Enchanted Portals (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.3 Update

Enchanted Portals is a platform video game developed and published by Xixo Games Studio. It was released on September 5, 2023, for Microsoft Windows, September 8, 2023, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, and November 1 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The game drew comparisons to the 2017 platformer Cuphead, with whom it shares its gameplay and visual style, and received largely negative reviews. Experience intense clashes against wacky bosses in this captivating 2D platformer.

Join novice magicians Bobby and Penny as they embark on a dimension-hopping adventure to reclaim the Magic Book. With delightful music, vintage art, and continuous humor, Enchanted Portals offers a co-op 2D platforming experience that guarantees non-stop magic and whimsical action, whether you’re playing solo or with a friend. Team up with Bobby and Penny on their journey and discover where the adventure leads you!

GAMEPLAY

Enchanted Portals is a 2D platformer in which players take the role of Bobby and Penny, rookie wizards stuck between dimensions after an accident involving a magic book. The game can be played either alone or cooperatively. Enchanted Portals consists of platforming stages broken up by boss fights, with players being able to utilize various magical power-ups to help them overcome challenges. These power-ups include three kinds of spell attacks, a protective bubble to block an attack, and the ability to swipe at certain obstacles with the playable character’s wand.

Some boss levels also add certain changes in the gameplay or setting. The players have four hit points in levels, with their hitbox being shown on the top of the screen. The players’ hitboxes are represented by Bobby and Penny’s faces with their expressions changing every time they get hit. By defeating certain enemies in platforming stages, a heart will sometimes appear, which can give players an extra hit point if they come in contact with it.

PLOT

While Bobby and Penny are doing housework, the former accidentally knocks a book off of a shelf. When the two look at it, they see instructions for creating a portal and follow the steps to make one. However, the portal that Bobby and Penny create ends up sucking the two inside of it, along with their pet cat and the magic book.

Which soon becomes alive, Bobby and Penny explore a variety of different worlds, including a forest with a haunted hotel, a spaceship piloted by a cyborg cow, an island with a temple, a castle with frogs, and a town populated by roosters.

While making it through all of these dimensions, they fight the world’s hostile inhabitants and look for the sentient magic book. After making it through every world, Bobby and Penny end up in a wormhole, where the magic book tries to kill the two with his spells.

After Bobby and Penny finally defeat the magic book in battle, they return home right when an older wizard (presumably their caretaker) arrives. Later, the magic book tells another book (most likely his father) about what Bobby and Penny did to him, hinting that the latter book might seek retribution against the two wizards.

KEY FEATURES

• CO-OP and SOLO gameplay modes.
• Dive into challenging PLATFORM STAGES across diverse dimensional worlds.
• Engage in exhilarating BOSS BATTLES, each with unique, colorful settings and multiple phases.
• Harness a formidable arsenal of SPELLS and MOVES: wield fire, ice, and wind from the start, master a double jump for enhanced aerial control, create a protective magic bubble, and take flight on a broom or swim underwater.
• Brace for diverse STATUS EFFECTS that can impact players, such as jump restrictions and the inability to attack, adding an extra layer of challenge and excitement to the gameplay.