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Atlus looks to continue its recent hot streak with its first PS3 release since the wildly celebrated controller smash-fest that was Demon’s Souls. 3D Dot Game Heroes, like most of the Atlus game library, is a niche game, though it may well have a wider potential audience than Demon’s Souls or Shiren the Wanderer did; the appeal here is in an unabashedly retro approach to a game that could only have happened in the current generation.
3D Dot Game Heroes is something of a remake of NES classic The Legend of Zelda, though the pool of references it pulls from is far wider than that; quick comparisons can be made to just about any RPG/adventure game from the 8-bit era, with a particular emphasis on Dragon Warrior and a decided knack for the sort of intentionally awkward localization that marked the era. While its adventure is appealing and compelling in a “remember when” sort of way, though, it’s the character creation facilities of 3D Dot Game Heroes that are sure to provide the lasting appeal.
After all, I may not have known prior to 3D Dot Game Heroes what it would look like if Bionic Commando‘s Super Joe wielded a sword that could grow to 10 times his size, but now that I do, I don’t know how I ever lived without it. Here’s a video offering a taste of those capabilities, complete with the silly sense of humor that the game handles so deftly.
