sievr said:
Is anyone actually excited about El Shaddai? To me it looks like Poser 3D meets Epic Mickey (another case of humiliating, face-on-the-floor overhype). If anyone is genuinely looking forward to it, I'd be curious to know.
Translation: I have not played this and I know nothing about it but in my ignorance I hate it.
My advice, try it before you hate it. If you try it and still hate it then at least you'll have valid criticisms to level and your argument becomes all the more persuasive. If you try it and don't hate it, then you learn something.
Myself, had no expectations, wasn't following it, played the demo and surprise surprise it's actually a pretty good game. It is however, hard. The enemies are smart, you see. One of them is a match for you and they never come at you one at a time. They will flank you, one will do a risky maneuver to break your block, then the other will move in to take advantage of the opening. One will do a combo, then the other will move in to cover him on the reset. They will surround you and synchronize their attacks, making it impossible to block. So that said, they get some props for making smart enemies. But enemies don't have health bars, so you don't know how close to dead they are.
sievr said:
By quintessentially overhyped, I mean, all hype, and probably not a lot of fun game in there.
I don't know how much of the full game people will be able to stand but, have you played it?