Cuphead-Like 2D Platformer Enchanted Portals Coming To Switch This Summer

I love the look of this. Similar art style but very different world. While Cup Head was brutal but fair difficulty I’d like it if this game could be slightly less punishing.

I'll grab a physical copy to go alongside Cuphead.
Looks pretty good

Physical copy confirm means you got a guaranteed buy from me. Even better too cause it's not a limited release. Thank you Xixo, I will support y'all by getting it both digital and physical version.

I'll try it out. I hope it's not as difficult as cuphead. I gave up on the DLC. Too hard for me

I can’t wait to give this game a shot, I will happily play more games like cuphead 😋, and I can tell it was made with genuine love, a rip off doesn’t have this much effort, however, one critique, and I’m not trying to be rude, but the animation looks, slow, which is fine because it meant to be easier maybe, but I don’t know, I think it’s just a little too slow, compared to past trailers, which moved a little faster.

And I feel bad for feeling like this because I actually like everything about the game, and everyone is being so positive and i’m kinda just spoiling the mood, i’m sorry.

This looks awesome!

Looks great but just seems a bit too on the nose similar to cuphead with the style of play and things like the spin animation.

Your "Game Profile" lists the game as "1 Player", but you say it has "Two-Player Co-op" in the article. Don't want anyone getting confused.

Cute, looks like they've changed the game a bit to avoid some of the Cuphead comparisons

But we have Cuphead at home:

If it's good, I will buy it. I love Cuphead and it's art style, but I never got past the second isle.

This game looks SO much better than when they first showed it. The animation isn't up to Cuphead Standards but its leagues ahead of most games, and I like the variety and ideas I'm seeing in this so far. And as otehrs have said, very happy to have physical versions from the jump. Sold.

I don’t play games because they’re brutal; Cuphead was never in my wheelhouse. This looks interesting to me, and if it’s something that indeed isn’t as difficult, I might be able to play it with my partners. Otherwise, I’m stuck playing it alone.

It's kind of cool the characters design can change depending of the world, I hope it's not as hard as cuphead though, I think I stopped playing that game after defeating the djinn boss lol.

Honestly I feel bad for these devs. Imagine wanting to make a game you have a ton of passion for and people start calling it a ripoff and probably throwing some harsh words towards you. (The internet can be a cool yet scary place to be)

Considering Cuphead was completely indebted to 1920-30's animation, I feel like anyone else can use that as an art style without being called a ripoff (even though Cuphead did it first). Having said that, this still looks....not great. The sprite animations are stiff, and they look tacked onto the backgrounds somehow. Maybe it will improve by release.

The only thing that is keeping me from dismissing this is the variety of art styles that they seem to be using and that is cool, but as for the gameplay... this is a direct copy of Cuphead at least as far as what the combat looked like in this very limited trailer.

It looks cool, the animations are still pretty stiff. Reminds me of early Flash animations, which I'm not a fan of. Regardless, I'll probably still give it a go.

Honestly I never got the hate for this game. There's dozens upon dozens of indie pixelated platformers, farming sims, and Mother/Earthbound-like RPGs out there yet somehow everyone loses their minds when we get a mere 2nd rubberhose/1920s cartoon style game.

Cuphead didn't invent this art style. I want more creative games like this over generic pixel games. I'm excited for this.

@Greatluigi Too be fair when you look at the gameplay shown so far, it goes way beyond "taking inspiration" since the gameplay is pretty much a one for one copy with how the characters move, attack, etc. (on top of the style choice being about the same for both music and art.) It's definitely a rip-off, it's not a bad rip-off at least, but it's definitely got enough similarities that the creators of Cuphead could sue over copyright infringement if they wanted, though I imagine it's not likely to happen, unless Enchanted Portals does something a lot more blatant or something else gives them reason to, since I've heard that the creators of Cuphead aren't the type to be this way. Hopefully there is something more in the gameplay that changes these facts, but as it stands, it's just too on the nose to give it the "inspiration" or "genre" pass like you could for games like Genshin Impact or Dragon Quest Builders when they got hit with the "rip-off" slander

@Rats It's not just that animation that's similar, the boss mechanics, the way the characters fight, dodge etc. Almost everything about the gameplay is a practically a one for one copy of Cuphead's, which is what most people are talking about when they say the game is a rip-off, the fact it looks and sounds similar, because of the style choice they went for, is just the cherry on top. Legitimately speaking, the Creators of Cuphead would have a very good case of they chose to sue over this game, though, from what I understand, I don't imagine it'll come to that since this is A. Coming from the work of fellow indie developers, and B. Because the creators of Cuphead, as far as I'm aware, aren't the kind of people to do so without a really good reason (like if there was a one for one copy of one of their bosses or the indie developers were to try to put Cuphead down or something ridiculous like that.)

From time to time I like to try games that are clones of other games especially if I want a game similar to the one that I love. I love Cuphead so I will most likely get this one.

@Homerman76 Fair enough, I was just giving them the benefit of the doubt I guess. I've actually never played Cuphead. I mostly just took notice because I love golden age animation. I wish someone would use that style in an RPG or adventure game or something.

I already thought Cuphead could be better gameplay wise given how gorgeous the art style is. It's kinda disappointing that the best they could come up with was a simplistic action platformer. Not that it's bad, but it could be so much more. With that in mind, it's quite baffling that this has to follow the exact same formula. The animation looks good, but there is so much more you can do with a side scroller than copying Cuphead. Very uninspired, a real shame.

I'm actually impressed — As shameless of a ripoff as this is, Cuphead's art style is not an easy style to pull off and this seems to have pulled it off nearly as well as Cuphead did.

It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Looks different, slower maybe? I wish them well.

@Greatluigi Well, whilst I don't condone online bullying, it is understood that people felt negatively toward it. Cuphead was an entirely unique aesthetic that had never been done before. To copy not only the style, but also the game play, was pretty silly. Imagine if somebody suddenly made a 2D platformer, based around two brothers who are builders, and the enemy is called Queen Joopa, but also maintained it was an original idea.