Cuphead is finger-snapping its way over to Netflix next month with a brand-new show adapting the hit, infamously difficult video game. To celebrate, Netflix has just released a new trailer and countdown.
The trailer has a similar classic Disney aesthetic to the game from its animation to its music to its voice acting, with the two protagonists starting out at home, painting the walls, living a mundane life as living cups with straws hanging out their noggins. Red is brash and Blue is bashful, so of course, Red peer pressures Blue into a risky adventure where they fight frogs and angry teapot grandpas.
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Plenty of the games' bosses are on show with some returning side characters. There are talking fruit, dancing skeletons, the devil and his pitchfork, a giant gnawing tree, and a man with dice for his head. The hits are back - it's Cuphead through and through, and you can get a glimpse at it in the trailer below.
The trailer is accompanied by a countdown which has a few chapters you can look through with their own tasks and rewards attached. The tasks are pretty simple - you have to like the Cuphead page on Facebook, watch the trailer, and take part in other promotional tidbits. But there's some extra footage to make it worthwhile, giving us an even further glimpse into the two leads' adventure.
Red and Blue aren't really called that - they're the titular Cuphead and Mugman or 'Muggsy'. Cuphead is played by Tru Valentino who you may know better as Adam from Psychonauts 2. Mugman is played by Frank Todaro, Megatron from Transformers: Titans Return. Luke Millington-Drake plays the Devil, Joe Hanna is the Elder Kettle, Wayne Brady is King Dice, Jim Conroy
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