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3D DOT GAME HEROES TV TROPES UPGRADE
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Subverted with the Giga-Sword, the only sword in the game without any caps on its upgrades. The lowly Wooden Sword has none whatsoever, making it un-upgradable.

3D DOT GAME HEROES TV TROPES UPGRADE

Cap: Every sword has a certain amount of "potential" (measured in G) limiting how far you can upgrade it.

Highlights include Lee the fairy screaming at you not to draw the hero's sword at the start of the game (since Lee was hoping for someone stronger to come along) and the Aqua Sage giving up on having you hurt her with sword strikes, since she can barely feel them.

Some of the in-game dialogue is changed to accommodate his One-Hit-Point Wonder status, with characters Lampshading how weak he is. She will continue to say this until you agree.

But Thou Must!: Used, by name, by the Princess after you save her and refuse to take her along.

He'll just mock you and say to earn it yourself.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: You can ask an NPC for an Infinite Money Code.

Bow and Sword, in Accord: One of the weapons you'll get early on.

who will easily wipe the floor with you if you try to take the beast down.

Boss in Mook Clothing: You may occasionally encounter a large blue dragon wandering around in the overworld.

Big Ball of Violence: One of the game's user-created character sprites is this.

It is quite feasible, with one spin attack, to not only clear out a room, but an entire floor of a dungeon. Forget hitting enemies from a screen away, you can hit them from a time zone away with this thing.

The best example of this is the fully-upgraded Giga-Sword.

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You really can upgrade a sword until you can strike enemies from more than a full screen away.

BFS: The default swords can already reach a significant distance (3 or more tiles, from a character who is 1x1 tiles in size), but upgrading makes them ridiculous.

Baleful Polymorph: Implied it does turn out that just about every dog, cat, or chicken in a village that you can "talk" to actually WAS a human under some unexplained curse.

As for MMOs, I just find the vast socio-political depth of Eve Online much more interesting than the endless quests and raids of WoW.

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Bioshock and Deus Ex make compelling points about genetics and society, Half-Life 2, Beneath a Steel Sky and the Fallout series play on our fears of apocalypse, while Syndicate and Snatcher both made interesting additions to cyberpunk lore. I'm not saying they were better, but I'm not sure that similar, quantifiably relevant lessons can be drawn from Frodo's adventures in Middle Earth - though I am prepared to be proved cretinously wrong.Īnd I think, because of this, because of the contemporary relevance, and the natural cohesion between technology-inspired fiction and video game hardware, the most interesting games I've played have tended to belong in the science fiction rather than fantasy genre. While Tolkien was writing Lord of the Rings, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury were formulating their great works of dystopian terror, Nineteen Eighty Four and Fahrenheit 451, and those stories still have something intrinsic to say to us about the power of the state and the threat of surveillance culture. Science fiction, however, has often dealt with very specific contemporary fears, providing incisive social and political commentary on key issues. But when these tropes are transferred to videogames, with the grandeur and historical influences stripped from them, they've often led to generic plots concerning dark sorcerers and powerful gems that, well, as Morrissey once put it, say nothing to me about my life.

However, its 'plot' - about six powerful gems that have been separated up throughout a kingdom and now must be saved from an evil knight - seemed to absolutely typify the key failure of the RPG genre (as far as I'm concerned): awful, awful, generic narratives.įantasy novels deal with grand, sweeping eternal themes of honour, betrayal, war and the supernatural struggle between good and evil, and this is partly because they tend to draw their themes and conventions from iconic mythological texts (Tolkien, for example, was heavily influenced by Celtic, Nordic and German folklore). Now, this visually arresting game is something of a comic homage to Zelda so shouldn't be taken too seriously. Last week, I was reviewing From Software's stylised RPG, 3D Dot Game Heroes, for the Official PlayStation Magazine, when I made the mistake of actually watching the story summary at the beginning.