Not really.  1up or someone said it, without citing anything really.  None of the Famitsu or general Japanese media coverage has said it's a rail-slasher though iirc.

Could be fun. Could be a lot of fun.

Something tells me that this is one of those games you can't really understand until you feel the gameplay for yourself.

it looks to be like what Farmageddon said, where you're shunted ahead along a fixed path, but probably have free horizontal (and possibly some vertical) movement along that plane. But we'll see.

really? Because to me it looks like Starfox64 in a fantasy setting. (And Starfox64 is Nintendo quality)

Well, it is being published by Nintendo, isn't it?

@KungKras: it's a matter of taste obviously... I am just wondering what (some) people see in this game. It reminds me a bit of Disaster: DoC in a way that Disaster also seemed mediocre to me and not as polished as I've known it from the majority of Nintendo games (I am aware that the two are completely different games).

This a new IP........

OT: Looks great. I LOVE Sin & Punishment and will gladly take more games in the same style. The crappy "MS Paint" like lines that appear on screen do look crappy though.

i agree, the graphics and gameplay aren't appealing

It's based on the Earth Defense Force gameplay type, which si why I'm saying it doesn't really look like it's on rails.

But it being on rails makes sense with the way slashing works, don't you think?

It's the end of hope END OF HOPE!... uh yeah the girl moves backwards... nothing in this suggests on rails, again I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but nothing is suggesting that in this trailer and it looks pretty good too.