Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

The Skinny is this, see: The Delicious Last Course is a perfect DLC, in that it adds more of what players liked about the main game, while also generally being harder than the content of the main game for those who mastered it, but also adding new universal features (in this case, weapons, charms, and an alternate character play style) that counter balance and make core game challenges easier for those who haven't yet. This gives new strategies and options to use with core main game content, while allowing the player to surmount the increased difficulty of the challenge offered and increases overall time and enjoyment with the whole game package, which is pretty much what any good expansion content should seek to do. This is essentially, the Platonic ideal of a DLC. (even the name, Delicious Last Course is a initialism of D.L.C. - THAT is how perfectly considered this DLC is) That said, in order to increase the challenge from the already difficult original game, the designs of a few of these battles rely on what I tend to call "Layers of BS" enemy bullet box pattern design, where a boss can put out multiple waves of individual bullet patterns simultaneously, with each individual pattern being learnable, but when layered on top of each other all at once, makes a chaotic, effectively impossible to predict against damage pattern the player can't weave through reliably. It's a kind of bullet hell design that's fairly easy to make challenging, but I don't find that fun personally. Though again, this is mostly a problem with only a couple select bosses, not all of them, so it's not that bad of an issue (just be prepared for it if you decide to take a dive into this, which you should because again, this is good).

Geniuenly the best DLC I`ve ever purchased. This game is brimming with creativity and charm, seriously good work on the part of studio MDHR. You have only one game to your name and yet you have made a masterpiece in the hall of fame of games.

Genuinely one of the best DLCs ever released - totally improves on everything the base game has to offer while being full of more creativity. Crackshot is a silly addition though and turns this game from a bullet-hell shooter into just a bullet-hell game as you hardly ever have to aim while using it. Ms. Chalice is a cool addition but I'm too used to Cuphead's standard controls to want to move out of my comfort zone. This feels like a true end-game.