Heavenly Sword dev working on new IP for 360, PS3

Damn, you stole my joke.

I borrowed it from a friend and I've done three playthroughs. This game will merge with my collection eventually...

Heavenly Sword was a great game except for the length. i may be in the minority, but i cant justify paying $60 for 8 hours of play. i rented it and ended up playing it through twice. the voice acting was top notch and the combat system wasnt bad either (i eventually got used to the block thing).

hopefully this new IP is as good.

Actually, most people agree the SixAxis sections were phenominal. I know I enjoyed the hell out of them and it still stands as one of the best implementation of the tech so far.

I'm with you deaftly. The sixaxis stuff is embarassing. Guiding arrows and canon balls by tilting the controller? It just doesn't make sense on any level.

Maybe if I had played this game before Ratchet and Uncharted I might be less harsh... Unfortunately I'm trying to slog through it now. The super cheese storyline and acting isn't helping me much either...

Guiding them with the controller may not make sense, but this isn't exactly a story rooted in reality. Regardless of what sense they make, they are fun as hell and something that really differentiates it comparable games. I had a blast guiding arrows through torches to blow up the fireworks bins. And the whole scene where Kai is protecting Nariko's father as he crosses the bridge is kick ass. I mean seriously, you are complaining about being able to guide an arrow into a guy's head. And keep in mind you don't have to use the sixaxis for most of those parts if you don't want to.

"And the whole scene where Kai is protecting Nariko's father as he crosses the bridge is kick ass"

LOL. That's one of the exact parts I thought was SO LAME. Myself, the owner of the game, and the 2 other co-workers who borrowed it all felt the same.

Also, as far as the acting - when the blob says "daddy" and all of the ensuing garbage afterwards - c'mon now.

Perhaps it is a maturity thing...

Perhaps you and your co-workers have bad taste. We are talking games here, not movies. I know taking personal swipes at people on the internet is really mature and all, but perhaps instead of making some assumptions about my age/maturity level you could cite some examples of better acting in games?

But you can turn the Sixaxis controls off for the Aftertouch. So what's the problem? Why even complain about that?

"but perhaps instead of making some assumptions about my age/maturity level you could cite some examples of better acting in games?"

I wasn't making a swipe - although you taking it as one says a lot.

Better examples = Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Mass Effect, etc

Haven't played those yet other than the Uncharted Demo, so I can't compare, but Heavenly Sword certainly beats stuff like Halo 3, God of War, and other "blockbuster" titles as far as acting is concerned.

And you can't tell me, "Perhaps it is a maturity thing..." isn't a personal swipe. You are reading too much into me taking it as one. I am simply saying you shouldn't go making assumptions, and if you mean it as a joke, that's what emoticons are for.

While I disagree with your opinion, I do like your profile pic. And also, twing twang rules!

Bloo, you're really losing cred if you're bashing the acting in the game or the cinematics. I mean, I can dig hating on the SixAxis. It just doesn't make sense and this game was definately all about making sense with a sword that takes your life or a high fantasy epic with rocket launchers...

The mere notion of steering projectiles in midair makes no sense and completely breaks the game for me because that was pure science fiction and it had no right to be in my civil war simulator...

But to hate on the acting, that's just... dumb. And swiping at someone's maturity level based upon their enjoyment of the acting in the game? One would think, that if you were truly as mature as you claim yourself and your coworkers to be, you would have at some point been introduced to stage acting. Let me explain it, when seeing a play, you never get the closeups on the actors. So instead, each movement becomes exaggerated to emphasize the emotion to the entire crowd. Andy Sarkis (aka, Gollum), as the theatrical producer for the game, managed to put that emphasis on the larger than life villians while bringing the victims a much more muted tone. The villians speak with their bodies, the other characters all use their face or posture to display their emotions.

This is the thing you must understand when watching Heavenly Sword cutscenes. Andy Sarkis has the theatrical roots and it shows in Heavenly Sword. The expressions are, simply put, larger than life. If you were as mature as you thought you were, this would be instantly recognizable, no? Especially when the other scene, the bridge with Kia, is widely regarded as one of the most emotionally powerful moments in gaming last year among the gaming press and most who have played it declare that sequence as pure brilliance.

Most of the villains were intentionally over-acted in order to see more crazy. That doesn't make the acting bad. Check out the acting of the good guys and I think you'll not get distracted by the over-the-top-ness of the bad guys.

And actually, the fact that we're discussing the acting AT ALL is a very good sign, in my opinion. You're seeing straight through to the actor, not the computer graphics on top of him, and it's much more than just voice acting in the game.

I, too, thought it was very good. could have used a bigger diversity of puzzles (hey. throwing hats again, whee), but I thought the arrow guiding sections were actually a lot of fun.

I think the strangest thing to me is that, except for Flying Fox (intentially kept a pure evil villian), all of the villians were humanized and you even felt a ping of pity for the king. That was the shocker to me.

That I could feel sorry for majority of the cast... wow.