While it lasts, Heavenly Sword is an immersive and epic journey which you never want to stop.
Well the story and the game's universe for one is exceptional in creating an immersive experience for the player. The story alone will keep you hooked until the very end as you desperately try to find out what happens. Whats also great are the cutscenes, which are all motion captured, providing a great viewing experience aswell as really bringing out the characters which their different personalities and their truly amazing facial expressions, which really do help tell the story and fall in love/hate the characters as necessary.
Of course the sound is exceptional too, whether it be the great dialouges from the various characters or even just the background music, which sounds so familiar to films like Gladiator and 300 in my opinion.
The gameplay aswell is so diverse that it never gets boring and provides constant entertainment. Whether it'll be the hack and slash moments, which has a deep enough combat system so it doesnt get old quick, or whether it be the puzzles. Not only this but the real innovation comes in the form of a playable character who can shoot arrows, yet u can control the arrows by tilting the Sixaxis controller. At first it seems difficult but eventually becomes so much fun. Finally there's a game that uses the Sixaxis controller to good effect and doesnt feel like a tacky add-on to the game. The boss battles aswell are gr8, with a familiar God of War type system when the boss has low health.
Yet the problem is the shortness of the game, if I was being picking. Yes it's short yet you probably will go back and play this game over and over to collect all the unlockables and to beat the games on the hardest difficulty mode. A game that truly deserves to be in everyone PS3 owners collection