3D Dot Game Heroes

[Bastian]

Don't trade it in. One of the things they did to make the PS3 more affordable was drop backwards compatability with PS2 games.

WTF?! I'm NOT buying a PS3 then. That's smurfing idiotic. I'll have to wait until the inevitable port to Wii. Or until the PS4 is out so I can buy a PS3 for $100 or something (like I did with my PS2, which I bought for Dawn of Mana, which, thankfully, came out after the PS3).

I'm looking forward to this so much, but I've got a chip on my shoulder still about consistency within the game criticism world.

"3D Dot Game Heroes absolutely blatantly rips off Zelda, a beloved franchise, but that's okay!!"

"Dante's Inferno absolutely blatantly rips off GoW, a beloved franchise. What s steaming pile of sh*t that game is."

I think the difference is that 3D Dot Game Heroes is ripping off very, very early Zelda (basically just TLoZ and TLoZ:ALttP) and specifically the aspects that Nintendo seems to have abandoned. I know little about Dante's Inferno or GoW but I suspect the case is different.