Heavenly Sword is amazing , but its short !!!!!!!
When you're looking at the gameplay of this game, you're thinking that its the same kind of gameplay of God Of War, but that isn't true. In God Of War, it's a bit kinda button smashing thing were you do only combos and other stuffs like pressing the same buttons. But in Heavenly Sword yes there is a bit of it, but it's different because there is a kind of strategy that you have to put in your own gameplay. And what is amazing, its that you can use the SIXAXIS controls for making combos (Really Cool by the way). Anyways its kinda difficult to describe so you'll see by your self. But there the same basic controls of God of War, so for those you really enjoyed the franchise, will absolutely enjoy this game.
The story is really good. Its a bit like many action movies or games because there is a bad king that wants to possess something or control the world and the hero must stop him. Actually thats the story of this game, but there is so many things like the story of the Heavenly Sword that makes the main story so unique.
The story takes place in the skin of Nariko and Kai, two girls and both friends giving her own life for each other. When your playing with Nariko, the main character, its more like the big action moments and when you're playing Kai, its more tactical. Actually Kai's weapon is a bow.
The game is divided in 6 chapters with in the around of 10 missions. When you end a mission, there is automatically a save game, so don't worry. Some missions can be long and other really not, for example, one of the last missions goes in the around of 30 seconds.
The story, division of the missions, terrific sound effects and voice acting, beautiful cutscenes and graphic textures makes you think that you are looking a 7 hours movie. The makers of this game did a incredible job for this aspect.