Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is a hell of a dessert

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There is no game like Cuphead. The passion project from Studio MDHR instantly set itself apart from the wide swath of 2D action games with its uncanny recreation of the 1930s cartoon aesthetic. Its numerous boss fights were cleverly designed and stunning to watch, even if it meant seeing the same one a dozen times as you threw Cuphead and Mugman into the game’s woodchipper of challenges.

Now, nearly five years after Cuphead’s initial launch, the game has gotten its very first DLC.

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The Delicious Last Course was first announced in 2018 for a planned 2019 release, but delays pushed it all the way to 2022. Was it worth the wait? Unquestionably. It adds about five to six hours of new Cuphead shenanigans, but it also recontextualizes the entire main game in a thrilling way. This is all thanks to the one and only Ms. Chalice, who takes on a starring role.

Even by Cuphead standards, the plot of The Delicious Last Course is pretty out there. Cuphead and Mugman find a new NPC on the main island map who looks suspiciously like Charon, the ferryman who rows dead souls across the river Styx and into the afterlife. In this case, Charon rows Cuphead and Mugman to a new island. Upon their arrival, Ms. Chalice appears out of a portal and offers Mugman a cookie. He eats it and promptly dies, swapping places with Ms. Chalice, who is now alive and well.

Unfortunately for her, the Astral