Cuphead is coming to Netflix — and it’d better be dark as pitch

Cuphead, cartoonish indie platformer darling, is getting its personal Netflix present, in accordance to its builders at Studio MDHR. The present, which can be made by Netflix Animation, will be referred to as The Cuphead Show! As a fan of the sport, I can solely hope the trademark dark edge makes it into the present — as a result of anybody who’s performed the sport will understand it’s not for essentially the most delicate of souls.

Coming to you in full colour and cine-sound, it is…The Cuphead Show! Witness the wondrous Inkwell Isles as you’ve got by no means seen them earlier than in an authentic sequence impressed by basic animation types of the 1930s. Now in manufacturing by the proficient workforce at @Netflix Animation! pic.twitter.com/4xA59eVLra

— Studio MDHR (@StudioMDHR) July 9, 2019

Not a lot is recognized concerning the present’s content material so far. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the present will be made with the assistance of King Features Syndicate, the identical firm that owns the rights to Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, and a number of different staples of the period Cuphead lovingly imitates. It’s an ideal candidate, visually talking: the sport is intentionally patterned after the 1930s-era Fleischer cartoons, that means it’s designed to not look extra like a cartoon than your standard platformer within the first place.

I do form of surprise how Cuphead‘s darkness will translate well to the screen. The game‘s story is, not to put too fine a point on it, majorly fucked up. The two ceramic young’uns, Cuphead and Mugman, make a cope with the satan to save their very own pores and skin after dropping a rigged on line casino recreation — and then they proceed to accumulate souls from different debters by beating the tar out of them in fights.

That is to say, the world of Inkwell Isle is not a cheerful one, regardless of its shiny colour. The reality the sport is frustratingly troublesome form of builds on that “not for the kiddies” vibe — so it form of worries me that its otherwise-blank web page on Netflix is listed underneath the “Kids TV” style.

If nothing else, this seems to be a part of streaming companies’ concerted effort to attraction to players, although the place this impulse got here from I’m not exactly positive. Other than The Cuphead Show!, Netflix is making its new Witcher sequence, of which it’s so far launched however just a few promotional pictures. Scuttlebutt additionally has it {that a} Halo sequence is in growth. Seems like they’re taking a really broad slice out of gaming basically to see what genres resonate with audiences. While the selection of Cuphead as a topic is a little bit of an sudden one, I’ll recognize it if Netflix makes a present with the sport’s trademark macabre humorousness.