Jul 17, 2018
The design of the boss fights in Cuphead is primarily focused around continuously changing safe and unsafe spaces. Many of the bosses take up a whole 3rd of the screen, and will change their forms to fill or flee that space as is necessary. This is constantly communicated to the player, with little time lost keeping track of the myriad of dangerous elements on screen, by ensuring that everything that is of notable danger is constantly moving.