However, the leading duo is downright unappealing, and there’s a disconcerting lack of concordance between the characters and the background in some stages, leading to a weird immersion-breaking effect. Even the soundtrack in Enchanted Portals features some quirky jazz tunes that would sound completely out of place… if it wasn’t for Cuphead doing it first to wide acclaim. 'We’re trying to turn our attention more towards all those who are supporting us and sending their love for the game.Ultimately, Enchanted Portals will never be Cuphead 2, but it could turn out to be a guilty pleasure one of those games that can be enjoyed if you turn off your brain and forget that Cuphead ever existed. And there will very likely be no changes happening at all, as the developer has stated on Facebook about their new targets: However, with such negative opinions from the community, I can say that it will struggle to meet its goals for a while if there are no changes.

In fact, Xixo Games Studio has planned to launch its Kickstarter campaign on October 24, 2 more weeks after this trailer comes live.Įnchanted Portals will start its crowd-funding project on October 24 Kickstarter campaign launched on October 24Īs I've mentioned, this is only the promotion trailer of the game, as Enchanted Portals hasn't come out yet. As a result, at the time of writing this article, the Kickstarter trailer above has received nearly 3,000 dislike - which doubles the number of its like counts. The big band jazz music doesn't match this game's concept at all!Įven though they have justified that they are fans of Cuphead and have taken a huge inspiration from the game 'from a place of respect and admiration', it's definitely not reasonable for such extremely identical features. But the developer Xixo Games Studio was too lazy to mix it up. The concept of this game is aesthetically magical, so some dreamy and fantastical music might suit the game really well. However, with unmistakable animations in everything: jumps, bullets, and even the bosses - Enchanted Portals is basically Cuphead with a name change at this point.Įven the music from this game was in the same big band jazz genre as well. First thing first, Cuphead plays good and looks aesthetic, and Enchanted Portals does the same thing. It's a compliment and a criticism at the same time. Actually, it's too identical that no one would recognize that it's a completely unrelated game without being told beforehand.Ĭan you tell the differences between Cuphead and Enchanted Portals? Enchanted Portals is like Cuphead-at-homeĮnchanted Portals is a 2D platformer game that has cartoon-like visuals that's very similar to Cuphead. But the more I look into the trailer, I am sure that Enchanted Portals has definitely crossed the clear line of being inspired and being a copycat. In fact, I think it's just a new game that takes the inspiration of Studio MDHR’s Cuphead at first. The concept of this game is very fine for me, as it's concept is kind of cute and vibrant. Shoot your way through this world to find the spellbook's pages back However, this world has a lot of dangerous creatures, and they'll have to use the abilities of magicians to defeat them. In order to get back, the two will need to gather all of the pages from their spellbook together. Their actions have opened a magical portal, which then sucks them and the spellbook to another world far from their home. The two young magicians have more curiosity than they should And karma strikes instantly as the two are messing around with something more powerful than they have expected. The game starts in a magical world, as the two young magicians are playing recklessly, throwing spells from their spellbook everywhere. Let's set the stir away for now, and find out what will happen in Enchanted Portals first.

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