I love when game companies do this, not only is it fascinating but it also makes you appreciate the amount of effort it takes to make a game like this Really hope they're working on a cuphead 2 that uses some of these scrapped characters!
Speaking of the unused Cala Maria attack unused animation, apparently the blue fish can still be loaded into the game, but it's projectile got removed thus making the squeeze animation loop go on forever.
Here's some things to hopefully clear things up: Pachi-Pachi was meant to be a secret fight in the Dice Palace, once you beat all 9 of the mini bosses, and Pachi-Pachi would take up the Start Over space. He was cut for being too simular to Pirouletta. The Grim Reaper was meant to be a secret fight in the base game, once you stay in a fight or level for too long, the reaper would spawn in, and you have to deal with him in top of the boss you were fighting before hand. The Reaper's code and movement pattern was reused for the Bishop in the DLC. And incase your wondering, Pachi-Pachi's info was given in the Japanese physical release of the game complete with even more concept art, and the Reaper's info was given in a behind the scenes video when making the King of Games' stages.
@@TheRealSuperKirby I wish! Nah, I just follow everything I can about the game. I bought the Japan version of the game, and I watch almost every interview, which is how I got those two nuggets of information.
I really love mugman’s and cuphead’s intro concepts! They really show off more of their personalities than it does in the base game! Also give both of these characters a child like innocence since they literally fighting for their lives!
I totally agree! I always imagined them being around sixteen or maybe younger because (at least according to my brother as I’m not sixteen yet) ‘You feel like you can do anything once you turn sixteen’. I dunno, just a personal headcanon.
Cuphead really is just THAT game, man. I'm so glad they stuck with this idea and made it a reality because all of this hard work definitely DID pay off.
I think the unused salt baker design where he “ looks like a fox” is a reference to the original three little pigs story where they boil the wolf in a cauldron.
16:36 The animation we got in the final game is similar, but possibly makes even less sense. Instead of the snake hair opening her eyes for it, two of the snakes loop around to the back of her head, and go through it to hold her eyes out. Yes, the purple things her eyes come out attached to are the snakes. Just throwing that out there for anyone who hadn't noticed it.
23:37 NO WAY!! That's a reference to the title screen of Sonic 2! That would have been so cool to see in the game, it's a shame it was scrapped but it did seem very early on in development
23:37 the Cuphead and Mugman winning animation really reminds me of the Sonic 2 intro pose with Sonic and Tails I wouldn't be surprised if they did it as a reference or a "homage" to the Sonic hedgehog 2.
17:36 the “watermelon bread slice” is a reference to Melon Bread; a mini boss from Gunstar Heroes. The whole King Dice mini boss rush thing was inspired by the dice fortress stage in Gunstar Heroes, where you’d throw a die to move along a board, and have to fight mini bosses based on where iou landed. One of the bosses was Melon Bread, a weird figure that was basically just a floating set of eyes and teeth that almost never attacked, and made that face. Studio MDHR was considering ideas to reference Melon Bread in their version of the dice fortress, and those sketches appear to be various ideas for that. The watermelon bread being an idea to make the boss *literally* melon bread. Ultimately, they used that face on an 8-ball and named it “mangosteen”; another out-of-place name related to a fruit.
I was gonna say this! the concept art is literally melon bread, but if you want stretch this further, Mangosteen closely resembles Jampan from alien soldier , main difference being that he has a body
All of these things are so cool to see. I’m a sucker for these concept art pieces so I’m glad we were given the chance to see more of these concept sketches!
I think it’d be cool if every boss had their own special gameplay mechanic exclusive to their boss fight like the devil’s scrapped phase one where you climb the chair, it’d definitely increase the difficulty of the game and make it feel less repetitive Happy 10 years dude! 🎉
Not gonna lie, I’m kinda sad that stuff the Coin Op Bop, Pachi Pachi, Beetrice Lutz, Jelly the Octopus (Airship Boss), etc. weren't shown as much as some would want to see (especially Beetrice Lutz). Although what we got was so much, I still wish there was more. Seeing more concept art/animation for Beetrice Lutz especially would have made me happy, but at least we got stuff that answered a few questions. Your videos are amazing Tetra, and I'm glad to see this video especially! Thanks for the enjoyment you've brought to us all!
17:32 This is indeed the 8-Ball mini boss. I guess the slice was drawn as a joke because the original boss' name it's based on is Melon Bread from Gunstar Heroes
My theory for why plant boi and Cala Maria are on the wheel depicted in one of the early designs for king dice’s fight is they would be refights considering one of the phantom express phases is seen nearby
The King Dice layout of the board takes strong inspiration from Gunstar Heroes. Especially in the first sketches where the board looks exactly like the One used in that game.
9:50 I think they placed Plant Boi, Calamaria and the fantom express guy not has mini boss or goons of king dice but maybe more as a rematch, you fight them when as one faze only with their attacks and patterns changed. And maybe it was considered to have the kingdice fight as something like that just a rematch with a bunch of bosses. that's a big speculation but could have been cool
Watermelon Bread slice may have been inspired by Melon Bread from Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis, considering both bosses contain wide smiles, a dot for a nose and 2 gaping eyes
4:28, I don't think Mugman is blowing a bubble, rather his nose from what appears that his nose is gone in the x of where his nose would be (seen at 4:35)
I originally had an idea of some of the match ready animations being unused idle animations. But i guess you wouldn’t be idle for longer than 5 seconds in this game.
Fun Fact - Mugman loves airplanes and stuff related to flying. Don't believe in me? In the book "Carnival Chaos",multiple times Mugman is refered to love planes,so much so he uses a baby airplane from an atraction on the fair to save his brother and Ms. Chalice from a bunch of bosses trying to catch them and in "A mountain of trouble", in the first pages, Cuphead is dreaming on going to a summer camp,where he dreams his brother flying along side chickens. When i saw the "Mugman playing with a toy airplane",my mind just automatically went to Mugsy's love for flying in the books. It would have been cool to see that on the game or in the series,maybe with an animation of Cuphead fearing flying an airplane due to fear of heights while his brother is just going plane crazy on finally flying.
24:14 Oh my god The earliest boss footage/screenshot of that bat boss was actually a separate enemy All this time I speculated it was a scrapped phase in the Devil battle
12:52 maybe instead of chef saltbaker being small he just shrunk you down in the 2nd phase after fighting you at normal size. Bro would have been unique to the other bosses by being a regular sized boss though they probably changed that due to his size and the hitbox would probably be a bit small. Just a theory.
There was a small panphlet included in the Japanese SUPERDELUXE edition of the game talking a little bit more about Patchi Patchi. Just in case you didn't know about it.
the concept of us playing as cuphead and mugman playing cuphead and mugman in coinop bop is such a cool idea i wish we could get something like that in the future!
I swear that one time you pronounced Cuphead’s name with an “oo” instead of an “uh” was inspired by that piano instructor from the Netflix series. God I love The Cuphead Show.
10:09 I think those 2 and the ghost from the 1st phase of the train fight would've been rematches against them, but they were scrapped in exchange for the casino fights.
this is is an homage to a miniboss from Gunstar Heroes (a game that heavily influenced Cupheads gameplay) named Melon Bread in a stage much like King Dice's board that was basically a disembodied goofy face which is reflected in the concept art 17:31
17:31 Mangosteen was always a reference to the Gunstar Heroes boss "Melon Bread" so they probably had it in their mind originally to have it literally be 'melon bread'
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I love when game companies do this, not only is it fascinating but it also makes you appreciate the amount of effort it takes to make a game like this
Really hope they're working on a cuphead 2 that uses some of these scrapped characters!
Sadly, Studio MDHR is done with Cuphead for the foreseeable future. But they are working on a new project.
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@@cordyceps7531 tis' tragic, but fair. I hope they return to Cuphead one day, but no matter what, I'm sure their next project will be phenomenal.
Hi, Nathaniel
Cuphead 2: cuphead but 2 more playable charcters! nothign else!
Speaking of the unused Cala Maria attack unused animation, apparently the blue fish can still be loaded into the game, but it's projectile got removed thus making the squeeze animation loop go on forever.
That poor fish was condemned to a fate worse than death, eternal squeezing
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I'm gonna use that fact to cheese s-ranking the boss
@@GameGearGabe umm, that's only for the blue fish, it's unused and doesn't appear in the fight.
Here's some things to hopefully clear things up:
Pachi-Pachi was meant to be a secret fight in the Dice Palace, once you beat all 9 of the mini bosses, and Pachi-Pachi would take up the Start Over space. He was cut for being too simular to Pirouletta.
The Grim Reaper was meant to be a secret fight in the base game, once you stay in a fight or level for too long, the reaper would spawn in, and you have to deal with him in top of the boss you were fighting before hand. The Reaper's code and movement pattern was reused for the Bishop in the DLC.
And incase your wondering, Pachi-Pachi's info was given in the Japanese physical release of the game complete with even more concept art, and the Reaper's info was given in a behind the scenes video when making the King of Games' stages.
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Are you a cuphead developer?
@@TheRealSuperKirby I wish! Nah, I just follow everything I can about the game. I bought the Japan version of the game, and I watch almost every interview, which is how I got those two nuggets of information.
@@landonscobee neat
Reaper was meant to be a secret boss? I wonder if he was in the 2013 demos!
SIX YEARS LATER and they’re STILL keeping this game alive
that is dedication.
But some should die (I'm looking at you Fortnite..)
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i wonder if that was inspired by the idle animations in dynamite headdy…
is it out on pc steam yet?
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it’s literally on pc.
if your talking about cuphead, I know that, if you are talking about the gallery, I don't have it@@teaoftraffic
I really love mugman’s and cuphead’s intro concepts! They really show off more of their personalities than it does in the base game! Also give both of these characters a child like innocence since they literally fighting for their lives!
I totally agree! I always imagined them being around sixteen or maybe younger because (at least according to my brother as I’m not sixteen yet) ‘You feel like you can do anything once you turn sixteen’. I dunno, just a personal headcanon.
@@Lobotamized_Lobster I'd say more like 12 to 14
I wish more games had something like this because it gives really cool insight into the development of games
There's something like this in paper Mario origami king
Cuphead really is just THAT game, man. I'm so glad they stuck with this idea and made it a reality because all of this hard work definitely DID pay off.
Truly a classic
This is how you know a game was made with passion
I like how Mugman progresses from aggressive to peaceful here.
I think the unused salt baker design where he “ looks like a fox” is a reference to the original three little pigs story where they boil the wolf in a cauldron.
16:36 The animation we got in the final game is similar, but possibly makes even less sense. Instead of the snake hair opening her eyes for it, two of the snakes loop around to the back of her head, and go through it to hold her eyes out. Yes, the purple things her eyes come out attached to are the snakes. Just throwing that out there for anyone who hadn't noticed it.
23:37 NO WAY!! That's a reference to the title screen of Sonic 2! That would have been so cool to see in the game, it's a shame it was scrapped but it did seem very early on in development
my jaw dropped so hard
23:37 the Cuphead and Mugman winning animation really reminds me of the Sonic 2 intro pose with Sonic and Tails I wouldn't be surprised if they did it as a reference or a "homage" to the Sonic hedgehog 2.
17:36 the “watermelon bread slice” is a reference to Melon Bread; a mini boss from Gunstar Heroes.
The whole King Dice mini boss rush thing was inspired by the dice fortress stage in Gunstar Heroes, where you’d throw a die to move along a board, and have to fight mini bosses based on where iou landed. One of the bosses was Melon Bread, a weird figure that was basically just a floating set of eyes and teeth that almost never attacked, and made that face.
Studio MDHR was considering ideas to reference Melon Bread in their version of the dice fortress, and those sketches appear to be various ideas for that. The watermelon bread being an idea to make the boss *literally* melon bread.
Ultimately, they used that face on an 8-ball and named it “mangosteen”; another out-of-place name related to a fruit.
Thanks for explaining this. I thought that they just liked Watermelon Bread, as most people do.
I was gonna say this! the concept art is literally melon bread, but if you want stretch this further, Mangosteen closely resembles Jampan from alien soldier , main difference being that he has a body
Alot of the unused entrance animations look great and I would've loved to see them in game
All of these things are so cool to see. I’m a sucker for these concept art pieces so I’m glad we were given the chance to see more of these concept sketches!
23:37 Lol That's the Sonic 2 Intro screen poses for Sonic and Tails
Lmao
5:11 "yeah yeah, "mortal danger"... gimme a sec!" I love him
i chuckled at that one lol
If they ever release a directors cut version of cuphead with all of the unused content, I dont care if its gonna be 100 dollars, I would be buying it.
I think it’d be cool if every boss had their own special gameplay mechanic exclusive to their boss fight like the devil’s scrapped phase one where you climb the chair, it’d definitely increase the difficulty of the game and make it feel less repetitive
Happy 10 years dude! 🎉
21:47 This last line was actually used for the Launch Trailer! Just incredible animation.
The watermelon bread thing is an homage to a boss from the old game Gunstar Heroes, "melon bread". The 8 ball boss's animations resemble him too.
Not gonna lie, I’m kinda sad that stuff the Coin Op Bop, Pachi Pachi, Beetrice Lutz, Jelly the Octopus (Airship Boss), etc. weren't shown as much as some would want to see (especially Beetrice Lutz). Although what we got was so much, I still wish there was more. Seeing more concept art/animation for Beetrice Lutz especially would have made me happy, but at least we got stuff that answered a few questions.
Your videos are amazing Tetra, and I'm glad to see this video especially! Thanks for the enjoyment you've brought to us all!
Just bought Cuphead on the switch for my soon birthday , glad to see this video now.
Cuphead Concept Art is always a treat!
14:02 THIS BOSS WAS ALREADY TERRIFYING ENOUGH GOODNESS
17:32 This is indeed the 8-Ball mini boss. I guess the slice was drawn as a joke because the original boss' name it's based on is Melon Bread from Gunstar Heroes
My theory for why plant boi and Cala Maria are on the wheel depicted in one of the early designs for king dice’s fight is they would be refights considering one of the phantom express phases is seen nearby
The King Dice layout of the board takes strong inspiration from Gunstar Heroes. Especially in the first sketches where the board looks exactly like the One used in that game.
9:50 I think they placed Plant Boi, Calamaria and the fantom express guy not has mini boss or goons of king dice but maybe more as a rematch, you fight them when as one faze only with their attacks and patterns changed. And maybe it was considered to have the kingdice fight as something like that just a rematch with a bunch of bosses. that's a big speculation but could have been cool
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This year is the best for TBG, like the most popular series has more unused content revealed for this anniversary. Damn this time is going fast
Mugman: *tying his shoes* Yeah, yeah. Mortal danger, just a sec?
I don't know why, I just find that _really_ funny!
In the early version of the King Dice board with full bosses, there is also the blind ghost from the phantom express.
Watermelon Bread slice may have been inspired by Melon Bread from Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis, considering both bosses contain wide smiles, a dot for a nose and 2 gaping eyes
10:02 also there's the ghost from the first phase of the train level
4:28, I don't think Mugman is blowing a bubble, rather his nose from what appears that his nose is gone in the x of where his nose would be (seen at 4:35)
Imagine if someone actually makes a Jareed boss fight. That would be legendary.
I’d love to see a “delicious lost course” featuring the greatest cut content of the game
i think they're moving on from cuphead
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I originally had an idea of some of the match ready animations being unused idle animations. But i guess you wouldn’t be idle for longer than 5 seconds in this game.
TetraBit never fails to deliver best cut contents on our brains
23:10 They look like they're referencing the Sonic 2 title screen with those poses.
17:33 This reminds me of that character from the Cuphead Show
Fun Fact - Mugman loves airplanes and stuff related to flying. Don't believe in me? In the book "Carnival Chaos",multiple times Mugman is refered to love planes,so much so he uses a baby airplane from an atraction on the fair to save his brother and Ms. Chalice from a bunch of bosses trying to catch them and in "A mountain of trouble", in the first pages, Cuphead is dreaming on going to a summer camp,where he dreams his brother flying along side chickens.
When i saw the "Mugman playing with a toy airplane",my mind just automatically went to Mugsy's love for flying in the books. It would have been cool to see that on the game or in the series,maybe with an animation of Cuphead fearing flying an airplane due to fear of heights while his brother is just going plane crazy on finally flying.
Are we not going to mention that Blind Spector is also shown alongside the other two full bosses on king dice’s game board?
4:29 that’s actually mugmans nose lol
24:14
Oh my god
The earliest boss footage/screenshot of that bat boss was actually a separate enemy
All this time I speculated it was a scrapped phase in the Devil battle
12:52 maybe instead of chef saltbaker being small he just shrunk you down in the 2nd phase after fighting you at normal size. Bro would have been unique to the other bosses by being a regular sized boss though they probably changed that due to his size and the hitbox would probably be a bit small. Just a theory.
That would be awesome!
What about the peppershakers then?Would he shrunk his minions?I dont think so
It would have been great if king dice did perform at all times in the background during his fight, I feel as if he didn't get enough spotlight.
If Cuphead and Mugman get into a Smash 6, I could see them using one of the unused entrance animations for Cuphead and Mugman’s entrance.
In the King Dice board with Cala Maria and Cagney it also had the blind specter from the phantom express battle.
Shoutout to the animators on twitter who, when the game released, would share their sketches and answer some questions. Love the folks at Studio MDHR
There was a small panphlet included in the Japanese SUPERDELUXE edition of the game talking a little bit more about Patchi Patchi. Just in case you didn't know about it.
Just when you think you've learned everything about the world of "CupHead", they surprise you with more details, facts and secrets!
the concept of us playing as cuphead and mugman playing cuphead and mugman in coinop bop is such a cool idea i wish we could get something like that in the future!
This game is so awesome, I'm so glad it gets deserved attention even to this day
I swear that one time you pronounced Cuphead’s name with an “oo” instead of an “uh” was inspired by that piano instructor from the Netflix series.
God I love The Cuphead Show.
Honestly, they seem to have so many ideas, they could probably make a few more Cupheads out of it!
I wish we got all those starting animations they would be cool
Only Tetrabitgaming master of the unused contents could resolve this Cuphead lost bits but when the worl needed him the most...
the watermelon bread slice thing was probably a joke because the boss is based on melon bread from gunstar heroes
Fantastic!
10:01 Phantom express is also seemingly there although that is before king dice
3:30 okay but Mugman and Cuphead taunting the enemies is so cute😭
10:02 The blind Spectre from The Phantom Express fight is also there which is interesting because it seems like a kind of miniboss in the actual fight
More Cuphead!
Yay!
10:09 I think those 2 and the ghost from the 1st phase of the train fight would've been rematches against them, but they were scrapped in exchange for the casino fights.
14:42 that's most likely an aries form cause she does used Constellations in her attacks
10:06 Isn't there that one boss from the Ghost Train there, as well? Next to the "Clear!" thing.
Six year and they’re still keeping the game alive, respect for them, respect
I love that he said bubble not his nose 4:27
The arcade idea looks so cool, hard to make it really work , but soo cool
10:05 i believe you missed the train ghost right in the middle
Fun fact : the stuff in their heads was revealed to be milk in one of the switch trailers
Who else’s like button made a special effect when he said this? 1:16
Me
I’ve never seen that before lmao
MugMan tying his shoes, smelling a flowers, and getting distracted by a butterfly feel really fitting to his character
The poses at 23:11 Cuphead and Mugman make are 100% references to the Sonic 2 title screen
5:58 That's just the parry thing lol
11:37 is it just me or does that piece of chef saltbaker concept art look like the monopoly man???
Behind the scenes showcase is always respectable.
This video was amazing, per usual! Keep up the epic work Tetra!
Thank you!
6 years and I’m still on the devil help- 🤚🤚
I hope there’s a cuphead 2 on there 10th anniversary
Nice to see more lost content of this masterpiece
9:54 also the eye ghost from the express level
This is a true Plant Boy moment
Yoo I used to live Cuphead so anything about it feels nostalgic now.
All of the intros they planned are so cute. They’re all so in-character
7:50 Cuphead sure is hungry
Yep
this is is an homage to a miniboss from Gunstar Heroes (a game that heavily influenced Cupheads gameplay) named Melon Bread in a stage much like King Dice's board that was basically a disembodied goofy face which is reflected in the concept art 17:31
realized the Scrapped Devil phase you showed off is a reference to a boss in the Ghost n' Goblins franchise
I hope they actually do add some of the unused stuff in a DLC would be cool to see them officially in action
8:35 *_S A N S B O I_*
Plant Boi's old death animation looks like a depressed peashooter.
Studio MDHR gotta be the most chill studio fr
17:31 Mangosteen was always a reference to the Gunstar Heroes boss "Melon Bread" so they probably had it in their mind originally to have it literally be 'melon bread'
9:19 they did end up using that attack in the last phase of Ribby and croaks
9:50 There's also the Spectre From The Train Boss Fight
5:23 Duck Friend is so cute i wish he was in the game