i said
"more like a tribute to the 8bit era than a rip off IMO."
not only Zelda the whole 8bit , i can see some Dragon Quest / Final Fantasy themes in this one too. and some other old school RPG/ Adventure games.
they did it intentionally and its pretty obvious, im surprised you are calling it a rip off.

How would doing it intentionally not make it a ripoff?

If I remade Halo and called it Smalo and everything looked exactly like halo... that would be pretty obvious no?

so by your logic.

Champions Online is a rip off of Super hero Comic Games like batman and spiderman cause its the same thing.

its not a Rip off, its on the same Theme, to make Fans nostalgic and remember the 8-Bit.

Because it's simply superheros?  No.

This is a ripoff because it directly rips off the very distinct syle and music.

If for example there was a character who had spider powers, climbed walls, had a spider sense and shot webbing.

That WOULD be a ripoff.

^^
read the post above you.

"As someone who is sick to death of modern Japanese RPGs and all their overfamiliar tropes, I find the idea of 3D Dot Game Heroes -- a game that mercilessly parodies Japanese RPGs and all their overfamiliar tropes -- to be thoroughly refreshing. There isn't enough parody in gaming, and this one looks like it'll be awesome."

Parody Parody Parody.

They even have a vine over the title, just like Zelda.

Sorry for the double post.

Guy from Atlus forums says he played the demo and found to be hard.

http://atlus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4142&page=2

Yay! I love hard games.

There is a demo?

He works for a publisher and received a preview copy.

The sword you use keeps getting "Bigger, Fatter and Harder".