Now for me, you’ll struggle to find better but as a platformer, Enchanted Portals is quite simply a flop. You need gameplay that is either as polished and finessed or better. When you want to copycat this experience though, the visuals alone won’t be enough. You see what makes the game Enchanted Portals is quite obviously inspired by so good are the tight controls, the polished gameplay, the lack of handholding and the enhancing soundtrack to tie the retro feel together, and when this is met by clearly unique visuals, we were given a game truly like no other. However, the experience truly is just so dull, no matter how good it looks. Decorating this multi-dimensional world is a colour palette rich enough to paint a Disney fairytale and visuals that look like a 1960s cartoon. The game has multiple platform levels and several boss fights spread across a variety of worlds and dimensions that make up the adventure with each boss fight consisting of multiple phases and each level offering several different enemies. It’s a 2-D platformer, playable in both solo or co-op that puts players into the lives of rookie magicians Bobby and Penny, as they find themselves stuck between dimensions after playing around with a magic book. However, within five minutes of booting the game up, I realised all I was experiencing here was a game that was capable of producing some pretty pictures and nothing else of any real value.įor those yet to hear of Enchanted Portals, much like me before it arrived, the game is very much an obvious attempt to recreate the golden ticket that was Cuphead. When I saw the sudden arrival of Enchanted Portals, and early images took my mind straight to a comparison of Cuphead, I felt incredible excitement that another game had come along to offer me more of that same type of experience. For me, it was the fact that not only did this game look absolutely incredible, but it offered character and polish alongside its deliberately dated and hand-drawn artistic style, and for that reason, I didn’t mind waiting the multiple years I did for it to arrive and eventually blow me away. Several years ago now I was waiting patiently, jumping at every snippet of information on anything that would show me more about what to expect when the rather stunning-looking Cuphead would eventually arrive on our consoles.
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