If you've been playing Cuphead, you'll notice that the game can be painfully difficult, brutal even. Well this guide is going to help walk you through the mechanics of each boss fight with a video of the fight itself and a text tutorial for you if you would prefer that.
Notes- You can get A-/A/A+ rankings, it doesn't matter but for the purpose of videos, I've made it A+.
- You can
ONLY get the Boss Soul by completing the fight on Regular difficulty.
- It is
HIGHLY advisable that you purchase the
Smoke Bomb power up.
- You can usually make one or two mistakes in each score count such as losing a health bar and missing a parry etc.
- The requirements are the same for every boss encounter. This includes the following:
Time - Beat it in less then 2 minutes and it'll help drastically.Parry - Beat it while having parried 3 pink objects.HP - Beat it while having 3 HP remaining.Super - Beat it while having used 6 super bars.Skill - Still unsure what triggers this, however if you nail the above there will be 2 stars.Now that we've established all that, click the spoiler tab for a written text guide and a video guide.
The Root Pack in Botanic Panic!*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
During the first phase you will fight a giant potato which will shoot dirt balls and pink worms at you. You want to jump over the dirt balls but jump and press the jump button again on the pink worms to 'parry' them, which will give you more special ability power.
During the second phase you will fight a massive onion that will bring down water droplets from the sky when it starts to cry. It is the same deal as before where you need to dodge the blue rain drops while parrying the pink ones. This will be your final chance to get the 3 parries needed.
During the third phase you will fight a giant carrot that will shoot homing carrots at you that you must destroy or will use mind powers on you that you need to avoid.
Ribby And The Croaks in Clip Joint Calamity*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
There are two ways that this boss fight can start off. You will either have the smaller frog start by shooting fireballs at you to which you must avoid the blue ones and can parry the pink ones or the taller frog will start by shooting out flies which will track you if you don't kill them fast enough.
After doing enough damage to the frogs, the smaller one will roll up in a ball and charge you, which can easily be avoided by jumping. Now you must continue to attack while you avoid being pushed into the smaller frog who is now making projectiles and while the taller frog acts as a fan and pushes you towards him.
Now after this phase, the frogs will turn into a gambling machine. You will need to avoid the coins and parry the lever when it drops down which will spawn 3 possible different events.
- Three Green Frogs -
If it is three green frogs then you simply just need to jump on top of the green objects being sent your way.
- Three Yellow Tigers -
If you get the three yellow tigers then you need to jump in between the object and the yellow bouncing ball.
- Three Red Bulls -
If you get the three red bulls then you need to jump or duck under the upcoming objects. If the flame is on top then duck, and if it is on the bottom then jump. The easiest thing to do here is back up to the far left so you can get pushed off faster if the next one is top.
Goopy Le Grande in Ruse of An Ooze*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
The boss fight starts off relatively easy and requires you to simply just dodge or duck Goopy's attacks as they come. After he bounces side to side a few times he will stop and reach out to try attack you (most of the time he is in the middle of the stage) and will repeat what he did before.
After enough damage has been done he will have pink ??? pop above his head which you need to quickly parry and he will transform into a bigger version of himself. He will do pretty much the same thing as the first phase but rather then reach out, he will try punch you which you can avoid by just ducking.
His final form will see him transform into a gravestone and he will go side to side and try squash you, this is quite easy to avoid if you dodge just before it comes down.
Hilda Berg in Threatenin Zeppelin*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
Unlike other boss fights, this time you'll be inside a plane as the game scrolls along hurling enemies and objects at you. Things will start off simple, she will send out some minions to attack you which will allow you to parry some pink blasts from her.
Now the next phase will start and she will huff up and charge at you but if you hold down the dodge button you will turn into a tiny plane which will make you small enough to hug the top or bottom of the screen and avoid it. Now she will come back with a transformation that looks like a massive sheep, you must avoid her head buts which is easy if you attack then hold dodge and wait for her to attack then resume attack. After this phase the first phase will start again.
Now the next phase she will turn into two different forms, the first being an angel that will shoot an arrow along with blue stars that will follow you and the next will be two women holding an orb that will be sent out and will shoot at you as it goes around in a 360 loop so as long as you stay ahead of the shots and loop around the orb you should be fine. She will go back to the first phase after this.
The final phase is a tricky one. She will become a giant moon and start sending out UFO's at you, the Red ones will attack you towards the end of the screen and the yellow ones will attack you closer to the baroness so I recommend using the dodge to zip through them before they attack. You must also avoid yellow stars and can parry the pink ones.
Cagney Carnation in Floral Fury*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
Cagney can be quite difficult due to her random attack pattern which will take some time to get used to. The first phase will see her aim her head up high or down low and this will be an indication of where you will want to be to avoid the attack. Cagney will also shoot out seeds into the air that will do 3 possible things:
- Blue Seed -
The blue seed will spawn a vine which will send out a piranha like plant that will track you until you kill it.
- Purple Seed -
The purple seed will spawn a piranha like plant on the ground under the platforms.
- Pink Seed -
The pink seed will spawn a flying creature that will continue to shoot out pink balls to parry however I advise against this and to parry the seed as the level is pretty messy already.
She can also create a disc like boomerang that will shoot along the top of the platforms and return along the bottom of them. If she doesn't shoot the boomerang she will shoot projectiles that will track you.
The second and final phase is the most tricky part. She will lay vines along the bottom of the platforms and attack 2 at once sometimes making this a very tricky place to navigate while also avoiding Pink and White balls that she is shooting at you.
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