As a lover for Action- RPGs, 3D Dot Game Heroes had me at hello.
With its retro aesthetic, unabashed, blatant rippof of classic Zelda music and gameplay, and its comical nods at overused RPG tropes, this game has been on my radar since day one. Yeah, I have a radar.
It also doesn’t hurt that the game is being made by From Software, the creators of the best video game in the world.
And just when I think it can’t get any better, Atlus goes and releases this trailer, full of Boss Fights and an Stephen Hawking style voice for the hero. Thank you Atlus, and stay retro my friends.
(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]
