History VideoGame / ThreeDDotGameHeroes

** The ''true'' Infinity Plus One Sword is the Moon Sword, which you get for completing every sidequest, and when fully powered up is the most powerful sword you can have when you ''don't'' have full hearts.

* {{BFS}}: The default swords can already reach a significant distance, but upgrading makes them ridiculous.

* SavingTheWorld: Or at least Dotnia.

* SwordBeam

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Tormenting the Chicken.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Sure, go ahead and keep slashing the Chicken. Then see if you can make it out of Raejack alive.

* ShoutOut:
** The loading screens are taken from ''Castlevania'', ''VideoGame/MegaMan'', ''Final Fantasy'', and several others.
** ''The Legend of Zelda'': The plot, puzzles, enemies, weapons...Everything. Even the Cuccoos. Not to mention the quotes. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this! It's a secret to everybody!
** ''Metroid'': One of the {{NPC}}s mentions that you can't use the apples to do bomb jumps.
** ''Final Fantasy'': Lake Garland, which is near Colneria Village. Also, "Pam nepo ot 1L sserp!" And there's an inventor named [[SdrawkcabName Dic]] The title screen music is extremely similar to the FF Crystal Theme. A version of Minwu from FF2 sacrifices himself to get you the Ultima Book. The player sees a recreation of the scene in FF2 where Josef saves Firion, Maria, and Guy from a boulder; in FF2 it killed him, but the hero can destroy the boulder to save Josef.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': A pre-dungeon message from Little (Big) Boss warning the player to beware of pit traps is word-for-word from the NES game.
*** ''Franchise/MetalGear'': Origin's line: "Kept you waiting, huh?"
** ''Bionic Commando'': The line about Superb (Super) Joe's location being discovered is word-for-word from the NES game.
** ''Dragon Quest'': A few enemies, like the Crystal (Metal) Slime. The music played when loading a file from the start screen is extremely similar to that used in every DQ game. The DQ "puff puff" Fanservice RunningGag appears here as "poof poof." King Block and the Small Blocks he trades items for reference the Mini/Small Medals that can be traded to one person (often a King) for rare item, appearing in all DQ games starting with 4 (and the remakes of 3).
*** DQ 1: [[spoiler: Fuelle asking you to join the dark side (and the game not letting you)]].
*** DQ 2: People turned back from animals thanks to a Mirror of Truth.
*** DQ 3: There's a town named Ortego (after "Ortega" the name of your father in DQ3), and a cave with an old man who asks you if you want to change your job (but doesn't let you here.)
*** DQ 4: A slime in Raejack wants to become human someday, and achieves it. One of the random {{NPC}}s in Raejack is clearly intended to be Nara/Meena/Minea from VideoGame/DragonQuestIV. She's a fortune-teller with an irresponsible sister, who's looking for a hero that's not you, but still detects a great light within you. A later sidequest outright confirms it, as her irresponsible sister turns out to be a dancer named Mary, while she's Mina. A merchant Tirenco (Torneko Taloon) looks for legendary armor. You'll even find a princess Alena on her way to a fighting championship accompanied by her tutor Brey and the priest Cristo-- the princess later searches for a cure for her Cristo's illness. The hero has dream sequences about "Rosy," an elf whose tears are gems and who is bullied by humans for that reason and "Pizzaro," who vows to destroy all humans because of this.
*** DQ 5: An {{NPC}} has to choose between marrying a rich girl or his childhood friend -- for bonus points, his reasoning for each is lifted from ''Anime/LuckyStar'': He actually likes the childhood friend, but he thinks the rich girl has a better spell list, which is exactly what Konata said about each.
*** Also, the Heroine playable character.
*** The male Hero class's standard ending is ''word-for-word'' from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI''.
*** ''> An easy prey approaches!''
** ''Metal Wolf Chaos'': One of the playable characters is a battle suit named President. Also you can talk to the king at one point in the game where he mentions that he's "...the king of the great kingdom of Dotnia!" to which the guard next to him responds, "Yes, Mr. President."
** ''Darkstalkers'': The Succubus playable character resembles Morrigan.
** ''Tenchu'': The Rikamaru, Ayame, Rin, and Tesshu playable characters.
** ''Otogi'': The Raikoh playable character.
** ''Onore no Shinzuru Michi o Yuke'': Shippu
** ''Fuuun Shinsengumi Bakumatsuden Portable'': The Okita playable character.
** ''Super Mario Sunshine'': Life Up GET!
** ''Demon's Souls'': An entire cave which includes: Sticky White Stuff; Examining a certain corpse will get you a Hero's Soul; A nearby {{NPC}} will chide you by saying, "Come on guys, this game isn't THAT hard..." There's even a readable message that you can recommend, which makes someone, somewhere regain their health.
*** Also, "I've got this Demons game, wanna trade? It's too hard!"
** ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'': Multiple {{NPC}}s mention how cool it'd be to have a 3D mech game. Also, W. Glint.
** Next to the dead body in the first room of the Flame Temple is some writing lamenting how he accidentally wrote his own name in the "[[Manga/DeathNote Satori Note]]." Oddly enough, "satori" is Japanese for "enlightenment"...so he's lamenting the fact that he's going to become enlightened.

* NintendoHard: The first few dungeons aren't so bad. It's enough to make you lower your guard before the agonizingly difficult fifth dungeon, where the dungeon's gimmick requires you to start the dungeon completely over if you die. No, all those keys you found don't mean squat; the state of the switches dictates how you move through the dungeon, and it always resets on death. Oh, and the boss has entirely too much HP.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* PlotCoupon: The six orbs.

* ShiftingSandLand: Have fun getting to the third dungeon, the Desert Temple!

* {{BFS}}: The default swords are already powerful, but upgrading makes them ridiculous.

* {{Cap}}: You can only upgrade the swords so many times.
* CharacterCustomization: The Character Editor lets you build and upload "any" 3D sprite you can think of.

* ClassicCheatCode: Entering the Konami Code hides the animation for your shield.

* DeathMountain: Right down to the falling rocks and red color motif.

* GameWithinAGame: Dash Circuit, Blockout, and Block Defense.

* GoodMorningCrono: The hero starts his/her adventure waking up at an inn.
* GottaCatchThemAll: The six sages and their respective orb powers. Also, the Beastiary.

* {{Homage}}: To classic gaming in general, to The Legend of Zelda specifically.

* ItemCrafting: Makes your weapons even more ridiculous.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Appearances by practically every Dragon Quest IV character (with slightly altered names), in addition to Dragon Quest II, Dragon Quest V, Final Fantasy II
* LoadingScreen: Complete with references to several classic retro games.
* TheMaze: Getting to the second dungeon.
* MetalSlime: The Crystal Slimes, which have a fair amount of HP and move entirely too fast.

* MultipleEndings: Aside from dialogue differences based on your character class, [[spoiler: [[SaveThePrincess saving the princess]]]] also factors in, but can't be done in the same run as the regular ending.

* PuzzleReset

* ShiftingSandLand: Have fun getting to the third dungeon.
* ShoutOut: In ''spades''.

* SpinAttack

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Keep slashing the Chicken. Then see if you'll make it out of Raejack alive.

* [[WelcomeToCorneria WelcomeToColneria]]: Nearly all of the {{NPC}}s.

* HeroesPreferSwords: Of course!

** ''Metal Gear'': A pre-dungeon message from Little (Big) Boss warning the player to beware of pit traps is word-for-word from the NES game.
*** ''MetalGearSolid'': Origin's line: "Kept you waiting, huh?"

* AscendedExtra: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoAiH1-25j8#t=2m44s Shadow Mitsuo boss]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' that [[PaintingTheFourthWall tried to breach the fourth wall]]. The style from that boss made itself into its own game.

* ButThouMust: Used, by name, by [[spoiler:the Princess after you save her and refuse to take her along. She will continue to say this until you agree.]]

* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:The first battle against Fuelle, as you don't have the necessary spell to make him vulnerable.]]

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Appearances by practically every Dragon Quest IV character (with slightly altered names), in addition to DQ2, DQ5, Final Fantasy II

* TheMaze: Getting to the second dungeon

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[spoiler:Onyx]]
* MultipleEndings: Aside from dialogue differences based on your character class, [[spoiler:[[SaveThePrincess saving the princess]]]] also factors in, but can't be done in the same run as the regular ending.

** Not to mention that filling your Beastiary changes boss strategies into Endurance Battles, i.e. [[spoiler:Hitting them with a rather weak Book.]]

* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: Fuelle, the final boss, is this. After you beat him once, the Dark Orb turns him into an incarnation of the Dark King Onyx.]]

*** DQ 1: [[spoiler:Fuelle asking you to join the dark side (and the game not letting you)]].

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What Do You Mean, This Game Is Not]] [[{{VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda}} Zelda?!]]: Ironically, reviewers and many people think this game is a rip-off of classic Zelda, when the game actually makes {{Homage}} to them.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Missile Towers

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: You can upgrade your sword's length and width. The innuendo did not go unnoticed by the game developers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTThEUweoU

* GrapplingHookPistol: The [[strike:Hookshot]] Wire Rod knockoff.
* GuideDangIt: Good luck finding the [[strike:Hookshot]] Anchor Rod upgrade on your own.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Aside from attacking with physics-defying swords, you can also wield a fish.

* MoneySpider: You can make a small fortune by killing bosses.

** Spelunker Mode, for obvious reasons.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Tormenting the [[strike:Cucoo]] Chicken wannabe.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Keep slashing the [[strike:cucco]] Chicken. Then see if you'll make it out of Raejack alive.
* VideogameSettings: Everything from [[strike:Octorok]] Octon-infested rivers to mummified golems in the desert dungeon.
* VideoGameTools: Boomerang, Bow and Arrow, Shield, [[strike:Hookshot]] Wire Rod, Candle, Lantern, etc.

* AffectionateParody: Due to being a parody of the two, the base game is a hybrid of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''Dragon Warrior''.

* AscendedExtra: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoAiH1-25j8#t=2m44s Shadow Mitsuo boss]] from {{Persona 4}} that [[PaintingTheFourthWall tried to breach the fourth wall]]. The style from that boss made itself into it's own game.

[[ShoutOut/ThreeDDotGameHeroes This Shout Outs list]] [[ZeldaOne is a secret to everybody]].

[[ShoutOut/ThreeDDotGameHeroes This Shout Outs list]] [[Zelda1 is a secret to everybody]].

[[ShoutOut/ThreeDDotGameHeroes This Shout Outs list]] is a secret to everybody.

''3D Dot Game Heroes'' is a title for the {{PlayStation 3}}. It's an homage to ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series and retro gaming in general. You play as a young hero trying to save the kingdom of Dotnia from some legendary evil. It references and parodies several gaming themes and clichés. It's not limited to gameplay, either. The entire game is depicted as a 2D title that has been converted into high-definition 3D; old-school sprites now look like giant chunks of polished {{LEGO}} bricks. Though hardly groundbreaking, its humor and nostalgia appeal to older gamers.

* AffectionateParody: Due to being a parody of the two, the base game is a hybrid of ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''Dragon Warrior''.

*** DQ 4: A slime in Raejack wants to become human someday, and achieves it. One of the random {{NPC}}s in Raejack is clearly intended to be Nara/Meena/Minea from DragonQuestIV. She's a fortune-teller with an irresponsible sister, who's looking for a hero that's not you, but still detects a great light within you. A later sidequest outright confirms it, as her irresponsible sister turns out to be a dancer named Mary, while she's Mina. A merchant Tirenco (Torneko Taloon) looks for legendary armor. You'll even find a princess Alena on her way to a fighting championship accompanied by her tutor Brey and the priest Cristo-- the princess later searches for a cure for her Cristo's illness. The hero has dream sequences about "Rosy," an elf whose tears are gems and who is bullied by humans for that reason and "Pizzaro," who vows to destroy all humans because of this.

*** The male Hero class's standard ending is ''word-for-word'' from ''DragonQuestI''.

** Next to the dead body in the first room of the Flame Temple is some writing lamenting how he accidentally wrote his own name in the "[[DeathNote Satori Note]]." Oddly enough, "satori" is Japanese for "enlightenment"...so he's lamenting the fact that he's going to become enlightened.

* FreudWasRight: You don't just swing the sword. You extend it. Its size and range depend on your health.

*** DQ1: [[spoiler:Fuelle asking you to join the dark side (and the game not letting you)]].
*** DQ2: People turned back from animals thanks to a Mirror of Truth.
*** DQ3: There's a town named Ortego (after "Ortega" the name of your father in DQ3), and a cave with an old man who asks you if you want to change your job (but doesn't let you here.)
*** DQ4: A slime in Raejack wants to become human someday, and achieves it. One of the random {{NPC}}s in Raejack is clearly intended to be Nara/Meena/Minea from DragonQuestIV. She's a fortune-teller with an irresponsible sister, who's looking for a hero that's not you, but still detects a great light within you. A later sidequest outright confirms it, as her irresponsible sister turns out to be a dancer named Mary, while she's Mina. A merchant Tirenco (Torneko Taloon) looks for legendary armor. You'll even find a princess Alena on her way to a fighting championship accompanied by her tutor Brey and the priest Cristo-- the princess later searches for a cure for her Cristo's illness. The hero has dream sequences about "Rosy," an elf whose tears are gems and who is bullied by humans for that reason and "Pizzaro," who vows to destroy all humans because of this.
*** DQ5: An {{NPC}} has to choose between marrying a rich girl or his childhood friend -- for bonus points, his reasoning for each is lifted from ''Anime/LuckyStar'': He actually likes the childhood friend, but he thinks the rich girl has a better spell list, which is exactly what Konata said about each.

''3D Dot Game Heroes'' is a title for the {{PlayStation 3}}. It's an homage to ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series and retro gaming in general. You play as a young hero trying to save the kingdom of Dotnia from some legendary evil. Rather than attempting to be its own game, it shamelessly references several gaming themes and clichés. It's not limited to gameplay, either. The entire game is depicted as a 2D title that has been converted into high-definition 3D; old-school sprites now look like giant chunks of polished {{LEGO}} bricks. Though hardly groundbreaking, its humor and nostalgia appeal to older gamers.

** The loading screens are taken from ''Castlevania'', ''Game/MegaMan'', ''Final Fantasy'', and several others.

* CompensatingForSomething: Quite possibly.

[[ShoutOut/{{ptitlejlncbavd}} This Shout Outs list]] is a secret to everybody.

* FreudWasRight: You don't just swing the sword. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean You extend it]]. Its size and range depend on your health.