show, a comic book series, and a few middle-grade novels, the game has new downloadable content that's just as gorgeous, imaginative, and brutally difficult as before.

Tough-as-nails crockery

If you've been playing over the past few months as I have,is a badge of honor to gamers.

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