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3D Dot Game Heroes - Playstation 3
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- Rendered in beautiful 3D pixels, 3DDGH takes the unforgettable 8‐bit art gamers know and love and brings it intact into three dimensions.
- Using a powerful character creation tool, players can design and animate their custom hero. Combinations are endless!
- Modeled after some of the most popular games of all‐time with painstaking detail.
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| ASIN | B002I0J45C |
|---|---|
| Release date | May 11, 2010 |
| Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #59,872 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #1,181 in PlayStation 3 Games |
| Pricing | The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. |
| Product Dimensions | 6.78 x 5.32 x 0.14 inches; 3.2 Ounces |
| Binding | Video Game |
| Rated | Everyone 10+ |
| Item model number | 3D-00134-7 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes |
| Item Weight | 3.2 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Atlus |
| Date First Available | November 13, 2009 |
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From the makers of the award‐winning Demon’s Souls comes the ultimate retro gaming experience: 3D Dot Game Heroes. An homage to the all‐time classic action/adventure and RPGs, 3DDGH delivers incredibly satisfying old‐school gameplay, beautiful visuals, and endless inside jokes, winks, and nudges for people who grew up in the golden age of gaming!
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From the makers of the award winning Demon’s Souls comes the ultimate retro gaming experience: 3D Dot Game Heroes. An homage to the all time classic action/adventure and RPGs, 3DDGH delivers incredibly satisfying old school gameplay, beautiful visuals, and endless inside jokes, winks, and nudges for people who grew up in the golden age of gaming!
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Control a hero on a quest to rid the Dotnia Kingdom of a dark plague caused by the forces of evil in order to restore peace to the land. Legend tells of an evil king known as the Dark King Onyx who brought tragedy and darkness to the kingdom by stealing six magical orbs. However a hero rose up against the Dark King and with his legendary sword and the power of the orbs, he sealed the Dark King Onyx away within another orb. Though the forces of evil rose again as the Dark Bishop Fuelle stole the orb and threw the Kingdom of Dotnia into a state of chaos once more.
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- Rendered in beautiful 3D pixels, 3DDGH takes the unforgettable 8‐bit art gamers know and love and brings it intact into three dimensions. Every detail perfectly replicates classic styles with a modern flair.
- Using a powerful character creation tool, players can design and animate their custom hero. Combinations are endless!
- Modeled after some of the most popular games of all‐time, 3DDGH is a labor of love, with painstaking detail placed into every aspect of capturing the magic and wonder of gaming’s best IPs.
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GAMEPLAY
3D Dot Game Heroes aims for what many games of the past strived for in the Atari, NES and early SNES days. Gameplay! It was all most games could lean on due to sound, graphics and memory limitations of the time. From the slightly pixel-ed menu screen to the scrolling dialogue bubbles this game explodes with nostalgia for an old gamer like myself. The gameplay is fairly solid for this game. Throughout my adventure there was no freezing or loading problems. The game did not hand feed you instructions on what to do, yet did not make it too hard that you would get frustrated either. It maintains a nice balance between the two like a good Zelda game can do. If you ever played Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past then you know what to expect here gameplay wise. You will be sent on a quest to secure 6 crystals located in 6 different temples. Along the way you will fight your way through mobs, solve dungeons and fight bosses while gathering a variety of items along the way to aid your journey.
The gameplay is fun and enjoyable; However this game knows it is turning the dial back about 15-20 years and isn't afraid to not take itself serious. Plenty of townsfolk have some funny dialogue mixed in with some nostalgic throw backs. Hidden caves with the game developers attempting to figure out how to code the game. Broken English like "Life Get Up!" and they even threw in a NAVI clone called Lee. You know you are in for a crazy ride when you can select your character, and as of patch v1.01 you can select characters such as Santa, a Tank, a dragon, a shark fin, Funky Santa, even Sackboy!
GRAPHICS
This is where the game takes a small hick-up. Graphically the game obviously is no Uncharted 2, Crysis, Killzone 3 etc. It isn't meant to be. Instead it has this really nice throw back look like a Pixelated version of Lego games but in nice High Def. There are some nice particle effects when enemies or objects explode, splattering the screen with little dots. The game also has a nice camera effect when judging distances, a kind of blur effect. While the graphics are actually really nice, in a throwback way, there also was plenty of times the game would lag when enemies would burst. Kill too many enemies too fast and the game might FPS chug for a moment. It isn't bad but at the same time, you aren't rendering massive 720p map textures with explosions and gun fire everywhere so the dip in FPS is a bit surprising; but it is not all that common and really doesn't effect the gameplay at all here.
SOUND/STORY
The sound track for this game is really good! It has this great NES / SNES tone to it, just mastered at a modern bit-rate. It is like taking your old 8-Bit NES favorites and remastering them today on studio equipment. All the songs have this really nostalgic theme to them which will make it feel like you are a kid all over again! Sound Effects are handled fairly well, having that old school kind of sound to them without being to "old" sounding. Just a nice overall balance between old and new. As for the storyline there isn't much to it. It pretty much is a near clone of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, given a slightly different spin but not much.
REPLAY/LENGTH
The game itself will probably take you anywhere from 10-14 hours to complete on your first playthough since there will be some time figuring out where to go, backtracking to get some upgrades in towns etc. This game contains Game+ modes where the difficulty can be increased up to a difficulty where you die in one hit period! Brutal! On a Game+ you get to keep all your previous items so a Game+ run might take you only 5-7 hrs to complete since you could just breeze through dungeons with upgraded stuff. With varying difficulty levels, and lots of hidden stuff to find the game could easily last you 2 or 3 playthroughs.
OVERALL B/B+ ... 85%
3D Dot Game Heroes is a game which attempts to recreate that nostalgic feel older gamers had when they first sat down to play the classic that is Legend of Zelda. It does an exceptional job and recreating that old NES/SNES feeling in a game without sacrificing enough that makes this game feel as if it just doesn't belong as a modern title. It walks the line perfectly. If you have always been a Zelda fan, or have a craving for some nostalgia this is a great game to pick up. While it is not perfect by any means the game captures what made old games so good and gives that old dusty game a nice modern polish.
*NOTE: You can also create your own character from scratch
*NOTE: While you can eventually create a sword that pretty much will equal an "I WIN" Button, I feel this was almost intentional as on Spelunker difficulty you die in one hit. So in a way a GAME+ mode w/ that sword and 1 hit deaths kind of balances out.
*NOTE: I found the game to actually be easier to play with the D pad instead of the Analog stick
But despite this, how does this game still succeed in being a completely unique and novel experience? It's really all in the name: "3D Dot Game Heroes". I bought this specifically to satisfy an urge I had to play some classic Zelda a la "A Link the Past" but was pleasantly surprised to pop this in and find just a little bit more beneath the surface.
Not only is the whole 2d to 3d thing about the game a cute gimmick and a hilarious concept for people who remember the old days fondly. It also allows for a new combat experiences which are really not that similar to Zelda, or any other game. Your sword gets huge in this game, don't worry there are plenty of double- entendres throughout this game on the subject. But as game play it really works, the combat is not just 2-d brought to 3-d, it has to be approached completely differently.
In terms of the humor aspect of the game, which is excellent. I disagree with the recurring opinion of some people (who are obviously entitled to said opinion, and this is just my own) but that said I disagree that this game is so similar to Zelda to be a true parody. I fully expected to find this to be the case, but even before the game started when I could choose my character from among countless bizarre offerings such as a funky Santa and a ninja who hides underground and breaths through a reed, I knew this game was going to be a delightful affair.
The humor isn't really aimed at Zelda, its just silly humor. Meanwhile the game its-self is full of things which poke fun at the entire medium of videogames such as giving you the option to say no to the king for his response of "well, that won't really advance the story now will it? Let's try this again" once again, not really aimed at Zelda but all games with "choices".
I guess my thesis here is that the game world is clearly (lets emphasize this again: CLEARLY) ripped off from Zelda, but since the parody of the game isn't specific to the Zelda franchise, I guess I felt more like they decided that Zelda was the best series of the 2d action rpg genre which they wanted to mimic and is therefore really more of a homage then a parody, with the humor being all over the place. I also think they chose Zelda just BECAUSE it is so recognizable, it's really necessary for the whole 2d world turned 3d idea to resonate, if it was just any old game it wouldn't be as charming, in my opinion.
Personally I love ALL Zelda games, and I love this game too, but really for different reasons: As I said before, the combat is really an entirely new thing which really takes advantage of the whole 3-d view and it's addictively satisfying. The way enemies blow up into little blocks is SO satisfying. the entire world is really well transitioned from "2d" to 3d. iF this was just 3d Zelda game it would be fun, but not the great unique game it truly is.
However there are some areas where the formula falls a little flat, the sound for instance, made to sound as if it could have been from a true SNES game; sometimes it's great and really adds to the fun of the whole game. Other times it will drive you crazy. It just isn't as fantastic as the classic Zelda music. Maybe I am bias due to nostalgia, I don't know.
This game also leaves you with just as little information about what to do next as "a link to the past" I kind of like that in a video game but this WILL frustrate some people.
I also had this game freeze my ps3 once, and its a brand new ps3, maybe its an anomaly, or not, hard to tell.
All in all this game is definitely a lot of fun, and I gave it a full 5 out of 5 just because the character editor is great and the game comes fully loaded with literally dozens of hilariously delightful characters, plus the price is really quite a bargain.
I feel like this might be obvious but I'll say it anyway. This game will most likely fall flat for anyone who hasn't played an old 2d RPG in their life. And for those people out there on the other end of the spectrum, who are completely snobby about these things (like the people who don't like Batman Begins because "the `real' Ra's al Ghul was completely different blah blah blah"- basically anybody who just can't handle anything but the original product because they have no imagination) Well neither of these parties should buy this game basically.
If you loved those old 2d rpgs, have a sense of humor and want a fun little game which will delight your nostalgia receptors as well as provide new and hilarious game play, do YOURSELF a favor and pick up this little gem.
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You design your own 3D hero, or download one, or use a stock hero.
The class and gender and such affect your stats, but you can choose a new hero each time you load the game so you can always try out new characters.
Alot of people upload their heroes online, so you might just find your favorite hero to downlaod if you lack the artistic skills to make one yourself. I personally downloaded the Cloud Strife from ff7 and had him duke it out 3d dot hero style.
You roam a semi open world visiting temples and towns. Each time you die, you respawn at the castle, or in a temple or in a town you slept in. You can customize your sword (longer or wider), you have a boomerang and arrow and magic and even a fairy follows you around. truely a Zelda like game.
You're also able to smack a book at a monster to trap it in the pages for later viewing.
Puzzles are also part of this game, a major part.
There is even a princess to rescue!
This is a game I'd recommend for those who enjoyed Zelda back in the day. A nice cheap game to pass the time with.
Well Then You'll Love This Game.
- The Music Is Amazing And Will Bring You Back To The Good Old School Nes & Snes Era.
- One Feature That Is Awesome Is That You Can Customize You Main Character, So If You Want To Create The Good Old Nes Link,Mega man,Mario And Etc... You Can!
- The Presentation Is Great & All The Small References To Other Atlus Titles Are Fun.
- Expect A Good Challenge! Some Of The Levels Are Just As Hard As The Original Zelda.
- For The Trophy List We Got A Good List Of Really Challenging Trophies. Such Trophies As (Bestiary Completed,Flawless Hero And Defeating All Bosses Without Taking Damage.) Might Just Piss Off Tons Of Achievers But Then Again Very Doable.
I Fully Recommend This Title If Your A Fan Of Old School Games & Specially If Your A Zelda Fan!
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