Yes, the game is aware that all these things have been done before, but that doesn't excuse the fact that it simply retreads very old ground while winking at us.īut you'll want to forgive 3D Dot Game Heroes the minor sin of falling in love with the past it's trying to recreate and mock, because the art style is beautiful. The game takes the premise behind the Zelda titles and makes fun of them-it's filled with tongue-in-cheek references to other games of the past and the present-but after you put in a few hours you'll notice that these tropes aren't used to subvert the genre, they're merely being repeated. You are given the job of a legendary hero, told where to find a magical sword, and off you go to tackle your first dungeon. Oh well.The game's story addresses the fact that the future is in 3D, and you see the world of 8-bit adventure pop into the third dimension during the game's introduction. I wasn't able to find links to other Final Fantasy VI/III characters though. There are Link avatars made by Gamespy, an avatar of Cave Story's Quote by DesTwo from gamefaqs, and an avatar of Tina/Terra from Final Fantasy 6 (which was Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES.) Terra was pretty tough to find, I finally got her off some Japanese web site. I didn't make any of these, I just found them on the net. Here's a link to some popular characters from other franchises that I thought were done well. You can also download and use other people's creation, although it's been so long that live links are harder to find. You can design the hero character avatar you use in the block editor. The one thing that I thought was really great in this game was the block editor. Still, I enjoyed my play through it, I just had no desire to do anything past simply completing the game with the bare minimum of collectables. And although I loved the idea of a '3D Pixel' game, it turned out I wasn't a fan of the art direction and really would have preferred a sprite game. I also felt the game design was a lot less tight than a Nintendo title. It feels to me like 3D Dot Game Heroes is an homage to the first Zelda on the NES, whereas I liked the worlds and feelings of the SNES Link to the Past and Gameboy Link's Awakening.

I'm a huge fan of the 2D Zelda Games, so I thought I would love 3D Dot Game Heroes. I played it last year and finished the main quest.

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