An incredible game that looks like a 1930s cartoon is getting its own animated Netflix show, and it's easy to understand why when you see it in action

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• One of the most unique-looking games in years, "Cuphead," is getting its own Netflix show.
• The game is a stunner, featuring artwork pulled straight out of a 1930s-era cartoon. That's due to it being hand-drawn across several years by a small crew.
• The new show is also being hand-drawn, albeit not on paper, by Netflix's animation team. "We are not going to be animating this [ourselves] because it would never be finished," one of the game's developers, Chad Moldenhauer, told IGN.
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Few video games are as gorgeous as "Cuphead," the Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch game.

That winking, sinister-looking cigar you see above is one of the game's many bosses. And that frustrated-looking guy with a cup for a head? That's actually not the eponymous "Cuphead," it's his trusty partner "Mugman." 

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"Cuphead" is a hand-drawn game, as evidenced by these hand-drawn sketches of one of its main characters.

The game is so gorgeous because it's hand-drawn - something few games pull off. And no game pulls off the look as well as "Cuphead."

Is it any surprise, then, that Netflix is turning the game into its own cartoon? No, no it is not.

Little is known about the show so far, but it would be fair to guess it'll be somewhat similar to the game it's based on. So, what's the game about? What do you do in "Cuphead"? Let's dive in.