Out of curiosity I downloaded and watched a demo of Heavenly Sword for the PS3. It was captured from someone actually playing the game on their PS3. Graphically it looked great. The sound effects and the music were cool as well. Story-wise it's another "Bad guy invades fantasy kingdom and takes over. Princess/Prince type character must save their kingdom and avenge their dead parent(s)." Been done before certainly more than once. That's a cookie-cutter type game plot though. Their are TONS of those out there that I have enjoyed. The play style was also very much "been done before". It plays like most early to mid 90's type brawler games such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Again, that's fine, I have played and liked a good many of those types of games as well.
I guess what i'm getting at here is that I feel that I have already played and beaten this game a billion times before. It has a VERY strong 'been there, done that' feel to it. This is why Sony is gonna continue to suffer with the PS3. Their developers aren't doing anything new or innovative at all. And the dev's they do have that are wanting to do new stuff are leaving for other platforms. Everything on the PS3 is (thus far) simply a rehash of older games with super-duper graphics. That's fine for a few games out of the mix, but when that comprises the whole of your game catalogue I don't think you will sustain a following of anything other than fanboys. No one wants that.
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