Kumagaya Takuma and Saiki Komari Beat a Cuphead Boss After Hours of First-Time Co-op
Takuma had never played the game, and the pair tried a lower difficulty setting partway through the five-and-a-half-hour stream.
NORI PRO — Kumagaya Takuma and Saiki Komari beat a boss in the side-scrolling game Cuphead in a co-op stream that began Monday night and ran about five and a half hours. The boss, an aerial fight, was one the pair had tried several times earlier. Before the closing attempts, they agreed it would be their last try and that there would be no retries.
Takuma, a Nori Pro streamer, was playing the game for the first time, and Komari said any memory of it was faint. The stream opened with the two reading the game’s story aloud, page by page: two brothers lose a bet to the devil and are sent to collect souls. About an hour and 45 minutes in, they finished the first world, and Takuma joked, “Hey, I’m the only one who’s cleared anything.”
“Hey, I’m the only one who’s cleared anything.” — Kumagaya Takuma, after a boss fight in the first world
Defeats piled up through the middle of the stream, and the two teased each other over who was dying and who was helping. Around three hours and 16 minutes in, the game dropped out and asked for a controller to be reconnected; the pair rejoined and went back to the fight. A control problem that followed was solved with a tip from a viewer’s comment. Komari noted at one point that they were playing on Regular difficulty.
Just after the four-hour mark, the pair tried the game’s Simple difficulty. They first judged that it changed little beyond shortening stages and cutting the number of enemies, but they soon cleared a stage, which they remarked was their first in a long time. At about 4 hours 53 minutes they beat a dragon boss and finished with a B rank.
At about 5 hours 21 minutes, the pair beat the aerial boss. Chat, which had answered wins all night with a drawn-out “niiice” (*nai-suu*), filled with applause and congratulations, and one Super Chat arrived near the close. The two then advanced to the next island and played a short stretch before wrapping up. Both had expected the session to last about three hours; Takuma put the total at five and a half. They called the game fun, and whether to continue was left open.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.