I'm probably not going to bother with this imminently or perhaps at all nevertheless it is quite obviously the soundest MGS title to date.

Yes it is. It's got silly boss squaddies an all.

Snakebro had a knife at points.

See this isn't making my call much weaker Bawbag.

Some fiddling around with the buttons has lead me to realise that X+A (wide slash and jump) is in fact a dodge! And you can dodge left and right. It isn't really that neat other than giving you valuable invulnerability frames to dodge Gekko pounces, and their wire thingy. 

Can get past the whole boss fight (with goons) now without taking a single hit. Glorious. I hope one of the upgrades is the ability to dash at your opponents after a parry, as the current follow up doesn't seem to cover enough ground.

Watched the GB quick look earlier. Kinky boots.

Ok, I think this is going to be something very special.

I want to like this but the controls are a fucking mess.

The inversion is killing me. I want the normal camera one way and the blade camera the other. That and the camera being on one stick for movement and another for blade cam doesnt make sense.

I am sure if I played for hours I could get over it buy fuck that for a laugh, I havent battled a camera this much since the N64

After about the fourth time of tutting at the blade cam, all I did was this: let go off the analogue stick when I went into blade mode.

That stops you looking at your feet the second you go in. Then you realise you don't really need to look around as your blade has a huge arc. So then you just slash like a nutter, and occasionally re-adjust. Certainly doesn't take hours to crack.

Had a big chat on twitter with adkm about this too. Think it is gonna be be an issue for quite a few folk. I personally don't see the problem, it takes about as long to figure out as the timing on the parry.

But why not just have an option to change each camera type?
I honestly cant be bothered to play it again, would have bought this too but camera fuck arounds are a massive turn off for me.

Slashing away at a melon in the tutorial for a laugh and finding that actually each stroke had counted was pretty amazing, I thought. Just technically.

I'm not sure battling a shitty camera is the kind of test I want out of a game.

Timing parries, learning combos to muscle memory, evading all fine, but controls should be fluid and intuitive.

I did enjoy playing the demo, there is a lot there, gwafax, animation, art design are all superb as is the sword concept. Just let me put buttons where I want buttons devs!

I'm so crap at this............ I keep running up to the geckos, entering blade mode (always hear it in a russian accent now) and proceed to get booted in da face, repeatedly. Hopefully these controls will click with more practice.
Is there a dodge button or something? or are you meant to use ninja run to dodge attacks?

Didn't get on with it, but the slicing is a nice little novelty. Shame everything you slice disappears seconds after you've sliced it.

I found it more than a little odd that you can't use the precise aiming to stealth kill a guy in one hit even though you're stood right behind him. Hacking at his bonce with a blade that can cut through a car and he just says 'Ow' and raises the alarm? Fuck off. I wanted to recreate that bit in Dawn of the Dead where the zed gets the top of his head lopped off by the chopper blade. Ho hum.