Sometimes video games walk a fine line between paying tribute and stealing ideas. Games like Super Meat Boy may be steeped in love for the 8-bit Nintendo era, but it manages to make the style its own. Gianna Sisters, on the other hand, was a bold-faced rip-off of Mario Brothers and didn’t even try to hide it. Often times a game which is so obviously stealing becomes the target of legal action, but sometimes it is the court of public opinion which sentences a game. So what did Enchanted Portals do, or not do, to get lumped in with the rip-off crowd? This is certainly the case with Enchanted Portals, a recently announced game that caught a lot of flak for just how similar it is to Cuphead. The Many Marked Similarities Between Cuphead and Enchanted PortalsĪt first glance, it’s pretty simple to guess why so many people could see the similarities between Cuphead and Enchanted Portals, two indie platformer games with a heavy focus on boss fights. Both have a similar rubber-hose style of animation and both also have a similar taste in music. If you take a look at some of the gameplay footage, then the similarities become even clearer. Not only are the music and visuals incredibly close to Cuphead, but the actual gameplay seems to follow almost all of the exact same beats as well. ![]() The characters not only jump and shoot in a very similar way to Cuphead, but the gameplay features dashing, parrying and super attacks which are all executed in the same way. ![]() More even than the gameplay, the bosses themselves seem to be very close.
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