Uptopdownlowguy t1_ityweze wrote on October 27, 2022 at 9:43 AM

Reply to comment by Ftimis in The Cuphead Show! Season 3 Hits Netflix on November 18, 2022 by DemiFiendRSA

The biggest disappointment to me is how the show doesn't look like an old cartoon the same way the game does

Ftimis t1_iu00hhs wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:30 PM

yeah the only reason I didn't mention that is because it's a very obvious flaw that everyone complained about when they first showed a trailer for the show.

I'd be fine with the bland as fuck writing if the show was true to the artstyle. I'd also be fine with the bland as fuck artstyle if the show had bothered to be at least 1% innovative and engaging. With the way it is, I see zero reason even for a kid to watch this instead of other animated projects that are at least fun or visually pleasing.

Uptopdownlowguy t1_iu03ikn wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:50 PM

Yeah, I agree that the writing is pretty lacking. There's very little sense of an overarching plot line even though I only watched season 1, and the humor is kinda hit and miss

Ftimis t1_iu0468w wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:54 PM

It's not even that it's very episodic. It's that it reminds me of cartoons I was getting annoyed with when I was a kid (I'm 28) without knowing why. With the reason being that they were all very cookie-cutter, predictable, zero-stakes lowest-common-denominator shows as far as the writing went. And if you're making something like that in the 2020s and dressing it up as an homage, it should at least pick up the slack in most other aspects, and it very obviously doesn't.