It borrows the gameplay style, and the art and seemingly the music in its aesthetic too. The game has come under fire for seemingly being a ripoff of Cuphead. The post Cuphead Look-Alike Enchanted Portals Is Getting a Lot of Hate by Brandon Doerrer appeared first on DualShockers.Enchanted Portals is an upcoming run and gun game by Xixo Games Studio. In the meantime, Cuphead is available for just $20, so go play that if you haven’t already (or if you have). We’ll let you know if and when a comment is made, as well as if anything changes with Enchanted Portals. Studio MDHR has yet to comment on the trailer. I could see Enchanted Portals flopping due to all the negative publicity just as easily as I could see it being successful because of that same publicity and because it fills a relatively open market.Įnchanted Portals is expected to release on the PC and Nintendo Switch. We haven’t seen many other games created in that same style, perhaps because it requires so much work. Cuphead was undoubtedly successful–so much so that it’s getting its own animated TV show on Netflix called The Cuphead Show. I’m extremely curious to see how well it does. The Kickstarter campaign for Enchanted Portals launches on Oct. Xixo Games Studio’s plans are to focus on this positive feedback and continue working on their game. Gemma said that despite this reception, some have reached out to the studio to express their support. “We were prepared for some backlash, but the trailer definitely reached way more people than we could ever anticipate, and all the hate and negativity coming our way has definitely had a huge impact on us.” “We’re both avid fans and we wanted to make something similar, but always from a place of respect and admiration for the original. “Yes, of course Cuphead was a huge inspiration for Enchanted Portals,” Gemma wrote over Facebook. Polygon spoke with Gemma about the overwhelmingly negative feedback they’ve received in the past 24 hours. Xixo Games Studio is comprised of two people: a director and programmer named Daniel and an artist and composer named Gemma. The trailer has nearly 40,000 views with almost 2,000 dislikes and 600 likes at the time of this writing. Whimsical, fantastical music would’ve fit this game’s magical aesthetic well, but everything is taken so directly from Cuphead that we’re given familiar big band jazz instead. One YouTube comment points out the soundtrack might be more upsetting than anything. The jumps, projectiles, and boss designs are all the same. Enchanted Portals seems to have stepped over that line towards the latter. There’s a fine line between being inspired by a work of art and making it your own–and straight-up copying it. Cuphead looks great and Enchanted Portals does too. But it becomes incredibly difficult to see this game as anything but a copycat trying to safely capture the success it’s seen others seize with ingenuity when that gameplay starts.Įverything about the animation is virtually identical to Cuphead‘s. They must recollect all the pages of their spellbook to make it back, defeating bosses all the while. They’re dragged through a portal far from home. The premise of the story is that two young magicians are fooling around with various spells and open something more powerful than they anticipated. Watch the trailer below and see for yourself.Īgain, the early parts seem fine. It isn’t until we’re shown gameplay that the comparisons become unmistakable. There’s a familiar graininess to the art style but there’s nothing especially egregious yet. The trailer starts off innocently enough. The small studio released a trailer for Enchanted Portals yesterday and people really don’t like how similar it looks to Studio MDHR’s Cuphead. Xixo Games Studio, the developer behind a new indie game called Enchanted Portals, is getting a ton of heat right now.
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