If you were to create a cuphead boss what would it be?
Boss Name: Slick Sly the Oil Tycoon
Theme: A 1920s oil magnate with a corrupt business empire, reminiscent of old industrial-age barons. The fight takes place on an oil rig, surrounded by leaking pipes, machinery, and polluted waters.
Phase 1: Slick Sly
• Appearance: A tall, rotund man in a pinstripe suit with a cigar in his mouth and an oil-slicked mustache. He constantly flips a coin in one hand and holds a large wrench in the other.
• Attacks:
• Coin Toss: Flicks oversized, sharp-edged coins toward the player, which bounce around the screen.
• Oil Spout: Random pipes on the battlefield burst, sending geysers of oil shooting upwards. Players need to dodge them.
• Wrench Smash: Sly swings his wrench downward, creating shockwaves that travel across the floor.
Phase 2: Oil Golem
• Transformation: Slick Sly falls into a vat of oil and merges with it, creating a monstrous, living oil golem with glowing eyes and his hat floating on top.
• Appearance: The oil golem is an amorphous, black blob with ever-shifting arms and hands that lash out and reshape as needed.
• Attacks:
• Oil Wave: The golem shoots waves of oil across the floor that slow the player’s movements and cause damage if not avoided.
• Oil Tentacles: Tentacles of oil rise up from the ground and try to grab or slap at the player.
• Tornado Spin: The golem spins rapidly, flinging smaller oil globs at high speed across the screen.
Phase 3: Slick Sly’s Final Form
• Transformation: Slick Sly is ejected from the oil golem, looking ragged and angry. He now rides a giant mechanical oil drill, which he controls like a steampunk mech.
• Appearance: The drill is covered in pipes and gears, constantly leaking oil, and spewing smoke. Slick Sly sits in the cockpit, firing energy blasts from the machine.
• Attacks:
• Drill Charge: The mech charges across the screen, with the drill spinning rapidly, tearing up the ground and sending debris flying.
• Energy Burst: The drill’s machinery malfunctions, causing it to overload and fire bolts of electricity across the stage.
• Oil Bombs: Slick Sly throws explosive oil canisters that stick to the ground before detonating in pools of fire and oil.
Final Knockout Sequence:
As the mech explodes, Slick Sly is sent flying off-screen, and oil floods the area. The screen fades out with the text “KNOCKOUT!” dripping with oil.
What do you think?