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Sometimes video games walk a fine line between paying tribute and stealing ideas. The developers recently began talks with a publisher.After the backlash, the developers have promised to make changes.Enchanted Portals was accused of being a Cuphead clone.| Credit: Casey Rodgers/Invision for Microsoft/AP Images

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Go for that style.įeel free to add some of your own ideas on how things could be improved.Enchanted Portals is a recently announced game that caught a lot of flak for just how similar it is to Cuphead. A tip I can give is, Cuphead's backgrounds look like children's story book paintings. You can make the backgrounds in digital art program (there's nothing wrong with that), but at least put in the effort to make them appear traditionally painted. In some of the boss fights, particularly the one that takes place near the beach, the background clearly looks like it's done on a digital art program. The backgrounds should look traditionally hand-painted. It's better to cut their losses and take away this level completely, or else it feels like a stain on what could be a really good game. The design of the monster does not fit the style of the game's charm. The whole level, characters, background look like something out of a 90s/early 2000s show. This particular level has no semblance of old 1930s-1950s cartoons. There's a level where they fight a 3 headed dog, a chihuahua being one of them. The artstyle is better complimented with a grainer effect. It looks too modern and filterless at the moment.

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In what they've showed, it doesn't have a 1930's tv filter like Cuphead. Instead of dismissing it as simply a ripoff, I think it's more productive to give tips on how they could amp themselves up to be on Cuphead's level of quality. The development team is quite small, and there's definitely some work to be done. They KNOW it's a copy of Cuphead's style.Įnchanted Portals was animated by 1 person.

In fact, Cuphead sequels will probably be better because now there's some competition.Īlso, the developers of EP also stated on their social media pages that they're avid fans of Cuphead. Encouraging 'Enchanted Portals' will not take away future installments of Cuphead. In the gaming industry, there is no finite space. It's relatively new in gaming and wouldn't mind seeing more developers/corporations cash in on the trend. As someone who loved Cuphead's style/gameplay, I'd love to see more developers copy this style. It's a weird level of consumer-entitlement where people were actually offended that another developer was copying their favourite game's art-style/gameplay. They were almost offended by the fact that it was copying Cuphead's direction. While I was browsing this community of threads talking about Enchanted Portals, I was saddened to see how negative people were about Enchanted Portals. There are games in this industry that deserve to be called a ripoff with all the negative connotation, but this is not one of them. In terms of the modern dictionary definition, yes it is a 'ripoff,' but that's not inherently a bad thing.

It strips all the hard work from a work of art, especially when that work of art is actually pretty good on it's own. I don't think it's ever been used with positive connotation. I view the word 'ripoff' as a very degrading term.