
It’s very familiar territory, but rather than a clone, everything in 3D Dot Game Heroes feels like a direct reference and parody. Your character’s primary attack is with his sword but as you progress you’ll gain a bow and arrow, boomerang, bombs, hookshot, etc. 3D Dot Game Heroes plays in a similar manner to early Zelda titles you wander a world map to find dungeons wherein you collect and item and defeat a boss. It’s much more of a parody than anything. Despite how it may look 3D Dot Game Heroes isn’t actually a copycat of the Legend of Zelda. Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. A new hero must rise up to save the people, and that’s where our protagonist (a descendant of the legendary warrior) comes in. Following this the evil dark bishop Fuelle has stolen the dark orb and thrown the land into chaos. The king in his infinite wisdom decided to transform this two dimensional sprite based world into one of 3D. As time went by the masses lost interest, and soon Dotnia was but a shell of its former self.

Following the crusade a great number of people ventured from far and wide to hear the tale. It is in this land that a hero, along with six sages, rose up to seal away a great evil many years ago. Let’s take a look!ģD Dot Game Heroes opens up with a re-telling of the legend of Dotnia. I decided to take another look recently and discovered that 3D Dot Game Heroes just just as fun as it ever was. It looked incredible, and I was not disappointed with it at release. At first glance this very clearly was a copy of the Zelda formula and used pixel art decked out into three dimensional designs. Such was the case with 3D Dot Game Heroes for the Sony PlayStation 3. Screw the haters.Few times have I seen only screenshots of a game and was instantly convinced I would love it. So, whatever this hater thought he was going to accomplish here (being it pitchforks or generally bored enough to drive people away), they failed.Įnjoy my money. I would have probably have liked it more if it was your game to begin with. I enjoyed 3DGH but I also thought it was arbitrarily difficult and funny enough.a Zelda ripoff. Because A) I like the art style and presentation and more importantly B) screw the OP.

Now that we've got that out of the way.ĭoomgriever, I am going to buy your game now. That can be seen from the video presentation alone.Īnd since nobody else has said it yet, I will.

You evidently do not know the differences between these two games and to be frank, they're both wildly different. There are dozens of examples that could be given to prove just how wrong you are for picking on this dev. Just because an art style is similar doesn't mean it's a blatant rip off. Seeing as Atlus tends to drop the ball on localization and porting, this will probably be as close as we get to ever seeing it's style of game on PC. It most certainly is an homage, and one that is very welcome to many fans of that particular game. And this dev is also correct in everything they've stated so far. This dev seems super nice and willing to engage their community. Originally posted by Biff Buttcus:But don't you think there's some kind of line between homage and copying? Don't you think it's a little too far?
