Heavenly Sword Demo

[Wu-tang]

It just dropped on the PSN store today and I'm downloading it now. 996 mb, so it'll be a while. I'll post my thoughts after I download it.

[waxtaco]

that game looks sick. download faster and report back here.

[Anti Flag]

sweet, i've been waiting for something new to play for a while.

[Macro]

Heavenly Sword is Godly.

[Wu-tang]

It's fucking awesome. The demo's short so there isn't much to say really.

First off, the demo was a whole fucking gig and it's about 5-10 minutes of play...But it gives you a feel of how the game is going to be. Great graphics(obviously). Gameplay wise, I love it. I don't wanna say it's better than GoW...not until they have a chance on the next-gen. But there are many combos you can use while your playing. There's a ranged stance(L1), speed stance(default), and a power stance(R1). You can go in between them easily just by holding the L1 and R1 buttons, and there are combos that involve the 3 stances. Aerial Attacks, sweet counters, etc.

[phoenix009]

I'm at 60% in terms of downloading it, but I won't be able to try it until tomorrow. :(

[Cotton Hill]

no jumping?

[Keenan]

I agree, the demo is fantastic and I'm definitely going to pick this game up. Now I really thought not being able to jump would bother me but it actually works with the battle system they have.

I love the different offensive and defensive stances you can take also. I just hope that they have larger battle areas than the two that are in the demo. I'm sure they will, though. I also just discovered that you can use motion sensing to throw dead bodies at people. Very cool game.

[Nickster]

no jumping?

It's fucking awesome. The demo's short so there isn't much to say really.

First off, the demo was a whole fucking gig and it's about 5-10 minutes of play...But it gives you a feel of how the game is going to be. Great graphics(obviously). Gameplay wise, I love it. I don't wanna say it's better than GoW...not until they have a chance on the next-gen. But there are many combos you can use while your playing. There's a ranged stance(L1), speed stance(default), and a power stance(R1). You can go in between them easily just by holding the L1 and R1 buttons, and there are combos that involve the 3 stances. Aerial Attacks, sweet counters, etc.

What do you think?

This game looks pretty cool.

Edit: Fixed.

[Macro]

Meh, too short! :wah:

[Keenan]

What do you think?


I have no idea what you're talking about. What's that supposed to mean? Have you even played it?

[Dane]

Hmm I havnt even got a Playstation 3 yet, but this game is definitely on my buy list. I saw a video of the demo. Strangely, the thing that impressed me the most was how realistic it looked when you destroyed the tables with food on them.

[bukowski]

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/13535

ugh, this shit looks so, off.

At least the gameplay is supposed to be good.

[eprops]

The demo is short but already feels deeper than GoW. If you check the move lists, its almost like a fighting game. And I kind of agree with the video, it goes to the point where all you want to do is counter. Blocking is for noobs

Edit: The only problem is the demo is short and lack of jumping. The aerial counters do make th game feel like you can jump but only in battle.

[Latino_Heat_1]

I kinda wasn't too impressed with the demo. From watching the many videos of this game over the past year or so, I was expecting the demo to be a whole better. The game feels very medicore to me. In my opinion the gameplay in the demo is no where near that of the God of War series hell I think Ninja Gaiden Sigma is several notches above this game gameplay wise.

[ChocoChipCamo]

Holy fuck, that vid was awesome. That's by far the best facial acting I've EVER seen in a video game. You could actually tell, when all four of them were laughing, that the three lackies were forcibly laughing, to please the "leader", just from their extremely subtle facial quirks. That was incredible.

Ah, as for the demo being a bit mediocre and glitchy at times, the devs stated that it's derived from a very early build of the game, and everything has been polished up and improved drastically. Hell, we didn't even get the full combo/moves list, they were covered with "????"s.

I was really impressed with the level of depth the fighting supported. The aerial combos are extremely fun to pull off, and being able to switch stances on the fly adds almost a Devil May Cry level of depth to the battle. Too bad it was so damn short though. 1 gig for just that little sliver of gameplay!

Edit: Oh yeah, and the six-axis feature was actually put to good use for once (aside from Lair and Warhawk). They implemented its use well.

[JesusTheJedi]

Yeah I'm actually really impressed with that cutscene, they did an awesome job on it... The voice acting and facial expressions were fucking top-notch.