The auto-aim exists because it's actually a first-person action game. Moving from strong sword gestures where the reticule is far off screen to an accurate shot is very jarring, so the computer helps you ease the transition. It helps maintain the fast pace of combat and ecourage easy switching between weapons.

Now as for why games like Call of Duty and The Conduit have assisted aim... I know of no excuses.

I will get it anyway. Hah! Hah! Hah!

You are free to disagree.  However, you set yourself up as THE authority regarding the game, by how you wrote that.  If you do it differently, and do position yourself as being contrarian, then you may get taken a bit more seriously.  As of now, you are a rare and lone voice about the game, and I don't know why your opinion should be considered superior to others actually, considering that I feel your opinion is wrong.

I agree with the OP, except I find the controls (once gotten used to) to be awesome and the gameplay to be mindless fun. Multiplayer would have been awesome..

Well although I respect your opinion, I must say you mention something that is completely impossible.  It is almost IMPOSSIBLE to waggle in this game and win it.  I know I'm probably a much stronger person than you physically, and I TRIED very very hard to waggle and see if I couldmake a strong slash attack.  And I couldn't.  Majority of time it wouldn't even make a sword attack. 

No indeed the motionplus does exactly what it is supposed to in this game.  Although not true 1:1, it does enough to make you replicate your sword attacks accurately and have the character on screen replicate them.  And somethign it prides it self on is being a full-body experience and thatis absolutely true after playing and beating the game.  Personally, I think it exceeds what the sword game did in WSR.  Although I still want that true 1:1 that is a bit to ask when you aren't physically similar to characters you'll be playing or as talented as they are.  RS2 is able to compensate that to still make your actions that you imitate as fluid as possible to match that on screen.  Controls work very well in this game to accomplish what they do.

Now maybe we are just going to disagree on that, but I don't know how far you have gotten into the game.  But that one point you made makes me think you need to give it a little more time.  Characters and voice acting though are a downside, but no worse than other games I've played... some that are consider big budget.  I won't name any, but I get used to "silly" voide acting in games.  Story, though, you haven't gotten far enough to see that there is more to what you are doing that meets the eye.  Missions, though like a lot of adventure games, sometimes do get repetitive.  However, the ability to play them all different (and the necessity in ease of beating them) gives them a very unique feel every time.  I almost never approached a battle the same way, and luckily for me it made the game much easier.  The game is about adapting to different battles and different enemies after you learn your new moves and attacks.  And then when you get to the later levels, combining them all into your skillset to be able to fluidly take down bosses.

So all I can say, is maybe it just isn't your type of game.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, although i did have my minor complaints of mainly the characters who seemed uninspired.  I would have also liked to have seen more exploration as you pointed out, but I did get lost in the areas I was in so maybe that wouldn't have been as good of an idea. 

Guys...he is just trolling for attention

I've had the game for a couple days and I've reached the Kusagari tower and I'm enjoying the game a lot.

Sure the story and characters aren't all that great but the controls are the best on any console...ever. Only PC games have better controls.

I finished the game a couple of days ago, and if i'm completely honest, I probably regret buying it. I got really bored of it about half way through and only continued on because I wasn't sure how close to the end I was and wanted to get it out of the way and get my moneys worth out of it.

First of all let me say there were a couple of things I really liked about the game. I thought it looked beautiful, and not just for a Wii game. The controls were flawless IMO, didn't have any problems with them.

There were several things which lowered my enjoyment level, so I'm not even going to try and list them all, but what disappointed me most was the lack of variety, it seemed every area/level had the exact same structure to it, it felt like I was doing the same few missions and side tasks over and over for 10+ hours, just in different areas, which still manage to become old because you have about 4-6 missions in each area.

now i got to edit what i said about the motion plus i didn't mean that it doesn't work , its just that its not a huge difference from the waggle controls, you can finish lots of enemies with just doing that, but the heavy armored ones you just swing a bigger swing (or do Hidden Moves better)

what i mean't is that compared to Wii Sports Resort (which is TRUE Motion plus) , this doesn't work!

Well although you are right in a few ways about that, you have to understand the difference in what happens in WSR and what happens in RS2.  WSR, you essentially play a character on normal "sword" levels.  He can block and he can strike.  In Red Steel 2, you are playing a "master" of the sword.  He is very athletic, well-endowed in the use of techniques, and very active in how he does it.  Meaning, to get a system that works, there has to be some leadway between you and what happens on screen.  I know I can't do all the things that the character can, and for the most part I'd say almsot 99% of the people that play the game won't be able to do that.  However, in WSR, I'd say the majority could do that in holding up a "stick sword" and making simple slash attacks.

And that's really why there has to be difference in that between 1:1 control in the game.  Personally, I think from what it lets go from that and what it still allows you to do and "feel" like your actually doing it is nonetheless remarkable.  With some of the attacks there is your small delay, but from just doing it, and then assessing how that happens on screen it is very gratifying.

And I think this is one of the misconceptions a lot of people have with the "want" for 1:1 games.  It is very possible that it can exist (comes pretty close in this game and in WSR), but you have to start remembering that once you get that accuracy it must be understood that the player is not a jedi or samurai or master swordsman.  And WSR and Red Steel 2 both compensate for that in extroardinary and ingenius ways.  WSR which takes a more responsive aspect but focuses solely on hand to sword controls, while Red Steel 2 focuses more a full body experience that takes a little responsiveness off to give the user a more "imitation" of being an experienced swordsman and in this case a very powerful one.