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Last edited Sat Apr 28, 2012, 11:16 AM - Edit history (1)

We have had some interesting discussions on this demo and we have come to some conclusions but first let be give a brief description of the second quest:

You appear in a big field with 3 companions. You are now sporting some cool daggers, one in each hand and they are on fire The game looks much better (but still not as good as the released videos) and it is outside and it is nice and bright. A very short distance away are a few goblins that, just like in the first quest, are perfectly content to be slaughtered without much fuss. Right away, you are attacked by what I think is a griffin. It's flying and you just can't get a good view while fighting... You can really just do one or the other. Regardless, it is another giant boss fight that is filled with you hanging onto the boss and hacking away at it. It does certainly look cool while it is going on... Wicked cool but... You are not really doing much. R2 to hang on and hit the box button to attack. I tried a bunch of other stuff but nothing else really did anything except get me whomped on. As soon as the battle is over, so is the quest. It happened really fast so I did not really have time to check out if anything was different. I did notice that my character had a bow on his back but was unable to switch weapons so... That sucked.

Thats it, Demo complete.

Back to this being a topic at work... The conclusions we all agreed on:

1 - The game delivers some great visuals when it wants... It is unknown how much they will do it.

2 - After playing the demo, I am more confused about this game then before I played it. Is this an ARPG? Or an updated beat em up along the lines of Double Dragon or Streets of Rage? Or something else? Everything we all remembered of what we had previously seen said the game was an ARPG but there is a lot missing if it is.

3 - This is CAPCOM... There is a lack of trust issue.

4 - This is going to be, at best, a bargain bin purchase. Depending on what is planned for DLC... Pricing... Is it already on the disk and are they wanting us to pay for it again... Some stupid DRM to want you to pay some online fee if purchased used... Things like that have the potential to make it a pass completely. I expect these will be known before too much longer.

Edit: to add - 5 - Don't bother using the character creator in the demo. They have you do the shit not once but twice and then don't use the characters you created, there is no point to it.