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.

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