@ Kasz216

Please. Ask anyone who played both games... Gundam is a shit. No comparison. Really. I'm not saying it's not worth 6.8 (for me 7 is an average) it's just definitely not worth to be close to HS...

yea dynasty warriors has all kinds of replayability, me and my friends were obsessed with it for a while. Problem is that the games are all mostly the same after dynasty warriors 3, but that doesn't make them bad games. They do have new characters, levels etc but it still feels the same.

The problem with Heavenly Sword is that it gets major points knocked off for being both short and repetitive.  I mean if you've read some of the reviews they've complained about the 6-8 hour playing time, the repetitiveness of the enemies and the fact that all the fights feel exactly the same except for the arena battles which feel like they're just there to increase the playtime.

Reviewers who have played more then a 5 minute demo can tell you that.

Too short + too repetitive is poison when it comes to games being reviewed.

Another way to put it however is. Even if Heavenly Sword was an amazing game it wouldn't matter.

If games were food Heavenly Sword would be an amuse bouche.

You could make the best amuse bouche in the world, and it'll still be an amuse bousche. If your a hungry gamer and can only choose one you'll take a main course over an amouse busche even if it is of a lesser quality because as long as the meal is palatable to you, you'll know the main course will atleast fill you.

I'm glad everyone here knows what rating to give Heavenly Sword that have not played the game.

Hey hey ... just cause your crystal ball is broken doesn't mean ours is.

Almost Kasz, most days I eat a turkey sandwich and a bag of baked lays for dinner (which is my work meal, because I work over nights).

But an amuse bouche is free and this amuse pouce cost 60 bucks.

GTHD Concept or the HSDemo is more fitting for the use of that term.

What was this topic about again?
Whether Heavenly Sword is the coup d'état that PS3 needs or just another piece of foutaise chère, we will find out shortly.

(Note: I do not speak la langue d'amour, so please excuse any errors.)

Yeah, true enough I guess demos do fit the term more.  Would of been better of going with a side order i suppose.  Appetizer also fits  bill but unless your acustomed to eating at higher class restraunts when you think of an appetizer your likely to think of one of those huge baskets of stuff they have at places like TGI Fridays. 

Regardless, a decent game with a lot of options and gameplay is going to satisfy your average person more then a really awesome game thats over in one saturday of gaming.  After all consider your average attach ratio?  Sure people like me will end up having 20+ Games for every system i own, but for most people... these games have to last them a very long time. 

You are a 100% right about short games being bad for the mass consumer. Shorter games should have stuff to justify the length, like unlocked hard modes, stuff to find (like red coins or the Orb-collecting open world game that game with the Halo 3 Beta), multiple ways to finish or play through the game.

I mean part of why it got such low scores is the lack of replayabilty. How hard would it have been to add a few collectibles, a special weapon to give an excuse to replay the game, or an ultra hard mode.

I'll say. The PS2 attach rate is like 10 right?(or did that change i can't figure out the website sales stuff that well so i had to google it.) 

Which... while on average gives you 10 gamers per system which sounds like a lot can be deceiving.

For example, when it comes to the PS2, if I was included in this attach ratio, (which I am.) For me. There are 5 guys out there who only own one game for their PS2. I think.

( I own roughly 55 PS2 games.)