this game feels like if you gave decent animation to a buggy scratch game

I've seen a review for this game saying: "From the producers who saw Cuphead" I have no words...

22:23 the reason why the mosquitoes stack up like that is bc the level is AI generated, and how the code for them works is just to spawn offscreen slightly and move towards the opposite direction. The left side ones are easily outrun by the player, but there isn’t any failsafe for it, so it just stays offscreen as more mosquitoes spawn in. It gets to a point where so many have spawned in its ridiculous. That’s why most of the levels in this game feel so unfair, because it has the worst AI levels of all time

Sad to see that this fails not only as a Cuphead clone, but just a game in general… There was effort put into this game, I can tell, but I don’t think they knew the basic fundamentals of good game design. And it costing $20 was the nail in the coffin. Looks like a $10 game at most.

If people were wondering why it looked much better in the trailers, it was because the game was originally made in Adobe Flash, which is why nobody got any news of the Enchanted Portals game since 2020.

-No I-Frames -Can't switch weapons while moving -Enemy spam -No saves -Horrible hit detection Anybody remember those old "unfair" games like Unfair Sonic and Mario? That's what it feels like they were trying to make here, "Unfair Cuphead".

If there’s one good thing I can say about Enchanted Portals it’s that it make me realize just how good Cuphead is

I personally think it should've leaned in more with the different styles like each world having a different one but thats just my opinion lol

One thing i've noticed is that the game doesn't totally look like it took inspiration from 1930's cartoons. They look like they were inspired by Cuphead's inspiration from 1930's cartoons

Theres a point when a game no longer feels inspired by another game and just feels like a lesser copy instead

The animations great for the most part, but I have a really strong feeling that near the end of development they rushed the game out. This has a ton of potential but they missed the shot completely.

When this game was announced I was one of the very first people to jump on it. Yeah it was obviously a Cuphead clone, but to me that just meant Cuphead had inspired its own subgenre. To me that didn’t detract from EP, it elevated CH. I made videos on it for reactions, trailer analysis, covering the Kickstarter, and I even interviewed Xixo themselves twice: once after the announcement and again following up with them after the failed Kickstarter. In fact, those interviews are still the highest viewed on my channel. They genuinely came off as passionate creatives who wanted to build something inspired by what they love. Unfortunately even back then I could tell their inexperience was leading to some poor decisions. When I asked them about what inspired their cool boss ideas they pretty much admitted they were just throwing whatever ideas they liked against the wall to see what sticks, which to me conveyed a lack of thorough planning. I had asked them if they’d promote the interviews, to which they said yes, but when I released said interviews and tagged them in the Twitter post all they did was “like” the tweet. When I asked if they were going to retweet it or promote it at all they responded that liking the tweet *was* their promotion, and while they were willing to (figuratively) sit down and interview with anyone who reached out to them, they weren’t going to actively bring attention to it. I still haven’t the foggiest idea why they made the decision to choose to squash free promotion (i asked why this is and brought up how they would repost fanart, to which they said if they shared one interview or news piece they’d have to share all of them and it would clutter their fans’ feeds with similar information they didn’t think was interesting, but they could pick and choose which fan art they liked). Then this odd mentality expanded soon after the Kickstarter failed and they ceased all social media presence for a long time, total silence. It led me to think that maybe the project had fallen through? Only for them to come out of nowhere and drop the next teaser with the native Americans that *really* wasn’t well received (side note: insensitive as it was, I don’t wholly blame them as they’re from Spain and totally divorced from American history. Not saying they couldn’t have done their research, but it’s more understandable as they didn’t have a relationship with the culture being depicted). After that, total media blackout *again* until, well, just prior to the game’s release. I had hopes for this game. I wanted it to be great. I supported it best I could from day one, but sadly they kept making it harder and harder to support them with baffling decisions. The entire thing reeks of two naive, inexperienced but passionate creatives who just got in over their heads and didn’t know how to do any better. I truly hope Daniel and Gemma take this as a learning experience and don’t get discouraged. I, and many others, want them to be better.

The problem with trying to justify the quality is they got sponsored by Epic after the rip-off fiasco, so they HAD the funding, but none of the work put into it.

I feel like there was potential in this game, but apparently they didn’t finish the alpha builds.

Why did the trailers look SO much better, you may ask? Because the trailers were fully animated by some other studio! And the game was built off from it, mimicking the style. That's why certain parts of the game are just completely different or missing. And you can tell when the devs just gave up and cut corners to push the game out ASAP.

There's a difference between a good difficulty and a bad difficulty. Good difficulty is pattern based, you can get used to it and get better and better. Bad difficulty is... This. Enemy spam and RNG.

There's a few other bad things that weren't pointed out...every time you die, the level CHANGES! ITS AI GENERATED! As well as that...there's basically an illusion of difficulty. The only thing that makes each difficulty harder is health spawning rates...THATS IT.

The impression I get is that the Devs have a decent bit of experience with animation but that this is their first attempt at actually making a game. There is absolutely some skill in the animation but a lack of discipline and imagination in the level design and gamedesign.

Could have been much greater if way more time/effort was spent refining it Yes it's two developers but that doesn't mean you shouldn't ignore the flaws

I'm sad that the game apparently isn't good cuz I had faith in it. The male wizard is named Bobby and the female is Penny BTW.

22:45 You can actually string, just dash and immediately press the pause button, then unpause and dash again. It's a bug that does some weird stuff to the game's background, but it doesn't crash it or anything

I think the lack of anticipation animations/sounds hurts the game and the little animation that is there gets lost in the enemy/projectile spam. Cuphead’s sound design lets you know when something is coming lol

The only good thing about this game is that it makes you want to replay Cuphead

A game like this really makes me imagine if Cuphead had Steam Workshop support. I think the ppl who made this game would have been one of the more popular modders if that was the case. Unfortunately though, we got a game that had plenty of creativity but none of the programming prowess.

I'll save you some trouble - the opening cutscene is the ONLY animated cutscene in the whole game.

Wait... The cat ISN'T a checkpoint??? That's stupid. Why even bother having him waving a flag at all?

Oh my god, they didn't vectorize the enemies. That's crazy to me.

It feels like this game is just like, 70% done

I hope they make DLC and make netflix animated show about this game, it would be so fitting

Watching this is teaching me why you need beta testers for your games, other wise this happens

If the enemies weren't randomly generated and had meticulous placement, it could be more forgivable... And perhaps a limit on how many entities can spawn on screen.

Something about this game just seems… wrong. Like a bad mobile game, it has a decent amount of effort but it gives poorly-thought out mobile game vibes. Somebody said scratch game, that really fits as well

Pricing this as the same as Cuphead (in America) is absolutely criminal.

Reminds me of my first unity game I made when I was a teen like 7 years ago or something, just with a bit better animation I guess.

This game made me appreciate good sound design even more

getting hit is LITERALLY smack.mp3 lmao 💀

I think the finished version could be awesome. Sadly, this is NOT finished.

The reason so many mosquitos spawned is that for some insane reason, enemy spawns are tied to your position in the level. If you go fast, a ton of enemies spawn at once

This game just makes me realize how great Cuphead is

It's not bad because it's inspired by cuphead, it's bad because it's completely unoriginal. If it used the same style and had mostly bosses and stuff it would be fine, but there's constant enemy spam, unbalanced attacks (the tri shot is just better than the single shot from what i can tell because it shoots just as fast with as much range) the animations for jumping and dashing are literally the same ones from cuphead, and the bosses are just really boring because unlike cuphead bosses which have multiple attacks per phase usually, these bosses have like 1 or 2. Nothing is explained, the boss deaths are abrupt, the only thing good are the animations but even most of those are mediocre, some of them are good, like the knights in the background, and then there's the stiffness of the movement after the artstyle change in the witch fight and it just looks so bad. The breakable object placement is bad too. For example: you could make a little room where you have to break a wall or something while there are unkillable enemies attacking you so you have to manage dodging and breaking the wall, but instead they decide "hey we should put one at the beginning of the level where it does absolutely nothing to affect the level in any way other than making it more tedious to start."

I think the reason why they had the witch boss change the art style was to save on animating.

The animation is excellent and the backgrounds look good too, but the spamming of enemies really kills it.

I will say, seeing a wall of mosquitos just descend on the screen anytime you get too far ahead in the swamp level is really funny

I'd say their biggest mistake was copying the difficulty. They would've gotten by just fine if it was really easy to beat, but trying to mimic difficulty without understanding how to make a hard game good can cripple you.

Animation: great👍 Music: great👍 Ideas: great👍 Level design: bad👎

This game would be the game a mom would get not knowing what the kid actually wanted cuphead

This was painful to just watch. I can't imagine what it felt like to play.

11:46 The funny thing is that this same glitch used to be in cuphead lol

I think I got an idea, what if someone modded the game to clean up the controls, tweaked thd enemy generation so the color coded enemies are just a select encounters, and modified the platforming as well as add in save points

This game makes cuphead look easy

The moment this game was revealed I KNEW it would be terrible, and everyone was like "Dude don't hate on this game, it looks AMAZING! Give it a chance!"...I was just over here shaking my head, kinda sucks that this game didn't stay cancelled. ...Also it turns out the trailer we got back then was FAKE. lol

tbh if they fixed up the controls and sound design + make more of the enemies killable then the game wouldn’t even be that bad

It's sad this game is so bad. I always thought it wasn't a bad thing it was obv a Cuphead clone, but not it proved the people who instantly hated this right. This had a lot of potential..

the fact that this game goes for $25 and something like Hollow Knight has sat at a cool $15 forever is hilarious

I think I admire this game. It is brazenly a cuphead ripoff and lacks a ton of polish, but Cuphead is inherently so hard to copy that the effort alone admirable in its own way.

i remember thinking this game had so much potential, but after watching someone play early, it looked so janky could of been much better, probably should of stayed in development longer :(

17:16 this makes the Witch fight feel like it was missing a cutscene between phases lmao

Bowlboy is trying to one-up Cuphead and Mugman broooo 💀

I hope that there is a good future for these devs I want to see what they can do if they can get enough time to work on a project

20:10 The reason why that happened is because enemies don't despawn! If you don't kill the enemies, they group up and follow you!

All the budget went in the art direction.

They literally introduce the color change mechanic, then abandon it until the boss of the third world... Did a single person playtest this game?

The saying "every masterpiece has its cheap copy" is super relevant here. Except, this fucking game costs the *same* as Cuphead.

From the people who played Cuphead: Enchanted Portals

thats no cuphead, thats drinkwareneck

sad i was looking foward to it

I am glad this came out, shows how not to make a game like Cuphead, with random levels, the enemies and what set pieces show up is random each run in a level, the enemy spawn is also random hence why so many can spawn at once, even if there are a lot at once they should only take 1-2 hits before they are defeated, the tutorial does not do a good way of telling you anything, just images and no button prompts or text explaining anything, and there really should be a short hop, some sports just look unable to get through. Also there are blind spots in many bosses Also did he actually refund the game? It is crazy how they are the same price in USD

This game would be so much beter if they made it a free fan game

The lack of a duck is disappointing. The animal, not the motion for people wondering.

the jumping sound is a stock sound

Aw I remember listening to the entire OST of Enchanted Portals when I had a fever, I was trying to sleep so I listened to music and soundtracks were a thing I would listen to XD

I like how nice some people in the chat was being saying it’s not that bad.

This game is a bootleg fever dream artstyle on top of an untuned and not-so-tested platformer engine

In argentina you can buy 6 cuphead or 1 enchanted portals at the same price lol

This game feels like a passion project that went completely untested.

Hey Mom can we have cuphead? No we have cuphead at home Cuphead at home:

This game needs a lot of fixing. A LOT.. its just unfair and unreasonable in what it demands. it need s more character that isnt just animation. The animation is great but its substance is just... awful

This is what that game journalist saw when he played the Cuphead tutorial.

I feel like if this game came out on Scratch, it would’ve been more highly praised.

Ah yes, Cuphead but Wizard but Bad.

This is the best marketing Cuphead has gotten.

Also known as: TetraBitPlus dies a million times while playing a shoddy Cuphead rip-off made by two people for 28 minutes.

The game looks as if the graphics were made by 5-6 different animators each with different standards. Some assets seem to have a decent rubberhose style like Cuphead, some are made with blatant auto-tweening made like Flash, some have a choppy framerate, and some are just static images that are moved and rotated. You can see the cut corners everywhere.

That one person at 0:43 lmao

5:36 I also agree with Slushy in the chat I hope you do Spelunky...the game's amazing

I know the game isn't great but there is a bubble shield button to defend against attacks you can't dodge.

This whole game seems like awful Mario maker levels held together by paperclips and PNGs. With all the random enemy spawns combined with the randomly generated levels, it's just a conga line of pain

Cuohead at home is the game's colloquial name 😂

I dont mean to say but buying this game for this price in some countries is like buying GTA V premium in the older days

If they only had an update that fixes issues like slow weapon changing and added invincibility frames so that you don't get hit a million times by a single projectile then the game would be pretty good

Off topic, but the Brown-haired kid is named Bobby, and the Girl is named Penny (I dunno why they didn't tell us their names but alright)

Wonder if he know the enemies were generated placed

Apparently the wizards are named Bobby and Penny.

The more I see this game I start feel this has Dic feeling

For me this is even worse than "cuphead at home", as cuphead at home could have been just more cuphead for people who wanted more cuphead. The problem is it's just straight up a bad game and it costs more than cuphead! What the heck!?

The tutorial looks horrible! No explanations about the attacks, jump or dash. No clues about changing the weapons. The game throw you there and put a hundred enemies, that's not fun! If it was like Cuphead tutorial, it would be easier 🙂 The animation is pretty and the music is nice but the controls looks awful, the bosses are not very creative; A cow, a frog, a giant boat. They are all in Cuphead. Chester winchester, the brothers frogs, the pirate. A giant urchin would be nice to fight, a elf-archer too. They go well with the worlds. There's not a lot of freedom in the game. You go to point A to B with one checkpoint, millions of enemies who are hard to avoid and kill then fight the boss... who is not moving a lot and has one attack. If it was a mini-opne world where you can choose which level, that would be better!

25 dollars 💀 Get cuphead instead lmfao

What throws me off is the terrible/non existent sound design and the theming of the game. When you look at the main characters, you'd expect a fairytale or mystical theme of some sort. When in reality we get the chicken mafia and the dollarstore matrix. What I also hate is that all the run and gun maps are AI generated. Like... what??

(Doing a Spamton G. Spamton impression) HOLY [[Cungadero]] THE [[Witch Boss]] FROM [[Cuphead@Home]] IS A [[Hyperlink blocked]] [[Hochi Mama]]!

I hope they change most of the things in this game because this should NOT be worth MORE than Cuphead.. There's alot of flaws in this game and I think this game deserves to be free.