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I just download the Hs demo, and played through it 3 times so far. Its not 10 mins short, its 3 mins short AT BEST.. but no matter, the fact I played though it 3 times shows the gameplay dosent grate and is deeper than you would think..
so ya, after a gig download, I booted up the game, cool music I must say, standard fare menu and such, press start to play and a cut scene starts right away. Nothing I havent seen before but her hair just bugs me, its goes everywhere, did they really dedicate one spu to it?? anyway no matter, after the breif opening scene I get to play, one thing I got to say is that the graphics are quite nice, some lower res textures in one or two places but overall its looks excellant. the fps is steady enough at 30fps, I think its drops once or twice but nothing that I didnt really notice [word on the sreet is that this build is an old one used to keep the file size down] The controlls are very good too, I really liked the camera pan to the L2 R2 buttons.
it loads during the cut scenes too, but man I skiped it once and I swear I was waiting twice the length of the cut scene to load. Avoid that.
anyway getting on, you jump down some rope, some qte [not that hard, you can fail though] and then meet your first group of suckers, there are three stances to pick from, the normal one is default, L1 i think is the large swinging stance and R1 is the heavy duty stance, you can easily link them together to create some cool combos, Circle starts a throw sequances of sorts, I think you have to earn those though, It does remind me of god of war meets devil may cry. The six axis is also used in fights [aka when your in the middle of combo, put the controller in the air and she will jump and start fighting from there].
After those are dealt with, you cut all the ropes of the tower thing, it crashs into a building and fight again, larger group but more of the same i guess, I found it fun to pick up bodies/chairs/swords and throw them at people. once you beat them, 3 big ***s break the door down and the demo ends.
Seriously 3 minutes.
I did enjoy it though and will pick up the game when its out!
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