The teaser for Netflix’s Cuphead show is as beautiful as the video game

Cuphead is a 2017 video game from StudioMDHR. Gameplay-wise, it’s a platformer — you run and jump and shoot and stuff — with an emphasis on bosses. But arguably the best thing about it was its visual style; Cuphead’s aesthetic is modeled off Fleischer cartoons from the 1930s, and it is drop-dead stonking gorgeous. I mean, I never really watched those old cartoon, but I still know this is beautiful:

Now, Netflix is making a Cuphead show, an homage to the same cartoons that the video game pays tribute to. Check out the teaser:

So it’s early yet, and it can’t be easy to be animating everything from home, but I already love the style, from the visuals to the music to the voices. It’s The Cuphead Show!

And honestly, a TV show may be the best medium for Cuphead, because fun as the game was, it was hard. Like, bang your head against the wall until your brains busted out hard. I beat it — I have to say that so my pain can be acknowledged — but I still wake up in cold sweats remembering that fricking dragon boss.

As for the story, Cuphead keeps it simple, if weird: two brothers, Cuphead and Mugman, lose big at the Devil’s casino, which is what it sounds like: the Devil literally owns a casino. To pay off their debt, they promise to travel Inkwell Isles to retrieve the souls of people who have reneged on their debts. Those people are the bosses you fight, from an angry potato to a skyscraper-sized Medusa to that fricking dragon.

I imagine the Netflix show will follow basically the same story, but this time I can watch it without getting so stressed out.

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