{"id":2103,"date":"2021-07-09T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/from-cuphead-to-super-meat-boy-10-of-the-most-fiendishly-difficult-games\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:36:07","slug":"from-cuphead-to-super-meat-boy-10-of-the-most-fiendishly-difficult-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/from-cuphead-to-super-meat-boy-10-of-the-most-fiendishly-difficult-games\/","title":{"rendered":"From Cuphead to Super Meat Boy: 10 of the most fiendishly difficult games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roguelike shooters, punishing platformers and brutal, sword-heavy RPGs \u2026 not all great games have to be a walk in the park<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/picture\/2021\/jul\/09\/modern-toss-\">Modern Toss on twiddling their thumbs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to try and enjoy beautiful 1930s-style animation while being so frustrated that you nearly throw your controller at the wall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/09\/cuphead-review-game-visuals-thrills-1930s-animation\">Cuphead is your game<\/a>. It\u2019s a run-and-gun cartoon caper that looks non-threatening but is actually evil. I had nightmares about one of its bosses (the transforming wedding-cake castle), but when I beat it I felt like an actual god.<br \/><em>Consoles, Mac, PC<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2021\/jul\/09\/difficult-games-super-meat-boy-spelunky-dark-souls-returnal-cuphead-sekiro\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a25411bf27fcd943ecf37eefd948ef313f0df122\/262_42_1658_995\/master\/1658.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=01e892882f1c95ed0035177b8b7fbe4f\" title=\"From Cuphead to Super Meat Boy: 10 of the most fiendishly difficult games\" \/>Roguelike shooters, punishing platformers and brutal, sword-heavy RPGs \u2026 not all great games have to be a walk in the park<br \/>\nModern Toss on twiddling their thumbs<br \/>\nIf you want to try and enjoy beautiful 1930s-style animation while being so frustrated that you nearly throw your controller at the wall, Cuphead is your game. It\u2019s a run-and-gun cartoon caper that looks non-threatening but is actually evil. I had nightmares about one of its bosses (the transforming wedding-cake castle), but when I beat it I felt like an actual god.Consoles, Mac, PC Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roguelike shooters, punishing platformers and brutal, sword-heavy RPGs \u2026 not all great games have to be a walk in the park Modern Toss on twiddling their thumbs If you want to try and enjoy beautiful 1930s-style animation while being so frustrated that you nearly throw your controller at the wall, Cuphead is your game. It\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/from-cuphead-to-super-meat-boy-10-of-the-most-fiendishly-difficult-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Cuphead to Super Meat Boy: 10 of the most fiendishly difficult games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}