3d dot game heroes
2010 Game of the Year Awards *updated*
Announcing the 2010 Game of the Year Awards from the First Hour! We published over 60 full reviews
this year, tripling our output from last year. Of course, our writing
staff has grown quite a bit also. I personally beat 30 games,
undoubtedly making 2010 my most productive video gaming year ever. We
also played over 55 first hours, keeping up a steady pace of one a week. We have not been lacking for great games or content this year.
This isn't your normal Game of the Year awards, we cover everything from older game of the year to worst first hour, so keep scrolling all the way to the bottom! If anything, our game of the year picks are the least interesting decisions. The writers here also don't vote on the categories, instead, everyone is welcome to submit their picks as their own definitive decision.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Retro revivals are all the rage nowadays. In the era of the
low-budget downloadable games market, everybody's digging into their
past to give a
classic a fresh coat of paint or create a sequel with
old-school flare. The former provides a proven template onto which
shiny new graphics can be applied, while the latter guarantees interest
from lifelong fans who long to experience that same magic like it were
new again.
3D Dot Game Heroes is a retro-styled installment in Nintendo's famed Legend of Zelda series, albeit one that was developed by a different company and published for a different company's hardware, and it would be slapped silly with copyright infringement lawsuits if the word "Zelda" appeared anywhere in it. From Software, known for its Armored Core series and the recent hit Demon's Souls, doesn't just take a page from Nintendo's book: the book gets Xeroxed from cover to cover. Almost everything in 3D Dot Game Heroes feels like it was stolen from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, from the plot to the controls to the stage designs to the items and everything in between.
We tend to view knockoffs as inferior, bitter, envious versions of the genuine article. Does 3D Dot Game Heroes lack the essence of its explosively-popular inspiration, or does it manage to work a little magic of its own?
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