Einsam_Delphin said:
Isn't Castlevania a 2D sidescroller, yet the 3D still made an impact? I would be most impressed if that's the case, as most sidescrollers I've seen don't benefit much from the 3D. |
It's a side scroller, but everything is rendered in 3D.
On Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate, if you're playing the game in 3D, the room you're in has a lot of depth to it, but also items in the background, whether it's a lamp along the wall, a statue, etc, everything has depth to it. Like the 3D was designed with everything. I'm sure you watched the promotional videos during interviews and such, where one video shows a goblin throwing the light magic necklace into the water and it gets carried down stream underground. It doesn't look too great in 2D, but that same part in 3D with depth added to everything, the necklace actually moves towards you on the screen and then drops down the waterfall and then is carried to where the underground where you later have to retrieve it. Metal crates sitting in front of treasure boxes or bodies, while you're pulling the metal crate or pushing it, you actually see the treasure box or body on a different plane, so it's not just moving the crate from overlapping the treasure.
One of the best looking parts in the game with the 3D is when you're standing there with the Mirror of Fate in the background(not very much of a key element in the story, despite the game being named after it.) But with the 3D effect on, you see each of the statues jutting out from the wall in the background, but if you look into the mirror, you see the games depth carries all the way back into the mirror where it stretches all the way to the wall, which as the player we're technically looking through so we don't see it.
The 3D on this game just looks so beautiful and if the 3DS game and Vita game has the same graphics, then I'll pick up the 3DS version in hopes that the 3D is good, just because I know there's atleast one game that's impressed me with it.
Dead or Alive Dimensions 3D is also pretty good. It's got pretty good depth to it as well. Objects actually come out and aren't flat.
Super Mario 3D Land is the best after those, and honestly, for being the third best looking 3D effect I've seen, it's really disappointing. The maps themselves look well done in 3D. But enemies, objects on the ground, etc. Most everything in the game aside from the map itself just looks so flat. It's not like all objects in the game have depth to them like Mirror of Fate and Dead or Alive Dimensions did. I really didn't care to play this game with the 3D on because playing in 2D was more of an enjoyable experience.
The worst 3D effect on the 3DS, even though it's a good game, was Shinobi. I liked the game, but the 3D effect only had a little depth for the stage itself. Everything else was pretty much flat.
