I quickly grew to dislike the shallow, one-sentence NPCs who populated the games various towns. I quickly grew frustrated by the sheer difficulty of the game-not quite as difficult as the original game or perhaps Mega Man 9, but still up there! (Some of the bosses take more than forty hits to kill!) I quickly got bored tracking down the extremely flimsy plot while trekking from one dungeon to another. So imagine my surprise when I wake up to find 3D Dot Game Heroes failing to captivate my interest. And, oh yeah, incredibly clunky by today’s standards to boot. Yet given my preferences by that point, LoZ seemed to me how someone would view Pong after having played Grand Theft Auto IV: nothing original, nothing that I hadn’t already seen. Sure, it was the granddaddy of the adventuring game, the first game to have a rather “open” world. Sure, I knew it was a great game and all… for its era. Having gone through every Zelda game from LttP through WW before getting to LoZ… well, you can imagine my surprise when LoZ failed to really captivate me. I never played the original Legend of Zelda until the Zelda Collector’s Edition disc came out on GameCube (and I’ve still yet to put any decent effort to beating Adventure of Link). I should make a quick aside before getting to the coup de grâce that the first Zelda game I ever played was A Link to the Past.
If you haven’t seen them yet, you really should.) And so, I figured I would this game would be a shoo-in for me to love. (And from the advertisements of the game, I pretty much figured that the humor content would be through the roof. And if a game is able to make fun of itself well enough to extract laughter out of me, well, that’s just icing on the cake. Or are we? I picked up this game primarily because, well, it looked like a hilarious parody of Zelda. Zelda, I don't think we're in Hyrule anymore. I haven’t finished the game, but that’s the general gist. (It’s probably as close to the original game without risking copyright infringement, honestly!) You’re a hero trying to rescue the princess from an evil dark lord that was sealed away centuries ago (in a 2D land, no less), and you have to go through several dungeons (each with maps, new items, and boss keys) in order to obtain the six orbs which will allow you to tackle the dark lord or whatever. Yes, it’s very much a look-alike and play-alike of the original Legend of Zelda then again, Atlus never really tried to cover up the fact that they were essentially taking the “original Zelda formula” and running with it.
I haven’t been following the Zelda fansites all that much in recent years, but no doubt it’s been discussed on the forums at the least if not on the site itself. Some of you are probably familiar with it. I recently picked up a game called 3D Dot Game Heroes for the PS3. Some of you are probably wondering where Zelda fits into this article. In fact, I call myself a “plot bloodhound” now, and it’s a role that I accept perhaps a little too willingly since I absolutely relish a good story. I have to keep my nose to the plot and follow the story through to the very end. I don’t have the time to go through and do every last mini-game and side-quest. With a resolution to kill off the entire stack of unplayed games by the year’s end, I have to finish a game a month in order to make any real progress because, don’t you know it, new games are still being made- Heavy Rain, Mario Galaxy 2, and White Knight Chronicles. And so with these latter games, I had to make the call I had to let go, stop playing them, and instead play through the games that really called out to me.īut even with those games that I’ve really enjoyed… well, even I can’t afford the time to ruminate on them to my heart’s content. But there are also some games in that stack that just haven’t held my interest- Halo 3: ODST and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I can’t just afford to buy every game that remotely interests me and expect to find the 10 to 40 hours it’ll take to slam through it I have to be selective now, a fact I realized ever since I discovered at the turn of the year that I had a stack of games that I had purchased but never actually played that was about a dozen high! There are some gems in there too: Assassin’s Creed II, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Valkyria Chronicles, Odin Sphere, among others. These days, there are good games getting churned out several times a month, a problem made much worse by my ownership of a DS, a Wii, an Xbox 360, and a Playstation 3 (not to mention-finally!-a rather capable PC).
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