NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» A few years ago, Banpresto produced a whole line of toys and trinkets based on dot-designs featuring old school Nintendo characters. Tomy also released a series of toys dubbed ".s" or "Dots" where pegs were punched into boards to create dot-graphic designs of retro-game characters. Dots were big and they're making a comeback once again this year in From Software's 3D Dot Game Heroes.
Touted as a conventional RPG with an unconventional graphical style, From Software uses uniform component cubes to create every character and object in the game world for a striking visual impact. Most modern game designers generally try to make their characters appear somewhat lifelike and smooth with no hint of the frames and pixels that make up the hero or heroine. From Software goes the other way and makes sure that pixels and blocks are clearly evident in the game.
If the intention was to pay homage to the 8-bit games that old-timers grew up consuming, then they've succeeded in spades because the references and tributes are all there (menus, music, sound effects, etc).
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