I think it would be interesting if you could manually swap which character you control, dragon or boy, and each would have individual strengths to combat room puzzles to advance. It could be a similiar scenario to ICO where your purpose was to guide Yorda around, except now you have two incomplete characters that rely on eachother for advancement.

Is the dragon really supposed to be cat-like though? It looked more like a puppy to me.

^ part of the game is using the instics of the Andy to your advantage....if you can control Andy it kills the pet aspect of it

No combat = No buy for me!

Not at all. I'm sure the dragon has always wanted a little boy as a pet.

^ LOL

From what I've heard, you'll actually be able to pull the spears and such out of the gryphon by climbing all over it.

I assume you'll have to pull out arrows and spears, then feed it via the barrels to heal it. You'll travel around together, with the gryphon guarding you from the soldiers and stuff, and you guarding him by healing his wounds. Then you solve puzzles together.

I want to land on top of an enemy with Toriko and crush it beneath my sexy claws. Yum!

Semantics. :P

Something like a mix of Ico and shadow, solving puzzles with the help of your pet, platforming, and I expect more action, more fights than in Ico, it can be a few like in shadow but let them be epic.