Heavenly Sword

[Valkysas]

Downloaded the nearly 1GB demo yesterday. not even five minutes later, the demo is over. complete waste of my time. Not impressed at all.

the graphics look good, animation is choppy during fight scenes, the character's hair gets blown around by the wind, which includes being pushed through the back of her head and out of the middle of her face. hair animation looks choppy too, in addition to looking like tentacles wildly flailing around. I'm reminded of Venom in Marvel vs. Capcom.

combat is good. but you cannot jump. thats stupid.

whats with the retard girl at the beginning?

seriously, this demo is short as ****. I feel ripped off, even though it was free. Why was the demo 1GB? WHY?

if you like running down ropes by pounding the X button, you will like this demo.

[Magus]

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Yeah, Kotaku's got a big fat hate-on for this game.

[Valkysas]

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I read that. They say this demo was two stages. if thats true, the developers need to research what a "stage" is. If this is two stages, then each button mash segment that is followed by one short group battle is a single stage.

[Big Rick Cook]

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Yeah, I felt sincerely ripped off after downloading the entire thing.

[DarkwingChuck]

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The demo that hit PSN yesterday was two levels of chapter two. The disc I just received has all ten levels of chapter two, or about one and a half hours of gameplay.

2 levels = 5 min, 10 levels = 90 min? They must've chosen the two shortest levels for the demo.

[Vonwert]

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I can't believe that the main character can't jump. Why would they do that?

[goldgecko4]

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Yeah... that's pretty much game-breaking there, what with it being an action game and all.

[Naruto]

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So, is it really like GOW or DMC? If the graphical bugs get fixed and stuff, do you think it could turn out to be a cool game?

The retard girl is Noriko's little sis I think.

[Valkysas]

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they're obviously going for a God of War type combat system.

it could turn out to be a pretty good game. the demo is just too short to tell right now.

[Duel]

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Kratos could jump in GOW!!!

[Red Dragon]

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There are plenty of action games where you can't jump. So It's not really game breaking.

[Valkysas]

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its not game-breaking if the game is designed around not being able to jump.

[Marc M.]

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Yeah, I felt sincerely ripped off after downloading the entire thing.

Yes, because free things should always be fantastic.

You should watch this week's 1up Show if you want to see more of it. They've already got the review build, and everything Valk mentioned is fixed in the final version, apparently.

[Kire]

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Hmmmmmmm...

It's neat, but it didn't blow me away. I played it at a friend's place. You can button mash, but there's a bit of deepness if you use the L1 and R1 buttons...it doesn't really seem like you need to, though. The context sensitive part didn't really feel right.

I predict between a 7 and 8 average when it comes out...maybe like an 8.3 if it all comes together well.

[Valkysas]

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Yes, because free things should always be fantastic.

Thats not the point. 1GB game demos should not be 3 minutes long.