History YMMV / EnchantedPortals

* AntiClimaxBoss: The penultimate phase of the final boss is pathetic. [[spoiler:It's a tree, which is a massive, immobile target with no hitbox, and the projectiles of which can be avoided reliably, as they only come from above as well.]] You just have to aim up and shoot until the boss goes down. In its defense, this phase is a nice breather between the very difficult phases before and after it.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: When the game came out, it [[ObviousBeta left a sour first impression because it was clearly not finished]]. The controls were clunky, there were sound effects missing, and there was barely any tutorial. But patches fixed the controls first, also adding a tutorial, and then actually added the sound effects.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Haarmit's second phase isn't against him, but an octopus. Once the octopus is beaten, it disappears from the fight completely and the third phase pits you against Haarmit once again, with the octopus never appearing again.

* FanPreferredCutContent: The boss fight with Rocky Rooster had a different premise earlier in development, taking place at the Fountain of Youth, and each phase would have Rocky gradually get younger. Some players wish this version of the fight had made it into the final game, finding it more interesting and cohesive than the Fountain of Time concept that the fight ended up going with.

* ObviousBeta: Upon the game's release, one of the biggest things people noticed was just how unfinished the game looked and felt -- a lot of areas lacked polish, the sound design was very poor (there are literally ''no'' sound effects during boss fights except your character's magic) and some of the levels felt like they were never play tested.

* HilariousInHindsight: Somehow, this isn't the [[VideoGame/UndertaleYellow only game]] released in 2023 that's heavily based on a viral [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} indie]] [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} game]] from years prior that has a [[spoiler:shapeshifting FinalBoss with a dramatic ArtShift for every phase of their final battle]]. Although ''Yellow'' is explicitly an ''Undertale'' fangame, while ''Enchanted Portals'' is a original game that just happens to be extremely similar to ''Cuphead''.

** The first level gives tutorials for enemies with magic barriers that require using different attacks to kill them and large walls that can only be taken down by the melee attack, yet these two mechanics are used quite sparsely through the rest of the game. The magic barriers don't show up anywhere after World 1 until World 3's boss, and only get used a few more times afterwards, even in spots where it seems like it should (such as the colored viruses in World 2-2 or the fairies during the FinalBoss), and the only other breakable wall in the whole game is at the beginning of World 2.

** The game lacks a manual save or auto-save feature of any kind. There is no way of knowing this at first until one turns the game off a few worlds in, only to find all their progress undone. The game is short enough that it can be beaten in one sitting, however.

*** Similarly, the composer's piano attacks don't sync up with the music, which causes it to sound like the piano isn't making any noise, alongside making the attacks hard to telegraph.

** The death animation has the player fall to the ground with a flower in their hands. Perfectly fine if they're standing on the ground, but if you die in the air the animation still plays without the player falling to the ground, leaving them floating mid-air.

** The first level gives tutorials for enemies with magic barriers that require using different attacks to kill them and large walls that can only be taken down by the melee attack, yet these two mechanics are used quite sparsely through the rest of the game. The magic barriers don't show up anywhere after World 1 until World 3's boss, and only get used a few more times afterwards, even in spots where it seems like it should (such as the colored viruses in the cyberspace level or the fairies during the FinalBoss), and the only other breakable wall in the whole game is at the beginning of World 2.

** Enemies sometimes have very inconsistent animation quality. For example, in the first level of World 3 alone, the alligators move almost as smoothly as the protagonists, while the gorillas firing monkeys from bazookas are extremely choppy and sometimes change size mid-animation.

* HilariousInHindsight: Somehow, this isn't the [[VideoGame/UndertaleYellow only game]] released in 2023 that is heavily based on an viral [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} indie]] [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} game]] from years prior that has a [[spoiler:shapeshifting FinalBoss with a dramatic ArtShift for every phase of their final battle]]. Although ''Yellow'' is explicitly an ''Undertale'' fangame, while ''Enchanted Portals'' is a original game that just happens to be extremely similar to ''Cuphead''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Somehow, this isn't the [[VideoGame/UndertaleYellow only game]] released in 2023 that is heavily based on an viral [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} indie]] [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} game]] from years prior that has a [[spoiler:shapeshifting FinalBoss with a dramatic ArtShift for every phase of their final battle]]. Although ''Yellow is explicitly an ''Undertale'' fangame, while ''Enchanted Portals'' is a original game that just happens to be extremely similar to ''Cuphead''.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the many complaints about the game upon release that that the game could easily be beaten in under an hour and there were no bonuses to go back and find or ranking systems to encourage replaying the levels or bosses for a higher score, meaning that the player most likely won't play it again even if they did enjoy it.

* ObviousBeta: Upon the game's release, one of the biggest things people noticed was just how unfinished the game looked and felt -- a lot of areas lacked polish, the sound design was very poor (there are literally ''no'' sound effects during boss fights except your character's gun) and some of the levels felt like they were never play tested.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Conductor, in spite of having no plot relevance and lasting about thirty seconds, is widely regarded as the coolest boss in the game for its original concept where the boss's attacks are in tune to the music and actually having sound effects for its attacks.
* FanPreferredCutContent: The boss fight with Rocky Rooster originally had a different premise, taking place at the Fountain of Youth, and Rocky would gradually get younger as the player defeats each of his phases. Some players wish this version of the fight had made it into the final game, finding it more interesting and cohesive than the Fountain of Time concept that the fight ended up going with.

** The first level gives tutorials for enemies with magic barriers that require using different attacks to kill them and large walls that can only be taken down by the melee attack, yet these two mechanics are used quite sparsely through the rest of the game. The magic barriers don't show up anywhere after World 1 until the ''World 3 boss'' and only get used a few more times afterwards, even in spots where it seems like it should (such as the colored viruses in the cyberspace level or the fairies during the FinalBoss), and the only other breakable wall in the whole game is at the beginning of World 2.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Haarmit's second phase isn't against him, but a random octopus. Once the octopus is beaten, it's barely brought up again and the third phase pits you against Haarmit once again, meaning that the octopus seemed to just be there to give Haarmit's battle a third phase.

* FanPreferredCutContent: Those critical of the game have noted that the trailers both have better animation and levels that look far less bland, with many singling out Rocky's "Fountain of Youth" boss fight as far superior to the final's "Fountain of Time".

** The game unfortunately lacks a manual save or auto-save feature of any kind. There is no way of knowing this at first until one turns the game off a few worlds in, only to find all their progress undone. The game is short enough that it can be beaten in one sitting, however.
** The levels and enemy placement are both randomly generated, making the levels not only flat and boring, but can also result in sections where it is impossible to avoid taking damage.

** You switch spells with the D-Pad, making it spell switching clunky and impossible while moving. A later patch fixed this, mapping spell switching to a single button and allowing you to do it in midair and while moving.

** The first boss has an ArtShift happen halfway. This doesn't happen again until the ''Final'' Boss.

** The game unfortunately lacks a manual save or auto-save feature of any kind. There is no way of knowing this at first until one turns the game off a few worlds in, only to find all their progress undone. The game is short enough that it can be beaten in one sitting under an hour, however.

** The game’s ArtShift sequences look fine in stills but have significantly more stiff and limited animation than the rest of the game in motion.

* UnderusedGameMechanic: The first level gives tutorials for enemies with magic barriers that require using different attacks to kill them and large walls that can only be taken down by the melee attack, yet these two mechanics are used quite sparsely through the rest of the game. The magic barriers don't show up anywhere after World 1 until the ''World 3 boss'' and only get used a few more times afterwards, and the only other breakable wall in the whole game is at the beginning of World 2.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The penultimate phase of the final boss is pathetic. [[spoiler:It's a tree, which is a massive, immobile target with no hitbox, and the projectiles of which can be shot down reliably.]] You just have to aim up and shoot until the boss goes down. In its defense, this phase is a nice breather between the very difficult phases before and after it.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Haarmit's second phase isn't against him, but a random octopus. Once the octopus is beaten, it's never brought up again and the third phase pits you against Haarmit once again, meaning that the octopus seemed to just be there to give Haarmit's battle a third phase.

* ObviousBeta: Upon the game's release, one of the biggest things people noticed was just how unfinished the game looked and felt-a lot of areas lacked polish, the sound design was very poor (there are literally ''no'' sound effects during boss fights except your character's gun) and some of the levels felt like they were never play tested.