Snap has brought a retro look to its lens feature, unveiling a new lens on Snapchat that places animations of characters from the game Cuphead on your screen. When the lens is selected in the app, Cuphead and Mugman appear and start shooting when a person enters the frame.

If you make a motion to stop them, they die in a morbidly cute animation. It’s essentially like an AR version of the game’s boss battles, featuring you or someone in your video as the “boss.”

Snap has also released another lens that’s interactive and features a monster called Chester. You use your finger to draw a path (which throws a bone) for the animated monster to follow in your snaps. The monster is also from the game Don’t Starve,…

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