Just played the demo, and I enjoyed it.
Personally, I found the visuals to be awesome, mainly because of the fantastic art direction. It's much more interesting than, say, Castlevania LoS, God of War, well basically every other hack n slash game this gen. Also found it pretty cool how the city kept shifting. Lots of stuff going on in the level instead of being kept in the background without any slowdowns.
Combat took a while to get used to because of all the button combinations, but it's pretty good. It felt like a mixture of Heavenly Sword and Devil May Cry. You only have one weapon, but you can have different attack styles by holding the shoulder buttons. Alongside that, you can launch, juggle, pull yourself to or pull enemies towards you, and unleash devil trigger. Lots of things to do to pull off an SS rating. Also, there's a couple of items or things to discover like a key to open secret missions or freeing lost souls which is pretty neat.
The only thing I didn't like was the platforming sections. It's not bad or anything though.
Wasn't that interested in DMC because of the developer, but after playing the demo, I think I might get it. Beats getting another same ol', same ol if you catch my drift. Props to NT for not destroying one of my favorite series.
