Tag: 3D Dot Game Heroes

With a series as popular and groundbreaking as The Legend of Zelda, it stands to reason that other games would want to emulate the series’ tried and true formula. Zelda‘s signature action-adventure gameplay and satisfying sense of exploration are things several other games have also tried to capture. Today, we want to look at the games that best copied The Legend of Zelda, taking the gameplay qualities of Nintendo’s flagship and repurposing them for themselves…

This particular game is one which I’ve been planning on covering in this features series for quite some time–really, since the beginning I started writing these. However, I wanted to make sure I’d played most of the game–if not actually finishing it–before writing about it. The reason for this is because there’s a lot of negativity about this particular “Zelda clone”, and it seems like that negativity comes from the same people who then later say “well, I haven’t actually…

Love it or hate it, 3D Dot Game Heroes is now available in stores here in the US and it will be available in Europe tomorrow. In order to promote its release, commercials are popping up, and you wouldn’t believe what they thought up. If you still didn’t see the connections between 3D Dot Game Heroes and the Legend of Zelda, you surely will see them now. Take a look at the commercial below and after the jump, you can…

3D Dot Game Heroes is a game that has released in Japan and is set to release in May of 2010, exclusively for the Playstation 3. The game, for all common purposes, is classic NES Legend of Zelda, but in 3D lego style environment. The game borrows nearly identical looking gameplay with Link using his sword, having the ability to dash, getting bombarded by attacks of chickens, while fighting enemies that greatly resemble keese and octoroks. It sure seems like…