Fine line between inspiration and ripoff." Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 2,000 likes and 400 retweets (shown below, right). It literally looks like they're trying to cash in on both look and gameplay of the pre-existing Cuphead, and that's not great. wrote, "Look I wanna give Enchanted Portals the benefit of the doubt but… I can't, either can most of the community. Twitter user shared a message from the developers of Enchanted Portals stating that they were inspired by Cuphead. BOYYYY if this isn't borderline plagiarism…" The tweet recieved more than 3,300 likes and 720 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, center). They captioned the images, "Enchanted Portals: Can I copy your homework? / Cuphead: Sure just make it look different so it doesn't look like you just copied it / Enchanted Portals: Sure thing. The following day, Twitter user tweeted a series of side-by-side images from the two games. For example, Twitte user tweeted an image an interface message from the game Fallout that reads, "You've been caught pickpocketing" (shown below, left). Enchanted Portals OctoDevelopments Online Reactionįollowing the release of the trailer, many reacted negative to what they recognized as similarities to Cuphead. Here's the trailer for our upcoming kickstarter campaign! #gamedev #indiegame /lWAJeULb3K On October 8th, 2019, the Twitter account for the video game Enchanted Portals tweeted the tailer for the developer's "upcoming kickstarter campaign." The post received more than 1 million views, 9,000 likes and 1,800 retweets in 24 hours (shown below). You can contact the author at or on Twitter. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. We’re really excited to finally take this huge step forward in the development of Enchanted Portals, we hope you enjoy the new trailer and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your ongoing support!Ī life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. We have added platforming stages, with a great variety of character-environment interactions to spice up the gameplay.We have put a special emphasis on elements and mechanics that help our game further differentiate itself from Cuphead, including a new, more diverse soundtrack that uses different musical styles for each world in the game.We have made some adjustments to the overall gameplay speed, aiming to offer a more exciting and dynamic experience. Given the large number of people who have asked for Enchanted Portals to be on PlayStation 4, we’ve decided to launch it on that platform in addition to PC and Switch.To that end, we have created a new extended trailer in which we show some of the changes and new additions we’ve made to the game and a lot of you have been suggesting: Read the update from the developer below:Īfter several months of hard work and exploring different options to fund the development of Enchanted Portals, we have ultimately decided to relaunch the Kickstarter campaign as we believe it would grant us more control over the project. View the latest trailer of the game below: Xixo Game Studio had originally worked on negotiations with a publisher, but has decided to do a Kickstarter to help fund the game as it gives them more control over the project. The Kickstarter Campaign for Enchanted Portals will be launching soon. By William D'Angelo, posted on 02 April 2020 / 4,323 Viewsĭeveloper Xixo Game Studio announced the Cuphead-inspired 2D platformer, Enchanted Portals, is planned for a release on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.
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