3DDGH is maybe one part of the first Zelda to one part A Link to the Past, with a little bit of the original Dragon Warrior laid over on the top for spice. I am saying it because it is, from start to finish, a Zelda game.It's kind of a snapshot of a particular point in gaming history. I am not saying this as a snarky comment about its real or perceived quality or as a useful way to describe its gameplay. There's no reason to burn a paragraph describing the game's mechanics when you can just say "Doom with bunnies" or "Halo with vampires" or "Left 4 Dead with mimes" or whatever, then go about the business of the review.With 3D Dot Game Heroes, it is not as useful a descriptive shortcut as usual, because 3D Dot Game Heroes is a Legend of Zelda game. ![]() It's never quite accurate and it arguably does a disservice to the game being discussed, since it carries the connotation that the game doesn't have any of its own original ideas, but it's a useful abbreviation when you're working with a limited word count (or, perhaps more likely, operating on the assumption that your audience has a really limited attention span). A lot of the time, a reviewer will use one game to describe another as a kind of convenient shorthand.
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