The real issue with Enchanted Portals is that the developers forgot to do anything aside from reference Cuphead, like there's nothing wrong with taking inspiration from another source but you also need to add in your own ideas too and they just kinda didn't do that, like what does Enchanted Portals do better or differently than Cuphead? And the answer is "not much at all"
I saw the game before the release and I just *knew* people were going to rag on it. Not even for the poor gameplay or lack of an interesting story, but just solely for the fact that they were trying *so hard* to be the new Cuphead, that it's so evident from the look and style.
I agree that's probably most people's reaction, but personally that's not my gripe with it. Yes it's clearly taking HARD inspiration but it's been made from the ground up with it's own bosses, art, weapons, etc. To me thats honestly enough, so I'm not flaming them for making a "ripoff". I'm just flaming em for making a horrifyingly bad game lol
This game didn't give what it promised. The animations went from high fps, polished looking and enjoyable, to a low quality slideshow of images, connected with the cheapest transitions ever
Boss ideas were good, especially the piano playing dude, but i think that Bosses lack difficulty, while run and gun levels are just spammed with repeating enemies, that stack if uou don't kill them
@@mikadosannoji553 The trailer's animation was like 30 fps more. Looked so smooth. I don't know what happened with the animations, it's like a mobile cuphead port
Developers don’t realize that Cuphead took yearssss to make! I think this concept of traveling to different places through magic is cool but the bosses also don’t make sense in a way? I think if they stuck to a more fairytale magic like how the princess kissed the frog and the witch! This game could’ve been really good, but like you said the funding and the ideas really lacked. Also I’ve actually never heard of this game before until today. It seems like some easy demos and given out to creators would’ve helped. Sad to see such good game potential be wasted😢
Lack of cohesion in the visuals was something I initially talked about in the video before I cut it cause that section had some particularly bad audio. Sometimes they want to commit to a theme but then other times they just throw stuff together. Either be random and crazy (the cow/spaceship/robot/dance fight) or be consistent (the bull fight) but don't ping ping between the two cause then you just look confused
Oh well, maybe somebody will remake the game AND make it better in a few years out of spite. If it can happen to *Garten of BanBan* than surely Enchanted Portals is also in that category.
@@ahdog8 I guess you've never heard of UniqueGeese then? He made a whole video about it that blew up a few months ago. ruclips.net/video/34HLlRRd2XQ/видео.htmlsi=_Ri_f6S7z6GtRW-z
I love how in the cow boss scene in the trailer, looking closely at the characters movements reveals that they weren't actually playing the game. The characters are just gifs edited over the boss fight. Wow.
The trailer was commissioned, apparently, before they actually made the game. They had people make a trailer about a game they didn't have, and then tried to make a game that matched the trailer
@@justpassingby298that makes so much sense as to why certain things in the trailer just dont show up in the game for no comprehensible reason. What makes it worse is that they decided to make the run n gun stages AI generated.
@@EerieNone Which is probably why the swinging vines in the trailer don't show up in the main game at all, they probably couldn't get it to work correctly or spawn in where they're needed by the player so they scrapped them entirely.
I still do feel bad for the devs cuz while it's pretty clear they copied way too much of Cuphead, they still made a game from the ground up with original characters, bosses, etc. like, I can't even call it a shameless rip off, just a clone. honestly, if it wasn't for the rubberhose visuals, it probably would have not gotten this much hate ever since it's announcement, which does make me wonder if that did not play a big role for the game's current state
I feel bad but also dont at the same time. They're asking for way too much money for someone to play a game that doesent even have a stable saving system.
Something that might've been interesting is if they went for different artstyles for the different worlds. Like in the 2nd phase of the witch boss it looks very Tim Burton esque, skinny chracters, big black circles around the eyes. Or in the tree boss fight it looks like the main character turned into a character from Scaredy Squirrel, and then the boss after that they it became anime for some reason. So instead of everything being 1930's styled like Cuphead the first level could be Tim Burton themed, world 2 could be modern cartoon themed or something idk, world 3 could be all water coloured, world 4 generic Disney style, etc.
Let's not forget Cuphead was developed by 2 guys (in the early years of development) who quit their jobs, sold their cars and quite literally were willing to risk everything they had to make this idea happen. Just some random studio trying to rip it off using rubberhose/30s cartoon style will never get close to them cause their motivation and dedication is way less.
After playing Enchanted Portals i have one question... why didn't they put a single line of dialogue in this game? Cuphead is memorable not only thanks to the art style, gameplay, etc. but because thanks to the dialogues we know that cuphead and mugman are 2 carefree kids tricked by the devil, we know their opinion about the various islands they explore, there are NPCs with personalities that help you by giving coins, etc. With this i don't mean they should have put 999,999 dialogues like in a Final Fantasy game, but atleast some lines of dialogues to explain the story and connect everything together would work really well. LIKE, look at that part where there are still images! It looks perfect to place some dialogues. This game could have been a good game similiar to Cuphead, like Undertale is very similiar to games like the EarthBound/Mother series and Touhou Project, BUT, instead we got this.
also in the end the book sneaks out to talk to another book, if it can move around outside of the fantasy world why couldnt it escape in the first place?
We will probably never know why. But, if i had to guess, it's because... i don't know, this game is so rushed and unpolished that it's difficult to tell. They should have just made a smaller game to test things out before making this project.@@mikadosannoji553
I had similar criticism when I was playing a game called Kaze and the Wild Masks which is based on Donkey Kong Country. That game also doesn't have any dialogue in it as well
Such a shame man, would’ve been great for more developers to take inspiration from Cuphead but these guys have taken it wayy too far 😭 Hahah this vid is jokes though fair play
I feel like the idea of the game is good, I just wish they scrapped the "Run n' gun" levels and just stuck with the bosses. The sound design is also horrible, I wish they spent time and didnt release until the game was fully finished.
@@Cubeytheawesome I worded it wrong. I meant they should have focused more on the bosses to make them more "Boss like" instead of just shooting forward or down. I feel like some of the run n gun levels could have either been scrapped or changed
this game gives the vibe of it being made by a bunch of artists that dont actually know anything about programming or making a video game. it's giving very "alright i just finished all the final animations for the characters and bosses. time to start programming them!" energy. which sucks too because like, i know you kind of said the animation is "meh", but as an artist i am actually very impressed with it! especially on the bosses. sure it's not a masterpiece, but compared to a lot of other smaller indie titles this game's art and animation is genuinely really good!
Dude I 100% agree The animation isn’t as good as the beautiful hand drawn work of cuphead of course but it had work put into it! Another thing to note is that apparently, saw this from another comment, is that the devs took all the criticism for the game when it was announced to heart which probably made them lose passion for the project… Thus leading to less effort in art and gameplay… Which is a shame because I believe the game could look super great with a lot more heart put into it Note: One thing I always disliked tho abt the art was how some of the enemies look like they don’t fit… Like the knight axe dude or the aliens in the code world
If your griffpatch (not even) you could probably rip the sprites & sounds and recreate the ENTIRE game almost perfectly, besides maybe the rigged characters and that shatter transition on the final boss.
Asking for a key to detroy a game, now that's what I call integrity! 😂 It's a shame though, half of the stuff mentioned really sound like easily avoidable issues if they had playtesters or just experience in making platformers. Like this is exactly the kind of stuff I notice in jam games usually. And I like the design for a bunch of bosses here, but yeah just seems random. Slight devil's advocating: Cuphead's run & gun levels were also way more tolerable when you avoided everything with the smoke dash, I'm sure they noticed this and that's why there's a pacifist reward 🤓
The run and guns are definitely difficult without smoke dash, but I can't emphasize how much of a pain in the ass it is to even aim at stuff in this game
17:06 I'm glad someone payed attention in History Class and knew that the Guy who had trouble hearing in one Ear was Beethoven, not Mozart. I see people make that mistake constantly.
One thing about this game that actually impressed me is that it’s made by only two people so a lot of the stuff that’s wrong with the game is somewhat fair. Granted 26 dollars is way too much for this game and the games concept was a bit shady/shakey. But still I feel like if they had more funding and more people to work on this it would’ve been a decent game.
That'd be fine... if Cuphead wasn't also made by 2 guys, which also didn't had a Kickstarter campaign (unlike this game) and paid the entire game out of their own pockets
@@siperogI feel like the "they paid the entire game out of their own pockets" statement was kinda incorrect.. not trying to sound like a dick about it tho
My only problems with it are that it's too expensive and it doesn't have save system. If it cost like 5 dollars and had save system, it would be basic indie game with pretty animation.
okay whatever enchanted portals, just wanted to put smth on the background, but your charisma, editing skills and script is REALLY GOOD BRO!!! real underrated
The most important thing to know as an indie developer is your limits. I think if the game nicked the shoot ‘em up segments, it would’ve turned out so much better. Sure, maybe they would’ve needed to lower the price, but more content doesn’t mean the game is better.
There is a difference to bootlegging and getting inspired by something, and sadly this game doesn't realize that the difference is effort. They put so much time in trying to be similar to Cuphead that they forgot to make the things that are original actually good
This all could've been avoided if the devs just got some help to make a DLC sized mod for the original game given how nice the designs are for most of the characters...
if cuphead ever played this game he would probably throw the controller at the tv, then he would throw the tv out the window, then he would go on to commit genocide again
This game having the worst audio you will hear in years is a good thing in the long run. Sound design is an underappreciated aspect and this will get people to care about it.
The game doesn’t even work as a story. Which should’ve been the one thing that they nailed with or without a budget. Why are we fighting these bosses. In Cuphead, we’re stealing people’s souls, so of course the bosses are gonna fight back. In Enchanted Portals, all we’re doing is chasing a sentient book and trying to go home. Why are we killing these bosses and why do they want to kill us.
Instead of being a zombie for that one point of the fight, they should have made you a zombie for the whole level, and given you maybe a different moveset that goes along with it. Then, with the squirrel transformation, they should have had a forest level, where you were the squirrel, with a different moveset for that. It had a lot of potential, sadly.
Honestly, I don't mind so called "clones". I think it can actually work really well. If you do something unique with it. Lemme give an example: Bug fables, this game is very heavily inspired by paper Mario. But what makes that different in my opinion is that it puts it's own unique twist on the formula with three active members at once. Aswell as having an amazing story. However this game doesn't innovate anywhere.
I think time is also a pretty big factor in things like this cuphead released in 2017, so everyone saw enchanted portals as an effort to profit from the hype of cuphead. in bug fables’ situation, the last classic-style paper mario game was released in 2004 compared to BF’s 2019 release, so the desperate paper mario community saw it more as a spiritual successor-like return to form for fans.
Another one is Pizza Tower, that game clearly takes inspiration from Wario Land. But it isn't just copy paste, it takes ideas from the past and does its own thing as well.
It's strange but I feel as though this game cursed me too. I was imagining the plot of the sequel where Boy Wizard gets cursed by The Elder Spellbook and falls ill meaning Girl Wizard must collect ingredients for a potion that won't cure Boy Wizard but will allow him to astral project to Elder Spellbook's location and explain that Younger Spellbook is lying. I just came up with this plot then suddenly I got the new covid strain. What the hell, game?! I was being nice! I was helping you come up with a sequel! Or is this not you but my gift of prophecy is activating again?!
I remember hearing about this like, in 2019? Was it? And I just forgot that it existed. Until they finished the game. Now it's everywhere. On my RUclips recommendations.
13:00 I swear its kind of frustrating. Its like they looked at cuphead, took anything they didnt really need to take, and then the things they would have benefited in taking away from cuphead (the means of changing weapons, the controls, the not randomly generated level design) and *didnt* take any of it.
The art in this game is very cute. Such a shame that this video is probably the most exposure its going to get because playing it yourself sounds like torture
I wanted this game to be good sooooo bad, i was so excited to have more Cuphead, whether it was official or not, but then it came out and its so bad... I had hopes for it...
The art of Cuphead was so charming and unique. I loved every character... the art of Enchanted Portals makes me wanna punch every character in the face.
I was wondering why Enchanted Portals looks so weird.. and I think it’s because it seems to be slower? Cuphead is very dynamic and there is a lot of movement, but EP just looks like it’s slow motion lmao
(Not so) fun fact… The enemy placement in the linear levels is RANDOMLY GENERATED. If you try to speedrun or progress too fast, the enemies will load in so fast they stack and become nearly unavoidable, especially in levels that rely more on platforming.
Lmao I unironically feel bad about this, that's why I had to explain that that wasn't the goal when I initially asked for the code. But yeah I'm definitely a little shit for this lol
Dude honestly If the developers were smart they could have went for other styles (64 and PlayStation 1, or link the faces of evil honestly just any other kind of inspiration in General) for there game instead of just literally copying cuphead like bro💀
Knew it, the only thing that was kinda good was how it sometimes changed art styles but it still looked a little weard. They should of made each world or levels (idk what they call it in the game) a different style
The closest thing I can say resembles this is lords of the fallen. Remember that? The first "big" soulslike . That game was basically doing what this game is doing. Just "remember that really good game that you like? Well here's that but way less interesing"
This game seems to have a lot of passion but it feels like the game is made by people who haven't made a game before. I genuinely love the art and animation but it definitely needed more time in the oven. Cuphead needed 6-7 years to complete the game. This game needed the same amount of time and possibly more.
I literally watched 8 bit ryan play the first level and thought it looked garbage. Having to change your weapon over and over every 2 seconds for no other reason than the enemy being shielded to the rest is just infuriating game design. Also everything looks so slow, from the animations to the attacks, movement speed and everything, and having randomly generated run and guns is just asking for trouble.
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The real issue with Enchanted Portals is that the developers forgot to do anything aside from reference Cuphead, like there's nothing wrong with taking inspiration from another source but you also need to add in your own ideas too and they just kinda didn't do that, like what does Enchanted Portals do better or differently than Cuphead? And the answer is "not much at all"
they also forgot i-frames
@@mikadosannoji553 No they didn’t forget them. They just made them so inconsistent you should never believe you have any.
Well they made it more expensive
That’s different…
@@froggycolouringthe only problem is that the game is bad and to expensive
I don't know which one is worse@@SuperDestroyerFox
I saw the game before the release and I just *knew* people were going to rag on it. Not even for the poor gameplay or lack of an interesting story, but just solely for the fact that they were trying *so hard* to be the new Cuphead, that it's so evident from the look and style.
I agree that's probably most people's reaction, but personally that's not my gripe with it. Yes it's clearly taking HARD inspiration but it's been made from the ground up with it's own bosses, art, weapons, etc. To me thats honestly enough, so I'm not flaming them for making a "ripoff". I'm just flaming em for making a horrifyingly bad game lol
This game didn't give what it promised. The animations went from high fps, polished looking and enjoyable, to a low quality slideshow of images, connected with the cheapest transitions ever
Boss ideas were good, especially the piano playing dude, but i think that Bosses lack difficulty, while run and gun levels are just spammed with repeating enemies, that stack if uou don't kill them
@@Nigacraz did they animate the trailer or did they have to downgrade the game's animations to make up to its poor optimization?
@@mikadosannoji553 The trailer's animation was like 30 fps more. Looked so smooth. I don't know what happened with the animations, it's like a mobile cuphead port
The game gives strong Coolmathgames vibes tbh
Edit: I recognise the disagreements but I stand by my opinion. The art style is so coolmathgames
Leave coolmathgames outta this, they ain't did nothing wrong 😭
coolmathgames without the cool or math
Honestly if this game was on cool math games it'd do better but even then it still would fail
RIP coolmathgames, we students will always remember you
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Developers don’t realize that Cuphead took yearssss to make! I think this concept of traveling to different places through magic is cool but the bosses also don’t make sense in a way? I think if they stuck to a more fairytale magic like how the princess kissed the frog and the witch! This game could’ve been really good, but like you said the funding and the ideas really lacked. Also I’ve actually never heard of this game before until today. It seems like some easy demos and given out to creators would’ve helped. Sad to see such good game potential be wasted😢
Lack of cohesion in the visuals was something I initially talked about in the video before I cut it cause that section had some particularly bad audio. Sometimes they want to commit to a theme but then other times they just throw stuff together. Either be random and crazy (the cow/spaceship/robot/dance fight) or be consistent (the bull fight) but don't ping ping between the two cause then you just look confused
Oh well, maybe somebody will remake the game AND make it better in a few years out of spite. If it can happen to *Garten of BanBan* than surely Enchanted Portals is also in that category.
@@GlaceonFan1997at that point you might as well just mod the boss fights into Cuphead.
@@GlaceonFan1997 who is making Garten of Banban better out of spite? I haven't heard of this before!
@@ahdog8 I guess you've never heard of UniqueGeese then? He made a whole video about it that blew up a few months ago.
ruclips.net/video/34HLlRRd2XQ/видео.htmlsi=_Ri_f6S7z6GtRW-z
I love how in the cow boss scene in the trailer, looking closely at the characters movements reveals that they weren't actually playing the game.
The characters are just gifs edited over the boss fight. Wow.
The trailer was commissioned, apparently, before they actually made the game. They had people make a trailer about a game they didn't have, and then tried to make a game that matched the trailer
@@justpassingby298 that is awful LOOOOL
@@justpassingby298that makes so much sense as to why certain things in the trailer just dont show up in the game for no comprehensible reason.
What makes it worse is that they decided to make the run n gun stages AI generated.
@@EerieNone Which is probably why the swinging vines in the trailer don't show up in the main game at all, they probably couldn't get it to work correctly or spawn in where they're needed by the player so they scrapped them entirely.
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I still do feel bad for the devs cuz while it's pretty clear they copied way too much of Cuphead, they still made a game from the ground up with original characters, bosses, etc. like, I can't even call it a shameless rip off, just a clone.
honestly, if it wasn't for the rubberhose visuals, it probably would have not gotten this much hate ever since it's announcement, which does make me wonder if that did not play a big role for the game's current state
I think if they did the artstyle changing more, the game would have been better.
@@Cubeytheawesome yeah, it starts up as if that's gonna be like this game's gimmick, but it only happens in the very first and final boss
Yeah, if they didn’t receive a lot of hate and their kickstarter did well, the game would probably be way better honestly.
If the artstyle was different, people wouldn't rag on it for being a Cuphead clone. They'd rag on it for being a shitty game.
I feel bad but also dont at the same time. They're asking for way too much money for someone to play a game that doesent even have a stable saving system.
Something that might've been interesting is if they went for different artstyles for the different worlds.
Like in the 2nd phase of the witch boss it looks very Tim Burton esque, skinny chracters, big black circles around the eyes.
Or in the tree boss fight it looks like the main character turned into a character from Scaredy Squirrel, and then the boss after that they it became anime for some reason.
So instead of everything being 1930's styled like Cuphead the first level could be Tim Burton themed, world 2 could be modern cartoon themed or something idk, world 3 could be all water coloured, world 4 generic Disney style, etc.
Yeah, I’d like that.
They already cut corners with the actual level design, no way they're gonna put effort into different styles.
@@_V.Va_ what level design its computer generated levels
@@A_Cat321 That's what I meant by them cutting corners. They cut the whole damn thing off by not making levels.
The game costs more than Cuphead. MORE THAN CUPHEAD.
If I don’t have any of the games im gettin cuphead that shi been teased since 2014
@@Eggslayerrrcuphead is out.
No I’m pretty sure it’s not
@@gamercentral2417you’re right they’re both the same price
@@DosploIt costs more on steam than cuphead.
Let's not forget Cuphead was developed by 2 guys (in the early years of development) who quit their jobs, sold their cars and quite literally were willing to risk everything they had to make this idea happen. Just some random studio trying to rip it off using rubberhose/30s cartoon style will never get close to them cause their motivation and dedication is way less.
holy fuck.
They made the game in 7 years.
Fran Bow was also made by only 2 and came out as a solid game.
After playing Enchanted Portals i have one question... why didn't they put a single line of dialogue in this game? Cuphead is memorable not only thanks to the art style, gameplay, etc. but because thanks to the dialogues we know that cuphead and mugman are 2 carefree kids tricked by the devil, we know their opinion about the various islands they explore, there are NPCs with personalities that help you by giving coins, etc. With this i don't mean they should have put 999,999 dialogues like in a Final Fantasy game, but atleast some lines of dialogues to explain the story and connect everything together would work really well. LIKE, look at that part where there are still images! It looks perfect to place some dialogues. This game could have been a good game similiar to Cuphead, like Undertale is very similiar to games like the EarthBound/Mother series and Touhou Project, BUT, instead we got this.
also in the end the book sneaks out to talk to another book, if it can move around outside of the fantasy world why couldnt it escape in the first place?
We will probably never know why. But, if i had to guess, it's because... i don't know, this game is so rushed and unpolished that it's difficult to tell. They should have just made a smaller game to test things out before making this project.@@mikadosannoji553
I had similar criticism when I was playing a game called Kaze and the Wild Masks which is based on Donkey Kong Country. That game also doesn't have any dialogue in it as well
Such a shame man, would’ve been great for more developers to take inspiration from Cuphead but these guys have taken it wayy too far 😭 Hahah this vid is jokes though fair play
If you're gonna rip someone off at least be good at it
These devs seem like they just wanted to make Cuphead custom bosses, but they accidentally created a full game out of it.
I feel like the idea of the game is good, I just wish they scrapped the "Run n' gun" levels and just stuck with the bosses. The sound design is also horrible, I wish they spent time and didnt release until the game was fully finished.
Then it would be even more of a clone of cuphead
@@Cubeytheawesome I worded it wrong. I meant they should have focused more on the bosses to make them more "Boss like" instead of just shooting forward or down. I feel like some of the run n gun levels could have either been scrapped or changed
Yeah a boss rush would've been fun
this game gives the vibe of it being made by a bunch of artists that dont actually know anything about programming or making a video game. it's giving very "alright i just finished all the final animations for the characters and bosses. time to start programming them!" energy.
which sucks too because like, i know you kind of said the animation is "meh", but as an artist i am actually very impressed with it! especially on the bosses. sure it's not a masterpiece, but compared to a lot of other smaller indie titles this game's art and animation is genuinely really good!
Dude I 100% agree
The animation isn’t as good as the beautiful hand drawn work of cuphead of course but it had work put into it! Another thing to note is that apparently, saw this from another comment, is that the devs took all the criticism for the game when it was announced to heart which probably made them lose passion for the project… Thus leading to less effort in art and gameplay… Which is a shame because I believe the game could look super great with a lot more heart put into it
Note: One thing I always disliked tho abt the art was how some of the enemies look like they don’t fit… Like the knight axe dude or the aliens in the code world
If anyone asks the Piano Musician Boss is based on Beethoven, not Mozart. Beethoven was the one who was Deaf in one Ear, not Mozart.
This feels like a game you’d find on scratch
If your griffpatch (not even) you could probably rip the sprites & sounds and recreate the ENTIRE game almost perfectly, besides maybe the rigged characters and that shatter transition on the final boss.
worst sin of this game: no funky flower boss
Asking for a key to detroy a game, now that's what I call integrity! 😂
It's a shame though, half of the stuff mentioned really sound like easily avoidable issues if they had playtesters or just experience in making platformers. Like this is exactly the kind of stuff I notice in jam games usually. And I like the design for a bunch of bosses here, but yeah just seems random.
Slight devil's advocating: Cuphead's run & gun levels were also way more tolerable when you avoided everything with the smoke dash, I'm sure they noticed this and that's why there's a pacifist reward 🤓
The run and guns are definitely difficult without smoke dash, but I can't emphasize how much of a pain in the ass it is to even aim at stuff in this game
17:06
I'm glad someone payed attention in History Class and knew that the Guy who had trouble hearing in one Ear was Beethoven, not Mozart. I see people make that mistake constantly.
One thing about this game that actually impressed me is that it’s made by only two people so a lot of the stuff that’s wrong with the game is somewhat fair. Granted 26 dollars is way too much for this game and the games concept was a bit shady/shakey. But still I feel like if they had more funding and more people to work on this it would’ve been a decent game.
That'd be fine... if Cuphead wasn't also made by 2 guys, which also didn't had a Kickstarter campaign (unlike this game) and paid the entire game out of their own pockets
@@siperogI feel like the "they paid the entire game out of their own pockets" statement was kinda incorrect.. not trying to sound like a dick about it tho
@@domithenugget2232 No it's correct
They literally had to put a mortgage on their house to make Cuphead, if it didn't succeed they were fucked.
Finally, a reviewer who criticizes the sound design while actually providing an example!
Ikr
My only problems with it are that it's too expensive and it doesn't have save system. If it cost like 5 dollars and had save system, it would be basic indie game with pretty animation.
okay whatever enchanted portals, just wanted to put smth on the background, but your charisma, editing skills and script is REALLY GOOD BRO!!! real underrated
The most important thing to know as an indie developer is your limits. I think if the game nicked the shoot ‘em up segments, it would’ve turned out so much better. Sure, maybe they would’ve needed to lower the price, but more content doesn’t mean the game is better.
There is a difference to bootlegging and getting inspired by something, and sadly this game doesn't realize that the difference is effort. They put so much time in trying to be similar to Cuphead that they forgot to make the things that are original actually good
This all could've been avoided if the devs just got some help to make a DLC sized mod for the original game given how nice the designs are for most of the characters...
2:42 That girl almost looks like Hilda from the Pokemon franchise.
if cuphead ever played this game he would probably throw the controller at the tv, then he would throw the tv out the window, then he would go on to commit genocide again
i feel like you could mod this game to make it actually decent
I fully agree, I dont even think it would take that long to get to a half decent state
Or better just play Cuphead.
@@elgatodeforme8781 I can't; I already got a 300% save file with all achievements.
@@megacadgeo9758I think trying to 300% it all again would be a much more enjoyable experience than two minutes of Enchanted Portals.
@@_V.Va_ Yeah, except for Saltbaker. Fuck S-Ranking Salt-baker.
the witch is basically "hey captin brineybeard cap i copy ur homewor" "sure but dont make it too obvious"
The whole sound design segment had me dead 😂
Echanted portals more like
Enchantment life 2
(I love the fake cuphead on the thumbnail so much)
This game having the worst audio you will hear in years is a good thing in the long run. Sound design is an underappreciated aspect and this will get people to care about it.
The game doesn’t even work as a story. Which should’ve been the one thing that they nailed with or without a budget.
Why are we fighting these bosses. In Cuphead, we’re stealing people’s souls, so of course the bosses are gonna fight back. In Enchanted Portals, all we’re doing is chasing a sentient book and trying to go home. Why are we killing these bosses and why do they want to kill us.
This was really well edited, glad this video did well for you:)
4:22 as a music student this did hurt my very soul 😂
Actually very solid video! I loved it.
Subscribed and liked! Keep up the great work. :D
Instead of being a zombie for that one point of the fight, they should have made you a zombie for the whole level, and given you maybe a different moveset that goes along with it. Then, with the squirrel transformation, they should have had a forest level, where you were the squirrel, with a different moveset for that. It had a lot of potential, sadly.
Honestly, I don't mind so called "clones".
I think it can actually work really well.
If you do something unique with it.
Lemme give an example: Bug fables, this game is very heavily inspired by paper Mario. But what makes that different in my opinion is that it puts it's own unique twist on the formula with three active members at once.
Aswell as having an amazing story.
However this game doesn't innovate anywhere.
I think time is also a pretty big factor in things like this
cuphead released in 2017, so everyone saw enchanted portals as an effort to profit from the hype of cuphead. in bug fables’ situation, the last classic-style paper mario game was released in 2004 compared to BF’s 2019 release, so the desperate paper mario community saw it more as a spiritual successor-like return to form for fans.
Another one is Pizza Tower, that game clearly takes inspiration from Wario Land. But it isn't just copy paste, it takes ideas from the past and does its own thing as well.
@@megablueflash1816 this is a really good example aswell.
Excellent video, man! Writing, energy, everything was top notch.
The bosses look great, at least. I am attracted to the cow.
Horny on main
SIMP ALERT SIMP ALERT!
HORNY ALERT HORNY ALERT
WOOWOOWOOWOO
Forget touching grass, you need to be force feed tree bark for this level of degenerate behavior
more people get killed by cows than sharks
this is probably the best enchanted portals vid out there rn
you did a really good job on this i hope you get a lot of traction from it
Tbh it's impressive as only 2 people made this game and still better then most ea games
Yeah, plus also garten of banban was made by 2 people. (Not counting the voice actors)
@@Cubeytheawesome that aint really a good comparison anyways
Wasn't Cuphead as well?
damn bro ran outta gummies that’s… damn dude… that’s the real tragedy
I'm still not over it tbh
im crying right now
It's strange but I feel as though this game cursed me too.
I was imagining the plot of the sequel where Boy Wizard gets cursed by The Elder Spellbook and falls ill meaning Girl Wizard must collect ingredients for a potion that won't cure Boy Wizard but will allow him to astral project to Elder Spellbook's location and explain that Younger Spellbook is lying.
I just came up with this plot then suddenly I got the new covid strain.
What the hell, game?! I was being nice! I was helping you come up with a sequel!
Or is this not you but my gift of prophecy is activating again?!
it can basically be summed up as "random bullshit, GO!!!!"
I remember hearing about this like, in 2019? Was it?
And I just forgot that it existed.
Until they finished the game.
Now it's everywhere.
On my RUclips recommendations.
they had a failed kickstarter in 2019 while cup head was thriving they also only had 2 people working on this game
The 2 devs did a worse job than the euphoric brothers.
Yes, each normal level is RANDOMLY generated, not even a single part of the main game is hand made other bosses.
13:00 I swear its kind of frustrating. Its like they looked at cuphead, took anything they didnt really need to take, and then the things they would have benefited in taking away from cuphead (the means of changing weapons, the controls, the not randomly generated level design) and *didnt* take any of it.
It’s almost like people want them to copy cuphead
That aint Cuphead thats Methhead.
Ok, first video I see on your channel and you're really funny and talented, keep it up
I've missed this beautiful face
And I miss the beautiful face of my favourite guy, RUclipsOnly7271
Loved the editing of this video lol
I'm not into Cuphead but I just gotta say congrats on a banger video! It's deserved.
The art in this game is very cute. Such a shame that this video is probably the most exposure its going to get because playing it yourself sounds like torture
The sound design feels like a scratch project
Rubberneck-themed games would go so hard if they focused on more than just making it look like rubberneck.
I wanted this game to be good sooooo bad, i was so excited to have more Cuphead, whether it was official or not, but then it came out and its so bad... I had hopes for it...
This game feels like something made by an overambitious artist and a part time game designer
The worst aspects of game is it constantly on iron man mode.
No save file hitting hard ngl .
this game just makes me think: *"its clearly not finished put it back IN"*
I like when games can combo you, so long as it doesn't apply to strongly to environmental/instant death damage sources.
0:03 COC GOBLIN
Asad is a true yogurt male for asking for a review code just to shit on the game
HEY I asked for a review code and THEN realized oh wait I'm definitely gonna shit on this game
@@AsadAnjum yogurt male is a COMPLIMENT
@@waterbakey4330 I know I'm just covering my ass in case the dev teams got snipers
As someone who does know music theory you are correct! That sentence was utter nonsense but it conveyed your point well. Goodness that is bad.
feels like it changes ever so slightly, cause it does. the levels are randomly generated...
The art of Cuphead was so charming and unique. I loved every character... the art of Enchanted Portals makes me wanna punch every character in the face.
I was wondering why Enchanted Portals looks so weird.. and I think it’s because it seems to be slower? Cuphead is very dynamic and there is a lot of movement, but EP just looks like it’s slow motion lmao
They brought a bovine character to fight against with.. in a desert..
They didn't tried to make it trully unique.
2:42 hold the fuck up. What was this man lookin at?
(Not so) fun fact… The enemy placement in the linear levels is RANDOMLY GENERATED. If you try to speedrun or progress too fast, the enemies will load in so fast they stack and become nearly unavoidable, especially in levels that rely more on platforming.
18:14
What I want to know is what the Hell is this High Guardian Spice Ripoff Garbage that pretends to be Anime?
Another reviewer pointed out that the levels were all procedurally generated
imagine you give a game reviewer a code and a couple days later he uploads a video titled this game sucks
Lmao I unironically feel bad about this, that's why I had to explain that that wasn't the goal when I initially asked for the code. But yeah I'm definitely a little shit for this lol
this video is very funny, thank you
Dude honestly
If the developers were smart they could have went for other styles (64 and PlayStation 1, or link the faces of evil honestly just any other kind of inspiration in General) for there game instead of just literally copying cuphead like bro💀
2:42 That girl almost looks like Hilda from the Pokemon series.
Very.. cool
Knew it, the only thing that was kinda good was how it sometimes changed art styles but it still looked a little weard. They should of made each world or levels (idk what they call it in the game) a different style
I do like the intro to this RUclips video of yours.
2:42 FBI OPEN UP
Guys doing this while living in New York and a student? I respect that.
it looks and sounds like prodigy math game
5:30 I wish you move your camera to the left.
I feel bad for the devs, they are very clearly inexperienced.
...Yeah I hated Rumor Honeybottom too, and Matchstick. xD
5:46 this part so funny lol
The closest thing I can say resembles this is lords of the fallen. Remember that? The first "big" soulslike . That game was basically doing what this game is doing. Just "remember that really good game that you like? Well here's that but way less interesing"
To be entierly fair they were running on 2 developers and a failed kickstarter.
Nice video, you earned my sub
when the Cuphead dlc came out some of the bosses were similar to this games bosses
the difference is that one is done well
This game seems to have a lot of passion but it feels like the game is made by people who haven't made a game before. I genuinely love the art and animation but it definitely needed more time in the oven. Cuphead needed 6-7 years to complete the game. This game needed the same amount of time and possibly more.
0:54 😂
I literally watched 8 bit ryan play the first level and thought it looked garbage. Having to change your weapon over and over every 2 seconds for no other reason than the enemy being shielded to the rest is just infuriating game design.
Also everything looks so slow, from the animations to the attacks, movement speed and everything, and having randomly generated run and guns is just asking for trouble.
GIANT ENEMY CRAB
2:42 Yo imma need some explanation on that. Including the link and page. And a VPN. For research purposes.
🤨📸📸📸📸📸
Really like the art, shame that the gameplay isn’t good