So uhm.....does anyone else think this demo is pretty ass? Seriously, the trailers and everything look fantastic, but boy does this demo do a terrible job of selling you on the game.
Having not played Duscae, this demo makes the combat look pretty awful. Hold X to never take damage, hold B to win, push D pad once in a while to see different animations. If there are any complexities to be found here, they sure do a good job of hiding them away. Hell, this demo doesn't even tell you how to parry (which I can only assume is supposed to be an option given the trailers), which is a pretty big bummer because there seems to be a huge delay between your ability to go from attacking to dodging. It makes fighting that giant at the end feel like a chore because he takes forever to swing at you but you still don't have time to go smoothly from hitting him to dodging quickly, so you just kinda have to attack a little then wait forever for his attack so you can dodge without being hit yourself. It's pretty lame.
And since that fight at the end there is the only thing representative of the final game at all, the rest of it is just a demo for their time and weather cicles. I mean.....really? Who needs that? You couldn't have made a demo with a proper mechanics tutorial followed by some throw away quest with your crew and then that boss fight at the end?
When I woke up this morning and saw your trailer I was like omg yes hype! Then I played this and now I'm like.....eh......we'll see.