I rented this today. Thought it might be good pretty good, but no.

• Combat is ultra repetitive and enemies block most of the time, meaning every fight is drawn out to snoredom. Having to rely on holding down the button that corresponds with the colour the enemies attack with is just frustrating. I want to kill ****, not play guitar hero.
• The SHOOTING SEQUENCES. Wow. How did these even make it past test stage? At some point someone must've said "Actually guys, take this **** out because it's god awful", to which they no doubt replied "No". Aiming is woefully slow and it's all done with the left stick, which feels so un natural these days.
• The sixaxis sections. Probably the worst thing about it. Who actually enjoys spending 5 minutes trying to guide a shield through a puzzle with the ****ing controller...Or the cannon balls in the second sequence. I bet at some point you have to be the weird furry girl and sit their shooting air with her stake gun. THAT WILL BE A BARREL OF LAUGHS. Where do I sign up?
• Boring level design so far. Can't really see it going much further than sandy corridors, rocky pathways and stoned areas, but you never know.
• The camera keeps severly interferring with my game. Panning left and right with the shoulder buttons is a little much to ask in the thick of combat.
• Frame rate drops pretty severly in certain areas so far. Mainly the ones where loads of people are there, parrying your hits whilst you remember WHAT BUTTON TO PRESS SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY HIT THEM.

To its credit, the game's cutscenes look awesome, and the facial animations are some of the best I've seen. Voice acting is good too, even if the main antagonists seem to be ridiculously evil and vile for the sake of it.