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3D Dot Game Heroes PS3 sticks so close to source material that it reminded me of frustration and tedium rather than nostalgia.

It's so late, and all I want to do is go to bed. The faint sound of drilling enters my ears, which means the rail maintenance workers are passing by and the sound will rapidly grow from faint to Richter scale 8 - one major drawback to living so close to the Central line.
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Rather than giving me an original miniature world to explore, 3D Dot Game Heroes borrows from pre-loved creations. It's heavily inspired by classic Legend of Zelda, although to the point of being derivative. Underneath the retro nostalgia and blocky graphics lies a shallow experience, lacking significant appeal in its own right.

The most distinctive feature of 3D Dot Game Heroes is its visual approach. The king of Dotnia, having decided the kingdom's 2D charm is outdated, decrees a switch to 3D. The result is a pixilated style carefully rendered in three dimensions. It's quite creative and skilfully done. But also gimmicky, and actually pretty ugly when it comes down to it.
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3D Dot Game Heroes PS3 harks back to role playing games of old. Instead of rose-tinted memories though, my experience was marred by unforgiving game play and my personal inexperience with the genre.

Nostalgia is sometimes best left to memory. Going back to old games like Baldur's Gate, Legend of Zelda, and the early Final Fantasy series can ruin their fuzzy glow. 3D Dot Heroes offers a window into that past, taking the elements of those cherished games and giving them a 3D, Lego-like makeover.
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3D Dot Game Heroes is a classic 2D Zelda game, but on the PS3. I was keen to find out whether it was still fun to play the lead using this 1986 formula or whether we've moved on from the simplicity of those early adventures.

I expected Dot Game Heroes to ape the Zelda classics of the 8 and 16-bit era, while playing more like a modern game. In reality though I found few concessions to current conventions other the rather clever graphical update. If you can imagine taking those top-down 2D RPG games and simply realising everything in the third dimension, that is what Silcon Studio have done. This means that objects continue to be blocky, characters are poorly animated and the world lacks any real height variation, but strangely this is what initially provides its unique charm.
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