While it would be hard to talk about it without visual examples, I would recommend watching this video by T B Skyen. But could we see this happen again? Ever? Perhaps if you dump alot of money into the production otherwise, yeah, it’s probably fair to say Enchanted Portals, while does look smooth and clean in its own right, still doesn’t hold a candle to Cuphead.īut when you look at the animation in motion, yeah, it might not be as smooth as Cuphead, but you do see animation 101 in play. It was pure madness that they did pull it off and because of it, Cuphead rightfully got the praises during the “end of the year awards” of various websites. They also spent many years working on this game because of it. This seems rather unfair, but let’s just dive into this a bit further.Īs we said before, Cuphead has the pleasure of how everything in the game is hand-drawn. Much like the teaser video itself, there are just as many videos that say “Give this game a chance” as there are “Why this shameless game is a bad thing.” But one detail that seems to cross people’s minds more times than naught as why this is “shameless” is due to the lack of effort Enchanted Portals puts into the game as opposed to Cuphead.
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While one could have their individual thoughts on how to definite “Inspire vs Rip-Off,” it can help to see other people’s thoughts on what they might think on this.
Does a “Lack of Effort” make a game a rip-off? That and if you consider at the end, we do see a house with a car and satalite and if it fair to say that this is a game that would have its setting set at an entire time. Who knows if they will try and say there will be a kind of aesthetic to the game itself since one could say “This game is set in the 1990s!” because Dragon’s Lair II and Rock-A-Doodle did come out during that time. Hopefully, the creators are taking this into account and won’t try and grab inspirations from the wrong time of animation if this is their intention. A nice thought, but wouldn’t be accurate to the time. It would be like if you could Livestream Jimmy Hendrix at Woodstock in real-time. If Enchanted Portals were to also aim for the 1930s style as Cuphead, this would make no sense at all. Remember the Greaser Rooster? Greasers were prominent around the 1950s-1960s. Let’s just hope that if Enchanted Portals does happen, the quality of the game will be on par with Classics like An American Tail or The Land Before Time and not A Troll in Central Park.
While many would immediately jump to the conclusion and say “1930s!” because Cuphead, this does not feel like the correct answer (unless if the developers choose to overlook a few details). While it is hard to say how many people reading this article have a vast history in animation, it can be difficult to assume the era of animation the game is reflecting. It was a title that many players at the end wanted to see more of, but know it likely wouldn’t happen due to the amount of work it took to get it to where it was. It’s hard as hell but visually and musically pleasing. Every aspect of Cuphead is hand-drawn and emulates the feeling of early age animation. For those who might not know what Cuphead is, it is a “Run-and-Gun” style shooter (i.e. While you can point towards a great number of titles that we got during 2017, many would argue that Cuphead was one of the most articularly stunning games we got in recent years.
While we could focus on any one of these titles, but for the sake of this topic, let’s focus on the biggest indie hit of 2017, Cuphead. Chances are if you did play titles such as Shovel Knight, Shantae or Bloodstained, you know where they got their influences (or how those involved with said titles are making “Spiritual successors” to what they did before). Perhaps one of the main reasons why we enjoy some of the Indie titles is how some developers can take a familiar formula and truly refine it to make it something truly special. Would it be fair to say that we are in a “Renaissance” for Indies right now? For the span of this generation, Indie Developers got to see such an expansive growth where it feels like they have just as much focus as the AAA Developers.
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