If 3D Dot Game Heroes was an actual Zelda game...

[Euphoria14]

shogia said:

Euphoria14 said:

If 3D Dot Game Heroes had no character creation and only had Link, Onyx became Ganon and Fuelle was the Dark Magician from LttP trying to revive Ganon while Zelda was magically transformed and then split into 3 fairies, this game would be sitting at 85+, I am sure of it, because the game is a lot of fun and plenty of the low scoring reviews do admit it is fun, but they drop the score for being like Zelda.

Agahnim.  In addition you might not even need to change out Onyx, who was the final boss of Oracle of Seasons with virtually the exact same appearance (If I can believe the beginning of 3DDGH, don't spoil it for me!).

 

I'm not sure there would be a giant change in review scores, but if you released the same thing with the zelda cast on a Nintendo system you would certainly see much greater sales.  Either way, I mostly play JRPG's and avoid games involving guns like the plague, so I've never paid much attention to review scores myself.

Well his name was originally Onikis.

The reason why I say I think the scores would be higher is only based on what the largest con against the game is in the eyes of so many reviewers. That the game borrows so much from old school Zelda instead of incorporating it's own original stuff.

 

I have played NSMBWii and I will admit that I love it, and even more so since my Wii is modded and I have access to the user created stuff. However when I first started playing the game I realized that it wasn't much different what so ever to the Mario games from that same time period that 3DDGH is borrowing from.

I think this is why people think Mario gets a free pass. It borrows from an old formula and doesn't get ripped nearly as hard as 3DDGH did.

You could however make the argument and say "Well, they can't really knock it for playing like old Mario since it IS Mario!". This is why I say the reviewers would have been much more lenient on this title if it was originally made by Nintendo to cater to the old Zelda fans such as myself. 

I think they would have done the right thing and looked at what the game aimed to do and who it aimed towards and rated accordingly.